IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) // // 1.0 !r»- i i.l _ 2.5 I •is 1^ III 2.2 I: lis lllizo 1.8 1.25 1.4 iiA •< 6" ► V] <^ /i /^ /^ "^^^' ' <^ y Photographic Sciences Corporation # iV <-^ « ^ tl?e f\at\)OT. Rev. Dr. Brethour, Hamilton. Rev. J. R. Gundy, London. J. J. McLaren, Q. C, Toronto. Rev. Chancellor Burwash, D. D., of Victoria University, Toronto. Bishop T. W. Campbell, D. D , of the Reformed Episcopal Church, Toronto. Rev. E. B. Ryckman, D. D., Coaticook, Quebec. Rev. D. Proaaer, President of the Christian Conference of Ontario. Rev. Dr. Antliff, London. Rev. W. Kettlewell, Grand Councillor of the Royal Templars of Temperance, Paris, Ont. Bishop Baldwin, D. D., of London. Rev. J. S. Williamson, Ingersoll. Rev. E. W. Dadson, B. A., President of the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec. Rev. T. G. Williams, D. D., Montreal. Crossley and Hunter, Evangelists. Rev. W. H. Withrow, D. D.. Toronto. Rev. W. Jackson, D. D., President of the Montreal Conference, Perth, Ont. Rev. Wm. Johnston, President of the Bay of Quinte Conference. Tweed, Ont. Rev. Geo. Douglas, LL. D., of the Wesleyan Theological College, Montreal, Quebec. I The Prohibition Plebiscite Act. 4 i An Act to enable the Electors of the Province to pronouaco upoa the desirability of prohibiting the ImporUtion, Manufacture Md Sale as a Beverage of Intoxicating Liquors. ' Whereas, it is desirable that opportunity should be sJorded to the electors of thU Province to express a formal opinion as to whether or not the importation, manufacture and sale into o. within this Province of intoxicating liquors as a beverage should be immediately prohibited; and whereas, such onioiou can most conveniently be ascertained by ballot in the m^iaaer hereinafter mentioned ; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows : 1. This Act may be cited as The Prohibition PUhixciie Act. 2. (1) Upon the day fixed by law for holding polls for the annual election of members of municipal councils, in the month of January, 1894, the clerk of every municipality, other than a o )untyl shall submit to the vote of the electors hereinafter declared qualified to vote on the same the question, whether or not the said electors are m favor of the prohibition by the competent authority, of the importation, mamifacture and sale, as a beverage, of intoxicating liquors into or within the Province of Ontario. (2) The polling sub-divisions provided in the case of elections to the Legislative Assembly shall be the polling sub-divisions for voting on this question, and the list of voters to be uaed shall correspond to such sub-divisions. 3. The provisions of The ConaolidcUeJ Municipal Act, 189i, with respect to municipal elections, shall, saviT where otherwise provided by this Act, apply {mutatis mutandis) to the voting on the said question, and to all officers and persons connected with such voting. 4. The persona qvahfied to vote on the said question shall be all pwsona who are at the s^id date entered on the voters' list for the municipality, certified by the county judge under the provisions of rk4 Ontario Votern' List Act, 1889, as qualified to vote at the elections to serve in tliA La»isUfivo duA.nKi.. ...j :.j 8 I n 1 (o ^ and widows whose names appear on the voters' list as'qualified to vote at the election of municipal councillors. 5. No person shall vote more than once on the said question. 6. The voting on the said question shall take place at the time and places at which a poll is held for the purpose of electing muni- cipal councillors, and the persons who act as deputy-returning officers and poll-clerks at such election shall act m deputy-returning officers and poll-clerks respectively at the voting upon the said question. Should the members of the council of any lonal municipaility or of any ward thereof be elected by acclamation, or should it not be intended for any reason to take the vote of the electors in any such local municipality or any ward thereof, the council shall nevertheless duly appoint deputy-returning officers, and the clerk shall supply all proper^lists of voters and poll-books and ballots and ballot boxes, and perform all necessary acts for the taking the vote on the said question, and the said deputy-returning officers and the poll-clerks and all other officers of said municipality shall act in all respects as fully for the purpose of receiving the votes of the electors upon said question as though members of the council were being voted for throughout said municipality and in every ward thereof. 7. The clerk of every municipality, other than a county, shall, before the date fixed for takini; the vote, cause to be printed at the expense of the municipality, and in the form and colors by this Act provided, a sufficient number of ballot papers for the purposes of this Act, and shall forward the same to the persons appointed to act as deputy-returning officers at the said election and voting. 