Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1874, Page 9

] i 3 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1874--SIXTEEN PAGES. ; ] e of that structure in the characterof s wdnfif:n cilicient, Cauee, . . . Butthis at once e oricin 84 proceding from an Inteligent This T€aSODING, however, Mill doos not con- e conclusiso; but only 38 prosiog tho posi- Yty of s Crestor. How far tho modera doc- 2 of the “Survival of the Tittest” may ac- + for such admirable contrivances 25 tho ¢ Mill copsiders problematical, aithough he it the reality of each survival. The srgu- pent for Theism from design in Nature is, then, $ioonly one in which our author finds aay force, sod it smounts to no more than a probability. Assuming, however, that there is a Deity, g proceeds to inquire what are His attributes, ehst menner of & Deity Ho is. His intelli- fence, he grants, far surpasses that of man; but ereis evidenco in Nature against His omnip- cence. 1f God be a Designer, He experiences {ho necessity for contrivanco; and conirivance, or the peed of employing means, is a conse- eace of & limitation of power. Thercfore, i thero be a Dosignor of the Iosmos, He worked under limitations, and is not omnip- otent. e did not make Aatter or Force, or any o thelr proposties. Ho worked out is design }ycombining meterials of given nature and perties. Of His omnircience, perfect knowl- sdgo, and sbsolute wisdom, we have mo proof cae way or the other. The limitation of the Crestor’s power resulted probably from the ities of the material. The substances and forces of tho Universo did not edmit of arrange- ‘pents by which His purposes could be complete- s flfiled, “ or else tho purposes might havo been more fally attained, but the Crestor did pot know bow to doit.” The moral character of the “ Designer,” Mill does not paint in any very bright colors. In the design in Nature there is no evidence, he says, of auymoral sattributes. The only inference st e be drawn from it all s, thst the Creator does not wish His work fo perich as soon as created. still, there J+ s preponderanco of evidence that He desires ! theplensure of His creatures. The indications sre, that pain is caused by & clomsiness m the wontrivance employed for some other purpose. uThe Anthor of the machinery is, no doubt, ac- eountable for having made it susceptible ¢f pain; bat this mey have been a necessary condition of 1te susceptibility to pleasure.” The single aim of Creation cannot have been the happiness of the cresture. Such a conclusion is st variance 4 withthe evidence 1n our poszession. Justice * thero is none in Mill's newly-discovered God,—a being of grest, but mot unlimited, power, of grest, and, possibly, unlimited intelligence, with acertain amonnt of regard for the happiness of His creatures, but who did not create the Tni- verse for that purpose. Such is the Deity of Natural Religion, sccording to Alr. AMill and the 3 inauctive method. On the question of ths Immortality of the i Boul, Mr. Mill's position ig, that there is no % evidence for and no evidence against it. The fk desire of eternal life is no more proof that wo shall live through eternity than is & desire of food that we ehall always have abundance to et The nature of the Deity does not prove His power or disposition to confer immortalty. The question of the possibility or probability of s Rovelation, our author makes to turn on {hat of miracles ; and he is of opinion that, if God intended that mankind should receive any Beselation, ‘it would have agreed better with all i weknow of Him to have made provision in the 4 wheme of Creation for its arising at the appoint- ] Easre, _— s —_— R ed time by natural Gevelopment. The miracles © of the Now Testament do not, in Mill's belief, | establish tho truth of Clristianity. Of Christ, 21ill scems to have s much higher opinion than 4 bekss of God,~—considering the former a pre- sminent Geniuns, possessed of the qualities of protably the greatest Reformer and Martyr that everwas; and henco Religion did not makes % b choice when it chose Him as the ideal M Bepresentative and Guide of Humanity. * The Author of the Sermon on the Mount is assuredly afar more Benignant Being than the Author of F Nuore” Tke object of the essay on the Utility of Re- Lgion is to inquire into its temporal usefulness. Abelief in the jSupernatural, Mill considers no g lmger necessary to cnable us to know what is right and wrong in soeial morality. But its s, both in the past and in the present, 8 s souree of personal fatisfaction and elovated feclings, cannot be denied. Life is fall of suf- fering, 'snd religion ffords ungoubted consola- tion in it, snd sotisfies human aspirations. But the religicn of Humanity, or of Duty, Mr. Mill views ag' the best for the world, slthough ho confezses that Supernatural Religion possesees, in the prospect of immortality which it holds ont 20 the beliover, a very great advaotage over the other. In nis eesay on Nature, Mr. Mill claims that the “Natural Law” is an absurdity; that the doctrine that man ought to follow Nature— 1. &, make the spontancous course of things the model of bis voluntary sctions—is irrational and i immoral It is irrational, because all buman xtion whatever consists in altering, and all use- ful action in improving, the spontaneous coursa of Ntore, It is immoral, because the spon- tsneous course of Natureis full of eversthing which, when committed by human beings, is warthy of sbhorrence. Says Mill: “Nearly all the things which men are hanged or imprisoned for doing to ome another are Naturo's every-day performance.” Nature kills every being that lives. « Nature impales men; bresks them es ifon the wheel: casts them tobe devourad by 14 beasts ; burns them to desth ; crushes thom withstones, like tne first Christisn martyr; Karves them with hunger; freezes them with