Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-05-24
MEETING OF LIQUORS. FOES
National Temperance Society to Celebrate
Its Thirty-second Anniversary.
Sketch of the Organization and of Its
ticers and Scope of It's Work.

Every year adds to the reputation OF
this city as place for conventions ano
anniversary celebrations. This year, fol
the first time. the National Temperance
Society Is to hold it's anniversary in Wash
ington. Connected with the society is the
great temperance publication house, which
furnishes books, periodicals, tracts and pa
pers for the temperance reform all over
the world.
The association came into existence i'm
mediately after the civil war. Temperance
associations had been largely disbanded
and the temperance sentiment of the coun'
try was at its lowest ebb. There was NJ
temperance literature and few temperance
organizations either educational or other
wise.
Origin of the Society.
In August. 1865, a national temperance
convention. consisting of 325 delegates, as
sembled at Saratoga Springs. n. Y. This
convention. composed OF representatives oil
oil religious denominations and the few
temperance organizations then in exist
ence. continued in session for some days
1t was called to order Dy Chancellor Wal
worth of New York, VINO mad, generation
previously, presided over the first nationa
temperance convention, which met in indie
pendcuce Hall, Philadelphia The perma-
IIcnt chairman of this convention was Gov
ernor Buckingham of Connecticut, after
ward United States senator.
\ cCmIni, tee, Consisting CT VIM. E Dcdge
VIM B. Spooner, ke:. theodore L. CuyieI
and others. was appointed to take into con-
s.deration the organization of a national
temperance society and publication house
The committee succeeded in this effort, and
the society was formed late in the autumn
OF 1865, with VIM. e. Dodge as president,
Rev. James B. Dunn. secretary, and John
N al
these who participated in the formation
OF the society only three are now living
Rev. Theodore l. Cuyler. ID. S. d. Hast
iESs OF Wisconsin and the present general
secretary, Rev. James B. Dunn, ID.
Hut Five Presidents.
In thirty-two years tie society mas had
only five presidents. Vim. E. Dodge. sc
well known as a business man and phil
anthropist served eighteen years until his
Death. He was succeeded by Rev. Mark
Hopkins. DID. president OF Williams Col
lere. Then came, successfully, Rev. DIR.
Theodore L. Cuyler. Gen. o. o. Howard
and the present presiding officer. Joshua L.
Rally of Philadelphia. sc well known in
connection with reform political work in
Philadelphia.
The late ]. n. Stearns, who was a per-
feet embodiment of that scriptural passage:
w Whatsoever Thy hand findeth to do, do it
with thy might, was tie society's pub
i
his death. and for nearly thirty years was
its corresponding secretary, and the editor
OF its publications, and practically was
the manager of the society.
Miss Willard Vice President.
Among its vice presidents are many of
the leading temperance men of the con-
tinent Miss Frances f. Willard, president
OF the National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union. is the only woman who has
ever been elected as a vice president of
the society.
Among the officers viii be found Bishop
John ireland, the eloquent Catholic tenn
perance leader of this country: Bishop E.
G.. Andrews of New York. Bishop c. B.
Galloway of Mississippi. General George
W. Balm of Kentucky. Gen. Neal Dow of
Maine, Rev. John Hall, D. D., of New
York, Rev. T De Witt Talrnage D. ID .
John Wanamaker of Pennsylvania, Rev.
j. NJ. Buckley. d. D. OF New York Rev
Joseph Cook Of Massachusetts. Represen-
tatlVe Nelson Dingley of Maine pishon
Samuel Fallows of Illinois Bishop ]. p.
Newman of Nebraska and scores of others
equally well known TO the business and
IhLanthropic world.
Non-Partisan and Non-Sectarf,n-
The society is absolutely non-partisan in
politics, and non-secretarian in religion.
II avoids all side issues. and seeks to
arouse and enlist the Christian Church and
Christian people in this great reform. Its
business is conducted by a beard of thirty
managers. ten OF whom are elected each
yer, representing all the great leading re-
E5IIus denominations and temperance or
g~nlzdtions in the country.
me society catalogue embraces over +wo
thousand different publications, from the
ohe-paEe tract up 10 the bound volume of
a thousand pages. all of which are design
e. Tor the education Of the people in the
habits OF total abstinence law and or
der. and the suppression of the LIQUOR traf-
nc II publishes regularly three temoer-
aIce papers which have very large cir
cL.ation- In the thirty-two years of its
existence L has placed over five hundred
thousand volumes in the Libraries of the
Sunday schools of this country
Work in the south.
FOR twenty-five years the society has
been doing most efficient work among the
coi5red people of the south Not only has
II furnished printed matter to the colored
Universities and colleges 5f the south. but
tHe colored ministers ard teachers have
been furnished with hundreds of thousands
OF pages TO be used in the pulpit and ON
tho platform and in the schools
~ the anniversary celebration to he
ned tomorrow evening. at the Vermont
Venue Christian Church. President Joshua
l. bally of Philadelphia will preside The
exercises will be full of interest and the
pubic Is cordially invited to attend