New-York tribune., 1900-05-29
YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS.
CRAFTS SPEAKS ON ABOLIsHING
THE SALOON

In the sessions of the yearly meeting of Friends
at the Gramercy Park meeting house the meeting
of ministers and elders at $50 o'clock yesterday
morning listened to paper by Harry R. Keats
OF Glens Falls upon "Our Outlook for the Nine
teenth Century which followed by a brief
discussion.
The regular session of the yearly meeting at 10
o'clock largely attended partly owing to the
fact that an announcement had been made that
the consideration of the adoption of the uniform
discipline would be taken up. The General Con-
of Friends held at Indiana polls in 1897 feel
ing that closer union should exist among the diff
ferent yearly meetings appointed committee
consisting of two members from each yearly meet
ing prepare a uniform discipline. which would
provide for a central organization having limited
legislative power. After long and careful labor
such a discipline has heen prepared and indorsed
by the committee. 1t is to become operative when
a majority of the yearly meetings upon this
tinent shall adopt it. The sessions of the day
largely occupied with the reading and considera-
ton of the proposed discipline. The meeting
unanimous in approval of the document. Under the
rule of the yearly meeting adopted in 1880 it is
be to the quarterly meetings for their approx
al. Final action will be taken upon it at the
The public temperance meeting Was addressed by
Wilbur f. Craft, OF Washington d. c, upon The
Civilization" speaking with, an object is better
than d 4peakng Gao on ia SUI su5jeG the 81 speaker said
fore this audience His object was to awaken a
deeper interest in reform legislation he said:
You can help toward ridding the Army and
island possessions of the saloon by sending
and kilograms to your Senators. We need in
new possessions, and in our Own land, not only to
plant good seed, but to fence il WELL making
1t as easy as possible to do right and as hard as
possible to do wrong. How expect to con-
vert the Fpinos when so many of our soldiers
rakes and gamblers and drunkards? When the
Filipino children play American they stagger
In Turkey. when they. see man drunk they say
He has turned Christian" Heather races are
mostly temperate, as heather religions usually pro-
hibit the use of intoxicants Comparatively little
drunkenness existed in the Philippines or in Cuba
before American possession Anything like the
american saloon was unknown; To simple hearted
childlike races comes the missionary and makes il
safe for business to follow, then comes the mer-
chant and brings intoxicants destroy body and
soul Those who sent the missionary have not ap-
preciated the power they have to safer
environment for the converts to Christianity. We
can remove the evil by the forces have in Eng
land and the United States where there are fifteen
million Christian votes. Commerce and conscience
both summon the Christian world TO abolish this
great evil The only Increase in trade with the
PhilPplnes is In LIQUORS Let US cease the idocy
of killing the buying power and killing the BUYERS
in these islands. In 1892 sixteen nations got to-
gether 10 abolish the slave trade In Africa This
is an acorn from which may grow the adjustment
of the liquor traffic throughout the world