Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 204, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1899 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS. JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JULY 23, 1899.

League can mrtke towards the twentieth century offering: proposed by the church. "These times demand the maintenance of the supremacy and infallibility of holy Scripture, and we feel It Incumbent on us, closely following the faith of the fathers in Methodism In all our work, to abide by the word of God In its simplicity and soul saving power." ' The attendance In every meeting place was tremendous. It was particularly large at English Opera House, where is was almost impossible to even get inside the doors. A largo number of worklngmen and their families went from one meeting place to the other to see the decorations and hear one or two speakers In each place and the 6trects were filled until a late hour.

ItKFEItEXCE TO SI'KISLHY. Rev. 31 r. Crane Sarraum Received with Kntlinnlnini. In neither pit, balcony nor gallery was a seat to be found at 7:3) o'clock last night at English's Opera House. It was one of the largest gatherings of convention week. The aisles were crowded with standing Epworthlans, glad, even, of the opportunity to listen to the addresses despite the attending discomfort. Chairs were brought in from wherever they could be procured and placed at points of vantage near the press tables. Finally, when the audience had become somewhat quiet, a woman's thin voice, faint and quavering at first, but gathering strength as word after word was pasaed, launched out in the thrilling words of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." The Epworthians, seated down below, caught up the familiar chorus and flung it back In a volume of music Then a stronger voice, a man's voice, sang the verses, and the audience, catching a greater Inspiration, welled the chorus until the rafters rang. Soon the singing became general; one voice would cing the first few words of some of the old-time church melodies and, when the tune was recognized, the rest would Join in. Occasionally other national anthems would ring out and, once, the words of "God Save the Queen" rang and reverberated through the opera house. All this was before the regular programme was introduced by a hymn. In which the chorus and the audience were led by Prof. "W. A. Hemphill. A few minutes later W. L. "Woodcock, of Altoona, Pa., read a few selections from the Bible, appropriate for the subject under discussion. Rev. Dr. Moore, editor of the Western Christian Adovcate, followed the reading with a prayer. W. IL 3oss. the president of the Hamilton Conference League, and presiding officer of the evening, outlined the temperance topic to be discussed. The introducing address was delivered by Rev. W. R, Proctor, of Portsmouth. Va. Dr. Proctor Add re. lr. Proctor's topic was "Total Abstinence and the Pledge." He referred to the conditions necessary to a high order of civilization, saying that Intemperance had no place among them. "Intemperance said he, "has entered Into the. homes and plucked from the family circles its members, only to throw them Into Jails and almshouses. It has occasioned the deepest misery and the most galling tears, I believe that the history of all Intoxicating drinks will show that they are the enemies of all that Js pure and good. All temperance advocates unfortunately are not believers always In total abstinence. Some even Indulge In the so-called moderate drinking. But I believe that such a plan will never work the longedfor end. It will never banish from the land the curse of drink. No one who drinks temperately to-day can be sure that he will not be a drunkard ten years later. Acts make habits and habit make character and character controls the destiny of life. Total abstinence would rear a mighty barrier between the young man and his first glass, that fatal glass that sets his veins afire and wrecks a career. Liquor Is not helpful, taken even In moderation. It does not make tissue; It may furnish fuel. But the fuel we want Is the inspiration that comes from God. and the stimulant we want is the purity of soul that makes lives great. Men of irflllant minds, leaders In all professions, men who are at the topmost rung of the ladder of fame, are total abstainers. ' Some men, it Is true, are to be found who are strong enough In will power to restrain themselves successfully to temperance. But there are thousands of men and youths around us who are not so endowed In power of resisting and withstanding the onslaught cf temptation. To these the first glass Is the fatal glass and it is the class to which they belong that must be protected. We dare not tempt them, we dare not start them on the downward road to inevitable ruin by setting the example by drinking temperately. Total abstinence Is the only solution. Our influence is unbounded; every action of ours reacts upon a neighbor, therefore, let us ourselves enter upon a pledge that will hold us forever from the curse that hesets us. I believe that the time is finally coming when drinks shall be wiped from the face of the earth. In our own country the signs are already brighter; a newer and a brighter light is breaking over the Eastern bills, the moment i3 at hand. "Iet us be the men and women for the hour; let us work with the end in view of hastening that glad day when our own Nation will be free from the curse of alcholIsxn." Dr. Thompson, of Chlcasjo. Professor Hemphill followed the speaker with a solo, "Never Alone." The "Enemies of the Drink Traffic'" received the attention of D. D. Thompson, of Chicago, the editor f the Northwestern Christian Advocate. Mr. Thompson read as follows: "Abraham Lincoln in a temperance address delivered at Springfield. 111., on Washington's birthday. Feb. 22, 1SJ2, referring to the successful conclusion of the temperance revolution, said: 'When the victory shall be complete when there shall be neither a slave nor a drunkard on the earth how WEATHER FORECAST. Cloudy . To-Day Threatening; and Probahly Cooler on Monday. WASHINGTON, July 22,-Forecast for Sunday and Monday: For Indiana Increasing .cloudiness on Sunday, with showers In extreme southern portions; threatening and probably not so warm on Monday; southeasterly winds. For Ohio Fair on Sunday; increasing cloudiness on Monday; light to fresh east erly winds. Local Observations on Saturday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre Ta.m. 29.53 74 47 S'e&st. Clear. 0.00 7 p.m. Z3.92 92 60 S'east. Cl-ar. 0. Maximum temperature, 84; minimum tempera ture. 68. Following; la a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation for July 22: Tenp. Tr. JCormal ?s 0.13 Mean 74 0.00 Ipartur from normal L 0. 13 Departure siace July 1 22 1.92 Departure since Jan. 1 S.32 Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS. Local Forecast Official. Yesterdays Temperatures.

