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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thode. 1 2 3 % " ■ r 6 ■#.^^-^^.- -.■'-. X^4 rr'f-i Cf MPAIliX LE4FI.ETS. ^ «-r«co HcriM, \i». M. i4 Dangerous Occupation. A little thouglit will convince any careful inquirer that while prohibition would be a benefit to all, there is no class in the community that would really b© more advantaged by its .operation than would those who are now engaged in selling liquor.' The business they are at present carrying on is physiq^ally perilous, social^ in bad repute and morally degrading. Many insurance companies will take no risks on —- liquor sellers' lives. Those who carry on the traffic keenly feel, and sometimes bitterly complain of the social obloquy which they and their families have to endure. Men have given up liquor selling to save their children from the disgrace of connection with it. It is a business that deadens the moral sensibility and destroys . the finer feelings and better nature of those who 'carry it on. The successful saloon-keeper makes himself the means of ruining his fellows, robbing wives and children of happiness and homes, and cursing humanity with poverty, distress and sin. No other occupation so mercilessly breaks down all that is really noble and worthy and generous in man. The community has no right to sanction a traffic that is so debasing to (Ul who touch it. IS THERE NOT A CAUSE. # ' Thoughtful men and women who have given this subject careful «ttention, have become convinced that the destructivejiquor. business iacrs unmistakable marks of Divine displeasure. A little examina- lon of the history of those whom we have known connected with the liquor traffic fof a number of years will convince us at any mtp of its terrible danger. Suggestive details can readily be obtained of the singularly awful end of persons- and families who within the memory of men now living, have been engaged in drink-making and selling in the past. Accumulated property has vanished away, violent deaths have been marvelously frequent, an unusually large num,ber of persons . once related to the business are now iuntiates of charitable or penal institutions, or lingering on the miserable existence of degraded outcasts. The full extent of this terrible evil is not open to the public gaze. The remorse of the father who knows that his own business has been tJie ruin of his beloved boy, the anguish of the wife or mother who sees the sure, steady havoc that is being made in all she cherishes most on earth, are carefully concealed. There are family secrets hidden away behind asylum walls and prison bars. Rev. Dwight L. Moody said ^me time ago, " If you can find a man in the whiskey busineas for twenty years who h-is not a skeleton in his oloaet I would like to see him.^ ] .^li this strange? Would it not be remarkable if an occupation so fnuight with ruin to others did not leare the evidence of its destruct- , (OVB*) *' ' -a/^ i'i '■*#. 3 3286 02768048 3 A DANGEROUS OCCUPSATION. ^ ive operation upon those who cjirj-icd it on.? " The cui-so causelsss shall not come." But is there not a civUHe 1 " Woe unto liim who buildetUJiis house with blood." STATISTICS SHOW IT. Reliable statin tics fully bear out all that has been stated. They show conclusively that the liquor traffic has an unusually heavy record of disease, insanity, crime and piiemature death. This is made cl^ar by the following official statements : — The report of the Registrar-General of Engl.ind and Wales for 1885 gave the result^ of a very careful inquiry concerning the death-rate of all males betWaeir'uie ages of 25 and 65, and of separate classes of males, by occupation. The death-rate of " all males " is placed at 1,000, and on this basis the follow- ing comparative figures are presented : Death-rate of All males. 1,000 Clergymen 556 Farmers, etc 631 Laborers, agricultural 701 Males in selected healthy distr's. 804 Carpenters and joiners 820 Coal miners 8gi Masons and bricklayers 969 Plumbers, painters, etc ........ 1,202 Brewers 1,361 Saloon-keep's, beer deal's, etc 1,521 Hotelservatits, bartend'rs, etc 2,205 The Registrar-General, in his .summary of the facts shown in his report, makes the significant comment that " the mortality ©f men who are directly concerned in the liquor trade is appalling," Some years ago a Parliamentary Committee dealing with the liquor question, took the evidence of Rowland Burr, Esq. of the city of' Toronto, in reference to his personal knowledge of the history of families engaged in the liquor business. That gentleman stated that for fifty-four years he had kept a careful record of one hundred families of liquor sellers on Yonge St., in and north of the city, which during that time had suffered the following disasters : — Value of property iii real estate squandered and lost $234,800 203 46 23.S 44 «3 4 3 Premature deaths Women left widows Children left orphans . . Sudden deaths • Suicides publicly known Murders Executions Probable years of human life lost i»9i5 In the prohibition movement there is no ill-will towards liquor sellers. They are engaged in a calling that is lawful- even though it is destructive and degrading. Many of them are men of intelligence, of integrity, of business ability ; and they are their best friends who desire to see these God-given talents occupied in some better way. Hotel-keeping in itself is a useful and honorable occupation. It would be as respectable as any other business if it were not connected with this traffic so rightly denounced and contemned. Prohibition would be a blessing to the whole community ; and most of all to those "who now* suffer tlie danger and disgrace that their cdnncio^dn witfi^ the liquor-traffic brings upon them. Issued by thf Dominion Alliance for tho Suppression o( the Liquor Traffic. ..:j;. 4^ :#