The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-12
Blue BUTTON BRIGADE
Staff Captain Laid of St,
johns Army Post to
Organize a Branch.
TOTAL ABSTINENCE PROSPECTUS
Sunday Liquor Selling to Be
Earnestly Fonght-Among
the Churches.
TOTAL ABSTINENCE PROSPECTUS

lZe tOnlght at Sl. JDhn f0Si VI hHS
Uaited States Church Army. a branch OF
the Blue Button Brigade, or the National
Christian Union of Total Abstainers. As
many of the young men as possible will
be enlisted in the new movement and VIII
be called upon to fight the liquor dealers,
and especially those who violate the
Sunday laws in this city. Captain Ladd
said In an interview with a reporter for
..The News
3slt is time something of the kind was
started. The saloons in Lafayette are
practically wide open on Sundays, and it
is our desire thai this state of affairs be
changed. We will do our part towards
changing them
1t is probable that when the local asses
citation is organized a plan of campaign
will be mapped out by Staff Captain Ladd
and steps will be taken to get evidence
against the saloon keepers who keep their
places open on Sunday and have them in
dicted.
STAFF Captain Ladd will not commit
himself at this time as to what course he
will pursue to accomplish this object.
The National Christian Union of Total
Abstainers was Incorporated October IL.
1898. There has never been a branch
formed in Jersey City. The present Off
GERS of the National organization are;
John S. Huyier, President; Henry H.
Hadley, vice-President; A. E. Yates,
Secretary. and George F. La~ngenbacher.
Treasurer.
The objects of the Union are set forth
in the following prospectus.
1.-THE National Christian Union of Amer
- -. - ..- na1+;ao1 q p
ganizateon of total abstainers, which
was Incorporated October u, 1899, and
which has, during the past four years,
correspondent with thousands of the best
thinkers OF the country, as well as an
swered more tbs 5000 inquiries.
ut has distributed tens of thousands
of total abstinence pledges and estab-
nshed many rescue missions and Iocai
branches in different States.
More thar 100,00 o Christians in the
United States wear its emblem of blue
with the cross in the centre, and several
hundred thousand circulars have been dis
tributed, all at a cost of more than
$14,000
'The National Christian Union, having
completed four years of preparatory work,
undertakes. in this it's fifth year, the
strongest campaign for sobrieIy the world
has ever Known.
LET us go out of the nineteenth cell
fury sober, and, by doing SO, furnish en-
ployment for more than "a million men
now in unwilling idleness.
Revive trade and settle the labor ques-
ton by total abstinence.
"Let us each contribute by self-denial
to the upbuiiding 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.
Business cooperation from a Chris
tan standpoint is the strongest coop
Grafton in the world.
ITO give success to the efforts {. the
Christian Union of Total Abstainers, a
National Trades Committee of One Hun
dred is being formed. consisting of twenty
subcommittee of five each, with its w
chairman, each subcommittee represent
ing one of twenty branche of trade that
will be benefited by this movement, name
ly:-
81. Boots and shoes. 2. Bakery pro-
Outs. 3. Carpets and rugs. 4. Carriages
and wagons. 5. Cheese, butter and milk.
6. Mems clothing. T. Dry goods. s. Flour
and mill products. 3. Furniture and up
holstering. 10. Hats and caps. II. Hosiery
and knit goods. Il. Iron and steel. ID.
Leather and Hides. IA. Lumber. Is. Pub
fishing. 16. Shirts. II. Silk and silk goods.
IS. Slaughtering meat. 10. Wooden goods.
20. Worsted goods.
zone hundred men, each contributing of
their money and influence, until the first
day of the twentieth century.
Each member and each committee will
do all they can to cause those who are
in their branches of trade to take the
following pledge; all badge wearers are
asked to ndu one a month to take it.
surely one each year.
THE PLEDGE.
witt Gods help, / hereby promise
not to drink any alcoholic or fermented
beverages until after A. D. 1900, praying
for strength to abstain the remainder of
my life, and during that time I will spend
money equal to what / have heretofore
spent in drink for the purchase of some
of the articles of useful goods named
above"
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