The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-23
DR. TAYLOR CLOSES
R|SLECTURE COURSE
Profound impression Made
Upon All Who Attended.
ENTHUSIASTIC SCENES
At the Lecture Sunday Afternoon Mr.. Brough.
IONS Testimony That No More Timely
Words Had Ever Been Spoken
in Raleigh.

Two great audiences greeted the dstin-
guished Boston divine and lecturer, DR.
f. o. Taylor, on Sunday last which round
ed out the complete course of five lectures
which have been given in Raleigh. The
committee having the arrangements II
charge had provided for but four lectures
not seeing where the fifth could be placed
without interfering with the regular Sun
day services But the lectures having
proved so popular and important to the
people OF this city that DR.. Tyree of the
First Baptist church, withdrew his, ser
vices Sunday night III the interest of 3
general demand for the fifth lecture-
IL is the consensus of opinion among
these who have heard DIR. Taylor that no
lectures on temperance have ever been
given in this city which have made q
profounder impression than these. OF the
five the one given at the Academy OF
Music at four o'clock on Sunday after
noon was the most intensely practical,
and won the greatest applause. The great
audience which was composed OF repre-
sentative men and women of Raleigh.
gave round after round of applause, par
Acularly as the speaker outlined the
oausal relation between the nature of
alcohol and the social vice. II is doubt
ful If there is a man on the platform to-
day who has such a happy faculty as DR..
Taylor of dealing scientifically with such
a delicate subject and IL so unobjection-
able language. Mock modesty alone would
find fault with it. A sensation followed
the imprisoned closing of his lecture
wnen, during the prolonged applause, DR..
Taylor waved his hand for it to cease
and then said IF you really mean to en-
dorse the language of the lecture this at
ternoon take out your handkerchlefs and
let every man, woman and child give
the chatauqua salute in token thereof. "
In an instant, and in the midst of IN
tense excitement, that great sea of faces
was hid by the waving of handkerchiefs.
Mr.. ". B. Broughton, who presided at
the meeting, said in closing the meeting
that no more timely words had ever been
spoken to the people oil Raleigh than
those of the speaker this afternoon.
Dr. Taylor's subject was Gods message
in Science to Men Who Make Laws" or
the action of alcohol on the human brain.
Dr. Taylor began his discussion by re-
ferring to an attack made upon him
through the newspapers by a man who
affirmed that beer is the most healthful
and innocent beverage known, and then
proceeded to annihilate his man In the
following manner, declaring that beer
as it Is used IS more harmful than whis-
ley. If people 'ank beer as they drink
whlslzey it would net be so bad, but beer
drinkers are guzzlers. They are always al
IT. every day and many times day. Ma
ture has no chance to mend the IN
1uries done. The alcohol in the beer Is
Just the right quantity and diluted just
enough to ind its way quickly through
the membranes of the stomach into the
blood to be carried to every part OF
the body, clogging UP his liver, rotting
his kidneys, decaying his heart and ar
tcries, supplying his brain, choking has
lungs. loading his body down with un-
wholesome fat fastening upon blm We
rieIy of painful and sometimes disgusting
diseases. life insurance company will
not insure the life of a confirmed beer
drinker The most dangerous class o.
tramps and ruffians in our large cities are
beer drinkers. One-haa of all suicides
committed in this country are beer drink
ers. The Germans are known the world
over as drinkers of beer. the irish people
a. drinkers of whiskey. An investigator
recently made in New York city showed
that 10 per cent more of deliberate Oh
fcrscs were committed by the beer drink
ing Germans than by the whiskey drinking
Irish people. IN proportion to populations
The police records for the German beer
a.snking city of Milwaukee show that II
pef cent of arrests are for drunkenness
ard disorderly conduct. Germany Is OF
teE cited as a great temperance country
hut the German government has been
charmed for some time over the increas-
rsx number of suicides throughout the
,-,,nive. Prince Bismarck, before retiring
from the government, ordered an inyestl-
CATION which attributed the mama iof
elf destruction to beer-drinking. The
Kaiser has recently caused bill to be IN
toduced into the Prussian diet. looking
t,,yard restrictions as to the sale OF n
aaers During the discussion while the
till was pending. it was stated that IS per