The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-21
INALIENABLE RIGHTS.
ELOQUENT LECTURE HY H0s.JoHS
 c. WOOLEY LAST EVENING.

ELOQUENT LECTURE BY H0s.JoHS
 c. WooLEY LAST EVENING.
 The Calvary Baptist Church Crowded With
 PeopIs-Too Much Dealing in Theological
 Options and Margins-Too Little Delivery
 of Merchandise at the Ballot Bos-psn-
 ger to States Already Declared for No
 License.
 Calvary Baptist church was crowded to the doors last evening with large assemblage who had gathered to listen to the brilliant temperance orator Hon. John G. wooiey of Chicago. Rev. Edwin M. Poteat. pastor of the Calvary Baptist church. opened the meeting by read ing from the scriptures. Rev. Watson L. Phillips of the Church of the Re- deemer then offered prayer. The popu- lar temperance singers MT. and Ms. Beveridge of Nebraska, then enterta'a- ed the audience In their own peculiar and unique manner. Among the songs they sang were "The Kings Highway" "The Barkeeper is Boss" "The Twin Palace" and "We Haven't Got the Sand" Rev. Mir. Poteat then introduced MT. Wooley. He spoke on the subject
 of "Inalienable Rights" in part as follows:
 T shall not touch in particular to- night upon your local saloons. l have no particular quarrel with the New Ha- ven saloons. But l am opposed to the saloon because it Is opposed to Jesus Christ. Therefore am against 1t. It was on one dark. gloomy January morning seven years ago that Ia man without a roof to shelter him except Gods sky that is above us all, my wife worse than widowed because of her husbands drunkenness. and my children worse than fatherless. I, man without a friend, On that cold January morn staggered up against Jesus Christ. And since that time I have done nothing but go around telling the people the great good He has done me. shall not touch much on the economical features of this question. do not wish to dis parage those who are speaking along those lines, but I feel that there has been too much dealings in theological options and margins and not enough delivery of the merchandise at the bal lot box. Now, there is no such thing as a necessary evil, else Jesus Christ died in vain. He died to destroy the works of the devil-not to restrain them, not to tax them for purposes of revenue only, but to destroy them. say let us bring back the temperance question to the church. There has been too much sepa- ration on account of the political aspect which the question has taken. A man is foolish or uninformed if he disparages the gospel temperance work. but if he stops there he greatly limits his power. I decline to consent that the temperance question Is one to be fumigated out side the church. What desire is not so much to reclaim a few drunkards and get few children to sign the pledge as to get men and women to keep good their church pledges. We do not need so much exact methodical demonstra- tions or correct interpretations of the book of Daniel as we do banding to- gether of good men and women to oc- cupy the United States uihhti1' Christ comes.
 I want you good Christian people on whom the drink traffic has never set its added tooth to remember when you | go home tonight that through the past 1 day three hundred men have died 1 deaths. This is the daily 1 output of the 25O,O0O saloons of the coun- try. And 1t now looks as though the | very lands ofl which splendid victories | have been gained in past days would l have to be sacrificed to the political l machine and ceded back to the liquor l power. Now it is Iowa, next it will be | South Dakota, then North Dakota, then | Kansas, then Maine, then Vermont. It | is going, to- be necessary to band them l selves together to hold the rights they | have already gained. There is in this l country an inalienable right to equality, l to liberty and a chance to be. happy. | to forfeit these chances. Do you know ! that 2,50O babies are killed by drunken I men in this country every week? But a government, you say, cannot l love and cherish it's citizens. This is | true. But 1t should protect the weak. l And government that cannot do that | should die. You may think that I am | a pessimist. On the contrary, I am an optimist. I expect to win this.fight. I l expect to be able to put my foot on the neck of the liquor traffic. I expect to see the day when the saloon will be no longer open to insult the womanhood, jeopardize the childhood and defile the of the country. There are in this country tonight thousands of men, tens of thousands of women and chil- dren, who have not the chance to be happy on account of the saloon. It is for them we want to cast our ballots for the thousands of homes that are plunged into helpless misery by this &C., cursed traffic"
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