The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-31
GOOD TEMPLAR
CHIEF RAPS
SENATOR
Fort Lauded and HinchIiffe
Scored by Lawyer in
Baptist Pulpit.
Especial to the Evening start

BAYONNE. Jan. 9l-Edward S. Black, 4
Newark lawyer, and deputy grand chic
templar of the international Order of GooC
Templars, scored State Senator John Hinch
life aud lauAed Governor John Franklin
Fort i'll an address before a large audience
in the Peoples Baptist Church here las
night.
MIR. Blacks address was under the aus
pieces of Star of Peace Lodge No. 90, 1. o
C. t.. and his theme was "The Glorious
Mission Of Good Templary." In speakin!
of conditions In New Jersey, Mr.. Blacl
sad
New Jersey is one of the strongest
rum States in the Union. and Is one of
the five States where local option does
not prevail. But, thank God, the light is
beginning to dawn, and 1 have faith TO
believe that our beloved State will yet
he redeemed from the thraldom OF
rum.
Wonderful progress in this direction
has been made during the past seven
or eight years. The Bishops law has
accomplished untold good during the
year and a half it has been In erect,
and It's good effects VIII be more plain my
placed a fearless man In the guberna-
.Thank God for Governor Fort!
Thank God for his righteous purpose
and determined will! Thank God for
ms fearless %argura message, the
greatest State paper ever penned. by a
New Jersey Governor.
Good Tempiars will stand by our
noble Governor. whom we love, because
in his young manhood he joined our
glorious order in Pemberton and took the
lifelong pledge of total abstinence at
one of our affairs, to which pledge he
has since been faithful.
I'VE love him because of his fearless
advocacy of the supremacy of law, and
we 1ovo him hprp naa of the enemies he
has already made since he became
Governor. He can receive no higher
honor than the bitter opposition Of such
organizations as the Hudson County
Liquor Dealers Association, and of
such men as the brewer-Senator, John
Hinchliffe, of Paterson.
9TH latter a y that If Governor Fort
had come out as strongly on the excise
question before election as he did In his
inaugural message, he would have been
defeated by 10000 votes. l do not be-
lieve it. but think that he would have
I'm fact, Senator Hinchliffe's attack
upon Governor Fort Is one OF the
time. IT is full Of Inaccuracies
and misleading statements. I will
only take time to refer to a few
Of them. Naturally the. Senator sounds
the praises Of beer. claims, that 1t Is a
healthful drink, and that there Is little
intempcrance among beer drinkers. lie
further says that Governor Fort spoke
Ut MS meSSHSe OF Inl1RS WIN NlllCH nc
was not acquainted. ! thank Co that
or Governor is not acquainted with
ihnehlifo's beer. or with the foul
product of any other brewery
But | desire to remind Senator
Hinchliffe that 1t ls not necessary for
a man 10 have personal experiences in
order to form an intelligent opinion OF
Its deleterious effects upon the human
system. a man has only to open his
eyes. and look around him, in order to
500 the vast amoun of human misery
caused by beer
MI. Black then took up the effects o
drinking upon the individual, quoting from
several scientific authorities. after which
he again returned to Senator Hinchliffe
He continued:
Senator Hinchliffe is quoted on the
Sunday question. MS follows: AS for
the Sunday question. no sane man
wants a law to permit saloons to be
open Sundays
THAT may be true, but unless the
brewers of our State can be considered
insane, a number Of sane men wanted
permit saloons to be open on Sundays
namely, the right on the part OF brew
ers and saloonkeepers to defiantiy over
rid the Sunday law by the notorious
sale of iHtoxicants On the first day of
the week.
''The Senator refers to the fact that
he has served three terms as Mayor
Of Paterson. would like to ask him
whether he enforced the Sunday law
against the saloons of that city when
he was Mayor? From personal investi-
cation. I know to the contrary, and
yet he processes to believe In the Sun
day law"