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ended in that victory.' The prophecy of the overthrow of slavery and intemperance was fulfilled so far as slavery in me tnueu States Is concerned when Mr. Lincoln himself signed the emancipation proclamation. It will be the work of the American people in the twentieth century to fulfill the second part of the prophecy. They win luinu iu Th stniecrle will h Inne nd hard, but it will be successful. What has been done for temperance in the past is but the beginning. Th severest battles are yet to be fought. "We must realize that the question Is economic as well as moral, and, while devoting no less attention to its moral asnects. we must clve soecial attention to the economic. We must realize also that senti ment alone will not win the victory. The Mrupgle with the drink traffic is war, and it will lx a long war. Warfare Is a business, and, other things being equal, that s!de wins that has so regarded it and has studied its details as business men study the details of their business and prepare to meet competitors. This must be none in the warfare against the liquor traffic. The struggle acalnst the llauor traffic will be chieily economic, as was that against slav ery. It will be over the liquor tramc as property, as a source of private profit and public revenue, that the final conflict will come. The solution of the liquor problem is largely the power of the working people of the country. That they will solve it by their votes as they solved the slavery question there can be no doubt. Temporary and local defeat may be expected, but advan tage should be taken of every opportunity anywhere and everywhere to weaken the traffic by the enactment of prohibitive and restrictive laws. The prophecy of the fall of slavery made by Abraham Lincoln in 1S42 was fulfilled in less than twenty-one years. Men of that day would have dreamed such a fulfillment In so short a period an impossibility. Many persons regard the fulfillment of the second part of Lincoln's prophecy an impossibility, yet the llnuor traffic may be as near its end as was slavery in Sir. Crane' Reference to McKlnley. Rev. Charles A. Crane, D. D., discussed the "Saloon in Politics." Dr. Crane is a Methodist minister, of Boston. Speaking earnestly and with energy upon his subject, he said: . "The modern manslayer. the saloon, finds sanctuary and safety in Politics. Into this charmed circle no church can enter. Though we would avenge the blood of thousands slain and stop the present and future slaughter, politics says to the cringing church Thus far shalt thou come but no farther And every four years the people clap their hands ana cry 'Amen.' The sa loon 73 buttressed by law. and when It is not the laws are nullified for it by prac tical pontics. The party machinery and the party press combine to make prohibitory law a failure. Then this successful perfidy turns about and tells the saints of God that prohibition doesn't prohibit. Our church speaks clearly Politics winks the eye and wags the head. The church is right. Politics is wrong. The church resolves and prays and sighs. Good laws are passed, but they are nullified by dishonest executors who do not execute. Enough law is now on the books to ruin the saloon if we could get honest men in office to-execute the law. The philosophy of politics is this: 'We don't care who makes the laws, so we are left to execute them. And so the farce goes on. and righteous men become the abiding dupes of scamps and the church with sacred history and holy hopes becomes the slave and tool of politicians. This is true in city. State and Nation. Men sworn to enforce the law trifle with their duty and are mad with the lust of self and power and place and party. Despite the majority of decent men our cities are ruled by the saloon. "The same scepter sways the legislatures of our various States. The Nation itself, by a system of infernal revenue, falters on the spoils of this arch robber and shares his plunder. And when we seek to stop his multiplied iniquities and Congress makes him an outlaw In the national army, there is not for a moment lacking a tool to do his bidding. Despite the prayers and protests of the church's people, press and pulpit, this tool construes the law of Congress with a monkey wrench main force and makes of no effect the act designed to save the soldiers' health and life. Because of politics the outlawed canteen is still alive a governmental hell. "To get a snapshot of the saloon in poli tics compare the army and navy. MarkJ the efficiency or our navy. Its glory shines on every sta. Its skill and prowess stir the envy of every foreign power. Secretary Long, who Is one of God's noblemen, Feb. 3. prohibited the issuing and sale of liquor on board ship in navy yards and marine barracks. Prohibition does prohibit In the navy. Turn to the army, where the 'allied powers' liquor and politics rule. You know recent American history. Congress outlawed the canteen. What of It? Three