8. The ballot papers shall be in the form provided in Schedule " A " to this Act, and those required for male voters shall be printed on yellow paper, and those required for female voters shall be printed on blue paper. 9. In the case of municipalities which are not divided into wards or polling sub-divisions, the clerk shall provide himself with the necessary ballot papers, the materials for markins; ballot papers, printed directions to voteA, voters' lists and poll-book ; and the clerk shall perform the like duties with respect to the whole munici- pality as are imposed upon a deputy-returning officer in respect of a ward or polling sub-division. 10. The clerk shall cause notice of time and places at which the polling shall take place to be published in the same manner, and as far as possible in the same form, as in the caae of notice of polling at a municipe^ election. ■ t -? J t ■*- 11. The clerk ihall, in said notice, fix a time when and a pUoe where he will sam up the number of votee given upon the eaid qneition in the affirmative and n^^ative, respectively. 12. The clerk of the municipality shall attend at hie office on the second Monday in December, 1893, at the tour of twelve o'clock noon, for the appointment of penona to attend at the varioui polling places, and at the final summing up of the votes by the clerk on behalf of the persons advocating the affirmative and negative of said question respectively. 13. The clerk shall appoint, from among the applicants for such appointment, or on behalf of applicants, for each municipality, ward or poUing sub division in the said district in writing, signed by him, two persons, who may be members of some recognized temper- ance organization, on behalf of the persons interested in and desirous of obtaining the affirmative answer to the said question^ and a like number of agents on behalf of the persons interested in and desirous of obtaining a negative answer of the said question, to attend at each polling place and at the summing up of the votes by the clerk. 14. Before any person is so appointed he shall make and sub- scribe, before the clerk, a declaration in the form in Schedule " B " to this Act, that he is interested in and desirous of obtaining an affirmative or negative answer, as the case may be, to the said question. 15. Every person so appointed, before being admitted to the polling place or the summing up "of the votes, as the case may be, shall produce to the deputy-returning officer or clerk of the munici'. pality, as the case may be, his written appointment. 16. ^n case no person was appointed as aforesaid, or in the absence of any person authorized as aforesaid to attend at a polling place, or at the final summing up of the votes, any elector entitled to vote on the said question, or any elector who is in the same interest as the person so absent, may, upon making and subscribing, before the deputy-returning officer at the polling place, or the clerk of the municipality, a declaration in the form of Schedule «• B " to this Act, be admitted to the polling place to act for the person so absent. 17. (1) The clerk of the municipality shall, at least two weeks before the poll is opened, procure from the clerk of the peace the proper lists of persons entitled to vote at elections to serve in the LegisUtive Assembly under The OntaHo Election Act, 189g, and shall, before the poll is opened, forward the same in addition to the list of voters appearing on the voters' list to be entitled, under Tht ni lob ■7i! - " '- > -■■-I Cansolidatea Municipal Act, 1892, to vote in that ward or polling tub-diviaion, at municipal election., to the deputy-returning officer of Buch ward or polling stib division, and the clerk shall attest the said lists by his solemn declaration in writing under his hand. Where the clerk of the municipality has such lists in his custody, he may supply the same to the deputy-returning officers, without reference to the clerk of the peace. (2) In case from any cause no municipal election is being held, the lists to be so forwarded shall include only persons qualified to vote at elections to the Legislative Assembly as aforesaid, and unmarried women and widows appearing on the voters' list to be entitled to vote at municipal elections. 18. The directions to voters to be furnished by the clerk shall be in the form provided in Schedule "C " to this Act. 19. Deputy-retuming officers, poll-clerks and agents may vote on the said question at the places where they are employed in the same manner, and under the same conditions, as at municipal elections. 20. In the poll-book to be provided for use at each polling place at municipal elections the clerk shall add a column, headed " Prohibition," and entry shall be made therein against the names of persons voting on the said question, in addition to the other entries required by law to be made at municipal elections. 