Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-08
TOTAL ABSTINENCE CAUSE.
Gathered in Hartford Some of the
 Brightest Speakers of the Day.

Brightest Speakers of the Day. Hartford, Conn, Aug S.-Beautiful weather greeted the delegates to the convention of the Catholic Total Ab- stinence union of America when they
 assembled for the opening exercises of
 the day. The change from the stormy,
 gloomy conditions of yesterday was heartily welcomed and the faces of
 the delegates as they gathered in Foot
 Guard hall previous to the religious
 service at St Joseph's cathedral, re- fiected the general satisfaction at the
 suspicious skies. The program of the day provide for business session this ! morning, a trolley trip about the city in the afternoon and a reception in the evening at the Cathedral Lyceum. | Previous to the forenoon meeting, the | delegates marched in a body from | Foot Guard hall to the Cathedral, | where a requiem high mass was cele- brated by the Rev k. s. flanagan of | Philadelphia, assisted by the Rev J. l Curran of Wilkesbarre. Pa, as deacon | and the Rev J. Stanton of Lonaconing, Md, as sub-deacon for the deceased members of the total abstinence union. | When Bishop Tierney entered the | hall yesterday he was received by the | delegates by rising and much applause.
 Alderman Dwight Chapman, president
 of tile board of aldermen and acting mayor of the city, accompanied Bishop | Tierney and gave a cordial welcome
 on behalf of the city, saying that as
 he understood the purpose of the union
 it was to aid men to control them selves, that they might be better citi-
 zens of the commonwealth. He ten
 dered the society the freedom of the
 city and trusted that they would carry away pleasant memories of Hartford. The address was cordially responded
 to by First yice-President Logue of the union. President McGillicuddy then presented Bishop Tierney, who
 was most cordially received. The
 bishop i'll a brief address said he feared
 that the temperance people of the country were not dong good honest
 work. It was their duty to persuade | by friendliness and tact at least one
 person to join the union. Such work
 would soon increase the membership | to 500O00. He spoke very highly of
 the work of Rev A. $. Siebenfoercher | of Ohio among the students of the Catholic seminaries.
 Hon Walter J. Gibbons of Chicago. | second president of the union, re | ported upon the efforts in Illinois to | organize juvenile societies, and law ] yers' league, which had been produc- tive of much good.
 | Mrs Leonora M. Lake of St Louis, l third vice-president of the union, re- ported for her worlssth past year. She
 had been able to give but fifty-fouri 1 1ecturesl during the year, owing to i'm. paired Health. Mrs Lake said that tlte l haif-crazed efforts of Mrs Nation in Kansas had brought disEepute upon the cause, although she had no doubt that Mrs Nation had been driven to
 her work by contemplation of the yio-
 lations of the law in her state Mrs
 Lake paid tribute to Rev Walter J. Shanley of this city for his earnest
 work for total abstinence
 Rev A. F. Doyle of New York, secre- tary of the union, read his report for
 the past year, in part as follows:
 The past year has been year of un-
 ceasing effort to reach a distant goal. While we have not attained the end we sought, yet we have succeeded :n
 organizing very nearly 100 new soci-
 cities and have added 4,19O to3our rolls of membership. The determination at
 Philadelphia last year toEroll up a
 membership of 100000 for the first
 year of the twentieth century stimu- lated activity throughout the entire or
 ganization. This general awakening
 throughout the national union has re- l suited ill the organization of a larger
 number of sicieties during the past
 year than have been organized during
 any year since the great jubilee year
 of the New York convention. We have
 not reached the goal we aimed at, but
 we have made some very long strides l towards it, and few more years of
 earnest work like the last will place us well within the mark. The following table gives the successive increases for l the last eight years: