San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-08-07
The Daily Eight.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST Z, 1895
COLD WATER CATHOLICS:

NEW YORK, Aug. THE next
annual convention which will be
the silver jubilee of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union of America,
will be held under the auspices of
the Paulist Fathers in Columbus
Hall in West Sixtieth street, be-
ginning today. There will be dele
gates present from every State in
the Union. and it is expected that
between 5000 and 10000 members
from Philadelphia, Providence and
the city of Massachusetts, and Con-
necticut will attend the convention.
All the plans for this immense
gathering Of the Catholic total alb.
stainers were prepared by the Rev.
Father Doyle, editor of "The Catho-
lie World" who is secretary Of the
National Union, and they have re-
ceived the sanction and commenda.
ton of Arch bishop Corrigan.
The convention will open at 9
o'clock this morning in Columbus
hall, on West Sixtieth street. Mon
signor Satolli will say mass, and
chbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia,
will preach the sermon. After the
celebration of the mass in the
cathedral, there will be business
session of the convention, in Col
umbus hall. At 6 o'clock in the
evening there will be parade Of
the local and visiting societies
through the principal streets of
the city, to be followed at s o'clock
by great public demonstration in
Carnegie music hall, at which the
highest ecclesiastical and civil
authorities will speak. Tomorrow
and Friday the sessions will be
held in Colum bus hall and will be
devoted wholly to the business of
the convention. On Saturday the
visiting delegates will be taken on
an excursion up the Hudson River
as the guests of the local societies.
At the public meeting this even
ing a prize banner will be present.
ed by Archbishop Corrigan to the
society that shows the largest in
crease of adult membership during
the year.
Among the speakers at Carnegie
Hall will be Mayor Strong, Arch
bishop Corrigan, Monsignor Satol-
Ii, Frederic r. Coudert. Gen. Jas.
r. O'Beirne, Senator O'Sullivan,
and ex-Congressman Bourke Cock
ran.
The subjects for the considera.
tion of the convention will in
clude the substitute for the
saloon and the insurance plan.
Suggestions for saloon substitutes
will be presented by leading dele
gates, and essays read. 1t Is not
unlikely that some idea will be
evolved which will result in a per-
manent counter attraction to the
gin-mill. The insurance plan aims
to make the organization a benev-
olent association, but there is
strong opposition to 1t. Father
Doyle is against it, as are many of
the leading lights of the move
ment. He says 1t would compel the
institution Of new offices and rob
the organization of much of it's
existing spontaniety. Father Mat
thew societies from all over the
country will send delegates to the
convention. 1t has been hoped that
Cardinal Gibbons would be pres.
emit, but he will not return from
Rome in time. The official delegates
to the convention are expect
ed to number 500. 1t is thought
that some important announce
ments Of the church's attitude may
be given out by the distinguished
prelates. Already Catholic absti-
hence societies have Endorsed Police
Commissioner Roosevelt's action
in closing the saloons. Any such
attempt as was made last year by
the Women's Christian Temper
ance Union to get the G. T. A. U. to
indorse the polygot petition for
prohibition will be sat down on
very emphatically. 1t was tried
last year and voted down. Father
Doyle says their union favors per.
suasion, not prohibition, and be-
lieves that the great temperance
sentiment he finds in the east