The herald., 1895-08-06

rise up and crush out the evil. The pres
ding officer spoke OF the saloon in pol
iticai corruption. and B. B. Walton also
urged the necessity of united and prompt
action in its suppression.
| The duty of the church in the present
| poll itcal crisis was the next subject and
Rev. George II. De Kay, pastor of pro-
hibition church in Santa Monica, was the
first speaker. He contended that the
church has duty political; that religion
and politics can't be separated without
separating the church from one of her
greatest and most needy fields of labor to-
day.
The union OF church and state is not
wanted, but religious life is needed, {,
that is so vital, pervasive and potent that
it shall invade every department Of life
and invest it with dignity and nobility.
This is time of great struggles between
wealth and commonwealth. The organ
lied liquor traffic has its hands upon the
throats and in the pockets of the nation /;
and it is the duty of the church to speak
in no uncertain tone. resume fol-
lowed of the condition OF che church in
its relation to some of the great questio ms
of the day; of the effect of moral
cowardice in the pulpit; of the enorm GUS
number of church mem mbers, high and
low, who declare against the saloon 364
days IN the year and vote for it on the
last day. 1t is the duty of the churcn
said Mr.. de Kay. to get rid men who sup
port in any way such an internal system.
You must stand free from this thing or
get out. If the saloon keeper cannot be-
come a member of the church, neither
can you, whose creature he is. And the
sooner the church says so the better"
Dr.. c. G. Mclean said that all good
men and church mem bers should be pro.
hibitionists. not only for their own sakes
but for the example it would be to all.
DR.. Mclean has been identified with
temperance since he was Ii years old, and
a student of prohibition, and he made
the earnest suggestion that both tact and
policy be eXerted IN following out the
line Of introducing and enforcing pro-
hibtion; that it was very hard to kee
from saying right things sometimes at
the wrong time.
While it was imperative that moth
ing should sdetrack the movement. 1t
was wiser that no one department like
third party Proh bition should be ad-
yanced or forced he dvised going as far
as possible in all directions but going as
quietly as posi- BILE let the movement be
| recognized as the citizens movement, and
among those men VINO are the voters; to
work unitedly along lines that while they
belong to no party, will pledge the voter
for the man who will, in turn. pledge
| himself TO see that the saloons shall go.
One half of the temperance troubles will
| be done away with when the saloon
goes. Go slow. said DIR. Mclean, in
| CLOSING, MAKE one plank this year, an
other next; there is no use in antagoniz
ing men don't divide the forces confine
all tho work to one thing now, that the
saloon must go.
Mr.. J. NJ. Glass spoke on union and
, vigor in the work. He SAID that reforms
never go backward, and that women as
we'll as men are pressing to the front In
this reform. and that the American peo-
pie when they start, usually carry 3
thing; and he advocated the strength O
union; of leading, not driving the people
| in the matter; and spoke OF the advisa'
bility of engaging Mr.. John S. Woolley tt
sneak here next May when he will be
present for the state Prohibition conven
| ton.
A committee of seven was appointed
by the chair, after Mr.. Glass took his seat.
composed of DIR. Stephen Bowers. chair
! man; Rev. G. Ii. de Kay, Gen. J. E. Nc