New-York tribune., 1900-01-29
HOW THE WORK WILL BE DONE.
THE REV. ]. O. A. HENRY ADVOCATES CARRYING
THE ANTI-sALooN WAR INTO THE
PRIMARIES

The Rev. ]. O. A. Henry, State Superintendent Of
the AntiSaloon League. occupied the pulpit of the
Park Avenue Methodist Church yesterday morning
He told Of the work that the league had done in
Ohio and the work it purposed to do in this city
The chief point of attack, according to Mr. Henry
IS the Raines law saloons. He said in part:
We want to accomplish federation Of all the
churches TO work against the saloons. This is the
first time in the history OF the temperance reform
movement that there has been a plan in which the
reason is that in the minds of ministers and lay
men there is firm conviction that there is finish
fight between the Church and the saloon One
or the other is right, the other is wrong.
One must triumph. If the saloon stays the Church
must go. The solution OF the problem is in the
Church. The charge cannot be turned over to any
past to trample down the foes of His Son, He will
help it now to overcome the greatest power exist
IS hostile TO Christianity, TO citizenship and to true
AmeTicanism
There was at that time thought, hope, that
81 would go further than Oberlin. the city where 1t
began There ARE now, however, more than one
thousand local organizations. and more than one
ing for the overthrow of the saloon. AS to re-
suits, in these six years the movement has done
10 further the cause of temperance
To-day there are twenty-four States interested in
the movement. with l75 men at work all the time
More than three hundred thousand towns and vii
lages are arrayed against the saloon ,,o,os -,
creeds and churches. 1t is broader more catholic
upon logical lines. 1t is in every sense inter-
denominational. We trying to get men and
conn Come S TO organize Irrespective Of creed
The saloon has more power In the election OF
President Senators and municipal officers than all
the churches colleges and universities in the
try II ought not to be so. but II is so. We must
nut an enc 10 this organized liquor power. The
remedy Is a political temperance movement. We do
not urge people TO leave their parties any more
,,s in this movement. BE loyal TO your party, do
not care rap what ii is. Democrats, Republicans
and an others work with so long as they are
feToperance people Aim to create IN your own
rs tics a temperance vote that will defeat bad
men We can muster five times as many men in
his way as We can in any other The object is TO
90 10 the primaries and the caucuses and defeat the
1oyr,ina ton of bad men, Five men at these places
- n 90 more good than ten times their number can
I 10 NOT mean TO say that this can be accom-
rlsshed in one year-peThaps not in ten years. But
We are here 10 stay and win. The saloon must go
st a. takes a hundred years. But IL we work to-
s,e,,1er n will not take anything like that long.
we have four departments. The hrst is the de-
nartnaent OF agitation. Its work ts to create and
- fosfsr a sentiment against the saloon. The usual
s,t-osnf that is generated by temperance meet
ses Is one Of irritation, instead OF agitation Our
sefort te 10 build Up sentiment against the
,ocns When we have done that the rest viii fol-
io1r snd men and women will help. because they
want 10 help. and not because they are asked TO
zFrother department IS that Of law and enforce
nerf An laws are made for the benefit OF society.
N is therefore, the duty Of every good citizen 10
see to ~ that the laws are enforced Laws are not
enforced against the saloons. because there is no
public sentiment calling for their iigid interpreta-
don The reason for this is that there is no or
"a nizstion where the views Of good citizens be
crvsfallized. When in every neigbborhood there is
z society whose members are irnbued with the