The Irish standard., 1907-08-24
TOTAL ABsTAlNERs.
Close Of Successful National conven.
q ton at Cleveland

\ Close Of Successful National conven.
ton at Cleveland.
With the election of officers and an
= eloquent address by Father OBoylan
of Newark. the Catholic Total Absti-
nence Union of America brought one
OF the most successful conventions ever
held under its auspices to a close in
Cleveland on Friday. the 9th inst.
The officers selected for the ensuing
year are as follows:
President. Ri. Rev. John j. keane.
Archbishop of Dubuque first vice
president Rev. Thomas T. Coffey, ST.
Louis; second vice president, John F.
McGroarty. Scranton: third vice presi-
dent. Mrs. l.. NJ. Lake, st. Louis; treas
urer, Rev. John Z. Mccain. Phladel-
phia; secretary Edwin Mulleady, Bos-
ton.
Mrs. Lake, who has been third vice
president of the union for thirteen
years, begged in strong terms that she
be released, but the convention would
not have it so.
The days proce ecings began with
an address by Rev. NJ. H. Carey Of
Dubuque. after which a platform was
adopted containing the following feat
Ures:
condemnation by the Holy Father of
false doctrine. Expressing belief in
the efficacy for good of the splendid
declarations for temperance of our
Bishops singly and in the councils OF
Baltimore. Expressing qualification
and JOY at the recent victories of Arch
bishop Keane of Dubuque in the cause
Of temperance and total abstinence i'm
that city; insistence that public duty
Is part of every Christians duty and
that this is mainly done through the
proper use of the ballot expressing
regret that the fact remains that some
so-called Catholic clubs have hurried
men to drunkards' graves: deprecating
the publishing of liquor advertisements
and church bazaa.s; expressing sat-
isfacton and thankfulness at tho
growth of temperance in our semin-
aries. and at the great influence
which the sanity Father Sebenfor-
cher has extended across the ocean
beginning with the establishment in
the Jesuit Seminary at Innsbraugh a
league of total abstainers. and ex-
pressing the conviction that the
priests total abstinence league With
its growing numbers is bound to ex-
ert an influence for good which no man
can measure.
One of the striking features of the
convention was 4 strong Endorsement
Of the anti-saloon league.
The platform concluded as follows:
1t is our fundamental conviction that
in union there is strength, therefore
we have always held it to be the duty
Of all Catholic total abstainers to join
our union. In like manner we feel it
our duty to lend the weight of our in
huence as Catholics to the Federation
of Catholic Societies. and we recon-
mend af11liation.
When the Catholic name is syn
onymous with sobrlety and every hon
est pursuit after Christian virtue then
will the kingdom of God come quickly
No man can promote the interests of
the saloon. No man can serve two
masters; it must be either God OF
Mammon
The convention authorized the es-
Establishment of a national lecture hu-
reau from which speakers can be
sent forth to preach temperance. Ar
rangements and node of procedure
have been placed in the hands of the
executive council, as has been the
place of next meeting.
At the conclusion of the election
y their officers took their respective
places on the platform. and were duly
installed by Bishop Canevin of Pitts
burg, the retiring president. Then the
entire audience received the blessing
from the bishop.
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