Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-06
ANT1-sALooN LEAGUE.

Montgomery County Organization
Holds Fourth Quarterly Meeting.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
SANDY SPRING, Md. October ), 1897.
The Anti-Safoon League of Montgomery
county, Md, held its. fourth quarterly
meeting at this place yesterday, beginning
at 40 o'clock M. The NOR hing session
was devoted to the business of the execu-
tive committee.
The afternoon public session began at
2:3O, and was presided over. by Vice Pres
ident w. w. Moore of this place. The first
speaker on the program was the Rey., Mr..
Lloyd of Gaithersbarg. who spoke of the
urgency OF an organized effort against the
whisky element which is back of the sa-
looms. and which, at a convention held in
August at Cabin John Hotel, Endorsed the
candidates. of one of she parties -
1t is a well-known- fact, ne said, that
they have taken pledge of their candi-
dates to defeat the present local option
law, and to enact one Of high license, fke
claim being made that under the present
method neither the state nor county ede-
rives any revenue, but that If return
were made to license system quite
revenue would be had. =. X. a5s.>;s.
"Can we as good and true c1tfze1s - In
Quired the speaker, see our law disregard
ed and set at naught, an are We drifting
INTO thdt cOnultlOn OF living Witch we Moulu
be willing to relegate Our duties as good
citizens to proxies Whenever the body po-
little rises to realization Of the need of
action? There never was a time when go
much liquor was dispensed secretly as at
the present. - - 49,. = 49,
lone hundred and forty places where
liquor is illicitly sold exist ~thfs county.
! wlnked at by the county officials whose
WIN you allow this thing 20 continue?
VIII the better elemdnt. OF the citizens of
| this county continue this state Of affairs"
| My acquaintance with :thei people leads
ton you will vote fof men WHO VIII nut
| only enforce the law. but see that these
places arc forever driven from our midst"
Mrs. Caroline H. Muller delivered ali. ed
dress. which was in parf as follows:
Il would like to call The ate 1tien OF this
audience to some old but very important
truths, which are, first, that We cannht
will we may ardentke desire TO believe
So. We can no more ofjttse belief than we
can force the fruit upon, Nhe tree ur the
Hlnf but w his We 0e eaa a. this is our
bounden duty to do Neither, my friends,
can we induce belief in cause, however
good it may be. by reproaches. by nag
ging or by sarcasm. These methods an
| tagonize rather than attract. and would
strongly advise the workers along lines Of
philanthropy to avoid them.
Il Sarcasm Is the FEMININE Oh UuiJiuS- anu
| in neither gender Is either productive of
| good results. Again, We. may deeply regret
| the iukewarmness of some of our friends
liz regard to this great matter now before
| us. We may sorrow over the fact that they
will, many u them. make cider again this
FALL for dfinking.e and the domestic. wines,
and that they will freely partake of them.
| all through the winter and as far into the
spring they can make them last, I say
/ we may sincerely deplors these things, hut
let us beware of harsh Judgment. They
have not yet been convicted OF wroHgdoing;