Evening journal., 1907-10-11
TEMPERANCE
AT ST. PAUL'S
Devil Whisks S Tail Near a
Class of Beer, Says
Mrs. Lake
ANNIVERSARY OF
FATHER MATTHEW'S BIRTH

An audience that overnowed the as
sembly room, heard ! characteristic
cally eloquent address by Mrs Leo
nora Lake at ST. Pauls Roman Cath
oic Church, Fourth and Jackson streets,
last night It was the anniversary of
the dca1h of Father Matthew, The
apostle of temperance. The meeting
was under the auspices of Rt Rev.
John j. Monaghan, bishop of the dio-
cese of Wilmington, and the Catholic
Total Abstinence Society of this city.
Mrs Lake was presented by Bishop
Monaghan. The bishop spoke of Father
Matthew, as the great Catholic postle
of total abstinence whose birthday was
commemorated by the meeting and of
the great work he accomplished for
the cause of temperance both in Ire
land and America.
The meeting was held in the base
ment of the church.
The bishop welcomed the large audi
enoe assembled and referred in compli-
mentary terms to Mrs Lake. The latter
has been personally known to Bishop
Monaghan for a number of years
through the Catholic Total Abstinence
Society While a priest of the do
cese of Charleston. South Carolina, he
was associated with Mrs. Lake in the
total abstinence movement.
Mrs. Lake introduced her address
with a vivid sketch of the life of Father
Matthew as a poor Irish lad, his ac-
Quaintance in Cork with William Mar
tin, the Quaker temperance worker,
their cooperation, and finally what she
termed the baptism of the Quaker
child, temperance into the Catholic
Total Abstinence Society"
She alluded TO Father Matthews visit
10 England and America, the organ
ization of the Total Abstinence Society
in America and his return to Ireland
where he died. If I were theoso-
phist," commented Mrs. Lake, Il would
saw that the spirit of Father Matthew
had touched me in its flight for was
born in the year Father Matthew came
TO America"
Go 10 tho "Coast."
Taking up the local option campaign
directly. she said: The friends of the
liouor traffic say that we cannot get
along without the licensed saloon.
You'd think the licensed saloon was
the only Sunday school in the world.
some of you go down to the coast
and see what kind of Sunday school
the saloon is They say also that a
vote for prohibition is a vote for the
speakeasv. But: you know. to make
quarrel there must be two people,
and to make a speakeasy there must
be the man that sells the drink TO the
people and the man who supplies him,
SO when the liquor people get up and
tell us that speakeasies will exist
rough-shod if prohibition comes into
force. they are making open confess
inf a break the law
made by the sovereign will of the peo-
pie. You know thatl
"They tell us of the loss of revenue
If the saloons and breweries go. De
mand OF your state secretary the num-
Der of institutions supported by the
taxes of the people, find the amount
of private charity sustained by every
church. aside from the public tax, and
YOU will know that eighty per cent
of the expense is the result of the evils
fostered by the liquor traffic.
Don't Want Saloon.
"All the gray matter in the land is
not relegated to the liquor men OF
Delaware. The people of Georgia, Okla
homa, Kansas, Maine, North Dakota
Tennessee. Alabama, Arkansas, Nir-
ginia, Maryland, have welcomed pro-
hihition. They must Of necessity have
a little gray matter. II the saloon is
such a great necessity, in the name
of God, why don't they put it back
High license? What difference does
that make on the moral side. 1t does
not make a difference whether you get
SO or 100000 There is only one
high license that ever suited me. That
was in a little town in Georgia thai
passed an ordinance making the license
fee for any saloon $4,000 a year. AND
/ need not tell you that there were nc
license applications there.
I'VE are fighting for the preservation
of the home, peace, and the order OF
the family. If you put the amount OF
money spent for strong drink in silver
dollars, one on top of the other, you
would haven pile 999 feet higher thar
pixies Peak, "a if you want to know
how high that 70 see Pixies Peak.
Presidents Anan.as Club.
"Of course, we are organized for the
moral side of the question If / were
to tell you all know you would think
I was ready for President Roosevelt's
Ananias Club. In the city of Chicago
of 10000 children convicted ana SEN
fenced in the juvenile courts, sS pei
cent came from the homes of drunken
fathers or mothers or both.
you may say, well, man may take
one drink, a glass of beer won't harm
him. But while there may not be
the old devil in one glass of beer, yot
can make up your mind that he is
whisking his tail somewhere in its
ncighbOrhoOd."