Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-28
THE ANTI-sALOON LEAGUE.
A Joint Meeting Held Last Evenin
mt Waugh Church.

A Joint Meeting Held Last Evening
mt Waugh Church.
At Waugh Methodist Episcopal Church
last night there was a joint service of the
Waugh congregation and that of Metropol-
titan Presbyterian Church, under the aus
pieces of the Anti-saloon League Of the Dis
trict OF Columbia. The church was
crowded to the doors, and extra chairs
filled the chancel and the spaces in its VI
cinity. Rev. E. o. EIdridge, pastor Of
Waugh Church. and Rev. Geo. n. Luccock,
pastor Of the Metropolitan Presbyterian
Church, occupied the pulpit Those in the
chancel were Maj. Samuel H. Walker, the
first president of the Anti-saloon League,
and one Of the officers of Waugh Church:
Mrs. Mary E. Griffith, the retiring presi-
dent Of the District of Columbia W. C. T.
u; Mr.. A. N. Garfield, grand chief tenn
plar of the Independent Order of Good
Templars; Mr. s. W. Russell, grand super
intendent of Juvenile Temples in this or
der, and Jas. L. Ewin, first vice president
of the Anti-saioon League, who acted as
chairman in the absence Of Rev. L. B.
Wilson, d. D.. president.
Mr.. j. s: Blackboard, the acting chairman
Of the A. s. l.. committee on mass meet
ings. called the meeting to order. and after
announcing that public meetings Of the
league will be continued. the next one to
be held at Union Methodist Episcopal
Church next Sunday afternoon, turned the
After the hymn, Soldiers of the Cross,
Arise" an earnest prayer by DR.. Luccock
and the enthusiastic singing Of America"
by the entire congregation on its feet, Mr..
referring to the action of the excise board.
which had led to the boards being accused
of having sold out to the Anti-saloon
League. He said that the league would not
not all that was said. by the excise board.
but some of their actions had met with
the hearty approval Of the league, citing as
examples the labelling of houses where 1t is
proposed to begin the sale of intoxicating
liquors, the proposed enforcement Of the
provision of the law that applications for
renewals must be filed before November 1
or be treated as new applications, and the
recommendations that the liquor law be
amended, if necessary. In order to compel
liquor selling clubs to take out licenses
the same as other saloons, and also to COM
pei brewers agents to take out licenses
the same as other retailers.
DIR. Eldridge made an eloquent address
of welcome, in which he assured the Anti
saloon League that there was no organiza-
ton to whom Waugh Church would be
more readily opened at any time. This
vas followed by an address by Mr.. Russell
on the theme "A little child shall lead
them,'' in which he referred TO two forces
in the temperance work which had not
been fully appreciated in the past. viz: the
press and the work among children, and
recited effectively a poem describing an in
cident Oh the war OF the rebellion, wher0
two troops of cavalry about to engage
in a battle were stopped by the appearance
of a little child between them, so that mo
battle was fought that day."
Maj. Walker described the humble be-
ginning of the Anti-saloo1 League, and ex-
pressed his qualification at the prcvidential
raising up as his successor of Rev. DR..
Wilson. who has been so largely influential
in uniting the churches with the temper
ance societies in this movement against
the saloon.
Mrs. Griffith was introduced, with the
announcement that the league felt very
happy in securing the last address she
would be able to deliver in Washington be-
fore taking up her permanent home in
Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Griffith gave a re-
view of the National W., G. T. U. conven-
ton, and claimed that the liquor sellers
were more afraid of the eyes of Its three
hundred thousand women than Of any
other one force. but eloquently pleaded. in
conclusion, for the united work Of men and
women. as it exists here in the Anti-saloon
League.
The concluding address was by DIR. LUG
cock, who said, among other things. that
resolutions doubtless had their place in