Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-28
FOR LOCAL OPTION
LEAGUE TO MAKE
CAMPAIGN.

The support of the National Anti-Saloon
| League was promised to the District
| league in its campaign for a local option
| law here by the national president. Rev.
| DR.. p. A. Baker of Columbus, Ohio at
/ the Metropolitan Baptist Church yester-
| day.
! The National Anti-Saoon League is
! deeply interested In the success of the DIS
| trtct of Columbia league and would do
I everything in its power to aid the District
league In obtaining from the next Con-
! gress a local option law for Washington
that would permit the people in any sec
! ton of the city to say, by protest or petit
/ ton. whether saloons should exist In that
/ section said DR.. Baker.
Just in proportion you reduce the
saloon do you Increase the efficiency of the
/ police force"
Yesterday was field day for the league
and eight out-of-town eaguers spoke in
( local churches. as follows:
Morning St. Pauls NJ. f. South. Rev. ].
/ ID. McAllister. Grace NJ. e. Rev. r. w.
! Raymond: Metropolitan DIR. z. A. Baker.
/ -. ID. Metropolitan Baptist, Rev. L VI.
| Hare. Fifth Baptist. Rev ]. w. West; Cal
vary Baptist. Rev. L. NJ. Poulson:. First
Presbyterian Rev. f. j Moore; North
( Carolina Avenue NJ p Rev j. Frank
Burk
/ Evening First Baptist, Dr. p. a, Bak-
! er; Whitney Avenue Christian Church.
| Rev j. W. West; Benning NJ. T.. Rev. J.
! D. McAllister Keller Memorial Lutheran.
/ ian. Rev. +. ]. Moore. North Capitol NJ.
! E.. Rev T NJ Hare; First NJ. p. Rev.
| R W Raymond Eldbrook NJ. F.. Church,
| Tenieytown. Rev. J. Frank Burk.
Childrens Program.
| The Sunday school of the Garden Memo
rial Presbyterian Church observed tenn
| perance day yesterday. The appeal made
| for signers OF the pledge cards resulted
/ IN thirty-two members of the Sunday
! school enrolling themselves in the Pres
! byterian Temperance Union and promis
| ing to abstain from intoxicating beVer-
| ages. as we'll working against the
| liquor traffic. The meeting was inter-
| Spersed with lessons of the evil Of the
| drink habit and sentences from the Scrip
/ lures.
The following boys each recited appro-
| pirate quotations from eminent men re-
| garding temperance Alex n. Garden.
| Albert Morris. Golden Smith. Stanley Rog-
! ers Albert King. David Rogers, George
| Maier and William Rogers A dialogue
was given by Izorah Dodge and Stella
| Allen. Miss Grace Whalley reCited. The
| mite boxes. in which were deposited the
| financial offerings for the temperance
committee. were then gathered up. a sub
stantial sum being collected. Miss Grace
| Whalley the organist and Supt.
Charles f. Johnson of the Sunday school
directed the program.
Special Discourse
The pulpit of the Northminster Presby-
terlan Church was yesterday evening oc-
cuped by Rev. A. T Moore, superintend-
ent Of the Anti-saloon League of Ohio.
In the course of his remarks he recalled a
definition of a Christian, given in a liquor
dealers paper. as one who prays and at
tends to his own business. He stated that
he would concur in the editorial spoken
of. but when 1t came to the Issue of
What was the Christians business?" he
was afraid that his view would widely
differ from that of the editor of the liquor
dealers organ. He contended that the
business of the Christian. as laid down in
the teaching of the Gospel, was to remove
all stumbling blocks from the pathway of
life. and In this connection asserted that
while the liquor traffic was not the only
stumbling block and enemy of the church,
1t was at this time the most gigantic and
deep-rOoted.
To remove this evil, he went to say,
for years churches and denominations
had worked individually and by moral sua-
sion. convincing testimony and outdoor
meetings to combat the ever-increaSing
evil which had behind 1t the united forces
of liquor dealers now known as the Ma
tional Liquor Dealers ASsocia tion. After
some time Of combat singie-handed the
various denominations banded together
in each state and territory and formed
what Is known as the Anti-Saloon League.
whose object it is by concentrated force
to meet that of the liquor dealers. Each
state sends delegates to the central body
known as~the National Anti-Saloon
League. whose headquarters are in this
city. The duty of this body is to by leg
islatiOn gain the much-desired abridge-
ment OF the open saloon.
He recalled that ten years ago one
would be laughed at for participating in
temperance crusade. but that in the
last few years business men. manufac-
turers, capitalists and the newspapers
had come to realize that temperance was
| necessary qualification for their emp
ployes, and were now willing to aid In the
movement
| He spoke eff legislation that was abso-
| lutely necessary for the proper regula-
ton Of the Notwithstanding traffic and
concluded by asking the moral as we'll
as financial support of all present in the
wave of temperance reform that is now
sweeping the country, and earnestly So
llcited the prayers OF all Christians for
the success Of the movements inaugu-
rated by the Anti-SalODn Lea glle