weeks before Griggs's nullification of that law. Congressman Bartholdt. representing the great beer district of St. Louis, published the War Department's interrelation of it. "With ten words our most distinguished Methodist may make the law alive. Will he speak those words? But compare the army and the navy. In the army are politics and. the naloon; in the navy neither. The official record of deaths in the army and navy from April 7, to Feb. 23, 1859. during the war with Spain, furnishes an indictment of the War Department that cannot be answered by investigating com missions or courts of Inquiry. "The Army Killed in action, 329; died of wounds, 123; died of diseases, 5,277. "The Navy Killed in action, 17: died of wounds, 1; died of diseases, 0. "Let it be borne in mind that the navy was always in active service, with Its offi cers and men in constant strains. Begin ning with the blockade or Cuba, and including the victory of Manila bay, the search for Cevera's fleet, the exhausting vigil off Santiago, and the final defeat of the Spaniards, there was no member of the United States navy that was not subject to the severest mental and physical tests. Yet so admirable was the disclplne, so thorough and perfect the sanitary condl tions, and so watchful and intelligent was the care of the men that not a single death from disease resulted. "Why did the army lose by disease 5,277 men? Only a small portion, be it remembered, of the troops went to Cuba: the greater portion were In camps In our own country and never exposed to a treacherous tropical climate. Say what you will of in competency in army management, imperfect sanitary arrangements, poor medical at tendance and unwholesome, disease-produc Ing food, we believe the debauching! demor allzing deadly drink sold In the government camp saloons did more to bring on the dis eases that killed the soldiers than exposure and climate combined. "The story of our soldier dead Is bad. The forv of the soldier left alive is little better. If at all. From a village in my native State of Illinois seventeen young men went to the Spanish war. One returned a corpse, six teen returned conhrmed drunkards. Had my son been one of them I would have prayed for him to be the corpse. The canteen which works sucn wreck and ruin was abollfhed by Congress. That righteous act Is nullified by a creature of the President. Conferences, synods, assemblies and bishops have appealed to the President to execute this rlzhtcou law. To all our prayers, peti tions and letters 'William the Silent makes no reply. A body of women who went to see him on the subject were refused an aud ience. Another 'Ethelred the Unready has arisen. Hear. O ye Methodists, the voice of your own chosen prophets, ere you condemn me as one who speaks in heat and haste! "The Northwestern Christian Advocate says: 'The will of the people must not and will not be defeated by the opinion of the attorney general.' "The Western Christian Advocate says: 'The country will not tamely submit to a nullification of its laws, and confidently ex pects the President to comply with hl3 oath to enforce them. "The New York Christian Advocate: 'It Is an abomination In the sight of God. and all men must not be either mentally or Dhvslcally besotted. "Central Christian Advocate: 'It Is a most demoralizing thing.' "Northern Christian Advocate: 'A more dangerous foe to our brave soldier boys than the Spaniards. "The Pittsburg Advocate: Wc do not hesitate to say that nothing so puerile has ever come from the hand or an attorney general since the foundation of the govern ment. "The Rocky Mountain Christian Advocate calls it 'the cringing deliverance of Attorney fienerrl driers." "Bishop Morrill: "Better the pestilence in the regiment than the saloon.' "Bishop Andrews: "It endangers the health, the morals and the efficiency of the soT.iler.' "Bishop Newman: 'I beg that the canleeii oruer ie rtvuNca wimuui .a; . "Bishop Mallalleu: A Christian nation ought not to tolerate such demoralization an.) destruction of bodv and Soul.' "Bishop McCabe: "The establishment of the army canteen l? a nackwara siep in ChHatlnn rl -IHm tion. "Bishop Bowman: 'It is damaging to the armv ana ais;raceiui iu me ummi). "fi,n nnhiv. hravelv sueak our leaders win thpv hnw the head and bend the neck to any man or party that fosters this iniquity In spite of all their prayers? Has the church or party stronger claims on you? "In moral questions, which . shall lead? The Methodist Kplscorai cnurcn says: License is fin. Both great political rarHa nrrarh and practice license. These nartles and the church are headed different ways. Can yon follow both and ever arriv Most Methodist voters have been trying to do this for years, and where is Methodism to-night? I'M tell you. "Methodism Is scorned Djr itepunncans ana Democrats alike. Methodist pretense to moral convictions on any political Question la by them counted a joke. Romanism la

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME IN BRIEF.

