The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-03
CITY MISSIONS MEETING.
Talks by Thomas N. Doutney, the Prac
teal Temperance Speaker.

Talks by Thomas N. Doutney the Prac-
teal Temperance Speaker.
At p, m. to-day Thomas N. Dout-
ney of Worcester, Mass, will address
the mothers meeting at English hall.
| At hight at 8 o'clock he will address
the general public. He will give prac-
tical temperance talk. Dr. J. j. Nc
Mahon, Harvard '67, will also speak on
question. He reiterated last night
what he said Sunday night con-
corning the method resorted to by
| some ostensibly to prevent crime, but
in reality encouraging crime. Mr..
Doutney stated last night that he
would not retract a word he had said,
that he had said what he meant and
meant what he said
In his talk last night he said that the
moral reform was one sided, man was
| helped and woman cast aside or sent to
some institution, while the devil who
was the cause of her downfall parades
| the streets, and if he has money society
| bows to him. If he has been the mean
will be backed up socially. He said
that there were not dozen families in
New Haven or even in the state which
would receive back socially a woman
who has once done wrong.
Mr.. Doutney is quite independent in
his way of presenting his thoughts and
convictions and is so very plain spoken
that, as he says himself, it is quite like
ly some people may be offended He
asks, however, for hearing and also to
be heard through before he is judged
adversely. Il have suffered intense
agony from this drink devil" he said
land l want to help down him SO that
others may get their freedom" He does
not talk against the churches nor
against Christian people. He feels, how
ever, that churches and Christian peo-
pie might do more for the unfortunate
and the outcast and he wishes to help
bring this about. He is not in favor of
the rum traffic but would do all he could
to help blot it out. He, therefore, be-
lieves most heartily in prohibition,
though not in political prohibition as
party measure because the people are
not yet educated up to it. If they We're
he WOlllu Illdh6 use OIL L1ldl VI any OlHtl
axe that would cut up the curse from
the roots. He took occasion last even
ing to say also that he favored the strict
enforcement of all laws against the IL
quor traffic by all proper means and
that in what he had previously said
against the use of spoilers" to obtain
evidence he had intended no reference
whatever to the Law and Order league
of Connecticut, which society, as he I'M
derstood, gives strict orders, on penalty
of dismissal, that none of its agents
should ever try to induce anyone to
commit crime of any sort in order to
have them arrested for that crime.
Rev. Mr.. Mossman, in closing the |
meeting, said that it was hardly neces- |
sary for him to state that no one speak
ing on the mission platform could with
his consent attack either the churches or
the Christian people of New Haven, for
it was to them that the mission owed |
its existence, and it was in friendly re-
lations to them that the mission was
doing it's work. He believed, also, that
the Connecticut Law and Order league
should be upheld in it's work, especially |
at the present time, and was glad that |
MT. DOutney ndQ IOunu no occasion Tor
adverse reference to it, as he evidently |
had to some of the methods made use of |
by others.
Mr.. Mossman further said that Mr.. |
Doutney came with excellent testimo-
malls as to his ability and sincerity as a
Christian worker, not only from pastors
of churches, but from state and city off.
Gals, and from railroad managers III
commentator of his work among their
men. He should, therefore, continue to
him at the meetings held each
evening at the City Mission hall. and
that tomorrow wednesday, afternoon
at 3 o'clock by request of Miss Hume,
the lady missionary, Mr.. Doutney will
address the Mothers meeting at the
Mission hall, to which meeting other
also are invited.