wld, ele., ete.” Hence, Nature is no moral Ride for man. Such are, in brief, the views of John Stuart] Y on the eternsl quostions that vex Human- | k5. They aro of valuo mainly ss showing what loms the religious solution tokes when ap- Proached and treated with all the appliances of bgic and of the scientific or experimental method,—a method which few are inclined to 3 A5y to them,—because, in their opinion, totally i hadequste, Yet so conscientiously, and fear- leely, and accnrately, has 2Mill spplied them, ihat others who do tho same will probably reach the same result. Tho result iteclf is nota very sat- actory one. Mill's God—limited in His porwer, perheps bonndloss in knowledge; inclined to Y benevolent, but thrarted in His inclinetion by _ %abbom Afniter and pereistent Forco ; absolutely Wid of what men call justico; who mademan 4 primarily for man's bappiness, but for some Ober thouglh unknown object,—an anthropo- Borphie Ged, if ever one was conceived,—is not . Dlessant gubject to contemplate, nor & Being ortby of Luman love. He is, indeed, an absurd :; Leiog. -He is represented as benevolent and yor ’ Ujut —while justice is only ome form of i 1 evolence; limited, and yet the Maker of the i Wimited Eosmos; probably omniscient, and yet, 3 Biaof His benevolence, cresting on order of 4 Yidgs in which Ho knows He canmot but bo Bjust. Such 2 God may be ground out by & 1 in obedience to his rules and formule; it 8uch & God mankind never will accept, for 418 & monster, not a God. Better far the & Lh_xf. denies him altogether than the nn"mm Which permits Him to live the incorpora- G of injustice. Better the attitudo of those @ !iedm Him sltogether unknown, than that st Mill, who learns sach unemiable things e Him by induction end deduction. Botter, the unguestioning faith of the boliever, who 3 Him asall good 28 well 25 omnipotent, ' i of the evidences of ovil around bim. u Dis easpy on Nature. it seems to us, Mr. has totally micconceived the ides which Who use the expression, *Law of Nature,” © Bveatticned toit, This in not the place o say e bss been gemerally understood by the L goXot Nature,”or “the Natural Law,” or o tao existence of such a lawis not amere : Ption. Certainit is, however, that it was L ptintended to signify the ordering of man's prit ‘i!e;uter tho examplo of the physical lifo et ‘The essays are not without their in- | by 4 significance; but they detract from, taia add to, the reputation of the suthor el Ynxhn “Liberty,” “A BSystem of ) Logic,” and the “Principles of Political Econ- omy. Mill is a slave tothe principlosof his own Byatem of Logic. The scientific method is of the earth, earthy,—a most serviceablo instrument in the invostigation of Nature, but altogether use- lesg in the provinco of the Supornatural,—a theme on which the minds of men will probably remain forever divided. PR e e How certnin prominent financiers who havo given more than a fortnight 1o the study of the carroncy question can find it dn their hearts to condemn those eminent philanthropists Messrs. Apsus and Rrry, of Erie, Pa., is a sourco of unfeigned wondor to tho world at large. Cur- rency was short with Apaxs and Rimey. They felt the need of expausion, and, with vast in- genuity, ceaseless toil, and no little expenee, thoy proceeaed to expand. The Scientific Ameri- can was called to thoir 2id; they rented & build- ing, and fitted it up; they experimented with ¢ acid and needle” in & manner that wonld have gratified the writer in the Galazy by its ovidonce of natural genius for ctching ; thoy fused metals, and electrified their plates, and themselves, and everybody who saw their work: thoy actually in- vented fibre-paper to make their paper corrency a8 much like the original as possible; thoy oxe- cuted fac-similes of Treasury and National Bank notes, nnd, when all was ready, they began to expand. They cheaponed money to an extont undreamed of by their Congressional co- laborers in the field of expansion. They sold $1,000 for $10, and farmers, and baokers, and grangers, and tinkers, and cheap tailors, and grocers, and hasrdware doalers, and barbers, and everybody in Allegheny County, N. Y., and Pot- ter County, Pa., had money enough to pay ex- ponses and save. Money was cheap, becanse it was plenty, and everybody ought to have been happy. Dut human nature is never satisfied, and human Governments are slways in commo- tion. The Government of tho United States, instoad of seizing Apaus and Rriey by the hand snd bestowing & formal benediction upon them for their unassuming efforts to place millions in the hands of the poor, eeized them by the collar and subjected them to indignities. This was awkard, becanse, besides being a formal re- pudiation of the principles of a large number of interested people, 1t cat them short in the prose- cution of their humanitarian efforts to cheapen currency. They hsd just executed a superb plate for tho expansion of Canadian currency, and were about {o relieve the financial pressure in the Dominioa, It is sad to contemplate their melancholy fate. Itis that of all philanthro- pists, and should be & warning to all inflationists high and low. PERSONAL. Glendenning issustained. Of course, Helived pretty high, and needed something to sustain George Butler says Iart Jackson could not *adapt” s bill of fare, let alono s French drama. Mrs. Potter Palmer, Miss Coolbaugh, and Geo, Stager will be at the Art Reception to-morrow. Gollman, the artist, has portraits of thom. Congressman James Wilson, of Iows, went East on a cattle-train. Ungenerous inferences will please be withheld for further particulars. Ben Sherwood, of Booth’s Theatro, when zeked for the plot of “ The Hero of the Hour,” said the stage-carpenter had it. And he kept it concealed. Garibaldi was disgusted at first to find that bis poverty was made public, but the generous countributions of