Temperance Agitation in Chicago.
The temperance parade in Chicago, September 25, numbered 25,000. They marched through the streets crying their rallying note of “Down with the Saloons.” Major-general Frederick D. Grant, headed the parade. One of the exhibits was a big wagon hauling a black coffin followed by sixty-seven men robed in ghastly sheets, each of whom carried a banner on which were given the name and manner of death of persons who have died in Chicago in the last few years as the result of the saloon. Most of these banners recorded murders in saloons on Sunday. A woman dressed in deep black accompanied by several small children bore a banner on which was inscribed, “My Husband and Our Father Made Drunk in Chicago Saloons Killed Himself.” This ghastly exhibit told a little, but O, so little, of the fearful ravages and evils wrought by the saloon! Only the revelations of God’s judgment can tell the whole story.