New-York tribune., 1900-01-29
WAR ON LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
THE ANTI-sALooN LEAGUE BEGINS IT'S
CRUSADE.
VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN TO BE MADE-HoPINc
TO SECURE LEGISLATIVE ACTION.


The Anti-saloon League began yesterday its
attack on the saloons in this city by spreading
the gospel of it's mission from many pulpits.
II was the opening battle OF a warfare which
the members of the league say will last until
every saloon In the metropolis has been closed.
In every community the good people out
number the bad" the Rev. John Lewis Clark,
the superintendent of the league in the New
York district. said recently in outlining the
aims Of the society. THE only trouble is that
the children of light not so wise as those of
the world. Our purpose is to educate the good
10 a knowledge of their power and so to arouse
public sentiment that the saloon will become an
impossibility. Two words in a way express our
plans. These are Observation-Disclosures and
'omnipartsanship.' In other words. we seek to
fedeTate all churches and temperance societies
for a common end-the defeat of the saloon.
We propose to use any and all political parties
in efforts to enforce the law and defeat the
saloon by legislation"
The league has achieved great success in
Ohio. where it has worked for six years, and
has made considerable advance in the upper
part OF this State, where it has caused many
thousands of dollars to be forfeited in bonds or
saloonkeepers. In this district it is the purpose
Of the members of the league first to attack the
Raines law. They assert that this measure is
evil in itself. and contend that it deprives the
voters Of the cities Of their right of franchise.
Their object in this direction is to bring about
such legislation to permit every ward in the
city to decide for itself whether or not it will
allow saloons within its boundaries. Voters
viii be urged to make this question issue at
primaries and other political gatherings, and to
insist that only men shall be sent to the Legis-
lature who opposed to saloons.
Good men, good laws is one Of the notices
OF the league 1t is not expected even by the
most enthusiastic supporters of the organiza-
tion that they will accomplish all they desire
in a day in a year. but they declare that
their movement viii be vigorously pushed for
ward until such time as the liquor traffic in
this city has ceased. They hope for much from
the enforcement of the laws regulating the sale
OF liquors. and will devote themselves mainly
10 this object first of all The league has
platform which churches of all denomina
tions can unite, and through the churches they
win work 10 reach the voters and the law
makers. They will work in this city section by
section. Harlem was selected the starting
point by the crusade, and many of the pulpits
in this district occupied yesterday by
speakers who voiced the aims and principles Of
the league to large congregations.
In the morning State Superintendent Of the
League. the Rev. ]. Q A. Henry. spoke in the
Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church,
Eighty -sixth-st. and Park-ave; the Rev. John
Lewis Clark, superintendent of the New-York
District, in the First Harlem Collegiate Church.
East One hundred -anQ-tWenty -nrSt-St.; the ReN.
DR.. Howard Russell. in the Church of the
Pilgrims One hundred and twenty y-frst-st. and
Mount Morris Park: the Rev. Dr. George w.
Peck, in the St. James Methodist Episcopal
Church Madson-aYe and One-hundred-and-
twenty -sixth-st.; the Rev. J. H Teale, Morning
side Presbyterian Church, observation-disclosures
twenty -second-st; the. Rev. n. C. Dinwiddie,
Morningside Baptist Church. West One-hun-
Observation-Disclosures; the Rev. DR.. T. Eaton
Ciapp, Central Park Baptist, East Eighty-third
st. the Rev. DR.. Homer w. Tope, LenoX Pres
byter,an Church, West Observation-Disclosures
ninth-st.. and the Rev. DR.. Albert Bushnell,
Hamilton Grange Reformed Church, One-hun-
dred-and- forty -fifth-st and Convent-ave.
Services were conducted in the afternoon by
the Rev. J. Q. A. Henry, at Nos. y and "A West
One hundred and twenty -fourth-st.. and by the
Rev. DR. Russell at the Harlem Branch of the
Young Mems Christian Association In the
evening services were held as follows: Lenox
Clark: Church of the Pilgrims by the Rev. DR..
Russell: Washington Heights Presbyterian,
hundred -ffty-ffth-st. and Amsterdam
ave, by the Rev. DR.. J. H. Teale; Church of
the Puritans, ne-hundred- and -thirtieth-st. and
Fifth-ave.. by the Rev. DR.. T. Eaton Clapp;
Harlem PRESBYTERIAN Church. hundred
and-twenty -ffth-st. and Madison-ave, by the
Rev. DR.. Homer w. Tope; Eighty Street
Presbyterian Lexington-ave. and Eighty sixth
St. by the Rev DR.. Albert Bushnell; Washing
ton Heights Methodist Episcopal Church One
hundred -and-fif -third-st and Amsterdam
ave-, by the Rev. George W. Peck; Mount Nor
dred- and-twenty-f1fth- by the Rev. ]. Q. A.
Henry; Washington Heights Baptist, by the
Rev. n. c. Dinwiddie