his friends consoled him & little. Cannibalism prevails in a mild form in France. XNo less than %,555 mules and 2eses wero de- voured during the past three months io the City of Paris. A lady of Worcester, Mass., ran against her husband for School Commissioner and beat him. twoto one. He can base an application for divorce on craelty. “ Foote's Reminiscences ” occupy a post of honor in the Congressional Library, being placed on the same shelf with ‘ Baron Muocheusen ™ and “ Sinbad, the Sailor.” _Muscatine owns the latest. The charge against him is forgery, and nothing more. He was the pastor of the Gorman Lutheran Church thereof, and his name is Lange. The Rev. Galbraith B. Perry, of Baltimore, is to bo preeented and tried for Ritualism. He used the prayer for tho sick at the barial service, thus admitting the doctrine of purgatory. John T. Wright, of New York, is President of & society for the prevention of cruelty to chil- dren. Bolomon's maxim about sparing the xod has been expunged from the constitution. Elihu Burritt has formed a class of young ladies at New Britain, Coon., to study Sanscrit. They say that this is appropriate enough, for the language was dead and Burritt long ago. A rich Peruvian M. P—y C. committed suicide in Tris because a Queen of the Parieian demi- ‘motde preferred her gay life to sedate respecta- bility coupled with A, P—y C. Sheloved wisely, and he too well. An Englishman recovered £1 in a suit for damages against a clerzyman for causing the death of his wife by communicating small-pox toher. Wives are held chesper in England than the United States. The late Col. Sam Pike started thirty-six week- Iy popers in forty-one years, And the parag- ruphists complain that typographical nomon- clature zilows no joke on the subject of their being principally in small pica. Manager Hooley's business in Brooklyn ocen- pied five minutes exactly. It was the renowal of his lease of Hooley's Opera-House in that city. How can he account for his ten dars’ absence from home? Let tho Campbell an- swer. Gen, Butler tells of s civil-service candidate writing against the question, * What is the dictance of the sun from the earth?” that he couldn't tell the exact distance, but ho dido't think it was near enough to interfere with his duties a8 Post-Office clerk. Pecauso the Hon. Ebenezer Ayres, ex-Speaker of tho Minncsota Legislature, could not be re- elected Master of the Stiliwater Grange, Mrs. Ajyres cleaned out the hall with the dexterity of & Philadelphia “rounder.” And Ebonezer paid ber £25 fine without & murmur. Cincin nati Iadies express thewr disapprobation of theatrical performers by drawing pistols, Mrs. Chanfran was the latest target, but the Jady at the other end of the revolver wezs charitably removed to the insane asylum. Thus are the liberties of the public restricted. A colored Methodist church in Baltimore has bad = eplit on the subject of singing socictics, aud Deacon Thomas Short and friends extended the split to the heads of the other party with chairs, in & manner uncqualed by the liveliest Chicago Good Samaritan Society yet organized. Ger, Clingman, of Raleigh, N. C., attended a public meating. Ashe descended backward into 3 chair, that chair was seized, and, amid the plendits of the crowd, he sat on the floor. Now expect artillery practice, a vendetts, and & genorous contribition to the population of Hades. Jamos Fisk, Sr., eire of the Iats lamented Prince of Erie and Darkness, has invented & new peg for hanging up things. Had be ex- perimented on his son a few years earlier, ar even on Stokes a few yoars Iater, how much the world would have been spared. It is of use still, however, and the old gentleman should be encouraged instead of snubbed. Mr. Handwerk, of Allentown, Ps., has been bricked up in = cell 4 feet square for 12 yesrs, by his relatives. He was said to be insane, and his kind-hearted perents thought this the most economical way of digposing of him. He owned $4,000, which the Stato wonld have appropriated to pay his expense at an asylom bad he been sent there. This carefal foresight on the part of relations is unspeaksbly touching and diain- toreateds 4 TEMPERANCE. Report of the Commiitce of the Reform Club. They Admit the Failure of ' Prohibitory Laws. Opposition to Them by Intelli- gent and Respectable Citizens. Temperance Societies and Signing Pledges. Formation of Social and Literary Societies Recommended. Opening Rooms Where Temperzneo Be- freshments Can Be Obfained. Changing the Pay-Day of Em- ployes. The Temperance Reform Society of Chicago beld & mecting last evening at the Washing- tonisn Home, corner of Madison strect and Ashland avenue. Tobert C. Rankin, the President of the So- ciety, occupied the chair. The Committee on Plan of Work submitted their teport, together with their (conssitation sud by-laws. The former met with alengthy discnssion ou the question of prohibition, which it disclaimed. THE REPORT. The report, which was finally adopted, to- gether with the constitution aud by-laws, is as follows : . To the Officers and Members of the Chicago Temper- ance Reform Club: The Committee npon whom hag davolved the daty of reporting & plan of operations for the Club begs leave to submit the following as tho result of ita deliberations : Your Committee is mot ignorant of the fact that the plan which it is sbout to submit is ono of more than ordinary difficulty, and will involve an amountof labor not hitherto contemplated by the Club, but at the eame time the members of the Committae feel that the task proposed is not impracticable, and is one tho accomplishment of which will produce a most boneficial effect upon tho community. THE OBJECT for which the Club was organized was, in ebort, to reform and rescue from the depths to which they bave fallen a class of men who either have becn orin all humen probability will