Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-07-14

lie was furnished by the choir of the First
church. Miss Dwight presiding at the or
gan. Prayer was offered by Rev. G. j..
Hall, and after tho singing of a selection
the address of welcome was given by OK
Mayor II. S. Peck.
He said in part: Tho city OF Burlington
and the state are honored by the presence
of this body of temperance men and wom-
en- In our city. The utility Of the order to
which you belong Is unqucstioned. 1t is
fitting that those living in the two coun-
tries lying 50 near together should work
together as you are doing. On behalf of
this state and of our city | bid you Il
hearty welcome.
The address of welcome on the part OF
tho order was delivered by Rev. Thomas
Rogers of Rupert, grand worthy patriarch
of Vermont. Among other things he SAID
he was at one time the G. w. associate Of
tho grand division in Nova Scotia, and
there were at that time in that country
1900 members Of the Sons of Temperance,
S0) Good Tempars ana great numbers of
others who belonged to temperance or
ganizations, and when he came here he
was astouished to find that. in country
where they had a prohibitory law for a =
most half century there was so much
apathy and 1t was 50 difficult to organize
temperance societies. We may wake VI
some uuN To ma tn1t We nave 1851 Oul
pronibtory Law in this State.
The response was made by Th mas Cas-
we'll of Toronto, NEST worthy patriarch OF
the national division of North America
lie expressed himself as delighted to find
Burlington so hospital a city, and was
grateful for the hearty welcome here to-
night by the good citizens Of this city He
alluded pleasantly to the cordial relations
existing between Canada and the United
States N ,ytpl1p1 thu nf ha pr.
der and urged every one not connected
with the order TO Join 1t.
After the singing Of n solo by Miss Conk-
lin. Gen. Louis Wagner was introduced
and said in part: when / asked my
friend, j. II. Converse of Philadelphia
what should say when came to his ma
tive city he said / could say in the frst
place that Shaftor, who is about to cap.
turc Santiago, Is Vermonter. and II thai
didn't bring down the house ! could men.
ton that Capt. Clark of the Oregon is also
4 from your State. and If that didn't do
could just mention the name of Dewey
Regarding the use of liquors in the army
no said that Gen. Miles had said that the
use of intoXicants by soldiers was injuri.
Gus and he for one was opposed to 1t. The
speaker said he was surprised to find thai
In this prohibition State there were sc
many places where liquor is sold, as he
had seen by newspaper reports. We SHOULD
train our children in the right way ant
then we will have men and women who
are n credit to the community.
Edward Carswell of Ontario p. NJ w
Patriarch of the national division was in
troduced and said, among other things
When | was here over % years ago
travelled for some time through the Stat,
aud found no liquor sold or drank, while
( in Canada drunkenness was common: bu
now Canada is temperance country too
~ ~ TO ftara Il. It,a tA no Affr n
the Sons of Temperance. Some of thu
best men we have in Canada owe thei
present high positions to the order OF tn,
Sons of Temperance. We have Canadians
in your armies, one of them was with
Hobson when he sunk the Merrimac anc
we feel that we are brothers with yol
and that We ought to battle together IL
/ this great fight against intemperance.
Rev. Alfred Noon, NJ. w. chaplain OF tn,
national division then spoke. He said IL
part: While we still have the old prob
lem to solve, II presents many new
phases, The government of the Unite'
State derives large portion of its rev
cnue from the liquor traffic. The SAM
thing Is true In Great Britain and in Ger
many. Thus these great government
are getting a large part of their revenue
from the sale of liquor. We have out
lived the time when liquor was used OF
every important occasion as 1t was 80 ant
10 years ago. The children are now be
ing educated in our public schools on tn
subject of temperance and the order o
the Sons of Temperance Is ready to NEE
any of the problems that may come be
fore us on this great question.
The choir then sang another selection
and Rev. George w. Fisher of New
Brunswick spoke briefly in regard t.
prohibition, saying that he thought W
ought to be more aggressive to-day thar
ever before In New Brunswick temper
ance Is coming to the front and n plebis
cite is about to be taken to get the sen
tlment of the people there and we hop
that you will hear favorably from us il
the near future
The exercises OF the evening close
with an address by f. NJ. Bradley. super
intcndent OF young peoples work OF III
national division. He said In substance
81 am not afraid of the liquor traffic
I do not care how strong the traffic ma.
be, the American people are stronger
! When the American flag Is in American
hands It goes forward to victory. Let u
be encouraged to perseVere l have n
thought of giving up. The order Of tn
Sons of Temperance wants to make men
women and children happy. 1t Is such
magnificent thing to try to help thi
world and to make men better. II
| thought that the world was not better 70
my having lived in It could not go t.
my rest in peace.
Tho meeting closed with the benedictlol
pronounced by Rev. DR.. Edward Hawes