The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27
MANY HEARD MISS WILLARD.
LARGE CONGREGATION IMPRESSED
BY HER ADDRESS.

EOntsm OF lo-uhA - ne W - = ="
Will Petition Again and Again
Until Its Object j. Accomplished.
Temperance Reformers seek 10
Preserve and Build Up the Mind
and Protect the TOMBSTONE Swell
Dinners Mentioned " here Neither
wines Nor Liquors Were r'-Ved.
Miss Frances r. Willard addressed one
OF the largest congregations that has as
sembled i'm Savannah in a long time, al
wesley Monumental church yesterday
afternoon. Every seat in The church was
occupied. and chairs and benches were
brought in 10 add TO the seating capacity.
Crowds filled the galleries. and many stood
during the entire address.
some very excellent music was furnished
by the choir and orsanist, Miss Emma
Weeks. whose work is most highly COM
plimented Among other selections was
God Is There" by the quarette' which
was very sweetly sung. and TO which the
CONGREGATION listened with marked atten-
tion.
Rev. A. NJ. williams introduced Miss
Willard. president OF the National and
Worlds Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. as one Of the foremost women IN
all the world. whose intensity Of CON
Niction." he said, may excite differences
of opinion, bur whose devotion TO duty
and persuasive eloquence wins thousands
10 the cause she serves 50 Well
brothers and sisters of a common sor-
row and a common hope Miss willard
began chow pleasant to ones ears must
be a good mans praise. and thank my
brother for his kind words have
been impressed. and 1 am sure you must
have been. by what you have just heard
so sweetly sung. God Is There l have
noticed the sunlight as II streamed IN
through these windows, and u brings 10
my mind the thought that God has no
light anywhere that equals the hght OF
the intellect"
She smoke of a young French poet, who
was being led to the guillOtine, whose
last words were, as he touched his fore
head. 1T is a pity, for / had something
1--WE are gathered to consider and think
how IL can be best preserved and used,
she said She spoke Of the Hottentot VINO
tried TO see how much whisky ne could
drink without anyone being the wiser
and who would demonstrate his capacity
by trying 10 walk a straight line after
emptying a measure of the hWd Whlch
would make several ordinary persons APP
pear to be ailing with lOcomotOr ataNia.
In that she said he confessed ana mus
trated his relationship not 10 his reVolu-
She spoke Of how easy matter it is
to get beyond the power Of self-controi
in the use Of alcoholic stimulants, and
the line Of demarkatiOn between self
control and habitual drinking she SAID Is
crossed without its being perceived.
There are two chapters in this brief
history" she said. The hrst is nc could
ST he would and the other he would II
The temperance reformer seeks to help
preserve the brain. The home IS the chief
corner stone of the state and there Is no
enemy so unrelenting toward 1t as the evh
I'VE have been studying the enemy for
twenty-five years" she said, since the
organization Of our union after the Wo-
mems temperance crusade. Ihey nave
been brewing beer we have been Drew
ing public sentiment; they nave been
distiiling whisky we have been dlStlllng
thoughts; they have been rectfying alco-
holic spirits we have been recutying the
God-given spirits OF the human race
1--WE want to bring more intensity or
thought into the world. We 20 to the
home with the pledge, 10 the pubic
schools with our books on hygiene and
80 the legislatures seeking to have safe
guards thrown around the traffic.
'.The mighty inventions which God has
enabled man to make are the best friends
of temperance. The people who make and
handle them must have level heads and
hands that do not tremble. The CORPORA
tons which make and use these inventions
are requiring teetotalism from their en-
Public sentiment is growing in our ia
Vor, Miss willard said, in abiding to the
fact that the wife OF Secretary CarliSle
gave a dinner to the President and the
members of his cabinet at which not
drop of liquor OF any kind was used. The
fact, she said, was merely mentioned ~, IN
of Mrs. Cleveland as a teetotaler, who
never kept around her or offered any
one intoxicants of any kind.
Il cannot offer my guests as token
of hospitality" she said, that which has
been the death of women and the curse
of little children"
there was ever an affair given by royalty
when Lady, Henry ,,, Somerset, cst the
iian Temperance Union in Great Britain,
entertained about $500 guests without any
thing Of the kind, and no comment was
made upon IL IN the papers She agreed
with many if it was not the emblem of
hospitality it should never be used in the
sanctuary.
Miss Willard was warm i'm her praise of
the work done by Theodore Roosevelt.
chairman Of the New York police commits
sion Three thousand saloon keepers were
dealt with according to law, she said, and
prohibition obtains for one-seventh of the
time He is a man" she said, and 1t
should be spelled with n big NJ. God give
us more men who possess opinions who
have honor and who do not lie"
Miss Willard said Mr.. Roosevelts report
showed not only that the saloons We're clos
ed on sunday. Out lIal ~ DdulAS VI NAME
less infamy had been wiped out and that
sixty gambling houses had been closed.
The body she said had its decalogue of ma
tural laws, and nothing should be allowed
TO enter it which will violate it. Character
is chrystallized habit. and the law has
been established that a thing once done
can be more easily done a second time,
and so on in a geometrical ratio.
The laws of purity and truth, she said
should be instilled into the mind of the
child before the debasing way of telling
HIM has smitten his ears. Books on pure
life have gone forth from our headquar-
aers and nothing we have ever tried to do
has blessed the home more.
I'VE believe there win come a time when
from ocean to ocean there will not be a
1egaliZed saloon in all the country. We
have petitioned for it. and we shall con-
tinue to petition, until what we seek is
given us To legalize the liquor traffic or
other vice is TO corrupt good citizenship,
it is like the entrance OF the Trojan horse
into our midst. We believe that what is
morally wrong cannot be legally right.
In speaking of Ingersol, she said what
k-rieved her about him was that which he
did not realize. that the good in him came
from his ancestors for generations
1--WE look on the liquor traffic, she said,
'sas an anachrOnism in this age ! hate
the sin, but / do not feel unkindly toward
those who are engaged in it.
In concluding. Miss Willard spoke elo-
of hrod home iS "A