The morning times., 1896-02-24
FULL OF AGE and HONOR
Congressional Temperance So
C.ety's 64th Anniversary.
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Large Assemblage Listens to It's Pro-
ceedings at Metropolitan NJ. e.
h-Interesting References to
Local History-The Speakers and
the Speeches.


after an existence of sixty-four years, and
abor among the lines indicated in its name,
finds much to encourage ii to future exer-
tions This most ancient of all the temper
ance guilds of the country observed lis
sixtyfourth anniversary last evening at
Metropolitan NJ E. Church, with exercises of
particular interest.
The attendance was large, fact which
was commented on by one of the speakers
as a flattering evidence of the sympathy
of the people of the city in the work OF the
society. In the audience were the venerable
Bishop Newman and several Cong ressmen.
The exercises were begun with religious
Johnson, who also introduced the occasion
with one OF his happy prefaces in which he
spoke in the warmest terms of the society
and its work. He said that if the members
of the House aud OF the Senate all belonged
to the society the liquor problem would be
solved He referred to the bars and saloon
in the Capitol as the crowning iniquity ofthe
traffic in Intoxicating drinks.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.
President Dingley OF the society spoke
briefly on the object OF The meeting and
introduced Rev. F. d. Power, the secretary,
who read the annual report
The secretary contrasted the old regime
in the House and Senate with the present
and recited several instances of drunken
scenes in Congress some years ago.
He also quoted some Instances in which
liquors We're not considered Indispensable
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the Northern States. He adverted to the
great Increase in the societies whose aim
was temperance since the organization OF
the present, such as the white ribboners,
the Catholic Total Abstinence Society, the
Christian Endeayor and the w C. T. L.,
and also OF the progress which had made
anti-liquor legisla ton possible and ef-
fectiye in thirteen States.
Scattered about in these States ard
others We're the Sons of Tenn
pcrance, ,numbering62.52S Good Templars,
1858; Tcmplars of Honor and Temper
ance, 10000; Catholic Total Abstinence
Union, 65.994; the w. C. T. L.. 1S7, l73;
the c. E., the Epworth League and kindred
societies OF over 100000. He compli-
mented the work OF the Ant is aloon Lea que.
LIQUOR IN THE DIVISION.
Speaking about the prospect of the pro-
hibition of the sale of liquor in the. Dix
vision, he said:
mo more liquor VIII be sold In the Di
vision. Bawdy houses ard lowest dives
under the very caves OF the Executive
Mansion, selling the yilest liquor TO the
most depraved classes OF humanity, scores
Of dens within shot OF the Presidents
dueking guu. where night is made bideOus
with the orgies of tie damned, have been
a stencil in the nostrils OF the people long
enough; aud tigh-toned clubs, whose work.
however elegant, is no more wholesome,
are to be restricted" '
For all these and other evils ne suggested
prohibition. The secretary said that no
more fitting close to his report could be
found than the end of the Chief Ma gistrate's
last Thanksgiving proclamation, which. he
read.
President Di1gley spoke on the effect
of public opinion on the success of the move
mcnt, and advocated a campaign of edu-
cation by the press and at the fireside by
the good mothers of the land.
Representative Johnson of North Da-
kota made an interesting and nstructive
speech on the change which the passage
OF prohibition laws had on the morals OF
the people of the Northwest, and gave in
detail the working OF their very stringent
State laws.
FOR A TEMPERANCE PLANK.
Bishop Newman was called on. He an
uouDced himself as a Republican. At the
present time. he said his party was singing
some penitential psalms, but next June
he prophesed it would be singing the
psalm ''The Lord Reigueth, and Reigneth
Forever More He hoped the party
would be able to put in as plank in its
platform that I'VE, the Republican party
OF the United States of America, are pre-
pared to stand by prohibition whenever the
American people shall demand the same
Ex-Congresssman Pelham of Maine spoke
on the liquor law of Maine and how it had
operated in that State. He believed that
there had been u decided change i'm the
morale of Congress and that there was
ample ground to believe that there was
nothing to be discouraged at in the progress
so far made by the temperance people OF
the United States.
Ex-Congressman Taylor of Ohio made
several suggestions as to a practical liquor
law.
He argued that Congress should not grant
licenses in States where the States had
voted successfully in favor of prohibition.
He held that all liquor dealers should be
responsible for the evils they produced
just as corporations and contractors were
responsible for accidents or deaths by
criminal negligence, and that the saloons
should pay for the expense the govern
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the citizens from the criminal classes fos-
tered by them.
SHOULD PAY DAMAGES.
Mr.. Taylor referred to the fact that the
prohibition State of Maine had, in the
present Congress, the president pro tenn of
the Senate, the Speaker of the House, the
chairman OF the Committee on Ways and
Means, and the chairman of the Naval Com
mittee-
He favored the appointment OF COM
mission of three good Commissioners to
determine the expense the city was put to
by the saloons, with the view of making
the saloons to pay their proportionate share.
But said he, I'VE want to get three good
Commissioners. I wouldn't take the three
we have now; would have respectable
men,"
President Dingley closed the speaking.
He made the point that in Maine, the fact
OF a license issued by the United States
government was prima facie evidence of
the saie of liquor, and it was means of
finding out where the violations OF the
local laws existed. The meeting was dis
missed, after the singing of the doxology,
with pra yer by the Rev. DR. Brown
Col. Ludlow's Mission.
Berlin, Feb. 23.-Lieut. Col. Ludlow, mill
tary attache TO the United States embassy