The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-20
ANACONDA NE WIS.
LAST EVENINGS LECTURE


Attracted a Large Audience at the COIN
Hall.
The temperance mass-meetings are
attracting great attention in the city
and all are well attended. Yesterday
afternoon large audience faced Cap
tain Dutlton and listened with rapt at
tention to his words.
The captain has been quite i'll since
Saturday, and could scarcely deliver his
lecture yesterday, but 1t is hoped he
will be back to his normal condition
by tonight.
Nearly 200 persons were present at
the afternoon service, and in the even
ing standing room was at premium
almost before the long service had been
completed.
Captain Dutton said he had argued
the liquor question from many sides,
but now he was going to quit arguing,
and do more practical work. He said:
THE men must get down and scratch.
or give hhe fight over to the women
and admit themselves towards. In
Black Jack Grove, Tex, the local OPP
ton fight was on in full force. The
women took the fight into their own
hands, hired lecturer and won the
fight The liquor men openly violated
the law by selling their bug juice,
and fittings, thus ending the sale of
liquor in that town. The succeeding
election resulted in great victories for
temperance and prohibition. The ring
leaders of the saloon gang were arrest
ed and imprisoned for long terms.
Some Of the greatest lights of the
country were one time drunkards, ana
reformed, but because they became
great after reformation, 1t is no reason
WI xy1 va oh
Sam Jones, when a boy, = was a
drunkard, but, at his fathers death
bed promised reformation. He REFORM
ed, and the world has seldom heard a
more eloquent divine than he"
The evening service was replete with
interest, many men signing the total
abstinence pledge, which reads as fol-
lows:
with malice toward none and charity
for all, /, the undersigned do pledge
my word and honor. God helping me,
to abstain from all Intoxicating liquors
as beverage, and that I will, by all
honorable means encourage others to
abstain"
"A drunken typesetter one day be-
came convinced of the folly of his ways
and signed the pledge. He, before his
death, addressed the largst crowds ever
witnessed. His last words were:
Who has not heard of John B. Cough,
the printer-orator?
Martyrs to the glorious cause of
temperance are falling everywhere. In
Sioux City an editor was killed by one
of the 'mummies.' In Danville, Va. J. r.
Moffat, a Baptist minister, got the sa-
loon men raving. One Green, a man of
base reputation, met Moffat on the
street and demanded that he (Moffat)
retract some of his statements, or he
would be murdered Moffat nobly said
he had no retraction to make, and Green
shot him twice, numbering him in cold
blood on the streets of the city. Grand
men sleep in Virginia soil-Washington
Jackson-but l had rather visit the
graves of General Dow, John Finch or
John B. Cough, than to pay tribute at
Washing!ton's sepulchre. The workmen
die, but the good work goes on. The
ranks are being constantly filled by new
stock Come, take your place in the
ranks and do your share in the fight
for moral reform! e.,
THE temperance question is the burn
ing issue of the 18th century. Men have
to stand for principle and let partisan
feeling die-thrust partisan thought
aside! We want the cooperation of the
leading church members. If the wom-
en- get a move on them, wonderful
amount of good will be accomplished.
IT don't believe in religion, I want
Christianity. These people with long
sanctimonious faces, who would not
smile for a dollar, have 'liver-pad re-
ligion, not the Christian religion"