The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-27
TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES.
June Will Witness a Great Anti
Saloon COlFOCatiOn.


ted-Archbishop ireland, DIR. John
Hall, Gen. o. o. Howard, Neal
Dow and Others as Famous, Will
Attend.
Copyright.
New York, May 26.--Anything like
such a gathering as will crowd Staten
Island in the week beginning June next
has probably not-yet been seen in this
country. 1t is a convocation representing
over 1000, 900 persons, all pledged to tenn
perance, while the delegates include men
and women known all over the world.
Thus the participators, to name but few,
are Archbishops John Ireland. of St,
Paul; Maj. Gen. o. o. Howard,
U. S. A; Gen. Neal Dow, DR.. c.
H. Parkhurst, Terence V. Pow
derby, United States Sena-
tor William p. Frye, Bishop John H Vim
cent and Others, whose names are house
hold words Thousands of persons take
part and every temperance organization in
this country, Canada and Mexico, is to be
represented. The American Temperance
Union is preparing program of exercises
with the cooperation OF the National
Temperance society, the independent Or
der of Good Templars, the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, the Sunday
Observance society, the Sons of Temper
ance, and some dozen other orders with
membership well into the hundred thou
sands cl.s.r ~
1t is hardly possible, therefore, that
any temperance assemblage yet held can
vie in magnitude and Importance with
this coming one.
The presiding officer is to be Mai. Gen.
Oliver o. Howard The caA will give the
University Temple at Prohibitionpark
Staten Island, as the meeting place,
while, as Secretary Joseph A. Bogardus,
of the committee OF arrangements puts
| it, the objects of the congress viii be
two-fold. First, to recognize the provi-
dence of Good in the long life and mani
| fold labors for temperance of Gen. Neal
| Dow (who will be delegate1. and, sec
ondly, TO review fully and faithfully the
entire field Of battle; to compare in frank
and friendly discussion the conflict
| ing views held by the different
| to come as nearly as posi- BILE
to an agreement, so that there may be less
waste of strength in disputations with
one another and that our blows against
the liquor evil may be far more united
and effective; to unite upon carefully
prepared address to the people of the
| United States and Canada. which will
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our opposition to tho saloon, and the rea-
son its overthrow should be strived for;
to take such steps as may be necessary to
| place the teaching of temperance hygiene
in the public schools throughout the
country on the basis of fixed study-the
! laws making it's teaching mandatory; to
| plan fer the systematic education of tho
masses in temperance statistics, facts,
| arguments, principles, and to take what
ever other steps may seem best to the del
| egates.
Here, it is evident. will be enough to
! crowd many days meetings. The first
| business after Gen. Howard has taken
| the chair on the morning of June 8, will
| be formal organization, as the congress is
to be strictly representative body, each
organization TO be entitled TO one voting
! delegate to each twenty members There
| will be at least sixty delegates from
| Canada alone, dozens from California,
some from Mexico and heavy compile
ments of representatives from ali the
| states and territories. Only the duly
elected delegates having certified creden-
tials may vote. ~n Et
| The cooperation of all temperance bod
/ les on a new basis will be one of the chief
points of interest to such representatives
as Patriarch Charles A. Everett, of the
| Sons of Temperance; to Arch bishop John
| Ireland and others, who wish action in
| unity 1hCLE Will NC d COhSlQCIdDIB uGlC-
cation from all the Ohio temperance So
cieties TO this end, and ox-Gov. John p.
ST John heads a body of workers with
the same object in view An evidence Of
the strength of this feeling is the CO.
operation of persons so noted as Mrs. w.
| A Manning, president st. Patrick's La
dies Catholic Total Abstinence Society;
Albert +. Horton, chief justice Of Kan
sas; Hon. George E. Foster. Canadian
minister of finance; Frances e. Willard
| Bishop Cyrus d. foss and Edward Ever
EFT Hale.
Another portion of the delegates, such
as DR.. Parkhurst of New York, Theodore
L. Cuyler of Brooklyn, Bishop John H.
Vincent of Chautauqua, n. Y, and Gen.
| Howard, are more interested in the apos-
tolate of the press
The adjournment of the congress is
fixed for the 9Th, but the more arduous
work of realizing the ideals it embodies
will not be completed until many days
thereafter. Senator Frye, it is hoped
Will be able to do something with con-
gress and every board of education in the
country is to be addressed through the
permanent committee.
This gathering, it should be remem-
bered, is not a political prohibition
body Its spirit is anti-saloon, There
are naturally. very noted prohibition
party men in the movement, including
| a; ~ CtdhAtl anu MI bluWSI, DeSIueS
chairman of prohibition party commit
tees from the several states. Neyerthe-
! less there will be no action taken that
! does not imply entire harmony. The
great outcome of the congress is de-
signed to be the practical welding to-
gether of all temperance socities in the
work Of alcoholic repression.
1t is belived that so vast, so represen-
tative and so powerful temperance con-
vocation will not Assem- Bile again in this
| nineteenth century.