The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-13

first faith in God. second divine revela-
ton, third divinity of Christ, fourth con-
fession of Christ
He said that Peter afterwards fell but
the gates of hell had never prevailed
against these doctrines and truths.
He said that the kings were given to
the church. and that only by and though
human instrumentality are souls saved
one has keys and we can only tell what
hearts we can open by trying our keys
on every heart We meet. He urged us to
deeper conservation and more active SER
vice.
Sabbath D. m.-Joshua L. Bailey of
Philadelphia told THE Story of the Can
teen" to an audience packing the large
hall and the halls beyond as far as peo-
pie could hear him. He is president Of
the the National Temperance association
and gave items of his own 'observa ton,
everything fully authenticated. His inter-
est in Kansas dates back to the sos,
when she was called the Bloody Field. =
Rations granted to the army before 1882
always included rum In the civil war
its use was proven very harmful in
AACoAbAA, anu I6NdIQeQ recovery from
wounds or sickness Major General
Dicks said, Drunkenness is the bane of
the military profession. 90 per cent of the
crimes fro which all soldiers are tried are
caused by drink. Major General McCleI-
Ian said it would be worth 5000 men to
the army of the United States If the Of
ncers set the example of abstinence and
encouraged it among their men.
The soldiers enlisted in the war with
Spain faced worse foe than Spanish bull
lets, in the canteen. This is tent or
barraek in which to sell LIQUOR. Young
men were detailed to sell liquors and on
refusal, in some cases were compelled at
the point of the bayonet to do so. or be
shut up for days on a fare of bread and
water. He spent most of the summers Of
1898 in the camps. visiting them all per-
sonally. Camp Thomas as a sample had
Oh canteens, in which in three months
$4,000 were taken in from the soldiers
Tor beer. The place that the profits went
to supply delicacies for the sick was very
inconsistent. The United States is not as
poor as that nor were drinking surgeons
better able to care for them The Ellis
bill proposed to limit this but made slow
progress An amendment to a military
bill t last was passed which provided
that no soldiers or officers should be de-
tailed to sell. nor any body else allowed
TO sell any intoxicants on any military
reservation and the secretary of war was
required to put this action into immediate
effect. At first many canteens were clos
ed. and some were changed into reading
rooms, but before long the secretary de-
clded the act did not mean closing but
opening canteens. Although more than
100 of the senators who passed the act.
construed that the act meant closing
them.
delegation Of we'll known men from
many states called on the President at
the White house to protest. and present
ed a legal brief reviewing the whole mat
ter which he promised to personally ex-
anime and decide whether the secretary
was in error or not and act accordingly
More than three months have passed and
he has changed nothing, although a sec
ond time petitioned by the same deiega-
ton and by religious bodies all over the
country and we must place the RESPONSE
bility on him.
Generals Wheeler and Shafter. and in
fact very many of the army officers agree
that the canteen is everywhere a detri-
ment and really undesired by the SOL
diers. OF the eight national soldiers
homes. only the one at Marion. Indiana,
has no canteen. and the moral and ply
steal condition of its inmates are far bet
ter in comparison than in any OF the 9TH
er homes. The vast increase in the IL
quors sold in Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines during the last year is an
awful comment on the civilizing in
fuences they may expect 10 come from
contact with the United States.
Young men take the example Of Wen
dali Phillips.