0:30 . m. Holy Communion All SletliodUt Ctanrchei. 10:30 a. m Sermon In All Chnrche. 3:00 p. m Tent Epnorth, 3Ilslonmry Conference. 3:00 p. m-Tonillnnon Hall, Missionary Conference. 3tOO p. m. Unglleh Opera Honse, 3IiHlonnry Conference. 7t4.' p. m. Tent KiMVorth, "Mlenlnnn." 7 1 15 p. m. To ml In son Hall, "311tonM." 7i4."i p. iu English Opera Home, "Jllsalons. 7x1:5 p. n. Hoberts Tark Church, 31lKNtonn." petted and listened to by politics. Methodism is yawned at by politics. And why not? The church denounces license, and her members ally themselves with parties which perpetuate licen.se. On the license question which shall it be, church or party? Both? Both It cannot be, lor party creeu and conduct are at deadly enmity with the doctrine of the church. "Tell me where politics got authority to Instruct the pulpit and tell it what to nrearh? I am not Dreaching politics, but a righteousness that can't be muzzled by politics. I simply plead for you Methodists to follow your sentiments, your convictions, your conscience and your church on the saloon question, without regara to party politics. If you prefer to sleep with the saloon rather than see tne uemocrats or Republicans defeated, 'go to sleep, my child.' I have no words for you. If you are fighting the saloon you are bound in all reason and in good conscience to fight anything that gives aid and comfort to your enemy. You know the sure defense of the saloon is party polities'. And pontics is like a snake in many things, but, particularly. In this: You can t hurt It by stepping on its tall. Don't worry about the coroner. Ftrike for the head, the head of the party. Strike till you win. iarn a lesson in polltics from the Romanists, from the liquor men, from the Mormons. With no such motive as ours hey stand superior to party, and parties haste to please them. "Babes and women and men, money and morals and faith in this year of our Liord and here in America are sacrificed without count and without fight as a prey to the paloon, and the gigantic and splendid Methodist Episcopal Church barely thunders when she has lightnings enough to smite the destroyer with everlasting palsy. May God Almighty touch her off. "Tis now nearly three years since our great national parties feasted on Methodists. Next year they'll break their fast on you. and a dainty meal for them you 11 be. If you are beasts you will stand like fat oxen waiting for the butcher's knife. If vou are men. strike down the petty tyrants who revel in your wealth, who make havoc in your fairest neids, desolate your churches ana cause more perdition in a month than you can cure In a year." When Dr. Crane completed his address the applause was deafening. Call after call sounded for his return and the speakers and others occupying seats upon the stage enthusiastically congratulated him. The applause did not diminish until the doctor came forward and said, "I am not accustomed to answering encores.' Dr. Crewes, of Canada, read the tet of resolutions- which had been prepared by the joint committee. As the reader proceeded, the nudlerifbe vigorously applauded. When mention was made of the canteen cries of "good," "good." could be heard on" all sides. The reference to prohibition legislation also received the commendation of the assembly. In fact, not a word of the resolutions passed without the manifest approval of the Epworthians present. The Juanlta Glee Club, of Chicago composed of eleven young ladies, followed with a selection. Bishop Galloway Concludes. The concluding address was delivered by Bishop Galloway, D. D., LIj. D.t of Jackson, Hiss. The speaker said that, through a misunderstanding, he had not been correctly informed about delivering an address at the opera house. Nevertheless he spoke heatedly upon his subject, the "Restrictive and Prohibitory Legislation," in substance as follows: "My creed Is mental suasion for the man who, drinking, can think, moral suasion for the drinking man who does not think and Jail suasion for the trafficker of liquor. I would kneel anywhere, go anywhere, into the highest places or the lowest places, to lead a poor-victim to emancipation. But there is a class of persons to whom argument is unavailing: they have no ear, no conscience. The law alone can reach them. I believe, therefore, that the Prohibition platform should bo enacted into the law and statute of the land. It falls upon the youth of the country to demand protection from ocean to ocean, from the white hills of the North to the gulf waters of the South. It devolves upon them to fight the country free from the curse and the misery of drink, to procure emancipation from the the wars of the agea Upon the crystalliz ing of the moral sentiment of our land into the statutes depends the honor of our coun try. The glory of our Nation is not the prowess of its arms, not Its triumphs, not its Dewey or its Funston, but upon the purity of our homes. So long as we have Christian homes, presided over by Christian women with the fear and love of God in tneir hearts, the Nation need not tremble. I care not who occupies the presidential chair of the country, nor of what nartv he may be, so long as the purity of our home life is preserved. When Grant lay dying and the country from East to West was stricken dumb with the grief that fell upon it, it was Ulysses S. Grant who wrote, long after the power of sjfeech had forsaken him. 