Evening star., 1899-06-26
SIXTH ANNIVERSARY.
pounding of AntisSafaon League Cele-
brated Last Evening.

The sixth anniversary sof the founding OF
the Ahu-Saloon Leagueaof the District o1
Coiumbia was celebrated last evening by q
mass meeting at Calvary Baptist Church
Mr. Jas L. Ewin, president of the league
presided, and addressesawere delivered by
LIT. Greene, pastor of the Calvary Baptist
church; Mr.. A. N. aCanfield and Rev. Lu-
ther b. Wilson, D. d. The music for the
evening was in charge of Prof B. Frank
Gebest, assisted by the quartet Of the Cal
vary Church choir.
IN welcoming the temperance workers OF
the city, as represented by the Anti-Saloon
League, DR.. Greene EXPRESSED the Opjnion
that the league, in it's work of fighting the
saloon by agitation and organized opposi-
tion 10 license applications, and in it's en-
aeaVors TO enforce the laws governing the
tra1hc, has adopted the most practfcabl
methods that could be devised. He said 1t
was Always matter of surprise and won
uer 10 MIN that so many people refused to
see the money side of the question. the side
which represents taxation, even though
tney could not see the moral and religious
side of it.
Some of the results of the work of the
league were shown in the remarks of Mr..
A. NJ Canfield. Among other things, he
stated that while at the beginning of the
present decade 1t was not uncommon to
nnd cnurch members, and even church Off
cials, signing applications for liquor Ii
censes, now such a thing is almost un-
known. He also said it was, to great ex-
tent, due to the efforts of the league that
holes of iniqufty they once were, and that
further efforts in this direction will not be
lacking.
Dr. Wilson, the principal speaker of the
evening, was once the second president of
the Anti-Saloon League of the District of
Columbia, and is now the first vice presi-
dent Of the American Anti-Saloon League.
He took for his subject, "EXpansiOn," and
drew parallel between the events and In
cidents Of the Spansh-American war and
the fight between the moral and religious
forces of the world and the liquor traffic.
He said that as the cry which had nerved
the thin blue line" at San Juan and
strengthened the "men behind the guns of
DeWey's fleet had been Remember the
Mafne,'' so Christians and temperance peo-
pie should be stirred to their duty as citf-
Zens by the cry of Remember the Saloon" "
1t was the remembrance of Spain's record
of oppression to humanity, of her cruelty
to long-suffering people near our shores,
that caused the late war, said the speaker,
and 1t Is time now for the forces that make
Tor righteousness to rise up and to take ac-
count of and remember the centuries of
murder and crime with which the liquor
traffic has cursed the world.
England, by her superb colonial policy,
had spread a civlizing influence over A
vast portion of the earths surface, said
DR.. Wilson, but she will have to answer
for the trade in opium and rum which she
mas carried on with those colonies. Be-
lieving this, said he, what shall be said
when 1t is learned that the first vessel
that cleared from San Diego for Manila
when peace was declared, carried a full
cargo of whisky and beer The speaker
closed by saying that there is an age com
ing when there will be no canteens, no sa-
looms and no ships carrying rum. but that,
as the war with Spain was not fought
without losses, so will this victory not be
won without great sacrifices on the part Of
those opposing the liquor traffic.