be ostracised from the social and business circlesof maokind. “This object isono which is at once charitable and profitable,—charitable to those who are sutfering from the evils of intemperauce, and profitable to the community in this : that every rescaed man will perform his ehare in the work of human progress and advzucement, Having this object in view, it will perhaps be proper to discuss bricfly the various plsns which have hitherto been adopted; to ascartain what amount of success those plans haye met with ; what failures have been encountered; and what were the causes which induced such failures, Your Committee is satisfied that all attempts to prohibit the manufacture or sale of intoxicat- ing drinks by legislative cnactments will result onlyin failure. Prolibitory Iaws havebeen enact- ed in various States of this Union, and in every instance have proved to ba dead lettors. THE CAUSES of this ara varions, but the most active, as your Committee believes, may be found 1n the dislike which men ordinarily feel at snv interference with thelr privato tastes or habits; and this 18 more especially the case in large citics, where a considerable portion of tho population is composed of foreign- born citizens, who in other lands have been edu- cate in the belief that the moderate use of in- toxicating drinks is neither sinful nor hartfal, but, on the contrary, is conducive to health, and #ho resent as an attack on their nationality, and an insalt to their manhood, any attempt by law to force them to dispense with the beverages to which they have been accusiomed. Nor can such laws be effectual so long as public senti- ment evon among native-born citizona is opposed to their paseago and execution: and your Com- mittee is forced to admit that, in cities ai all évents, an intelligent, respectable, and numeroas class of citizens Jook upon these laws as at once uunecessary and unwise. THESE FACTS ARE NOTORIOUS, and they lead your Committee to the belief not only that all steps taken by the Club looking towards prohibitory laws will be ineffectual, but also that they will, by arousing the opposition of the clarges above mentioned, prove a serious injury to the temperance cause. Your Commitiee, thersfore, Geem it to be unadvisable to report or recommend any pian which contemplates logislativo probi- bition, and would, on the contrary, advisa that theZClub and its members should, 1ot only by words but by acts, disclsim evory at- tempt to secaro such legislation ; and your Com- mitteo all the more wiliicgly submits this advice when it considers the fact that if the plan to be Dereinafter proposed shall bo adopted, and shall ovontually £uccced, a power far more potent than acts of legislative bodies, will, by cutting off the custom of the satoons, deprive them of the means of keeping open., Your Committee having thus considered the question of REFORMING MEN BY LAW, and having concluded to advise against any efforts 1n that direction, have thought it proper next to consider a plan of operations devised by Dr. Dio Lewis and attemptoed to bo cairied into effect in the early part of the prosent year in the State of Ohio. This plan met with an early and most igno- minious failure, owing to a variety of causes which its supporters seem never to have thought of. Prominent :Lmunl)j' them is one which 18 worthy of carefnl consideration. _ Ex- pericnco _Las demonstrated thut where- ever ovil psssions or appetites exist, tho means to gratify them will bo supplied, and hat if one clags of individuals can be induced to forezo the business of ministering to such passions and appetites, another class, less sue- ceptiblo to good infinences, will very soon take 1ts place. THE CRUSADERS IN OHIO and elsewhero succeeded, in o very few in- stances, in inducing saloon-keepors to close their establishments, and to embark 1n other occupa- tious, but. in most if not all of them pecuniary 18 weil 28 moral arguments were nsed, and even these had only n temporary effect, for new sa- loons wers opened by the so-called conver:s as 8oon a8 the excitement of ths crusade had sub- sided. These facts ought of themselves to be s sufficient answer to any proposition involviag s ropetition of the crusades. If, in addition, the further facts that such a course exposes to the gcoffs and insuits of a most degraded class of men the fomale members of the family ; that the opposition of many respectsble and influential individuals is aronsed; that meny flock to a- Joons out of mere curiosity during & crosade, and form an appetite thern which promises i time to make them drunkards ; and, finaily, that it is mot poseible to continue the effortsof the Indies in the direction mentioned for such s length of time as would result in accomplishing the end_sought (if such end over could be ne- compliebed), be considered. your Committes is constrained to 6ey that it is oppoeed to any action on the part of the Club which would in any way encoursge a Tevival of the movement referred to. THE OTHER FLANS which have been considered by your Committee aro Temperance organizations and Temperaace revivals. The former hava bitherto beeu eifectu- sl to & degros which warrants your Comumittee in the belief thaf this Ciub, if properly managed, will be able to accomplieh veryimportant results. Temperance revivals, however, have failed thus for in permanently redeeming any consider- able pumber of fallen -mon. "The rea- sops for this failure are obvions, and will readily suggest themsclves to snyone who will take the troublo to investigate the circum- stances under which such revivals are usually held. The members of the Club bave in numer- ous instances attended temperance meotinge, at which they were addressed by speakers who were eloquont and earnest. At such meetings they have observed that papers containing THE USUAL PLEDGE were signed