'I care not where I lay, so Julia sleeps by my side.' That," exclaimed the speaker, "depicts the type of American womanhood: that woman had stood by the side of the man wnen nis name was unknown and obscure; she had seen him rise staee hv Ktace through storm and war and peace, until he w as -twice the President of the people. She had been loyal and true, tne noblest type of noble womanhood. Such wives and such mothers preside over American homes; their Influence is all powerful. Let no demon of liquor rob them of their own. Let no monster of alcoholism deprive them of the moldinar of our fut Such a home as Grant's is to be forever guaraea irom entrance of that Interloper." The bishop took occasion to refer to the reunited North and-South. "I come," said he, "from the State of Mississippi, the State that claimed the leader of the Confederacy. It loved him; his pain was her pain, his triumphs her triumphs and the sunset of his life was like a benediction to her. But to day I am glad that there Is a star on our flag that answers to the proud name of Mis slssippi. Our fathers fought with Jackson at New Orleans; our sons were among the bravest of the brave In the islands of Cuba and the Philippines. They are fighting there to-day for that flag that waves ani may It ever wave over our reunited land." Continuing, he said: "I say with humiliation and shame that too often the fair land of the magnolia has been disgraced by mob violence. As a citizen of that country I lift high my voice In Indignant protest against such a spirit. But I say that all so-called race prejudice originates among the lowest of the low, both of the whites and the blacks." Returning to the subject, he said: "No law enforces Itself. We may lash ourselves into fury, we may shout and preach, but the good is lost when we stay away from the polls. We must demand the enforcement of the laws. Let citizens of every color, race. politics and creed unite In the effort against the saloon. Let us unite to secure, not only the enthronement but the enforcement of the law that will save the youth of the country from the greatest curse of the world." AOAIXST THE "RL'31 POWER." Francis 3Iurphy nn Ally In the TomHilton Hall Battle. Many shots were fired, there was a roar of rteldplecs, a swelling sound of songs urging on the troops, and the earth was strewn with the bodies of the slain enemy at last night's Tomlinson Hall battle In the general Epworth war against the forces of "the Rum Demon." The preparations (or the battle were simple the women were asked to take off their hats. The ammu nltlon used was of five kinds, viz., "Total Abstinence and the Pledge." by Rev. James Livingstone, of Windsor, Ont,; "Economies of the Drink Traffic." by Rev. L, B. Wilson, of Washington, D. C; "The Saloon In Politics," by Rev. H. N. Du Bose, of Nash ville, Tenn.; "Restrictive and Prohibitory

Legislation," by Rev. R, J. Cook, of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Francis Murphy's ardent epigrams. It was all carefully loaded and fired. The report of the resolution com

mittee was received with great enthusiasm and was adopted by a rising vote. "What Is the pledge for?" said Dr. Liv ingstone. "It Is for prevention and it is for cure. The pledge has been the great. power that has kept us from drunkards graves. We ought to put forth every ef fort to protect our children and the future generations. Some people think that habits are like apples that they fall off when they get ripe but that is not true. They are like cancers they eat. The rum habit is the great cancer on America, on Great Britain, on the world. You very well know the rum habit does not pass the Methodist parsonage by. Ministers' sons are ruined by it. If there is a man among us who needs to be pitied It is he who has not the will to sign the pledge," Dr. Livingstone's address was supple mented by a temperance song by "Brother" McDonald, also of Ontario. His method of singing made his long a veritable revival sermon. He was cheered until he sang the last verse again. The audience was wild with delight and would have heard him again, but he would not continue. Dr. Wilson, who was the next speaker, was interrupted by the noise of people leaving the hall. The chairman arose and said: "I understand that some of our people are to take trains. I feefaway down in my heart for any Leaguer who travels on Sunday. I do not think much of a person's influence with God and with men who use a Sunday train. Besides, we have crrtke platform a man whom most ofis would stay until early morning to hear I mean Francis Murphy." (Applause.) Dr. Wilson then continued his address. He pointed out that the liquor traffic hurt the value of property that it came into contact with. He said the cost of the raw material used in making liquor was less by $3,000,000 in 1890 than it was in 1880, though the output was greatly increased. The people of this country spent two billion dollars a year for liquor, he asserted, and he asked what the effect would be if that amount were spent in remedying some social evil. He named this amount as a dead loss, being spent In liquor, but, he declared, it was little when compared to the indirect loss. In computing the Indirect loss he accounted the destruction of lives and the great trusts unperformed because of drink. "No wonder," he said, "that the Supreme Court of Indiana gave its decision that the saloon Is a nuisance." "POLITICS" SOUNDS HATEFUL. Dr. Du Bose said the word "politics" had come to have a hateful sound. "Alas," he said, "that it is so, because It Is derived from one of the noblest words of classic times 'polites.' which means 'citizen. A citizen was a Greek, and a Greek was kindred to the gods. Why has the word politics become hateful? Because it has become allied with the saloon. My appeal to the Leaguers is that we largely have the power to hurl ourselves against the ramparts of the saloon. The Leaguers must strike down all the bottles off the saloon shelves. We have largely the situation in our hands;tlet us use it." DR. COOK'S SPEECIL Dr. Cook said, in part: "That the church is right, that the opposition to restrictive laws that do not restrict is well grounded, that her demand for prohibition laws is based upon sound moral, political and economic principles is no longer a debatable question. Prohibition is no longer confined to the Sunday school, the pulpit and political derelicts. It has now become a world problem. The baneful influence of the liquor traffic on the military power of a nation is pointed out by the military leaders of England and America Wolsely, Kitchener, Miles, Shaftcr and every leader of note in great movements. These men, who make history for a nation, stand for prohibitive laws, and they all condemn the canteen. The people and the Congress of the United States condemn the canteen. And the only. reason given by the highest hgal authority in Washington for continuing the canteen is that, contrary to the genius, the meaning, the structure and usage of the English language for a thousand years, the words no other person mean 'every other person.' Thank God, when we have to root up and destro the English language In order to establish the liquor traffic, the last ditch Is in