The Penn's Grove record., 1896-08-28
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u . vs. Es NnutCn was Detu III
ohebIe's Grove on Thursday. At IL
O'Clock Rev. MI. Merrill, of Whining
ton, gave all address on Temperance,
Which lie considers the greatest crime
and issue of the day. He considered 1t
The vampire which was sucking lie life
blood OF the nation. The brewers ASSOC
CATION passed a resolution that their
business was as honorable as Any other.
Who ever heard tell of other business
men doing the like. Bismarck said
Germany had more to fear from her
beer bottles than from guns.
lie told al Instance of a girl who
spent the evening in a park along the
Delaware this season, drank her first
glass of beer, became crazed and was
found in the river. Besides a thousand
millions, spent for drink 500, 200 was
spent incidentally. 1t is estimated that
lI,OOO millions of lives have been lost
and 100000 boys are needed annually
to take their places. Three millions of
wives and orphans suffer from the iraf-
fc.
Thele is strength enough in the
American people 10 knock the traffic
down like 1t was done in Kansas, where
they doubled their population III ten
years and reduced taxes one.half.
In the afternoon there was u large
crowd present. Mr.. Benson, of Will
mington, made an address with much
humor in IT,. He said our nation was
now going through a crisis of seeth-
ing, %bubbling, boiling, distrust aud tur-
mol, of political, social and religious
unrest. 5000 men are now out of EN-
ployment in Wilmington. II it were
left to the women, whom all men consult
when in a tight place, there would be
no 53c. dollar. lie exhorted all to have
true friendship for our brother and give
help in time of need without asking.
Our influence never ends. Christ never
retaliated. Let lis show Christian
brother hood aud %exemplify the princi-
pies of friendship in our lives.
Benz. Patterson, of Woodstown fol.
lowed with a few eloquent remarks on
American patriotism.
Mr.. James M. ScoVel did NOT arrive
until 4.3O aud spoke at 6 O'Clock for
about ii half hour OF his Tip to Pales
tine and Armenia. He stood in freeze
where Dem0stheneJe, Pericles aud Paul
spoke. Visited Jerusalem, aud irod
the path HIS saviour carried his cross to
calvary. lie was told his faith would
be shaken by his trip, but If it was as
small as II mustard seed, he said it
could remove mountains now He saw
in Armenia where the Turks had kill
ed 1000 Christians in Il day. 1900
were locked in a church, beds saturated
with kerosene were thrown in and all
burned. A woman told him a Turkish
soldier had killed the babe at her breast
with Il bayonet and tossed it to the
bayonets of other soldiers. He saw the
heroine Clara Barton in Constantine.
pie who brought reliefs 10 the sufferers.
He finished by giving Il patriotic talk,
so he said, on sound money" and "na-
tional honor" lie was a goid-bug and
now believed with Cleveland although
Cleveland turned him out of a $1,000
Office in 1856, the burden Of which was
2 hours work a day looking for frauds.
He said green5acks and silver were
good as gold because they can say 81
know that my .redeemer liveth." 1t
would be national dishOnor to have free
coinage aud pay with silver.
/[Mr. Scovel was asked privately what
were silver dollars redeemable in and
he said 800 ceuts." This shows he
knows about as much what hep was
talking about as a babe cooingI fSeere.
tary Carlisle's circular issued toigive In.
on the money question says
coins and standard silver dollars
being standard coins of the U. S. are
not redeemable. Standard silver dollars
are legal tender at their nominal or
face value in payment of all debts, pub
lie and private, without regard to
amounts, except where other wise stipu-
lated in the CONTRADICTION Dec. 3, 1878,
Congress passed a resolution that u.
S. bonds are payable in silver dollars of
4125 grains, and such Is not a violation
of the public faith, nor in derogation Of
the rights of public creditors" y JAS
not been repealed. Ed.
In the evening Rev. W. S. Mitchell,
of Keyport, gave an interesting speech
on the protestant reformation in Eu.
rope and the planting of Professionalism
in America by the Puritans. n