The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-17
SHELDON IN ENGL AND.
Topeka Preacher Still Delivering Lee
tures-Compared to Mark Twain.

While the Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon
is handing out lot of suggestions to
the residents of the British Isles on
how to suppress the LIQUOR business,
according to the Kansas plan, he is
also said to be collecting a choice as
Sortment of English ideas which he
will proceed to engraft upon this
community when he returns. Here is
an extract from the Alliance News
and Temperance Reformer, a British
paper, reporting Mr.. Sheldon's speech
at BirstalI, Eng:
"Dr. Sheldon said that was the 73rd
meeting he had addressed during his
campaign. The good feeling between
England and the United States was
never SO strong and true as now, the
common people in both countries be-
lieving in one another more than ever
they did. The two countries had
great deal to learn from each other.
The English people had a great many
good things which the people in the
United States had not, and when he
returned home he would ask his peo-
pie to adopt them. On the other
hand the Americans had some beau
tiful things which were not seen in
England. DR.. Sheldon then told in a
graphic manner of the advantages of
prohibition in America, where over
thirty-three million people were living
in towns, cities, and villages under To-
cal option laws, and made special
reference to his own state of Kansas. q
When he spoke at Manchester a short
while ago he said there were eight or
nine towns in Kansas where drink
could still be bought but now he
could truthfully say that there were
only two towns of any Importance in
Kansas where the law was being dis
oheyed. nearly all the towns having
returned dry mayors at the spring
election. (Applausel If all in Eng
land who were on the side of temper
ance would unite in a great effort the
liquor business would soon have to go.
No parliament could Withstand the
pressure of a united church. Out of
IT'S ministers of his own denomina-
ton in Kansas, he did not know one
that touched liquor.
"In conclusion, DR.. Sheldon said he
wished the people of Great Britain
would realize what tremendous posi- |
bilities faced them. He did not think
they ought to be discouraged at what |
parliament had not done. Vested in |
terests seemed tremendous. but tenn |
perance workers must not be afraid of |
them. He hoped that England would |
soon become what 1t ought to be. |
(Applause)."
1t will also be a relief to the awful /
suspense to know that the resolutions |
presented to this Birstall meeting were |
passed. They always rig up a sort of /
a dummy debate on some resolutions !
at these British temperance meetings.
Some distinguished gent opens the |
ball by presenting a bunch of resolu- |
TONS endorsing some phase of the |
temperance proposition. OF course |
everybody is in favor of the resolu- |
tons, and there is no use discussing |
them. but the Britisher considers it |
proper to have some resolutions as an /
excuse for speechmaking. In this re- |
spect A British temperance meeting is /
very like an encampment of the Grand |
Army of the Republic. The resolu- /
ion at the Birstall meeting was one |
thanking the prime minister for prom
sing to bring some measure before /
he house of commons concerning the |
licensing of saloons This one resolu-
ION gave an opening for three /
peeches; one by the man who offered |
T. one by the man who seconded it. |
md one by DR.. Sheldon In support of |
Mark Twain and Sheldon.
The English people think that they
ire entertaining two of Americas
most distinguished citizens this sum-
they are-in the persons of
Mark Twain and Charles NJ. Sheldon.
N speaking of the fact that both |
Twain and Sheldon are visiting Eng
and, this temperance paper, the AL
lance News says:
THE meeting in the Town Hall. Biz
ningham, on Tuesday evening. was a
great, crowded and influential func-
ion. Many were unable to get in, and
great was the disappointment, for not
'nly was DR.. Sheldon present, but that
most powerful speaker and teacher,
DR.. Rendel Harris. president of the
National Free Church Council occu-
pied the chair. He delivered a SPLEEN
lid speech, having first welcomed DR..
Sheldon. and remarked that his fame
vas in all the churches; that in Mark
Twain and DIR. Sheldon they had Wis
ting their shores from across the At
antic two great humanIsts, for the
rue humorist was the true humanist.
After DR.. Sheldon had delivered his
story of what prohibition had accom-
DHshed in Kansas, which was skilfully
md wittily told, and received with
marked attention and appreciation,
other speeches were delivered by Rev.
). w. Hughes, Mr.. Joseph Hood, and
Mr.. William Pearson