sight. Some day another Lincoln will sit in Washington and write another bill of emancipation for the millions of his countrymen. "The problem now confronts the industrial world as never before, and the industrial world decides largely la favor of prohibitive laws. Industry, representing the brains, the labor and the wealth of the Nation, declares through government report that restrictive laws are no prohibition against the labor-destroying power of the liquor business. Can these indictments be set aside? Restrictive laws do not restrict. That Is the verdict of the government revenue, it is the verdict of crime, of poverty, of labor and of the manufacturing and industrial Interests of the Nation at large. It may be that nothing more than restriction will ever become a universal law. It may be that restrictive laws will become more rigid as the fact of their present weakness grows upon the country, hut I insist that if we are to have restrictive laws the laws should be everywhere equal. There should not be one law for the man In the country and another law for the man in the city. If it Is Illegal to buy, sell or give away Intoxicating liquors within a mile or four miles of a schoolhouse or a church in the country it should be equally criminal in the cities and Incorporated towns. "The time has tome when Christian forces should make a new alignment when Christian voters should ally themselves with the leaders of labor and industry, with the workingman and the manufacturer and crush forever the foe of commerce, the enemy of labor, the promoter of poverty, of heavy taxes and the insplrer of crime such as Is committed nowhere else on earth but where the saloon Is a recognized Institution before the law. Let there be a new alignment. Let the church of God stand ready to form a league offensive and defensive with any and every power wielding the ballot in shaping the thoughts of men. Let her leaders be seen in workingmen's conventions, let them confer with the leaders of labor and the managers of industry and thus array against the unrestrainable enemy of a'l. the concentrated irreslstable power of all." Apostle Slurphy Appears. When Dr. Cook finished Francis Murphy, the white-haired temperance veteran, arose. He was received with great applause. His familiar manner of speaking was heard again with delight. "Come up to the front here and we'll sing 'We won't go home till morning We have heard Indianapolis speken of as the second most beautiful city in the world. I have traveled over the world and I have never seen a more beau tiful city. Applause. Read your Bibles and not 'Quo Vadis Not long ago every body around town was asking 'Have you read 'Quo Vadis?' It's a dirty, lascivious book, and it's not fit for any young woman or young man to read. "I'd rather follow my children to the grave rather than see them marry a man with a flask in his pocket. "Vote him down," said a voice in the au dlence. "Vote him down!" exclaimed the old evan gellst disdainfully. "Starve him out. I never knew the devil to respect majorities. "There are lots of Christian ministers who won't go to the cancuses. The liquor sellers are there. Let the Christians go there and nominate a good man, elect him and keep him In office all the time. We have had too much of this 'holler than thou' business.'-' He told the story of his own conviction. and his simple eloquence, the genius that he alone possesses, drew tears from the eyes of the audience. THE MORMON QUESTION. League Demands Expulsion of rolys antlst Roberts from House. In the big tent last night a movement was begun under the leadership of Rev. Thomas C. Hlff. superintendent of the Utah mission of the Methcdlst Episcopal Church, n-hlih Via hnnea ' oriW Tt-nult In Causing the natonal Hoise of Rtpresentatves to refuse . TTt.t.'. to receive Brignam li. ttODens as oia renresentatlve In that body. The whole matter came somewhat as a urrrl8 to those Drewnt. for It waa not on the programme and had really not been considered until Friday night, when the

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A letter accompanies these petitions asking each person who receives them to get 100 signatures to each and forward them to the person to whom they are directed. Dr. Iliff made a strong plea for work by all leaguers to the end that Mr. Roberta should bo expelled from the House. Mr. Iliff has spent twenty-eight years in Utah, and all of that time has been actively engaged in church and educational work. In that time he has had a very good opportunity to determine the. situation in Utah and his views are therefore of much weight. In speaking of the situation to a reporter last night he said that this year, when a committee composed of three Mormons and three nonmormons met to select speakers for the Fourth of July, after they had all decided on the Governor to preside, the Mormons named ex-Representative Davis, a Mormon, for their speaker, and the nonmormons named Dr. Iliff. There were immediate and emphatic objections to Dr. Iliff. The Mormons said that they could not consent to having a man on the programme who had gone through the East and lectured and denounced the Mormons as Dr. Iliff had, and that he could not speak at a public celebration in Salt Lake City. To prevent trouble Dr. Iliff s name was withdrawn. Dr. Iliff says that while a large majority of the Mormons are professedly In favor of polygamy he believes that most of this majority would greatly rejoice if the whole portion of the revelation of Smith relating to polygamy were expurged from the book of Mormons. Because it is a'part of the revelation all Mormons must profess to believe it, and if they discard it they must discard all. When asked what effect the delivery of such an address as he delivered last night would have on his standing in Salt Lake City he replied by relating the story of the Fourth of July, and added: "It makes no difference to me what they thinker do. I simply tell the truth, and I am not afraid of it." HISTORY OF UTAH'S STATEHOOD. Dr. Iliff's address follows in full: "Shall B. H. Roberts, the polygamlst, retain a peat in Congress? Cries of 'No, no.' "The liveliest question in the minds of the American people at this hour is, shall the polygamlst, Brlgham 11. Roberts, be allowed to retain a seat in the Fifty-sixth