The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-11
MAJOR H|LTON'S SERMON
a.
He Speaks Against Strong Drink
and Vile Literature.
The WOE 1T HAS CAUSED
A Forcible Argument Against the Pub
lication and Sale OF Cheap and Sem
sational Novels-Lecture to
Women Only.

Major George A. Hilton spoke at thu
NJ. E. church yesterday. In the after.
noon at 3 o'clock he had the room
packed with women. as 1t was a meet
ing for ladies only. Many of those pres
ent united with the work in which he is
engaged. He spoke eloquently about
Thieves in the Temple" taking as his
basis the text, which speaks of the
body being the temple of God. His chief
and most eloquent remarks were made
about vile literature and drunkenness
among the women of the aristocracy.
The organization under whose super
vision he lectures has succeeded in
keeping vile literature away from the
travelling public. which 1t did so much
to contaminate and pollute before. He
spoke OF the tons of vile literature be-
ing published secretly in the East, and
the means Ike to suppress it. How
some Of the vilest criminals, whose
business IL has been to make children
vie with obscene pictures and dirty
literature; how some of these vile GRIM
inals and vampires had been arrested
and placed behind prison bars. where
all should be for the safety of society.
aAeott ~ tuuCdtlOUdl lnUuence
OF everything that appeals to the ~
or childhood. school teachers are Sc
iected now In some parts of the land
who nave special qualifications in a
moral direction and who do all they
can to keep poisoned literature away
from the children who are placed under
their care, and this Is consideredfa part
or their work One of these seached the
pockets of a number Of children under
her charge and found there a.. 49,.
els and vile pictures, vended by some
or those vampires of society. who make
money out of these things, first giving
away to children vile stuff to bring into
an appetite and then selling
at high prices the more OF the same
class. All stimulants contain as their
basis alcohol and any doctor who ever
should never be allowed to cross the
doorstep of any honest woman's home.
He showed by statistics the terrible in
OF liquor In causing 10
take the first step into viii. He de-
that vendors of vile literature
work the trains, selling to those whom
they can trust, n keeping IL away
from I'M who might inform upon them.
He praised the Woman's Christian
union and said that he
banked God that Anaconda a a few
who were strong enough in their
for purity and temperance to
a stand for the right, and that
these among women were the salt of
the earth. Major Hilton Is a very for
cible speaker and gives interesting facts
from statistics he carries with him.
In the evening a fine audience greet
Major Hilton. His was
for temperance from a business mans |
view. He showed that p trunk lines of
railroads would not employ men who
used liquor, n the Erie has
a recent order absolutely pro-
hibiting all drinking. ard playing or
the frequenting places where these |
things are found. He argued that the
value OF every laborer who
drinks Is decreased at least one-third.
His picture of the want, poverty, crime,
disease and death, caused by strong
rink was very intense. He declared
hat American beer was such vile stuff
hat a brewer. In Germany. II he should
n sell IL. would be ar
'ested and placed in prison.