Evening star., 1896-10-05
AGAINST THE SALOON.
A Series Of Meetings at Foundry
Church. ~
Interesting Facts In Regard to the
Policy of Business COrporntions5
in Preventing Drunkenness.

last night at Foundry Church. Across the
platform hung the legend in large letters
THE Saloon Must Co." Mr.. William H.
Pennell presided A large choir. under the
leadership Of Percy Foster, opened the
meeting with song service, after which
Rev. E. w. Bliss offered prayer. Among
many earnest petitions was the plea: God
have mercy on the saloonkeeper and upon
the men who grant him a license" Mrs.
ALA B. Foster of the First Congregational
Temperance Society and Mr.. Edward Simp-
son of the Foundry Church Sunday School
Temperance Society made short addresses.
A. Hilton of California, who was intro
duced by President James L. Ewin. Major
Hilton's topic was 1.-The Nations Wages Of
Sin"
In his speech Mr.. Hilton said the great
corporations were against the saloon. ''
Take. for example," said he, 1.-The Wells
Fargo Express Company at San Francisco.
The first thing 1t offers a young man Is a
full membership in the Y M.C.A. 1t Is not
compulsory for the employees to join. but
this is offered because it is to the interest
of the corporation to put its employees
in an air Of purity, and in tine company's
magnificent building there you can see
133 members of this Christian Association
Is this not a sign that the wages Of sin is
death to the Wells-Fargo Express Com
pany. 1t is death to this corporation for
cause the city of San Francisco is filled
with saloons where for 15-cent drink
you can get lunch far better than these
young men could afford to buy, and to
keep it's employees from these places the
company has magnificent restaurant on
the fifth floor of its building. Now, this
Is sign that the wages Of sin Is dea.h
to this great express company. a close
listed. money-getting corporation. and not
a temperance organization. 1t Is economy
for the company to protect the morals vi
Is employees, and its directors kpo~ It.
Further. there is not trunk line rail-
road in the land that will employ man
who drinks, If the road officials know 1t.
and the Erie railway will not employ
man who will drink or gamble at any
time on duty or off, and it will discharge
duty. Why does the Erie derry a man the
right to drink at any time? Because II
knows that man who will drink on duty
will drink on duty If he gets chance,
and it knows that man with even one
drink in his body is not a fit man to put
his hand upon the throttle OF an engine
and guide the lives behind him This Is
ciates that half it's loss by accident has
been due to drinking employees"
The speaker described the saloon system,
and deplol ed the policy which pays the old
veteran a pension and then permits him
to be debauched and enslaved by rum
President Ewin announced that there
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arrangements at 6:3O this evening in the
Foundry Church. and a meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the league in his
Office at 4:15.
The program for this evening is this:
Song service by choir, Mr.. Percy S. Foster,
dir ector: Invocation Rev Charles l.. Pate,
pastor North Capitol NJ. E. Church: pre-
lude. President Fred E. Tasker presiding.
dress. Rev. E. Olin Eldridge of Waugh
Chapter; singing. male quartet; address.
Rev. Stowell L. Bryant of ST. Paul Chapter.
Andrew Wilson. NJ A., D. c. L., presiding:
Singing: offering; announcements: singing
by choir: address, Some Features Of the
Liquor Laws Favorable to Temperance"
Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D. D., pastor Nine
teenth Street Baptist Church, Chaplain A.
s. L.; singing: benediction. Rev. Adam
Reoch, pastor Fifth Congregational Church;
singing by choir.
Each evening the session will be opened
by a song service, under the direction of
Mr.. Percy S. Foster. and led by specially
organized choir of one hundred voices. The
choir has been diligently rehearsing. and
as the music will be made a prominent fea-
ture Of each service, it will doubtless add
much to the interest Of the meetings.
Following the song service, the first half
hour each night which will be known
the prelude" will be in charge of one of the
several general organizations federated in
the league. during which period the work of
the particular organization In charge will
be presented and reviewed The program is
sible a great many different phases of the
work. 1t contains the names Of a number
of prominent local and out-of-town work.
ers, no pains having been spared to secure
the best talent available.
Rest of the Week.
Tuesday evening Mrs. Margaret B. Platt
will preside during the prelude, which will
be in charge of the Womens Christian
Temperance Union. A discussion upon the
crrh INT Mill
pated in by a number of the ladies of the
w. c. T. U. Rev. j. G. Butler. DID,, will
then assume charge of the service and
Rev. George w. Miller, pastor of the Sec
ond Lutheran Church of Baltimore. will be
introduced. DR.. Miller is a well-known d.
make an address upon the subject "The
New Declaration Of Independence"
Wednesday evening will be known as
Good Templar night. and the prelude will
be conducted by Grand Chief Templar AL
bert E. Shoemaker. Addresses will be de-
livered by A. T. Maupin, grand counselor,
and Mrs: s. w. Russell, grand superinten-
dent of Juvenile templars. President B. l..
Whitman, DID,, of Columbian University,
will then preside over the meeting and
will introduce Mr.. s. P. Thrasher, secre-
League. who will make address upon
the subject. 1.-THE Saloon Must Co.
Thursday evening the prelude will be con-
Quoted by representatives of the Father
short addresses will be given by some MEM
bers of this society,".
Mrs. Clinton Smith. second vice prest-
dent of the Anti-Saloon League of the
District, will introduce Rev. Hugh K. Wal
ker, pastor Of the Central Presbyterian
Church of Baltimore. 1.-The Place of the
Nations Capital In the National Crusade
Is the subject of Mr.. Walkers address.
and those who know him will be glad of
the opportunity of hearing him speak.
Friday evening will be known as Chris
tian Endeavor night, and the prelude will
be conducted by Mr. Miles M. Shand presi-
dent of the District Christian Endeavor
Union. An address on Christian Endea yor
Its purposes-Its Limitations" will be de-
Hvered by Mr.. Shand. and the subject
"A Field for Society Cooperation will
be discussed by Mr.. w. H. Pennell. Judge
Anson 8. Taylor will then preside, and
Rev. Walter H. Brooks, DID,. chaplain of
the District Anti-salocn League, will ad-
dress the meeting upon Some Features of
the Liquor Laws Favorable to Temper
ance.'
Saturday evening the Independent Order
of Rechabites will have charge CT the pre-
liminary half hour, High Chief Ruler John
H. Mitchell presiding. Mr.. Mitchell and
Mr.. William r. Hunt, p. H. c. R., will
make short addresses, reviewing and ex-
planning the work of the order. Rev. F. u.
Power. presiding will then introdnce Mrs