Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — TEMPERANCE MEN DISCHARGED [ARTICLE]

TEMPERANCE MEN DISCHARGED

Leaders of the Nicholson Movement at Terre Haute in Trouble. At Terre Haute, Ind., President Mater and Secretary Dick of the Nicholson union, the organization of young church people to enforce the new Nicholson saloon law, have been discharged by their employers, two prominent retail houses, and there is great excitement in temperance and church circles on account of it. Their employers told them that their conpaction with the movement was proving to be detrimental to the trade of the Sores. Dick’s employer wanted him to gn a paper repudiating the policy of the union, and when he refused to do so he was told that he was betraying the interests of his employer, who discharged him. The employer is a member of the Presbyterian Church and the official board of that church had a meeting to take action “regretting” his course.