Congress? It was significant of public sentiment to see with what unanimity and enthusiasm the great audience assembled here on Thursday approved the timely utterances and the unequivocal position of the Hon. Mr. Watson, congressman-elect from Indiana, relative to the expulsion of Mr. Roberts. I believe that the feeling of the good people throughout the land, irrespective of eection, creed or politics, is that this lawbreaker ought not and shall not ba a lawmaker. Applause. The corner stone of our Christian civilization Is the American home. Ten years ago a highly-honored citizen of this State, Benjamin Harrison, then President of the United States, visited Salt Lake City. In an address at Liberty Park, where there were seated about him many of the leaders of the Mormon Church, with emphasis and boldness, he said among other things, 'The hope of the Republic is the home, and the true American home Is where one wife, and only one. rules as the queen of the household.' Applause. "MormonIm in doctrine, in spirit and in practice is a menace to this fundamental principle. Your missionaries and those of other churches were sent to Utah a quarter of a century ago to lay the foundation of this essential home idea. Congress, compelled by public sentiment, from time to time, legislated to this end also. By the influence and co-operation of these two mighty agencies the gospel and the laweffective measures were secured to destroy polygamy in Utah and substitute for the harem the proper American home. The earnest and self-sacrificing work of these missionaries, and the vigorous enforcement of the Edmunds anti-polygamy law. forced the dominant and polygamous? power of Utah to surrender to the demands of the American people and pray for forgiveness. On Sept. 18W. President Woodruff, then the head of the Mormon Church, issued the so-called manifesto declaring that he proposed to obey the law and called upon all hn followers to do likewise. In December, the first presidency and all the apostles of the Mormon Church asked of President Harrison amnesty for the hundreds that were in the penitentiary and In enforced exile because of their polygamous practices in violation of law, pledging and covenanting with the authorities of our government that if these polygamlsts were p&rdoned and permitted to return to their homes they would thereafter be lawablding citizens. The people In conference assembled representing every Mormon community throughout the Territory unanimously sustained the action of their leaders, pledging themselves to make said action the rule of their future conduct. Wllford Woodruff, then the president of the Mormon Church, Lorenzo Snow, now the president, and other leaders testified under oath that the manifesto covered the entire ground cf polygamy and unlawful cohabitation (the technical term for living In polygamous relations already formed.) Hen. Joseph L. Rawlins, son of Bishop Rawlins, then delegate to Congress, now senator from Utah, speaking in behalf of the Mormon people, did. on the floor of the Hous of Representatives, Dc 12, IS33,

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IT pledge that in case Utah were admitted as a State, polygamy would be forever abolished by the people of Utah. "In view of all these promises and covenants. Congress passed an enabling act, requiring a clause in Utahls Constitution forever prohibiting polygamy. The constitutional convention did incorporate such a provision, Mr. Roberts himself being a prominent member and speaking and voting for the same. This convention also provided that the law against unlawful cohabitation, or, technically, living in polygamous relations, should be in force, and the Legislature of the new State incorporated the same into the code. POLYGAMY STILL EXISTS, "Those were the promises and the steps which resulted in 'placing the forty-fifth star in the flag of our Union. So soon as statehood was launched and the Nation was about settling down to the hop that polygamy was dead, your missionaries and associates in Utah were forced to the conclusion that old conditions were being restored. In a little while authoritative reports came to us from different parts of the State that apostles, presidents of stakes bishops and counselors were renewing their former polygamous relations, and that aome were taking new plural wives. This condition of affairs became more open, more flagrant and more unbearable. It was not conllned to exceptional cases in isolated localities and among the rank and file. In Salt Lake City, under the shadow of the temple, ome of the most Influential leaders set the example; and throughout the State and among the leading church officials this became the rule rather than the exception, so that polygamous relations have been more open and general the past two years than for fifteen years, or since the vigorous enforcement of the Edmunds a :-pobRamy law. This, too. with the tacit approval of the church and in defiance of the law of the land and the Constitution and law of the State, and in violation of the solemn pledges of the leaders of the church. Officers, sheriffs. Judges and juries were silent. Public sentiment seemed to be drifting Into a less sensitive feeling on the subject and public morals becoming more and more debauched. "When the missionaries in Utah and the press of the country began to call attention to this lawless condition of things, the Desert News, the chief organ of the church, and many of the leaders emphatically denied the charges, but by and by polygamous cohabitation became so general and open with hundreds of births throughout the State as a result that denial would have been the height of folly. Then they sought to break the effect of the charges by asserting that the law and the Constitution and the promises were never Intended to interfere with unlawful cohabitation, but to prevent future plural marriages. They went ho far as to say that there was a 'tacit understanding, not to say agreement, tht existing polygamous relations were not to Tbe disturbed, and charged the Christian ministry with cruelty and inhumanity. Permit me to say without malice that such construction as these polygamous leaders seek to put upon the manifesto and upon the law and upon any authoritative agreement is false in fact and false in