by men who, carried away by the enthusiasm of the occzsion, thought themaclves willing and ahia to abstain in the future from intoxicating lign~re. They have abserved, slso, that most of the signers who succoeded in keep- ing their plodge wero mon who wonld not in all human probability have sallowed themselves to become drunkards, éven if the pledge had not been presented to them. The other clasa gen- erally cooemsted of men who were either intoxi- cated at the time of signing, or who were just recovering from the effects of a recent debauch. With the latter class tho observance of the pledge has genorally been but momentars. While the reformatory mood lssted it was found. that the drunkard would mot indalge, but, in nenrly every instance, the appe- tito proved atronger than the will, and the reso- Iation to reform only lasted until'an opportunity to drink presented itself. ~Your Comumitteo, however, doos not tbink that the kind of meet~ ings referred to should be abandoned. Sach meetings can be made powerful auxiliaries in tho work which it is proposed to enter upon, not only by inducing many to sign the customary pledgo, but also by farnishing the names of those who are desirous, bat unsble unless assisted, to roform themselves. Your COMMITTEE WOULD THEREFORE RECOMMEND that, at as early a day as practicable, proper places in various parts of tho city bs sccured, at which meetings can be held and pledges preeent~ ed to all thoso desirons of reform, and that the work of individual effort should be then imme- diately entered upon. Organized societios whose purpose it is to redeem individusls have thus far proved, to a limited extent, successful. ‘This resnlt, while in & great moasuroe gratifying to the friends of temperance, has not been as extoneive as it might have becn, and has only succeeded in proportion as such socicties bave adhered to or devarted from a few princi- ples to which the Committoe now invites the at- tention of the Club. THE DESIRE FOR STRONG DRINK is undoubtedly a disease. In somo cases itis oasily cured ; in others 1t is well nigh incurable, In some individuals this desire is 50 strong and 50 overpowering that neither personal ambition, pride, hope, or love, on the one band, nor dis- tress, shamo, sickness, or poverty on tho other, can resist jt. In others, hoswover, this dosire, having been but recently acquired, and not hav- ing tsken a strong holdupon the ¥ictim, can be more readily overcome. The extent of the ap- petite being thus varied, will, in almost every case, Tequire different trestmont. Some men will, upon being convinced that they are wrong- ing’ eitber others or themsolves, immediately sbandon all ndulgence, and do so without ap- parent_effort, and will remain for years, and often duringe their whole lives, BTRICT TEMPERANCE NEN. To such men only argaments and facis need be adduced in order to persuade them to abandon tho use of intoxicating drinke, sud while your Committeo would not racommend such porsons to do nothing more than to sign the pledge and 0 abstain, yet it feels that if a large proportion of that class in this commuoity can be secured in tho manner suggested, a vory important eund will be accomuplishied. Others are not®so easily reformed, although the work required to effect their reformation is not go difficult as it some- times appecrs. Individuals belonninf to this class are numerons, and are generally known a8 moderate drinkers. They are usually of A PHLEGMATIC TEMPEBAMENT ; are not men either of lerge capacity or quick perception, and gre usually both self-opinionated andstubborn. Such men must be approached only by those who know them and the means best calculated to influcnce them. The im- portance of reforming this class is very great. The influence which i8 wielded " by it; iho impression that moderato Grinking is not hurtful, to which it gives currency; and the examplo which it gets, are among tho most pow- erful of the obstacles which temperance reform- ers will havo to overcome. Your Committea feols that the plan which i¢ is abont to submit will be found, upon trial, to be the most effectual of any that have heretoforo been devised, and that for the reason that tbe means which i 18 pro- posed to employ will be thoae of reason and not of force. Anotber class of men whose reformation will e found to be difticult is commonly knows a8 OCCASIONAL SPREENS, the obstacles in the wayof whose reformation are much more numerous than is usually sup- posed. An occasional spreer is ordinarily a man of good education, considerable talent, snd gen- erous impulses. ' Ho is always ready to admit that drinking is at once buriful and degrading, and will abstain of his own free will for consid- erable periods of time. But he, at various in- tervalg, which, as he increases in years, grow shorter and shorter, allows himself to become inflnenced by the importanities of supposed friends, and when ho has_permitted himself to be perauaded into one indulgence feels that ho is froed from all restraint, and theo plunges into excesses which are nnkoown both 10 the moderate drinker and confirmed inebriate. This class is composed in & great measuro of young men who aro dependent mpon their salarics os 8 means of livelinood, and who, while 1n an intoxicated condition, expend all the means thoy posscss, and ofteutimes loss their situa- tions. When such results occur they are over- powered with feelings of HUMILIATION AND BEMORSE, and often plunge deeper and decper into ex- censes which a short time boforo they thought it impossiblo to reach. This closs cau only bo saved by interesting its members strongly in tho work of tomporauca reform, aud by engaging them netively in doing thone things which will serve to remind thew constantly of the dangers they themselves aro passing tbrough. But oue class remains to be moticed, and that is