Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-06-10

@sMEoAy was quite successful "A
the ladies are capable Of making ,hei
efforts.
/ About p. m. Miss Annie X. stewan
OF chessertown. Md. Secretary Of NARY
laad 7. w. C. T. L., gave very enter
tanning illustrative lecture ON .sFamo,,
Faces aad Affairs Afield," which was en-
Joyed BY all who heard il.
Miss Stewart Is an entertaining sneak
er and acquits herself well. In introdu
cling her 90 the audience DIR. q. wecya.
Petherbridge said:
it affords Us great pleasure. friends
10 welcome You to an assembly In In,
interest Of temperance, a cause which
next 70 the Christian Religion Is ia.
grandest that can engross the attention
or engage the energies of man. a cause
that derives its greatness from the mag.
nitude, inhumanity and atrocity of the
liquor Traffic. whose ruthless. reckless
rulnous ravages il aims to arrest.
The country pays more money for in
toxicants in six years than the govern
ment has received revenue in. the one
hundred and eight years Of its existence
since 1850.
For every dollar that the government
expends to educate and cultivate the in
tellect of her subjects through educa-
honai agencies she expends ten dollars
10 blast their intellect and destroy their
souls through the liquor traffic.
This nation, every year, expcnds 81
5000 for intoxicants. Just think
OF II friends, more than one and a half
thousand millions of dollars every wear
are expended in this country for an
agency that is detrimental To every
phase of the nations welfare. 500. 100.
'0o every week are expended in this
country for that which is deleterious 10
every aspect of the country's growth.
progress and development and $4.2a7.-
s12 every day is the price the country is
paying for the most prolific source of
vice. crime and misery known to our
civilization.
NOW II ought 90 he very evident tn
every one, that any nation that expends
more than $4.OOo,OOO every day for an
agency that Is dwarfing its progress. de-
basing its civilizations, demoralizing its
debauching its manhood and
degrading its wOmanhood, is going hack
ward rather than forward.
That the liquor traffic is such an agen-
cy no one can deny II wrecks a man
financially, morally and spiritually. II
obstructs nations progress here and
II destroys nations citizens hereafter
for it makes drunkards and no drr,ukard
shall enter Heaven.
| think You muss concede that any
country that expends more than a. OOO.-
OOO every day that are worst than vast.
ed :" 50 far as the benefit that it affords.
the country is concerned, that that coun.
try is going in debt to that extent,
| think it very easy 10 see how the
country would be- benefited if. instead of
going in debt at the rate of nearly a.
s5O, 600 every day, il were accommodating
at that rate, as would be the case if the
amount named were expended only for
that which upbuilds and enriches n conn
try rather than that for that which only
debauches, degrades and impoverishes it.
How do you expect a country TO bros
per that expends nearly - as,, og0 eyerv
day for that which il hagmfn, 10 its every
interest.
but The
Iact that the work of the saloon. the
drunkard factory. the recruiting stations
of eternal prediction, the vestibule of
hell, is increasing.
In one of his messages to Congress. ]
think the last Ex-President Cleveland
stated that the revenue derived from the
liquor traffic that year was $685. 600 great
er than it had been in any previous year
Now my friends you know that an in
creese of revenue from the sale of an ar
ticle means an increased sale of that ar
ticle-you know that an increased sale
of an intoxicant means an increased
amount of drunkardness-deba
and degradation, woe want and wretched
ness, vice, crime and misery in the couhk
try, for all of these caiamities bestrew
the wake of the on rushing jugger naut
of the liquor traffic.
Close the saloon, the licensed robber
of the country's wealth, the legalizei
murderer of the country's peace, health
and prosperity, the governmentally ap-
proved destroyer of the peoples homes,
happiness and hope of Heaven, and you
will remove the cause of four fifths of
the vices that shock our refinement, four
fifths of the crimes that disgrace our
civilization and nearly four fifths of the
maladies that send man ITO his long
home
Hoping To create sentiment favor
able TO such an achievement, have the
pleasure of introducing to you an accom-
plished, entertaining and instructive
lecturess in the person of
Miss ANNIE RoTBwELL STEWART.
Il.