The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-08-08
IT WAS TEMPERANCE DAY
yesterdays EXERCISES AT THE
PLAINYILLE CIMPMEETING.
Rain in the Forenoon Made Smaller At
tendance Than Usual-Several Addresses
Made Various New Laws Discussed-
New Haven People mt the Camp.


Yesterdays exercises at Plainville
camp meeting We're somewhat broken
up on account of the rain in the fore
noon.
The two hours between and 10
o'clock usually devoted to normal hour
and Bible hour exercises were omitted
as was also the junior hour exercises.
At these meetings w. H. Hall, Rev.
w, A. Richards and Miss Margaret
Burns were on the program to speak,
but of necessity We're omitted. The
rain also prevented the main meeting
being held in the large circle, and the
meetings were held instead in the First
M. e. church of Hartford cottage, and
in the Plainville cottage, S. P. Thrasher
of New Haven and Rev. DR.. J. s. James
of Hartford speaking in each place al
ternately.
Mr.. Thrasher's subject was Law
Enforcement Under New Conditions"
and his address was confined to com
the Law and Order league has been
interested. He spoke of the law incor-
porating the league, and giving to its
agents power to serve processes and
make arrests, and said that anyone at
all familiar with the way in which
raids and searches are given away be-
fore the officers have time to act will
appreciate of this new law which gives
the league the power to send an entire
stranger into any town to make ar
rests. He also spoke of the defeat of
the appropriation bill for $1,000 to the
Law and Order league and asked If 1t
was not done to satisfy the law break
ing element. TT was claimed" said
Mr.. Thrasher, that the state could not
| afford to pay this appropriation, but in
view of the gratuitiss awarded at the
end of the session this claim Is dis
credited Attention was then called to
the law in regard to the selection of
jurors, and he urged that citizens take
advantage of the provisions of the law
which provides that anyone may ap-
pear and protest against any objec-
| tionable names which appear on the
| list. The law which enables officers to
search the persons of those found in
places suspected of illegal liquor selling
Is also valuable. Mr.. Thrasher said
there are too many walking bar rooms
| in Connecticut One man is reported
| as having five bottles of liquor in his
| pocket at one time.
! The advantages from the law MAX
| ing it an offense to be found in places
| where liquor is sold on Sundays are
| attested to by the arrests made last
Sunday all over the state. The value
| of the new law which enable agents
to seize liquors In transit was also
| shown. Mr.. Thrasher then commented
| on the various features of all laws
| which affect the leagues work, and
| the opportunity was given to ask ques-
| tion. This was taken advantage Of
| and for half an hour Mr. Thrasher was
piled with questions, all of which he
answered to the point
DR.. James spoke on THE Legislation
| of '95," and paid a compliment to the
| certain men in the last legislature and
| especially to Senator Gates Of the Wind
| ham county district. He then called at
| tention to some new laws to help along
| the temperance movement. He was,
| however, rather severe in his criticism
| Of the last legislature as a body. At
| the afternoon meeting Rev. j. J. James
| presided in the absence of Hon. D.
| S. Norton
| AT 2 o'clock p. M, Rev. J. J.McSook
| of Trinity college, Hartford spoke on
the Scientific and Business Phazes
| of the Drink Question" He said that
| the dangerous character of the liquor
| business is universally acknowledged
| by liquor merchants themselves quite
| frankly. OF the 3S1 convicts in our
state prison last year almost half
| thought drink had led to their down
| fall.
| He then spoke of the various meth
DDS proposed to restrict the liquor traf-
| fic, and said that the only way it can
be properly done is to take away from
| the dealer all individual and personal
profit in the business.
| At 2:45 an address on What Are
| the Schools Doing?" was delivered by
| Mrs. Cornelia B. Forbes of Hartford,
president of the state w. c. T. U. Mrs.
Forbes is interested in the use of text
| books on narcotics in schools, and gave
| a report of work in that line being done
| in the schools Of the state.
| AT S:15 an Address was made by Rev.
| w. j. White of Waterbury on "The
| Outlook He complimented Mr..
| Nhra sher ON his efforts In the enforce
| ment of laws, and said that in view of
| the fact htat his work has been so
| successful, 1T gives promise that We
| Will have q better condition of legist
laltion in the future He also spoke of
| the recent delfverences of church con-
| ventions on the temperance question,
| and said that the advancement of the
total abstinence idea lis indicated.
| The outlook is THAT lines will he
| drawn closer, and men who are OPP
| posed to the saloon element but afraid
| Ito fight IT, win be held up to public
| scorn. He then urged the necessity of
| a live and aggressive campaign this
| fall for no fincese, and said that Ned
| Murphy, the temperance orator, would
| probably stump the state in Septem-
| ber
| The attendance yesterday was small
er than on previous days, and the
| cause of 1T was undoubtedly the rainy
morning and greater pant of the fore
| noon.
| A prayer meeting was held in the
| Plafnvflle house at 1 O'clock, but no
/ other special meetings were held.