The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-11-07
LAST DAY OF SYNOD.
FRIDAY MORNING.

meeting here last Friday morning,
Oct. 81, having convened Tuesday
night, and the ministers and dele
gates declare it one of the most
beneficial and enjoyable ever held.
The local pastor, Rev. e. E. Hen
drick, has exerted himself in the
interest of the Synod and the pleas
ure of the visitors, while the good
citizens of the town generally have
We'd with each other IN showing
their hospitality and welcome.
Thursday night was a banner
night, if not for the Synod, at least
for Union City and the cause of
temperance. After devotional serv-
ices, Rev. ]. M. McKamy, of Muir
freesboro, made talk on church
extension, after which DR.. Ira Lam
drith was introduced to fill the APP
pointment of John Royal Harris,
who Lhad been called home on &C
count of the death of one OF his
members. The house was almost
uncomfortably filled, standing room
beng at a premium even in the
gallery. The speaker was applaud
ed time and again, and he has re-
ceived the congratulations of all
whom he met.
He first discussed the relation of
preachers to politics. Politics he
stated is statecraft; statecraft is
patriotism, and patriotism should
be pure, noble and unselfsh, study
ing the welfare and happiness of
others. Preachers should be oppos-
ed to all bad things, as we'll as in
favor of and iriIsympathy with all
good things. He believed in trust
ing God and taking care of the boys,
but the latter could not be taken
care OF with saloons all around
them. If a boy was in yard play
ing and a frenzied bull desired the
same playground, it was the pa
rents place to run the bull out.
"The saloon curses are the chief
national ills" said the speaker.
"The politicians tell us about de-
based currency, but have little to
say about debased humanity,
through the fundamentally of the
saloons. They are ANXIOUS to pro-
tect our infant industries, but care
nothing about our infant sons. De-
sirable as free coinage may be, it is
not halt as good as tree whiskey is
bad" Mr.. Landrith stated that
the financial troubles over which
the politicians seem so troubled,
can be best solved by closing the
green baize doors. More money was
spent last year for whisky and
other intoXicants than the silver
amounts to that has been dug from
the earth in the past twenty-five
years. The speaker strongly as
serted that saloon keepers and
moderate drinkers were socially
discounted. The young ladies could
do more for temperance than any
other force, by their refusing to as
socate. with the young men who
INDUCED in strong drink. That
they would not dare to patronize
the saloons, or imbibe intoxicants
elsewhere if they knew they would
be ostrasized by the gentler sex.
Mr.. Landrith next gave few sta
tististical facts, showing that the
revenue from saloons was Sal, 487;
that drink cost the government an
nually $2,078, 504, 804 in the way of
courts, ,jails, asylums, loss of labor,
poor labor, prosecutions, etc. He
claimed that the saloon was going;
that God says it; corporation and
business men affirm it; public SEN
timent DEGREES 1t; intelligence says
the thing is wrong and must go.
John J. Woolsy was quoted as say
ing, ''the saloon gets its merchan-
disc from the still house, but it gets
it's right to live from still-churches. .
Some think that John Royal Har.
ris is drawing princely sum for
the work heis doing in the cause OF
temperance, when the fact is that
for the thirteen months ending
July l, he had received but $53O.15,
and that during the three months
preceding July l, he and his asso-
ciates made two-hundred and forty
two speeches. The Anti-Saloon
League had distributed75, 900 pieces
of literature. Mr.. Landrith paid a
glowing tribute to the press, which
almost unanimously were using
their influence against liquor.
After devotional exercises Friday