Evening star., 1896-12-11
ISSUED AN ADDRESS
Closing the Business Of the Anti
Saloon League.
CALL FOR UNITED LABOR
The Revised List of the National
Directors.
T II E DIFFERENT BODIES

League, which was in session for three
days at Calvary Baptist Sunday school
house. sth street near H northwest, closed
late yesterday afternoon.
After the close of The Stars report of
the proceedings of the convention, Mr.. r.
A. Morse resigned as treasurer for the en-
suing year, and Mr.. John w. Cummings OF
New York was elected to fill the vacancy.
An address to the religious, temperance
and reform people of America was adopted
by an unanimous vote. The paper is as
follows:
"Ths American Anti-Saloon League in
annual convention assembled invites your
earnest cooperation in an aggressive cam
paign against the saloon and the liquor
traff16 during the ensuing year.
Public sentiment has already condemn
ed the saloon as an enemy to the country,
its institutions and people.
statistics regarding crime, lunacy and
paupersm all reveal the startling fact
that the liquor traffic is the one potent
agent in their behalf. Every department
of our life, whether religious, social or
civic, has felt the blighting and corruptng
influences Cf this gigantic and organized
evil.
1--WE. therefore believe that the highest
and best needs of the country demand the
overthrow of the traffic and the annihia-
ton Of the saloon system.
ITO this end we appeal for the co-opera-
ton of all religious, patriotic and reform
loving people in the use of such omnl-
partisan and interdenominational methods
as will most speedily produce the needed
results.
President Price of this organization IN
his annual address has said: The American
Anti-Saloon League has for It's immediate
object only thing, to wit, the utter
destruction of the open grog shops; ana
to aid in this very important ana Wor,ny
enterprise all sects. all creeds and all class
es are cordially invited and earnestly So
lcited to lend helping hand =
THE history Of the world in all ages IS
full of incontestible evidence to prove that
a divided attack never did. and by no pos,
siblity ever can, succeed against a united
defense. What we need and what we must
have If we hope for success Is unity OF pur-
pose and concert of action.
Public opinion is ripe for aggressive ac-
ton. and with the methods of this league
properly followed this great question OF
reform can be speedily forced upon the
thought of this nation as its most import
ant issue.
There is need of action not so much to
prove the self-evident facts of existing
evils as to accuse the Christian and pa
triotic conscience of the people, so that the
individual will feel it part of his duty to
assist in the eradication of these evils.
I'VE ask that the churches of America
and every religious, reform and social or
ganiZaton shall sustain such relations with
this movement that by agitation and con-
tinued education they may usher in new
the saloon shall be driven from the land
I'VE call upon the awakened citizenship
of the land to double their efforts for ad-
vanced temperance legislation and the bet
ter enforcement of existing laws.
I'VE urge the righteous voter everywhere
to emphasize his better ideas upon his
party caucus and convention, that right
policies may prevail and good men be
nominated and elected to office
For these ends and along these lines,
mat the land may be saved from peril, our
homes be rescued. our sons and daughters
saved, to all that is best In the republic
we issue this call to arms, and pledge an
unceasing warfare against the saloon, until
In all this fair land not a single dram shop
Shall be left to menace our people,"
Revised List.
Secretary Ewin announced the revised
list Of the board Of directors for the ens,
ing year, which will be composed of the
following members: Templars of Honor and
Temperance. D. B. Bailey, Appleton, Wis:
congregational Church of Ohio, Rev. DR..
Brand Oberlin, Ohio; Congressional Tenn
perance Society. Nelson Dingley. ir.. Wash
!ngton, DC; Brotherhood of Andrew and
Philip, Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis Wash
ngton. ID; G; Tempars of Honor and Tenn
Lerance, Grand Temple of New York AFRO
Gon. Washington, DC. General synod
evangelical Luthern Church, Rev DR.. Ham
ma, Phiiadelphia; permanent committee ON
temperance, Presbyterian Church of Tinted
states OF America, Rev. DIR. HILL Pittsbure:
west virginia Conference M. E. Church.
Rev. F. N. Lynch, Huntington. W. Va:
councils for Suppression of Sin. Rev. Will
lam H. McDougal Clarendon. Cal. a
G. T., Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania A =
Rankin, Aralon, Pa; West Virginia Con
terence Epworth League, NJ E. Church
B. Rohrbaugh. Belington, WA: Church
of the United Brethren in Christ, Rev. Dr.
thompson, Dayton Ohio; Christian De-
nomination, Rev. Frank G. TyrreII ST.
Louis, Mo: Massachusetts Christian En-
Woman's Temperance Committee of Penn,
ssyivania Synod Presbyterian Church.
Miss Ellen NJ. Watson, Pittsburg, pa
:. western Yearly Meeting of Friends, Mr..
1and conference M. E. Church, Rev. w. 3.
Dwight. Melrose. Mass: Synod of south
Dakota. Rev. A. T. Wolff, D. D.: Grand
aoage 10 snxhors OF virginia, l. O.. G: T.. Geo. W
Ant1-Saloon League. Rev. j. T.. Snencar
NJ D.. Nottoway, Va; Ohio Conference NJ
p. church; Rev J. c. Jackson. D. D., Co.
abites District Tent, A. K. Belt. Washine-
ton. d. c.: Non-Partisan w. c. T. q or
Maine. Mrs. A. c. Paul, Fort Fairfield:
Central New York Conference M.E.Church
Rev. James H. hartman. Solway, N. Y:
baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends. Jos
]. Janney, Baltimore, Md: Ohio Epworth
League, Prof. o. A. Wright, Delaware
Hano. Uhlo; Mar Maryland State Temperance Al
nance, Prof. J. X, Taylor, Baltimore Md:
virginia W. c. r. u, Mrs. Mary S. VIII
liams, Alexandria, Va; North Carolina W.
Z. T. T., Rev. j. w. Lee. Greensboro. N.
G.; keystons League Of Christian Endeayor
United Evangelical Church, Rev. u F.
Swengel; Maryland Branch Y. p. G. u.
United Brethren in Christ, Rev ]. E. Fout
Washington, D. c.; Ohio Conference United
Brethren Church. Rev. NJ. r. Drury, DID.
Dayton, Ohio: Maryland Conference, United
Brethren Church, Rev. ]. T. Spangler
Hagerstown. Md: Colorado W. c. T. u,
Mrs. James B. BeIford, Denver. Col: Dis
tIict Of Columbia Christian Endeavor Union.
w. Fl. Pennell, Washington, D. c.; Young
Peoples Christian Endeavor Union Of
Pennsylvania: United Brethren Church.
Rev. ]. H. Albright, Phi. d. Doylestown
Pa; Clarion Presbytery of the Presbyterian
Church. Rev. 8. B. Robinson, Clarion. Pa:
Columbia Baptist Association, Rev. b. Il
Whitman, d. D., LII. d., Washington, D.
c.; Northern Ohio Conference NJ E. Church
Rev. A. =. Winter, D. D.; Grand Division
Sons of Temperance, District of Columbia,
F. M. Bradley, Washington, D. c.; Mary
land w. c. T. T., Mrs. Alice Robinson.
Mount Washington. Nd; Iowa Confer
ence. United Brethren Church, Rev L.
BookwalteF. D. D., Toledo, Iowa: Upper
Iowa Conference NJ. E. Church, Rev. s. y.
Fellows, D. D.. Fayette. Iowa; Western