Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-14
LECTURE LAST NIGHT
A Good Sized Audience Braved the
 Storm to Hear r..

Rev Father Shanley, who served two terms as president of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America. and who has given up a great deal Of his time to the cause of total abstin- ence, lectured to a fair sized congrega ton last evening at the Church of the Immaculate Conception under the aus pices of St Joseph's T. A. society.
 Father Shanley took for his text the sentiment of the royal psalmists, 'I loved justice and hated iniquity." He considered the subject from three standpoints, the moral, physical and social evils of intemperance. He show ed how the young man when in the state of drunkenness abuses his elders and neglects to pay them the reyer- ence that is due them. Here Father
 Shanley quoted the council of May ence, who declared the intemperate as
 a class that broke all the command
 ments. "The drinking man violates
 the laws of God and man in every way.
 He commits crimes while under it's in-
 fuence which he would not have oth- !. erwise committed. He does nothing :! for others. but every thing for himself.
 He cares not for the example he is
 setting the community. The drunkard
 reaps vengeance on his enemies when
 in the state of drunkenness which he
 would not commit had he the right use of his senses" He went on and told in detail of the moral and physical eff
 fects of intoxicating drink, he spoke of
 the deterrfng effects it has. on the hu-
 man system, and cited many cases
 where drink was the cause of many q
 young mans downfall who had pros
 poets of very glorious career.
 He then spoke on the many ways in
 which the evil habit is acquired and
 how it grows on a person. ''The evil
 habit is acquired in many cases owing
 to prescriptions issued by physicians;
 this is the start for many of our young men and makes many drunkard.' 7 He dwelt for some time on patent med
 icines, telling how large per
 cent of alcohol was contained in the so called remedies. .The remedies develop a persons taste for ! drink. they are really liquors in dis
 guise.'' He impressed on his hearers the necessity of some measures being taken to compel the manufacturers tr [ put their goods on sale under theil 1 proper names. Tn one instance he told of manufacturer that used g carload of liquor in the manufacture
 of these remedies every day.
 } "The drinking habit seems to be the fashion that prevails in high society ; especially among women, it seems te < be the proper thing" He told of tho corruption in families and of the hard
 ships 1t worked on many. "Men dt E not drink now like they did 50 years 3 ago, the habit is diminishing among 5 men, but is increasing among tht : women" said Father oShanley. .TTht : man in business today needs eleal k head and he will not do anything that will prevent him from carrying on his business successfully"
 Father Shanley then showed th'
 need of temperance societies, tellini how the practice of temperance led t the practice of other virtues. He con graduated the members of St Joseph ' T. A. society on the good work the. 7 were doing and urged all outside tn !. society to assist them in their goo' 7 work .,.@.s.