The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-16
WASPACKED TO THE DOORS
AN IHM ENSE TEMPERANCE RALLY
 HELD LAST EVENING.

h GA-AF fsfA7A '-' A@NN-''s At the Grand Opera House Under tho
 Auspices of the Central Total Abstinence
 Union--A Brilliant Address by Mrs. Leo
 nora NJ. Lake of st. Louis.
 The first grand temperance rally of the Central Total Abstinence union of this city was held at the Grand opera house last evening. The large opera house was taxed 10 it's utmost capacity to accommodate the immense throng M. Lake of St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Lakes address amply rewarded them and she of applause.
 Her address was preceded by short program which consisted of literary and musical selections. The first num- Der was America" by St. Mary's Sun day school choir, followed by a recita- ton by Miss Irene Evarts entitled Ely ing Jim's Last Leap" She was round " SEPiildSd. III LGnpOIlS6 SilG IGClltu "A Sudden Cure"
 Next came a song by a very pretty little child, Julia Barton, who sang Tag, You're It." The little one sang in a pretty, catchy way and complete ly won the audience. In response to the encore she recited little poem en- titled q am a Little Temperance Girl"
 Miss Helen McGoWan followed with a recitation entitled Shifting the Rock"
 The children of St. Mary's Sunday school followed with "The Red, White and Blue"
 MT. B. E. Lynch, chairman of the committee on arrangements. in few well chosen words introduced Mrs. Lake, the speaker of the evening. Mrs. Lakes address was in part as follows:
 Doubtless many of the advocates who have spoken in the cause of tenn perance often, on account of the same channel in which thoughts run, repeat the arguments of each other 1 will try as much as possible to avoid the beat en paths in which temperance lectures usually follow.
 T think that all that is necessary to work the end for which temperance workers are moving is that we must ap- peal to mans conscience and thus arouse him to work, to realization of his duty to God and to his neighbor, and no mann is true to his God who is not true to his neighbor.
 1,,4x s, T serve God, and our next duty is to love our neighbor l believe that the license as it now exists is the result of care lessness. I believe that the persons who first conceived the license system recognized in the liquor traffic dam ger. Again, they so thought when they regulated it so that no saloon should De licensed within certain distance Of the church door and school door. Why not then, in Gods name, is it not kept safely distant from the door of the home2
 The moderate thinker is the greatest stumbling block that civilization has to contend with He is the man who sets the example which the boys fol- low and emulate until they end up the hideous wrecks specimens of which we see daily.
 Guard well the home of childhood and bring them up in the fear of God and set them an example. Join tenn perance society and set them that strong example"
 Mrs. Lake will lecture in West Haven tonight in the town hall which closes her tour of featuring.
 Among those on the stage were ex-Mayor Joseph B. Sargent Clarence F. Thompson of West Haven, Captain Lovejox of the local Keeley league, Dr. Swift, president of the local Keeley league and third vice president of the National Keeley league; MT. A. Dewey, president of Harmony division, s. Of T.; Mrs. Sweet, MT. and Mrs. Gillespie, Miss Mary Moran, president of the St. Agnes T. A. B. society; MT. Patrick Kent, Major Maher. Henry E. Norris, Henry Healy, James MoaBley, James F. Brennan. James F. Guncheon, MT. and Mrs. Joseph Reilly, John F. McGowan, Thomas F. Meagher, James D. Hislop, Hon. James Gallagher, MT. Thomas Murray, Mir. James r. Scott and John r. Meala.