The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-10-20
BISHOP POTTER ARRAIGNED
LADY HENRY SOMERSET At
TACKS EPISCOPAL DIVINE.
Speaks Before the Delegates of the
National women's Christian Temper
ance Union on tho Bishops Alleged
Statement That He Does Not Blame the
Poor for Getting Drunk Occa onniiy.

Poor for Getting Drunk Occa onniiy.
Portland, Me-, Oct. 19-An Indian
summer day greeted the National Wo-
mems Christian Temperance union del
egates to-day as they turned out to at
tend services arranged in nearly all the
churches for their special benefit.
For the evening services there were
overflow meetings. In city hall Presi-
dent Stevens was surrounded by Lady
Henry Somerset, DR.. Sanders and Miss
Cameron, of England, Britist Vice
Consul John E. Keating, Mayor Booth
by, many of the local pastors and the
foreign fraternal delegates. DR.. San
ders spoke first, enthusiastically en-
dorsing the unions work and saying
that he wished it were possible to have
"a prohibition East London.
Lady Henry Somerset spoke at some
length. She said: "I we'll remember my
former visit to Portland, when I stood
in this self-same spot and addressed an
audience. There are many here to-
night who were present on that occa-
sion. There was good gray head
present now laid to rest, the head Of
the founder Of prohibition (Neal Dow,
who had labored for the cause for many
long years and has now gone to his we'll
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that womanly woman who stood for
everything that was good, everything
that was lovely and everything of good
report-Frances Willard. While these
two are not present in bodily form, yet
they are undoubtedly present in spirit.
The only difference is that their mes
sage comes to the hearts of those who
bow before their God and pray to Him
In secret
THE temperance question is becoming
a great and burning question and is
nearer to the hearts of all of us now
than it ever was before. The time
has come to put aside theories and prin-
ciples and crystalline them into priIi-
and when that time comes it is a cru
cial time and it means war against the
powers that be.
why is it that so few people are
willing to go into this reform move
ment? Because they fear to lose some
little political or social advantage The
community is so bound up that it is
hard for man to come out strongly
gainstsintemperance without offending
some one and they remain silent. At
the ballot box men should put their
temperance principles before their
principles. When they do this they will
settle great many evils that now pre-
vail all over the world"
Lady Somerset called on the church
people TO rise up and band together and
stand on the side of temperance. Lady
Henry arraigned Bishop Potter for his
published words, a part of which she
read from newspaper that the poor
people and laboring men live such con-
tracted and monotonous lives that he
does not much blame them for occa-
sionally getting drunk just to even
things up, This was greeted with a
storm Of Kisses.
She said that it must first be assumed
that Bishop Potter was correctly quot
ed, which she herself doubted. If he
really said the words or even words that
were Of the same general purport. it
was a strange perversion of the Chris
tian ministry, she said. A clergyman
should not rail at those who are striv-
ing to uplift the down trodden, but he
should go to the ulti-millionaires of
New York and ask them to give of
their millions toward the establishment
of something that would go toward
ameliorating this hunldrum condition
Of monotony.