Evening journal., 1899-08-10
MUCH RUM AT DOVER.
REV. DR.. GREEN INFORMED OF IL
QUORS IN THE ASSEMBLY ROOM.

HE DECLARES THAT THE MEM
BERs OF THE LEGISLATURE
HAD ACCESS TO DRINKS AND
REFUSED TO ALLOW THE PEO-
PILE TO VOTE ON THE LICENSE
i QUESTION
Yesterday was Temperance Day at
Brandywine Summit campmeeting,
and, as usual, large crowds attended
all the meetings. Several delegations
of temperance workers arrived early
lin the morning. and took active part in
the days services.
At the morning session Rev. Alloy
lsius Green. OF Greensboro, Nd, who
was a side light at the recent session
Of the Legislature at Dover, declared:
"A member Of the Legislature said
to me, you ought to have seen inside
of the clerks room in the State House
lduring the session. 1t was stocked with
all kinds of wines and liquors sent by
dealers in the state. wish you had
been there with your kodak
Yes, in that legislative clerks
room flowed beer and wine sent by
rum-sellers to influence legislation,
and many members had access to it, -
added Rev. Mr.. Green. "Is it any won
der that body refused to give the
voters a right to decide whether they
wanted licensed rum shops or not"
Pastor Green took as his text: Wine
is a mocker; strong drink is raging
r He said, in part, that only by prayer
and a proper use Of the ballot car
/ liquor traffic be blotted from the land
: Abiding to the tendency of Methodist
}, conferences to draw and adopt resolu-
a tions condemning the liquor traffic
I while members OF the church vote
J, some way other than for the Prohibi.
ton ticket, Rev. Mr.. Green said:
"The Methodist Church is the great
est temperance society l know Of in
i the world, especially when it adopts
f resolutions. But believe we are goinl
to march around the border lines q
= good many times, and get our resolu
{ tions stronger and stronger each year
d Then we will find out that the resolu
6 tions themselves do nothing, and wei
. get around and annihilate this Liquor
e traffic. When the Methodist church
:. the Presbyterian church and the grea
Baptist church get together, and w
stop drawing resolutions, the liQuol
2 traffic and the licensed saloon surel!
l. must go.
o "The man is a fool who accepts th'
i word of a politician who says cit,
II Ior state cannot be operated withou
Il the revenue derived from licensed rum
/ sellers"
. Rev. Mr.. Green went on to shoy
that considerable disorder and lawless
ness is caused by liquor ant
rum, and he claimed tha
IS the revenue derived from liquor Ii
= - censes must be used to maintain polio
m forces to suppress this disorder and L
le maintain asylums and iails wher
"a many victims Of the traffic in the Ii
n lcensed saloons are confined.
The afternoon sermon was preaohe
by Rev. w. P. Compton. and Rev. F
I - P. Harris preached at the evening ser
o. vices. Both were largely attended an
is the temperance subject was thorough
i aired.
To-day the Christian Endeavor an
Epworth League rally was held, an
hundreds we're on the ground
IL and were entertained by the tenterl
~ The tabernacle was draped with tn
s. colors of the Epworth League an
no Christian Endeavor, while the plat
lie form was bedecked with potted plant
- u and ferns.
Careful consideration was given b
Musical Director Smith to the specis
Il program, which was as follows: Due
20 with All Thy Mercies," Misses Iol
- and Bertha Chalfant; bass solo. "Frol
in the Depths" Rev. c. W. Smith; al
at Taylor; hymns, congregation and choi
= contralto solo, Calvary" Miss Ma
lc- Taylor; hymn, congregation and choi
IT. Rev. Van P. Northrup was chairma
re OF the meeting and addresses wei
made by Rev. Aloysius Green, pres
S. ldent OF the Wilmington Conferens
All Epworth League; Miss Anna T. Lii
* coln Samuel H. Baynard and Re
on Frank P. Harris, of Scott Church, Wi
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