Year: 1872

cester. Nearly one half of those with whom he
had passed his school days, had been wrecked
by iutemperance and he wanted to see every
young man fulfill the hope which his friends had
formed for him, and he had formed for himself.
If a picture could be brought into the city to
illustrate the subject, it would not require meet
ngS of this kind to arouse the voters. The men
in the community who are doing the hard work
to-day, are those who are pressing the subject
TO legal enactments, which are the expressions
of the people given TO the community by their
representatives. We use this method in other
matters, and is it wrong TO use the law if moral
suasion will not preyail2 Ii the Sunday service
will not do, the Monday prison may have the de-
sired effect. What would be the answer OF
charity if the question was, shall all our sons
be in danger, or shall some man make twenty
FIVE dollars? Men who sell liquor come forward
and ask the religious portion of the society TO stick
TO their tracts while they are allowed to con-
tinue their business. 1t has now become prac
tical question as to what we shall do TO stop this
curse The answer is, do everything in our
power, and We shall accomplish the desired re-
suit. If every grog shop in this city was closed
the heart of the old commonwealth would have
Il more honorable record than ever. One of the
greatest obstacles We have to work against is the
money that is used by the rum party, against
which we have nothing to use but the love of
morals. We can lessen the evil, if the brand
of the law is put upon it; but it is claimed that
the law would not be enforced is that any reason
that there should be no law2 Are any of our
laws enforced TO their full extent? He closed by
calling upon the young men to take their stand
upon the side of righteousness and devote their
strength to crushing the evil of intemperance.


Rev. II. I. Cheever here offered the following
resolution, which was adopted:


Resolved, that the one practicable achievement
for the accomplishment of which all the friends of
temperance in Worcester should now unite, in the
fear of God and the love of man. is the suppression
OF the dram shop by general rally at the polls and
decided vote against its permission for the year
to come, that the selling of liquors as a beverage
shall entirely disappear from the heart of the COM
mOnweath, and society here shall have solid year
for the honest trial of prohibition.


Mr. Samuel T. Cobb of Boston was the last
speaker, and stated that the temperance men
had reasons for being encouraged; they are wide
awake, and from Worcester we want to hear
such a voice as shall show that the heart is
sound, No matter how much testimony is
brought to show that the use of light wines and
malt liquors is not injurious, the men who fur
nsh such testimony are men who are carried
home intoxicated, and are not capable of writ
ing upon the subject. The sellers are the ones
who have forced the issue upon the people, and
their defeat will be the salvation of the commu-
nifty. 1t will be near approach to the mien-
mum when the rum-seers shall be extermi-
mated, the last drunkard reformed, and the
tears caused by drunkenness dried from moth
ers', wives and childrens eyes.


The addresses were attentively listened to,
and frequently Interrupted by applause. During
the afternoon meeting was held on the COM
mon, which was largely attended, the speakers
being Messrs. Samuel I. Cobb and S. S. Foster.


This evening the campaign will be closed by
mass meeting in WaShburn hall, and on Tues
day the temperance men expect TO go in and
win the victory, though the beer men are work
ing earnestly 10 carry the day.