the ose called habitual drunkerds or confirmed inebriates. This class is composed wholly of the graduates of the three classes above mentioned. The degradation reached by its members has nover beeu felt, althongh often witnessed, by any others than taemselves, Your Committeo does not propose to indiczte even tho extent of it. It is sufficicntly great, however, to cause most of those who have kpown it to desire honestly and sincerely to reform, and your Committee believes that, by a proper effort, Buch reformation may be effected. THE DIFFICULTY which all such drunkards experience is to be found both in tho incredulity with which their promises to reform are mes by the groat mass of mankind, and in that state of despondency which is produced by troubles, either actualor imagin- ary, which surround them. It they could see a way by which they could again gain tho confi- dence of mep, and could be convinced that their troubles were not serions, or had, as o matter of fact. no oxistence whatever, their reformation would be simple, easy, and complete. Your Committee, having thus pointed out the different plans which temperanco men havo de- vised, and 2 few of the causes of their failure, and having indicated the varions classes of men who require and detervo tho friendship andzood ofticon of the Club, will vow proceed to subnit a few observations upon s plsn which has, in this report, received only & passing montion. Your Committes does not deem it necessary to moro than rofer to the work which has been per- formed and the good that has heen accomplish- ed by tho Sons of Temperance, the Good Tem- plars, and other similar societies. Thus far these organizations bave succeeded in the refor- mation of large numbers of men, many of whom have beon saved to their families and to socicty by the efforts of the members of sach worthy Bocieties. Still, when your Committee comes to consider that INTEMPERANCE, PERVADES THE WHOLE COUNTRY, that tho question of its prevention and cure hng for mray years been increasing in importanco, and that ita spread has not been seusibly checked, it foels that it s proper to inquirs why it is that temperanco organizations have not been more effective. Your Committee does not claim to be able o acconnt wholly for this want of success. If it shall indicate 2 few of the reasona which appear to bo most powerful, it will, in s measure at least, have errormed its duty. The organizations re- ferred to are secret socioties, and, while invit- ing to some, aro to others exceedingly obnox- jons. ¥or this reason many bave been deterred either from ACRUPLES OF RELIGH or from some other motive, from ing them. For vuch persons your Committee would recom- ‘mend the institution of clubs open in their pro- ceedings, and accesstble to sll, and in which =so- cial und hterary entertsinments could be held. Such clubs would present many features which would, in the opinion of your Commitiea, prove aitractive tolarge numbers of young men, who would be induced to epend their leisute hours in 2 society elevated far above that which frequents tho saloons. Your Committes thinks that tho orders alveady mentioned would willingly nmnd gladly unite with the Club in an effort to sttain this object. Another rea- eon whv euch waot of success hss been met with tay be found jn the mode which bas been practiced in obtaining new membexs for these organizaticns. The work of inducing in- dividoals to becomo members has been left en- tirely to the volun acta of those connected with the orders. This work has, in many cases, been nobly and effectively done, but as yet NO ORGANIZED EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE to_seok out and to bring into the societies and lodges those persons whose condition rendored it necessary that thoy should take the pledge, and as a result from this want of organized of- fort many who might have been eaved have fall- en into tho depths of drunkenvess. Your Com- mittee deoms it proper, in order to obviate this difficulty, to recommend the creation, by the Club, of's bureau or committeo whosa business ir shall be to divide the city into districts of con- venient size, in each of which subordinate asso- ciations can be organized. Each of those sub- ordinate organizations can, by taking proper steps, ascertain the location and character of ev- ery saloon within its territory ; can also ascer- tain the names, autecedents, relations in life, and habits, of the frequenters of such saloons. They can, furthermore, in a large nomber of in- stances, by words of oncouragement, by warn- ings, and by pecuniary and other nsgistance, in- duce those whoso recovery secms to bo hopaiess to sign and keep tho pledge and to aid in the ‘work of reformung others. i THE PRINCIPAL OBSTACLE. which will be encountered will, as your Commit- teo balioves, be found in organizing the proposed clubs. In order that this end may be accom- plished, your Committes would recommerd that the members of tho proposed Committes should be selected from those advocates of the temperance csuse whose mcquaintance sith localities and individuals, and whose enthusiasm in the worik, will afford proper guarantees that the duties imposed upon them will ba honestly and diligently performed. In addition to this sour Committes would recommend that com- munications be addressed to the various Divis- ions of the Bous of Tempernnce, Lodges of Good Templars, and Father Mathew and other temperanco societies in the city, asking their assistance in the selection of names and other- wiso, and your Committee donbts not that such communications will receive an early and A GENEROUB RESTONSE. As soon as tho proposed subordinate clubs are organized, the modo of procedurs will_be fonnd less difficult. Canvassers can readily obtain much of tho roquired information, and the officers of the police, city