Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-05
FIGHT FOR PROHIBITION.
Temperance Meeting Sunday Even
ing at Seabrook, Md.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
SEABROOK, Md, May 4. 1908.
A temperance meeting was held at the
public schoolhouse here the evening OF
May 3. the building being crowded from
platform to vestibule. Mr.. Mark r. Petit
bone was elected chairman and three
speakers tackled the prohibition problem.
Rev. George B. Calvert of College Park,
Md, was first presented. He said the
saloons are placed along our daily paths
not in out-of-the-way places. They don
drag a man in. Some one shouted: But
you have to drag them OUT"
Man weakens at the sight of temptation.
the speaker said so that he leaves father.
mother. brother. sister or wife and chill
dren to spend most Of his earnings In the
saloon. Yet they couldn't drag him to
church.
This is the greatest temptation to a
boy, say fifteen years of age. who has
not arrived at the age OF judgment be-
tween good and evil. Young and impul-
sive. he goes because 1t seems smart
thing, but it is horrible start down.
ward.
All kinds of immortality go with the
liquor traffic he said. Of1cers who are
supposed to see that Sunday shall be a
bribed to let this immortality go on. so
it is for you to vote for prohibition. which
stands for every sentiment OF goodness
and decent citizenship. A hymn. Yield
Not to Temptation" was sung, Mrs. E. P.
Dutton serving as Organist.
The next speaker was DR.. George Mack
intosh of Mount Rainier. He began by
telling story no one else had ever read
o. heard-because, he said. 1t was only
IN his mind-of Satan, who commanded
years and send souls to him, and they
all went, not far away from this earth,
and sent him an increase. They came
back at times to report more red noses.
swollen and bleary eyes. and wounded
and insane people.
After describing the work of the imps
the speaker told how Satan gloated over
the work of the one who employed alco-
hol as his agent-the one who had accom-
plished more than all the rest.
The hymn Sowing the Seed was sung
by Mrs. e. p. Dutton, the assembly join
ing h the chorus.
Mr.. A. L. Hughes of West Virginia was
the next speaker. In Prince George
VINO have been suffering from a long
famine. They are desperately praying
for the flood tide which we look for May
10. This blasting. horrible, deforming
evil has made famine in this land-God' S
Countrywide fairest. but the poorest. 1t
has sixty-seven saloons. which pay $1,000
revenue to the state. Compare 1t with
Montgomery county. noted for its many
beautiful homes-a prosperous place to
live IN. You can't have clean charac-
ter and stay in a saloon. Character is
tested as the individual strikes out alone
from the home to live as a man. He told
of the drunkards killed on the railroad
track and of the prayers Of the children
who have their rights. too. urging the
people to remove this curse. and con-
cluded with the hope that the flood tide
would come May II. All present sang the
Doxology. and the chairman thanked the
speakers. on behalf of the committee.
Rev. Mr.. Calvert responded. and DR..
Macintosh made few remarks. The
benedicdon was by Rev. Mr.. Calvert.