Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-16
AnAINsT SALOONS.

CHURCHES OF ALEXANDRIA YESTER'
DAY. THE FOUNDER OF THE LEAGUE.
DIR. RUSSELL, AND OTHER SPEAKERS
REPORT THE PROGRESS OF THE WORK.
NATIONAL CONVENTION AT NORFOLK
THIS WEEK.
The National Convention Of the Anti
Saloon League of America will be
held this week at Norfolk. Besides the
other delegates of the church and tenn
perance bodier, about 70 of the superin-
tendents and field workers of the league
will be present. These men have during
the past week held at Norfolk their an
nual Conference of Methods. On Sun
day, as is the custom, they filled various
pulpits in the State. About l5O diner
ent services were held by them. Among
other places a field day was held in the
churches of Alexandra. The pulplts
were filled by Rev. Marina 5. Poulson'
son of Rev. DIR. Poulson, who was sew
eral years ago the pastor of Trinity NJ.
p. Church, and Rev. II. Il. Barstow,
district superintendent of the Rochester
district of the New York State Anti
Saloon League. Rev. Howard ID. Rus
sell, State superintendent OF New York,
the founder of the movement in Ohio IN
1898. whence the league has spread
throughout the whole country, was the
speaker at the Washington street Nj. Z.
Church South 10 the morning, and az
Grace Episcopal Church in the evening
His father is graduate of the Alexandra
seminary and his first pastorate was IN
King George county. DIR. RusselPs ad-
dresses were enjoyed by both congrega-
lions. At the evening service at Grace
Church among other things Dr.. Russell
said
"At Woodstock in this State at the
opeping of the Revolutionary war, the
pastor Of the village church one Sunday
morning, after an appeal for liberty,
threw off his pulpit gown and appeared
in the fnll uniform Of u Continental cap
tain. He enrolled his men and as cap
tain and chaplain led them to the bat
Ties and final victory. So today our pas
tors are everywhere leading their con-
Creeatiops out INFO conflict against q
more dangerous foe the beverage liquor
traffic. -, =,
"Assuming you will agree without
discussion that the saloon is an evil; that
we must organize the forces ofrighleous-
ness against it and that the church should
lead in that organization, ! am TO tell
Won of the church federation now formed
for that purpose and some Of its recent
victories.
"The Anti-Saloon League eliminates
political partnership and enliSts all who
oppose the evils of the saloon regardless
Of their party preferences or creed reia-
lions. and the league builds the pubic
sentiment as rapidly as possible and d.
rects that sentiment toward the support
of public officers who will enact aud en-
force the needed legislation.
"Great progress is being made every
where by the work of the league. In
Ohio more than 8, 900 saloons have been
closed. In Kentucky one hundred coun-
ties are free fiOm the saloon. ln Ten
nessee liquor is legally sold as a bever-
sye in four places. Georgia has lately
adopted the policy of State prohibition.
The south is now taking the lead in the
ex,ermination OF the traffic, and ere long
the whole southland will be set free from
this iniquity. In the north good prog
ress is being made, while at the national
capital the improved public sentiment is
being represented by democratic mem
bers OF Congress from the south and re-
pubiicans from the north, and valuable
restrictive legislation is thus being OBJ
tanned by the interpartisan method of
| activity. 1t is safe to predict that before
many years the recent decision of Judge
Artinap, of Indiana, holding that the
State has no right to license the saloon,
| will be the law Of the whole nation. God
speed the day !"
Rev. NJ. s. Poulson, assistant suPerin-
| tendent of the American League, deliver
ed an address in Trinity M. E. Church
Yesterday morning. He is a son OF
Rev. Thomas L. Poulson, who about
quarter of Gentry ago was pastor OF
| that church, Among other things the
speaker saidl
at is a moral crime to engage 10 the
sale of intoxicating liquor. Tee saloon
must 90 because it defes all OF the
sacred principles Of true manhood, it
destroys peace, dehleS our morals, i'm
periIs our cities, plumbers our homes,
aud murders with degree of ferocity
unparalleled by any other crime. The
lAnti-Saloon League is the church in
action against the saloon, and it is the
representative of federated churches o.
ali creeds for common action against this
gigantic evil"
Rev. II. II. Barstow, of Rochester
In. Y, spoke 10 the Baptist Church II
| the morning and in the NJ. P. Church
at night. His remarks were on tb'
same lines as those of the other speakers
References to the anti-salOon move
ment were made In nearly all the churehe
of the city yesterday. 10 at least one o
them the minister advised moderation
on the part of his hearers, and callet
attention to the fact that often ad
yocates of the cause of temperance are un
fortunately incorporate in many olht
things.
| BROKE UP HOUSEKEEPING.
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