authorities, and tho friends of the inebriates, will willingly furnish muchmore. Even the aid of the saloon-keapers themselves may, to a certain oxtent, be relied npon. They will in many instances be desirous to effect the reformation of individuals for whoso failings they feel generous aud heartfelt sympathies. Othor motives, less laudable, will also at times actuate them, such a8 a desire to get rid of A WORTILESS CUSTOMER, or to enable those whosa means are exhausted to again recuperate ; nevertbeless, whatever the motive may be, the fact seems apparent to your Committes that much active and effective as- sistance from many saloon-keepers in tho work of effecting tho reformation of individual drunkards may be relied upon. The desired in- formation being once obtained, the duties of the subordinate clubs will consist in bringing to bear upon each of the individuals whose reformation is sought to bo offected such influsnces as will most likely cause him to ponder over his past life, to convioce bim that his HAPPINESS IN THE PUTURE DEPENDS UPON HIS SOBRIETT, toaid bimin obtaiuing asitustion, inregaining the confidence and respect of the world and of him- self, and of farnishing him when necessary with pecuniary aid. The roformation thus effected, however, will not in all cases be permanent un- less the subordinate clubs_shall do more than has been above indicated, The reformed in- ebriate must have thrown around him the friondly influences of those interested in the cause, Homust be induced to associate with temperance men, to engage with them in THE WORK OF REFORM, to avoid saloons andnil bad company, and to take such other eteps as will tend to prevent a relapse. Sucha mode will not in all cases be entirely successful, but your Committee feels satisfied that it will be in numerous instances, and that if it is carried into operation with the spirit and activity contemplated such instances will in time become more and more frequent. Your Committee further recommends tbe in- stitution of club-rooms, to bs located in some coutral part of the city, in which temporance re- freshments can be supplied st moderate pricos ; that room for reading and writing, for RILLIARDS, CHESE, AND OTHED GAMES, and for such other purposes as may upon ex- amination be_found necessary to_cxrry ont the purposes in view, should be opened : and that in connection with this there should be started an employment burean whose business it should be t0 3id in procuring situations for such persons 28, having lost the confidenca of the community through druntenness, shall honestly endeavor to reform themselves. Such a bureau would, 1a the opinion of ¥ Committee, prove extremely useful by farnishing employers with ablo and roliable assistants, and by restoring to useful- ness many worthy though fallen men. Your Committee would further recommend the advieability of obtamingat s very earty dsy the assent of the various business men of tho city to a plan which has been tried in many places, and has been found to have a most bene- ticial effect. The plan referred to is that of CHANGING THE PAY-DAY OF EMPLOYES from Saturday evening to Monday or Tuesday morning. The arguments in favor of tho adoption of a day 1n tho early part of the week a8 the one on which workmen should be paid, are cogoot and powerfol, and need not be ra- peated here. Your Committee woald recom- mend that an address contaning these a- ‘ments should be prepared and extensivoly die- tributed, and that such measures be taken as will secure the co-operation of those who have the powaer to act. In order that the foregoing recommendstions ‘may be carried into effect it will bo necossary to raise CONSIDEBADLE SUMS OF MONET. Tt is o part of the duties of your Committeo to suggest the ways and mesus by which money is to be 1nised. and it will not, therefore. makeo any recommendations upon the subject. Your Com- mittee, however, deems it to bo proper to state that, in its opinion, the task of raising the nec- essary means will not bo a dificult one. Thero are few individuals in this city who will not sus- tain tho efforts which the Club intends to make. Motises of philanthrophy or solf-interest will, in nnmerous instances, induce such individuals to extend substantial assistanco, and other aid can be obtained from different quarters. Your Committeo submits the foregoing report in tho full bolief that, if the plan indicated shall bo given a fair trisl, o Iargo amount of Buccess will be attained. Your Committee is further sat- isfied that this plan will meet with the warm en- coursgement of o large proportion of tho com- munity ; that the public press will giva to it a countenance and support never before extended to & tomperance movement; that THE CHURCHES will, in time, be induced to abandon the lnke- warm policy which most of them have hitherto pursued, and to enter activoly snd energetically into the work of roform; and, finally, that mo man can oppose it unless actuated by the most mercenary motive. Your Committee submits herewith the form of a Constitution and Bv-Laws adapted to the modo of proceeding hereinbefore indicated, and rocom- mends tho adoption thereof iv lien of the ex- ceudinj{y defoctive one which has already becn adopt In conclusion, your Committee would state that the importance of the .subject referred to i the excuso it has to offer for the great length of their report. Allof which is respectfully sub- mitted, H. TiLpEN, J. A. WIGHTYAS, 7. . Wisscow, Joux CoLLiEr, 0. P. MarnTIy, AL L. VARNEY, Cm10460, Dec. 19, 1574 Committee. C. A. MORBSE, West Side JEWELER, Large Stock, Low Prices, 223 W.Madison-st. MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED, To rent, between this and Spring. a double brick store, suitable for dry £oods, on Twen- ty-second-st., between State.st. end Michi- gen-ev. Address Y 59, Tribune ogice. CHOICEST PERFUMERY, 50 CTS, Broshos god Toilet Sots, Dressiog end o e atie. for Bresente,. A-.C. VANDAR- ! A BURGHSTO., Drugeiu, (opp. Fiald Leiter 4 Co.) JEWELRY AND DIAMONDS. DIAMOND AND GOLD MIINES! ALCH O MITILER. THE FINEST STORE I THE CITY, I have the most beautiful stock of HOLIDAY GOODS ever opened in Chicago, consisting of Watches, Chains, Elegant Jewelry, DIAMONDS, Silver and Plated Ware, Leather Goods, French Clocks, Bronzes, etc. Store open every evening. A EE. AT T 588, 61 Washington-st. UMBRELLAS. