The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-01
THE NEW TEMPERANCE
NINETEENTH CENTURY TO GO OUT
AND TWENiIETH TO COME IN SOBER
New Practical Movement of the Christian
Union of Total Abstainers-Two Years
Fight Against Alcohol.

New Practical Movement of the Christian
Union of Total Abstainers-Two Years
Fight Against Alcohol.
| General Hadley, who is the vice pres
ident of the Christian Abstainers' Union
as well as military director of the Unit
ed States Church Army, delivered this
address at the union watch-night meet
ing last night just before midnight at
headquarters on Gregson street:
The twentieth century is to dawn up
on America truly independent and So
Der nation, if the earnest efforts Of the
National Christian Union of Total Alb
stainers succeed.
| Prominent in their announcement Of
a two years lend Of the century cam
paign" which this society issues to-day
are the epigramatic phrases:
Save the family. state and nation"
More clothing, food, fuel books and
home comforts-less to drink"
More family altars-fewer saloons"
more education-less drunkenness
and crime"
| MOIG ODEultIC6 anu OIdSI-lcSS llOL
and Sabbath breaking
| More peace at homeless reveling at
the club"
With this Introduction is the an
nouncement of the National Christian
Union of America, an unsectarian, nom
| political organization of total abstain
ers, which was incorporated October
H. 1898, and which has, during the past
| four years, correspondent with thou
sands of the best thinkers of the coun-
! try, as well as answered more than 5000
inquiries
1t has dis tributed tens of thousands
of total abstinence pledges and estab-
| lished many rescue missions and-focal
branches in different states.
| More than 100000 Christians in the
United States wear,its emblem of blue
| with the cross in the center, and several
hundred thousand circulars have been
distributed, all at cost Of more than
| $4,000.
The National Christian Union, hav-
ing completed four years Of preparatory
work, undertakes, in this, it's fifth year,
the strongest campaign for sobriety the
world has ever known. In its appeal it
says:
Let us go out of the nineteenth cen
fury sober, and, by doing so, furnish
employment for more than. a million
men now in unwilling idleness.
Revive trade and settle the labor
question by total abstinence.
Let us each contribute by self-denial
to the upbuilding of all branches of
trade and business.
One million Christians are asked to
contribute their influence by wearing
\ the blue badge until 1900, if not longer.
I Business cooperation from Chris
tan standpoint is the strongest coop
Grafton in the world
If necessary, let us even make some
sacrifice for our city or town, our state
and our nation, during the few remain
ing months in this great century.
The address goes on to state that the
business of the liquor traffic increases
yearly until now one billion dollars an
nually is worse than thrown away-for
strong drink.
Many other branches of business are
paralyzed or languishing.
We need not try to describe the injury
that alcohol does to America; no pen
can picture, no tongue can tell it; yet
everybody knows 1t.
Now, if the one billion dollars per
year that is spent for drink, which
works so much ruin, were expended for
useful articles, legitimate business
would revive in the production of the
goods, and to produce the goods 1,347, 229
more men would be employed than now
are employed in furnishing the billion
dollars worth of strong drink
To give success to the efforts of the
Christian Union of Total Abstainers, a
National Trades Committee of One Hun
bred is being formed, consisting of
twenty subcommittee of five each,
with it's own chairman, each sub-com-.
mttee representing one of twenty
branchevs of trade that will be special
ly benefited by this movement, namely:
/. Boots and shoe. ..................Fiv Five
2. Bakery products Five
g. Carpets and rugs. Five
4. Carriages and wagons. Five
5. Cheese, butter and milk. Five
s. Mems clothing ..................Fiv Five
Z. Dry goods. ...........F Five
s. Flour and mill products. ....... Five
g. Furniture and upholstering.. Five
TO- Hats and caps. Five
II. Hosiery and knit goods. Five
H. Iron and steel. Five
49, Leather and hides. Five
To- Publishing Five
lb. SHIRTS $500. .............,...... Five
II. Silk and silk goods. ........... Five
49, Strengthening and meat. Five
10. Wooden goods ....................Fiv Five
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