The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-15
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Rev. Stanley B. Roberts Delivers Ad-
dress That Interests People
of Utica.
Tells Them Of Progress Of Temper
ance Especially Among the
Labor Unions.

The Utica, N. T., Daily Press gives ex-
tended notice to a recent address In the
Emmanuel Baptist church Of Utica by
Rev. Stanley B. Roberts, pastor Of the
Bethlehem Presbyterian church Of Mime
apolis.
Attention is called to the fact that the
speaker did not blame, but sympathized
with the men who are in the saloon bust
ness. Two points in the address, says
the Press, were particularly striking-the
claim that temperance Is making great
strides as proved by the experience of the
past twenty-five years, and the assertion
that temperance Is getting most substan-
t1al help from the labor unions. In regard
to the former point, Rev Mr.. Roberts said
that he could remember, twenty five years
ago, how the man who lived by selling
liquor was an honored member Of society.
In the time since then, he says, the liquor
business has lost caste and has been dis
1ntegrated by the license laws and by
common consent. The families Of men
engaged in the business can no longer as
sumo to take a position among cultured
people, no matter how cultured the men,
bers OF these families may be. Everybody
holds aloof from the saloon-keeper's wife
and daughters. They are ostracized by
everyone. No matter how cordial may
be the relations of a brewer and his
banker they cannot belong to the same
club, nor can their families meet as social
equals. This general ostracism Of people
engaged In the liquor trade is felt more
keenly by the children of the saloon keep
ers who, innocent tho they are must
blush for shame when their fathers occu-
patton Is mentioned. It Is hopeful sign,
Rev. Mr.. Roberts thinks. The increasing
movement to curb the liquor traffic by
high license he regards as an Indication
that the public conscience is being aWak-
ened, and that before many more years
the people, in their wisdom, will entirely
do away with the sale of liquor. -.- L..
In regard to the part which the labor
unions are playing, he says that the unions
are recognizing they can not cope with the
cool, clear Drained capitalist, except by
Drained. So they have deliberately given
the positions Of honor and responsibility
in their organizations to temperance men.
This, he claims, is particularly true of the
typographical union and of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, And the
miners said Rev. Mr. Roberts, that Won
derful man who guided them to victory
In the recent coal strike, whose calmness
and Judgment made the world admire him
President Mitchell, has never touched a
drop Of liquor, and is fearlessly outspoken
In his opinion that the saloon and liquor
business ought to be swept off the CONT
nent.' The point he wished particularly
to make was that the common people, the
people who work with their hands, are
the ones who are gradually moving in the
cause of temperance, and that they are
doln6 1t as much for economy as for ethi.
cal reasons" 49, -" "
The same article announces that Stan.
ley Roberts, Jr., has determined to be.
come minister, and, like his father, 6
temperance minister. He will enter col
lege in September. -