Evening journal., 1907-10-21
TWO BIG RALLIES
FOR NO-LICENSE

easies. II you 90 to Maine and tie \
up with the liquor men and the men |
who violate the law you may see
things through Mr. Thompson's eyes
III you 20 to find things as they are (
you WIN find them not as Mr.. Thomp- I
son sees them, but as they are"
Mr.. Eastburn said he hunted through |
Bath. Maine, and couldn't find a place
where liquor was sold "They told me !
every man who gets drunk is arrested, /
and when 1 came back and saw the
drunken men unmolested on our streets |
II at once understood the difference be- |
tween the statistics of the Maine cities
and Wilmington"
Mr. Eastburn said that after being |
unable to locate a speakeasy in Bangor |
and Bath he went to Portland, where
after much trouble and search he had
one speakeasy pointed out to him.
Meeting at Night.
The meeting at night was called to !
order by Rayol Raymond. of the anti
license committee. who introduced
Councilman w. P. White. as presiding
officer. Occupying the stage, besides
the speakers. We're prominent prohi-
bitionists, clergymen and business men
and their wives. among them being
William e. Hawkins George w. Todd,
Washington Hastings, A. A. Wiimot,
George n. d. Cam. the Rev. r. X.
Stephenson, the-Rev. A. S. Mowbray,
presiding elder of the NJ. E. Church;
John A. Booker. Joseph H. Bartlett,
Joseph Wigglesworth, Levin F. Mel
son, Mrs washington Hastings Mrs.
Lafayette Marks and Mrs. Theodore
Francis. Entertainment was afforded
by the theatre orchestra and the boys
choir of St. Paul's Roman Catholic
Church.
With the remark that he would make
] no speech, but would do his mite on
the fifth of November. Councilman
| White introduced the Rev. Father
Temple, who was roundly applauded.
7 During the forty minutes in which
Father Temple spoke, he was fire.
quentIy Obliged to pause on account
of the unbounded enthusiasm with
which his onslaughts were greeted.
At the outset he invited a cOmpari-
son Of the issues. Of liquor on one side
and Of temperance on the other. To
liquor. he said. were attributed three
fourths of all the crime and poverty
in the United States. while all men
engaged in prison work knew that
from IS to 80 per cent Of the poor, the
fallen. the downs -and-outs.' and the
dead weights OF society We're dragged
down and held down by the force Of
liquor.
Comparing the saloon to the CITY
Beautiful" he said. lit is waste peo-
pie basket. into which are flung the
unfortunate of our race. We, who read
the papers. often hear of pugilism, and
Of the champion prize fighter. But
/ there Is only one champion fighter in
| the United States and that is John
Barleycorn. He has never been whip
ped. He has knocked out every man
he has done battle with. and has put
| men to sleep by the thousands. He
/ knows all about uDpercuts and under
cuts, and It makes no difference
| whether YOU are Catholic, Protestant.
| Jew or Atheist. you will get your dose.
| Worst of all he is an unfair fighter.
\ He hits below the belt. He hits not
\ merely the man before him. but he
hits the suffering. sorrowing wife and
the innocent child. II there is such
a protest against the barbarity OF
shedding blood BY prize fighting why
is no effort made to knock out the
saloon. I beg your pardon. said
he was never whipped. hut we are go
ing TO whip him here right now, and
fair and above board.
Personal With the Speaker.
"The blight of rum IS a personal
matter with. me. No man or set of men
can bid me keep quiet and hold my
peace. when the love of God sends me
to the rescue. am asked, what is
your reason for prohibition? have
many reasons. Every time / see a
drunken man is one reason. In the
confessional every Saturday night
some poor broken-hearted woman
pours into my cars the story of some
drunken beast who promised TO love
her. Every time I go around my
4 parish / find children who are unfed,
unioved, without stockings and shoes.
uneducated, almost uncivilized GER
tainly uncitizenized. because OF the use
of rum by the fathers
Prohibition was the essential mean
ing of legislation, Father Temple de-
: clared. If a dog is muzzled, he asked.
why not liquor? No disease was so
bad and so manifold in its effects as
rum, he said. Poison drugs are
labeled then why not label liquor?
He declared life an investment made
by God. and the drunkard Door re-
turn to God and to the community.
Whenever anything is found against
the good of the body corporate. he
said, the common good must prevail,
no matter how many people it incon-
venienced.
Father Temple decried any reference ia
prohibition as Protestant movement as
an insult TO his church. He proclaimed II
a movement in which all high-minded
f. citizens were working shoulder to shoul-
: der.
At the close OF his address. Father
5 Temple lead the choir boys Of St Pau.'s
in the singing of his temperance song.
The song aroused unbounded enthusiasm.
After the song an Offering was taken and
p the orchestra played.
P Mr. Shea was then introduced as cne
D commissioned by Father scully OF Cam
= bridge in his last moments 70 contine "tle
good work" Mr. Shea made n short in
cisive argument and displayed n dramatic
ability in a number OF prohibition poems,
: which ne recited in the cour So or his ad-
. dress Continued applause was aroused
= by his designation of Father Tempe as
= another Father ScuIly and one destined to
. drive the rum evil from Wilmington AT
I the outset Mr. Shea urged the pr IA -hiif N.