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS! SILK, ALPACA, & GINGHAM UMBRELLAS, SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER MAKE, Manufactared and for sale by WILLIANM A . DROWIN & CO., 246 MARKET-ST., Philadelphia, 498 and 500 BROADWAY, New York ASK THE RETAILER FOR OUR MAKE WHICH EAVE OUR NAME ON THH BUTTON AND HEANDLE. OUR NAME IS ONLY ON SUCH QUALITIES AS WE CAN CONFIDENTLY RECOMMEND. GROCERIES. GROCERIES FOR CHRISTMAS! PIANOS AND ORGANS. 05 Baer & G, Cor, State & Monroe-sts, (PALMER HOUSE), Have just received, especially for THE HOLIDAYS, A new and complote assortment of THE CELEBRATED KNABE PIANOS Acknowledged THE BEST by all Leading Artists. THE FAVORITE BAUER PIANOS Indorsed by 20,000 Families, Artists, and Musical Critics, and Glimrehé&Parlor Groans Of all kinds, which they are offering at REDUCED PRICER For Cash, or on EASY TERMS. 2~ Don’t fail to call on them before pute chasing. Buy Your Family Supplies at SLACK’S NAMMOTH GROCERY HOUSE 109 East IMadison-st., Botween Clark and Dearborn-ats. Save from 10 to 30 Per Cent, and get Standard Goods. 3, per case of oze: Flgia 3- ruatoes, per case of two dazer < Kyric's Qun Sottled Garman Soap, tha bestfiid: ngst Starch, in 6-1b, boxer, Diamond Gloss Starc: Royal Baking Powde Royal Baking Pow ’s Bakiog Powdor, In 515, cans, por ¥. 40 Toulet Soaps and Perfumes; the Oneida Com- ‘hoice Canned Fruits and Vegetables: Atmore's ce-Moat; Eoglish Plam-Puac ruly Butter of all kinds ; Sweet and Boiled Cider. Chofca Malags. Grapes, in brls., 50 Ds. not, per bel. $10.59 Chet cl 0 ica Lpmons, per bo: 6.00 Fiacst Doubte-Crown Dehiesa faising loudon Layer Malaga Raisins, fu boxes, halt-baxes, aod quartor-bozas. ‘Almonds, Figs, and Nats, of all kinds. ., per box. in 61 J. Hennessey’s Cognac Brandy. Irish, Scotch, and Bourbon Whiskies. Deluyper’s Gin. Jamaica, $t. Croix, and Bay Rum. Forelsm and Domentic Wines and Cham- pagnes. Bass’, Tennent’s, Younger’s, and McEwnn’s East India Paie and Scotch Aley, Gninness? Extra Dublin Stout. Imported and Clear Havana Cigars, of the Fincst Brands. Canned Goods of every description, at whole- sale prices. 1,000 barrels Chuice Apples. New York Greenings, Buldwins, &e., $2.00 to $3.00 per barrel. WARBROOM, Corner State and Monroe-sts, (PALMER HOUSE). SAVINGS BANK. Werchants', Farmers' & Meghanis' SAVINGS BARNE, . And a fal lete, and well.sel & 7 <y WESL Sidz 0t O R iy e N PR SR tion, at pricea that defy compotition. S itisfaotion guaraateed in overy instanca. CALL AND PURCHASE YOUR CGroceries ¥OR THE FESTIVE SEASON OF Christmas. Goods delivered : 1 Oy aras Sorelaly A rmp ey atenda o T JUST RECEIVED-A large invoicoof Pare Vermond aple-Sugaz and Strap, Lo C. H. SLACK, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCER, 109 East Madison-st. Opposita thy 01d Conrt Honse ~< THE BUSINESS OF THIS COR- PORATION is confined exclusive« 1y to the receipt and care of Save ings Deposits and Funds for In«< vestment. No commercial or gen« eral banking business transacted. SUMS AS SMALLAS ONE DOL- LAR received from any persony and a bank book furnished. MARRIED WOMEN aud minox children may deposit money sa that no one else can draw it. INTEREST at the rate of G pex cent per annum, is paid on sums of One Dollar or more. THOSE DESIRING TO INVEST their savings upon real estate se- curity at a higher rate of interest than can be safely paid on Savingy Deposits, should call at this Bank and cxamine its INVESTMENT CERTIFICATiS. Hear Madisen, GROCERIES! Buy Your Tess, Cofees, and Groeries from First Hands, and Save Intermediate Profs. b, Valoncia Ralsins, few, por Ib. e, new per b, ... Tarkish Prones, now, por Ib.. Dried Blackberrics, new, per k Dried Applos, now, por /b, Now Yorl {fi:[r:; 7 oty per Box. SYDNEY MYERS, Manager. Duryox's Satin:Gloss Starch. 15 f-1b. boxes. por b Fox's Siiken-Gloss Starch, 1n 6-lh. bozes, per box. 6o German Sottled Soap, 60 bars, 60 Ib., Der BOx...... 3.60 The above Goods are all Standard Brands, and will guarantee them to give entire satis- faction or refund the monoy. Goods deliv- erod in any part of the city free of charge. STOVER & DOLLINGER, Wholesale and Retail Grocers, No. 67 West Madison-st. 7 | BFLLE OF ST. LOUIS, bost Whito Wiater, 3 equal to any Winter Waeat In this market. HAJ]DZ,\' - STATE A, Cholca Winter, 26,00, Figest Minnesota Spring, £5.25. Buckwheat Flour, oaly 4¢ par bb ,m’li all “in unrdllnedfin'l;cl’l‘;;(qmu aod jow ieos. Quality guaranteed and deliv e S S GOLVIN & CO.. IR West Van Baren.st. TUNDERWEAR. Final and Positive RNNOTNCEMERT, It will pay Ladies to walk up one flight of stairs to examine a Bank- rupt Stock of Ladies’, Children’s, and Infants’ Imported Underwear, which must be disposed of without regard to original cost. Every arti- cle will be sold at a mere nominal FOR SALE WITEL W.W.KIMBALL, STATE-ST., CORNER ADAMS. $B1_.00. ENTIRELY NEW SELECTION. R A oA i D 5 o 5 H = A <1 PIECES OF MUSIC, Vocal and Instramental, bound handsomely in Cloth and Gold. ____KID GLOVES, CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR’S GLOVES. LARGEST STOCK, LOWE: 4T PZR. PECTFIN bitorglesting nas, © RICES, MOST . For Presents, gloves Htied aftor presentation. price. LIEBENSTEIN & CO., 22, 24, 26 East Washington-st., up PARIS GLOVE STORB, atairs, JOBS W. GOETZ, #4 Siatest. (opp, Fleld, Laiiew b O _____NEW ALBUA OF MUSIC. I ! ;