St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-23
TEMPERANCE TALK
Mrs. Leonora Lake Lectures
to a Large Audience in
Cretin Hall.
A SCATHING ARRANGEMENT
OF the Liquor Traffic and Ar
gument in Favor OF Pro-
hibition.
MAKES AN ELOQUENT PLEA
To Women to Educate Them
selves in the Cause Of
Temperance.
MAKES AN ELOQUENT PLEA

Every seat in Cretin hall was oc-
cupied last night by people, mostly
young men and women, to hear
Mrs. Leonora M. Lake lecture on the
temperance question. Mrs. Lake is
probably more widely known as the
Miss Leonora M. Barry, of Amster-
dam, II. Y, who formerly lectured
for the knights of Labor. She is
an earnest speaker, and has a strong
voice and dramatic style of delivery
that always wins her admirers in
popular audiences. She is vice presi-
dent of the National Catholic Total
Abstinence Union of America. Her
lecture last night was devoted prin-
cipally to an arraignment of the
liquor traffic and an argument in
favor of ultimate prohibition when
the people are educated up to- it.
The meeting was held under the
auspices Of the Catholic Women'S
Sacred Thirst Total Abstinence So
ciety, and after brief musical and
literary programme had been pre-
scented, Mrs. Lake was introduced
by the president of the society. Mrs
Lake said in part:
The Catholic people of the United
States yield to none in point of patriot
ism. Among the patriots who handed
to us this republic, foremost stood he
whose memory we celebrate tonight.
He was an opponent of everything that
tended to Subvert the church and mo-
rality, and nothing tends more to that
end than the saloon. To the people of
other lands we are all
KNOWN AS YANKEES,
and the Yankee to them is a pretty
shrewd fellow. But do we deserve this
opinion? The American people every
year spend for liquor $780, 600, 000. This
is more than they spend for the actual
necessaries of life. From this traffic
what do we get? The individual gets a
deformed body and impaired mind. 1t
brings TO the family the shame and
disgrace of the father. 1t fills the jails,
penitentiaries and lunatic asylums.
Then where does the shrewdnass come
in?
I'VE are told that it is necessary to
derive from the liquor traffic revenue
for the support of our public institu-
lions. 1t is indeed necessary to have
revenue to pay a crowd Of liveried Of
ficers to allow the law to be violated,
and to pay judges to sit on the bench
and judge the poor, drunken wretch,
while in many instances the judge him
self has only recovered from his last
nights debauch.
Every scientist has time and time
again declared that every drop Of al
coholic drink is a poison that Injuries
the human body and mind. There are
men who can be moderate drinkers,
but they are very few. The great ma
jority of men, once the habit is formed,
cannot desist.
What are we to do for a remedy?
One says let us have local option.
Very well, half a. loaf is better than no
bread. Another says high license. No,
a thousand times no. If it is wrong
to drink liquor, then don't give any
man the privilege to sell liquor-dont
sell the privilege for money consider
alton. Another says prohibition. Yes,
but not at present. The people must
be educated up to it. This can only
be done by going out into the byways
and gathering up those who are
pleased to call themselves moderate
drinkers, and educating them up to
knowledge of the evils consequent upon
the use Of the smallest amount. We
must also educate the women and the
children to be consistent prohibition
ists'
Programme of the entertainment
given before the lecture included
piano solo by Miss Catherine Collins;
choral song, by the angels of the homo
the little girls total abstinence So
ciety; baritone solo, by John F. Gehan,
with an encore; reading, by Miss Grace
Bee Whitridge, with an encore; song.
by Mrs. De Wolf; song, by Miss Emily
Franklin.
Mrs. Lake will lecture for the ladies
of the ST. Joseph Total Abstinence So
ciety, in Bon Ami hall, corner Of Car
roll and Louis streets, at O'Clock to-
morrow evening, and Monday evening
in the chamber of the house at the
state CAPITOL