Show MY PAL PALI I NION TRIUMPHS Irish Protestant Abstinence Society Reform Spreads Fast Through Ulster ITS ORIGIN N IN ARMAGH I t First Anniversary of an m Organization Whose Banner Like a Fiery Cross Draws Multitudes o 1 LONDON Lo o Saturday t l ot of social ocIal reform tram from fromI TrE I I within has hu h rarely presented n ii mote more ro re stride In fl connection t with a designed to tr t Improve the eon con conditions thon that furnished j ot of the people bf tr r the Irish Protestant Union 0 ot or IS 11 It Is Ia I better knon knolAn fl the Catch My 1 Pal Fa whore hoe t anniversary ar has ha haut lut uit ut been celebrated In fl Armagh with sev sevil e eIra Ira il demonstrations Started In fl July JUI of ot O latt Int year l the union now tw a membership ot of and anil be n tort fore t If the end of the present yer NU ha has come It II ii fa expected that tha t the flag lIol of ot total abt retire will be firmly planted In n finch each of the chief to ton ns and clUe cities of ot the United Untied Kin Kindom ICIng dom dm The origin orl n of ot the organization Is to i a ft Interesting example of at how i trivial Incident change the cur current rent of ot mens mena a ant and alter th social odal of the people ORIGIN OF THE iliE UNION On Jut Jul 13 It l 10 fl 1 the tho Hev It ft J Lt it n II a Presbyterian clergyman In the city elt ot of Armagh happened to pats pate a II lamp i put around which stood six al men some come of whom wimm hom Here ere recovering from the th effects of ef a drinking bout hout the tho day before One Olle of ot the men suggested 1 half In Je jut jt t to Mr Ir that he should houlb try tr ant Induce hl iii hll companions to take tako the pledge A followed and the tho six elx Ix men premised to go to the marine manic three days da II ci i the curfew rang and take the thep pelie p The Tho men mon carried out their under undertaking taking Mrs the pledge and the union oame beame be am in en accomplished fact The Tho Idea Ida of the tho society was admirably illustrate by hI b Mr Ir Patterson who said cold The men who ho drink to excess era are the tho themen thomen men taco aho ho make meke the tho drink problem Let t thou those who make Ui the problem solve sole It ii Ut Let the drinkers take ta ko the pledge and ami go god d 4 cH ct t their pals palo to do the same Let Lot the of the Uie reform of ot the drinkers be e largely larol left on the tho t the drinkers keu themselves Iet let the I tie he Inspired with Kith the Idea that even oen IW tie the are arc their brothers brother No So flery ft r crois croes of ot old travelled tr with rester rapidity than did the Idea through jt ul I Inter From orom end en 1 to end en 1 of ot the the union spread 1 with amazing ip pud ed Into Inta Its net all torts cart and ann ns no of men and women the em empio emker pio ker of ot labor end and the worker the cut erst eIte ri le temperance man Inn who now took the as aa an example to nil hit fellows the drinker the drunkard o rd th t p pIe court Te hopeless drunkard holds hold to no rafe paPe in the lexicon of ot tho the union as na It tt iiIi Ii 0 maintained d and the tho history of the thew w m nt teems e ms to justify the contention 10 1 at Ct there Is 10 none so co a degraded but has baa at atut alt rait a of ot goat in him F t r T m I t tor tie te organization spread pread to ether other part parn nf t f Ii eland leland and now branches branch are ore too tuV to C t und east cost and west cst Then Thene it e ia nei was w rotted and everal of ot the large lorge Industrial centres In cane fant tar under r the Influence e of the move movement mo ment nent t iran kOh an hes hea being formed In G loo i t Aberdeen berdeen Paisley and other othor Intent 10 CHIPlIS WORK VORK WITH WIT IT ITA ITA A feature ral ore ure nf ot the work vork It Is that thai the union 1 i n tc all tho thu Protestant churches of ot oth oft h t I I 1 dr ei u It Iii banner and to 10 me De oar Mie lile unique spectacle wil wild a ad d I n i a Pre church In In 1011 Ion l nde nd r jf Jt f the thc of ot the diocese e Dr Or rt 1 l K the pulpit at a adem dem dOin Ea f r of ot members The pledge of ot tho the rI t i as 00 IP For I or Ond and hone nd I id nal e lend I promise omle by lY h Gods hilt f om all Intoxicating drinks and rind and to do nil all that In me lies to 10 POP Por po t the Ih abstinent cau e of total e ebI kl bI b 1 others to tm t Join the union I t me e pIdge It II taken the time new ne mem tt tin r ut together the watchword of It If the e will ii ace hee ee this thing thin Tl Tnt P me c n ann In I that the tho It VIII III not noL relax their i ru u i t time the whole community Is Ii lea I n ewt r i ih i with the time spirit of the but si e v 1111 lie lis la that with the or ar arr orTa r r Ta and ami tho the holiday hollI season oon I ift ard f t it members would weaken let aM 1 d df a eel ot tn In genta hal have pi 0 eu the r N w are till cull lowing 11 Ift ihn hit HID the tho of 1 and oNn n air demonstration the th Imagination of ta I l PeOple lle has hu been I een stirred and formed by b the th tread t of at marchl teem f t Tile Tie Wonderful effect of the movement hi 11 who nop hoped d most mOlt Iro It If In many man ca hardened drunk Sit Ird hete Inome Iome the th best bt pledge keepers M the n lety of or the th quondam Inebriate I t 10 form hIM hL boon Companion has haa stirred th motion mollon of ot the most mot phlegmatic on 1 kr kH The Tbt Is that thit In every ery town are at t least a score crate ore of ot member ho he o In t 1 the past deemed to IM lid Impel liSle of rink are now nn living as a respect I Moreover trade has re tn I Chiu rn nr re n w their h Ir debts debt Cre aro b f ted fd rt an and 1 clothed in CM M a hl ther of ot living prevails I Slang the people tolle L k I l J |