The Monitor-register., 1897-09-10

AiGer Wofds OF approval and remarks
by Priscilla Lippinoott, the chairman in
trodueed to the large assembly gathered,
James F. DALEY, of the Philadelphia
Ledger. The statements of this able
gentleman relative to the connections
between churchly people and the liquor
traffic in the city of Philadelphia (and if
there. elsewhere). were appalling. And
yet Mr.. Daley knew whereof he spoke
and did not make these statements
without months and years of unit iring
research and close observation. In part
Mr.. Daily said: Zone of the peculiar out
growths of the liquor traffic is the res cue
mission work. These ins titutions of our
great cities depend solely upon the
saloon for their business. Almost every
man and woman they profess to save or
convert, have been ~drunkards, and in
many instances have previously expert.
enced the joys of salvation only to after.
wards fall into the licensed mantraps. 1t
is clear TO me that if the liquor traffic
was prohibited the slum missions would
| go, and a great crowd of non~-producers,
who are now engaged in the business of
saloon salvage, would be compelled to
seek employment in ways that would be
more profitable to society.
The clerical and lay members of the
aristocratic city churches regularly vote
a license ticket; saloon keepers take out a
license by the consent of their votes;
d%runkards are the inevitable result from
the saloons, and then the same churches
send missionaries, receiving importuned
salaries, down into the slums to save the
human wrecks cast out by the traffic
the church members voted to license. 1t
is a work of supererogation. 1t is a sort
of perpetual motion, working on relig-
ious pivots, how the saloon votes to
saloon mission salvation, and the bust
ness is certainly increasing"
MIR. Daley was Immediately followed
by DIR. Francis j. Collier, who was
grieved to think that the church had
been thus assailed.
Lydia h. Norris defended Mr.. Dailey's
position and rejoiced that the dark
places in church and state were being
exposed. elieving it is only by the
searchlight of truth and justice that
these wrongs-of the existence of which
she has no doubt-may be righted.
MIR. Daley arose in explanation of his
1 n0RIfInn and QpdnrnH Tho nrJs--- 49,
he possessed ample pr oof for every
statement he had made. He had spent
every spare moment at his command for
nine months in securing a correct record
of the list of license signers of Philadel.
phia, and had spent four years in the
license court of that city studying it's
methods.
Percival c. Norris, in his youthful
love for Princeton College, which, in the
course of remarks, had been show up in
its true light, declared tn at Princeton
was no worse than FL award, Cornell.
Browns University, or a host of others;
but that in the small population of
Princeton the drunkenness that exists
is more transparent than it is in the
larger populations of the other college
towns where the workings of darkness
may be more effectually hid from the
gaze of the world.
The time for adjournment had ar
rived. Many thoughts seeking utter
ance were unexpressed. Deep interest
was written on ~everyone's countenance.
Think on these things.
Sincerely,
Creamridge, 9-7-'97. RUTH.