The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1895-07-13
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The Prohibition Convention.

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Messrs. Editors: To-day's mai
brings me from my valued friend
Mr.. Henry Ware, of Pass Christian
the very interesting program Of 4tL
Of July banquet, in which he parti.
cipated at the National Prohibition
park, Staten Island. At the head oi
the program stands this quotation
from Sir Walter Scott,
Breaches there the man with soul so dead
Who meyer to himself hath said
This Is my own, my native lank.
Then from Byron's Childe Harold
this waning sentence,
4 thousand years scarce serve to form a
state,
An hour may lay 1t In the dust.
From Shakespeare is culled this en-
ticing sentence, "Prepare for mirth,
for mirth becomes feast" Then
follows the menu, Of which, tits need
less for me TO say the drinks consist
cd of cold water, tea and coffee. The
speakers and toasts were as follows: ::
Gen. Neal Dow, Maine, honorary
toast master. Mrs. Cliaton B. Fisk,
New York city, master Of ceremonies,
1.-The Temperance University at Har-
rimaD, Tenn. w. II. King, chief of
police, of Norfolk, Va, "Norfolk,
the city that elected prohibitionist
mayor" DIR. M. Downing, Pough-
keepsle, chairman Of the prohibition
party Of New York, "The Outlook
in the Empire State Erastus Wi.
man, Staten Island, "Staten Island,
the Hope Of Lower New York" J..
b. English, d. D., New York, emu
rlcipal misrule the greatest problem
Of the age" L. A. Banks. ID. D.,
Brooklyn, 1.-THE church; its resolu-
tions and its practice on the Liquor
Traffic" Mrs. L. Bailey, Prohibit
tion Park, "The twentieth century
woman" Henry Ware, Mississippi,
"The new Southland factor in re-
FORMS" H. Clay Bascom, Troy,
New York, "The reform legislature
of 1896" A. A. Stevens, Pennsyl-
vania, IA political forecast: when
will temperance cranks hold the Of
fices!' Responses were limited tolls
minutes.
Mr.. Wares response was as fol-
lows: ''Mrs. President, ladie. and
gentlemen--I em proud Of the privi.
lege of representing the South on this
occasion. We are loyal people,
loyal to God, to our country and to
our homes and the cause Of prohibi-
tion. We believe that there is no
higher evidence of this loyalty than
to an earnest prohibition worker and
voter. AS an instance to our loyal
ty to this great factor Of reforms
refer you to what Mississippi is do
ing in this line. We have outlawed
the saloon in 81 out of 75 counties of
our State, and 1T is believed by many
that after the session of our next
legislature, there will be no liquor
license granted in the State. We
have done this through the imperfect
method Of local option"
Then follows this interesting bit of
history: Looking Backward 100
Years Ago -13 little colonies, 8 mil
lion population, log cabins. Johney
cake and oxteams were fashionable.
New York city had $4,000 popula-
tion, New York State had $1,000.
Slaves, preachers, teacher, everybody
drank rum.
To-DAY-44 States, 65 million pop
pulation, public free schools univer-
sal, New York city has 1000, ,ooO
population, New York State has only
white slaves, preachers, teachers and
all human creatures are lining up
in the ranks TO or against Total AT
stinence.
"Woe to the priest or levits who
trains with the saloon crowd.
NOLAN B. HARMON.
You may weep your eyes blind
you may shout your throat dry, YOU