purpose. Mr. Roberts himself gives the case away when he says 'technically a law (against cohabitation with plural wives) crept Into cur statute books. That law has not been enforced because no public sentiment demands it. And like some of the blue laws of Connecticut it has been a dead letter.' AN INSULT TO AMERICAN PEOPLE. "Following this appalling state of affairs, Brlgham II. Roberts, a prominent churchman, editor of the Young People's Improvement Era, a polygamlst living and cohabiting In the repute and habit as husband and wife with three women, was 5elected, nominated and elected congressman by church Influence. From the day of President Woodruff's manifesto, eight years previous, till this act of Mr. Roberts's election, I had been considered conservative. I had taken the position that when the leaders of the Mormon Church said to the country and to President Harrison 'we purpose hereafter to be law-ablding citizens of the Republic, and we desire your forgiveness that it was our duty to give them a chance. And for eight years I was unwilling to concede that the play for Utah statehood by the Mormon leaders was a trick, deception, a fraud, but the election of Mr. Roberts, taking Into account the circumstances and conditions, compelled that conclusion. I stand here now to say, measuring the words, that the election of Mr. Roberts was an insult flung into the faces of all those who sought to do the Mormon people good. Apflause. An Insult to the President of the 'nlted States, to the Senate and House of Representatives, that gave statehood to Utah conditioned upon sacred assurances: an insult to every Christian home in this land. More, it was a challenge thrown down before every lover of God, of Jiome and country. On every hand I am asked. 'What are you people In Utah going to do about ltr 1 beg to present to you the same question. You, who are representatives of the best homes of the North, the South, the Eait and the West, what are you going to do about the election of Brlghaca li. Rob

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The Christian American element in Vteh is powerless on all these lines, and, therefore, appeals to the Nation through its representatives, to undo what the polygamous power of Utah has so defiantly done by the selection and election of one of their polygamous associates to the high office and honor of representative in CongTess. We call upon you to exercise all honorable mans to Influence your respective congressmen to se to it that this law and covenant breaker be not permitted to legislate for the law-abiding and home-loving people of America, and that this question may never again return to vex and disgrace our country let us have a constitutional amendment forever prohibiting: any polygamlst in any State or Territory from holding any office of honor, or trust, or emolument in State or Nation." Applause. THE OTIfER, SPEAKERS. The big tent was probably filled better last night than at any other meeting during the convention. By the time the first speaker took his place on the platform there was not a vacant sat and hundreds, or. possibly, a thousand or more, had looked upon the crowd and perceiving no opportunity to hear anything, had gone elsewhere. Many people were standing in the best places of vantage near the front. A song service of fifteen minutes was participated in by those present and then devotional exercises were led by Rev. II. Halnsworth, of FayettevIMe, Ark., after whlch'Chalrman Charles R. Magee, of Boston, introduced Edwin A. Schell. general secretary of the league, who read resolutions adopted by the resolutions committee at Its session during the afternoon. From time to time during the reading he was interrupted by hearty applause. This was especially true when he read that part pertaining to Sunday newspapers, the running of big Sunday excursions, the desecration of the Sabbath in general and the demand for the expulsion of Brlgham II. Roberts from the national House of Representatives. When this part of the resolutions was read, the applause was long and loud, indicating what kind of a reception Dr. Iliff was to receive a little later on. The first address on the programme was on "Total Abstinence and the Pledge," by Alfred Dixon, of Chicago. He said, in part: "Twenty years ago it was customary for Christians, both clergymen and laymen, to carry a stock of wine and spirituous liquors, and I have ben told that children in one of our Methodist homes bald they were glad when the preacher came to visit them, for then they could have all they wanted to drink. What would we think of such proceedings now? They would not be tolrated for one moment. Only a few weeks o one of the most prominent preachers New York ctty was found using lntoxlits and was summarily dismissed by his iople. What does this show? That, although intamperance may abound everywhere and the saloons flourish, the publio conscience is being arouni. and that even now it Is considered a dlszrace for any Christian to use Intoxicants in any form. I am sure there is not an Epworth Leaguer here to-night who wou'd sully the great and good name of our glorious organization by breaking the total abstinence pledge. I am Informed that when the Catholic boys and g!rU are confirmed they Invariably take a pledge to abstain from all Intoxicants until they become of age. I do not know but what it would be a good idea if our second vice presidents would note this and ak every new member to take a similar pledge when joining the league. Not. however, to make this obligatory to membership, but In accordance with the general plan of our constitution to carry on the temperance work. "Why la it that the Christian church la not alive to its great responsibility In regard to the liquor question as it should be? The trouble Is that we Christian people do not know what sorrow and misery this cursed business is responsible for. We da not suffer personally from the evil effect of intemperance and our hearts have never been reached. God has blessr-d most of u with happy Christian homos, and we forret our brethren whose lines have not falien in i in r a few isuch pleasant places. "The evil of intemperance Is largely social one. wnen I was In Texas a years ago 1 waj told .Jut It was at mur as a man s lire wu weitn te recuse an i