21. The oaths to be administered to male persons oflFering to vote on the said question shall be according to the form set forth in Schedule " D " hereto, and the oath to be administered to unmarried women and widows voting on the said question shall be according tu the form set forth in Schedule " E." 22. Immediately after the close of the poll in every polling place the deputy-returning officer shall, in the presence of the persons authorized to be present, count the votes given "yes" and "no " on the said question, and shall make up in separate packets, sealed with his own seal and the seals of such of the persons authorized to be present as desire to affix their seals, and marked upon the outside with a sworn statement of the contents of such packet, the date, the name of the deputy-returning officer and of the ward or polling subdivision and municipality : — (a) A statement showing, — (1) The votes given " yes " on the said question by male voters. (2) The votes given " yes " by female voters. (3) The votes given " no " by male voters. 6 if) iff) (4) The vote* given " no" by female votew. (ft) The oaed baUot papers which have not been objected to and have been counted. (c) The ballot papers which have been objected to but which have been counted. ( tj4- . What Leading Men Think of The Plebiscite. REV. DR. BRETHOUR, MILTON. "The MAJORITY in favor of the prohibition of the mannfacture, importation and sale of all alcoholic liquors on the let day of Jauu- ary, 1894, will be an immense factor in the immediate and final settlement of the liquor problem in the Dominion of Canada. Every citizen, whose privilege it is to vote, should make that vote a matter of conscience. Surely no man can hesitate for one moment on which side his ballot will be cast. Never before have we had such a DIRECT opportunity of NO to the plea for the continuation of the liquor traffic. Shall we, or shall we not, as individuals and as a province, say to this criminal business, which is now on trial and whose guilt has been proved a thousand times, "THOU SHALT DIE?" THE WHOLE CHRISTIAN WORLD SHALL KNOW THAT THE CHRISTIAN PEOPLE OF ONTARIO WASH THEIR HANDS OP ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURSED TRADE." REV. J. R. GUNDY, LONDON. "THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY OF OUR LIFETIME. Never before have the people of Ontario had the privilege of pro- nouncing so directly their judgment on the liquor traffic as now. Let the decision be emphatic, LET EVERY BALLOT BE MARKED AS UNDER THE EYE OF HLM BEFORE WHOM WE MUST GrVE ACCOUNT. Let there be no apathy or indif- ference, but earnest, determined and united effort, and the result will bean overwhelming majority for Prohibition." J. J. McLaren, q. c, Toronto. " Parliament has time and again declared that Prohibition is the only eflfective remedy for the evils of the liquor traffic, and expressed its willingness to pass such a law WHEN THE COUNTRY 13 READY FOR IT. Temperance people have for years claimed that the country was ready, but that the politicians were responsible -y- 1 riij v.a-iriijiji:..:.-;-ori:. io inWW i. aTtAJ Vt T'i xJKJ VV a AND PROHIBITIONISTS MUST TAKE IT UP. On January Ist . . :y elector will be asked whether he is readv, and must answer " Yes," or " No." IT IS THE OPPORTUNITY OF A IJFETIME." 13 REV. CHANCELLOR BURWASH, D. D., OF VICTORIA UNIVERSITY, TORONTO. " The reasons which have led me, after very careful consideration of the whole subject, to vote for prohibition are ; 1. Intemperance is not only a moral evil, but the GREATEST SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC . CURSE FROM WHICH . MODERN SOCIETY SUFFERS. 2. The law everywhere is employed to meet social evib and to remedy economic disadvantages. Then why not here ? 3. My experience convinces me that prohibition has been of DECIDEDLY PRACTICAL BENEFIT IN DIMINISHING THE EVIL BOTH FROM THE SOCIAL AND THE ECONOMIC POINT OF VIEW." BISHOP T. W. CAMPBELL, D.D., OF THE REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH, TORONTO. " The temperance cause in Ontario has reached a crisis in its his- ts>^^remove strong drink from our land would be to remove THE MOST /\ POWERFUL INCENTIVE TO VICE OF WHICH WE HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE. The vast majority, I imagine, of those who to-day are engulfed in the passion for stimulants contracted the habit as minors, or as extremely young men. PROHIBITIO N, THERE- FORE, WITH THE BLESSING OF GOD, WOULD SAVE THE YOUNG." REV. J. S. WILLIAMSON, INGERSOLL. The Plebiscite. "However much prohibitionists may differ in their opinions regarding the witdom of taking a plebiscite on this burning question of the day, one thing is certain, NO TRUE PROHIBITIONIST CAN BE INDIFFERENT AS TO THE RESULTS. All minor points must be dropped and one grand united, determii-od effort put forth to MAKE THE VOTE SO DECISIVE THAT NO GOVERNMENT CAN AFFORD TO DENY OUR PROVINCE ALL THE PROHIBITION LEGISLATION WITHIN ITS POWER. The white heat is already on. Let the thousands of pro- hibitionists strike such a blow now as shall shatter the iron-hearted traffic into ten thousand fragments and send consternation through the ranks of the enemy." RBV. E. "W. DADSON, B.A., PBBSIDBNT OP THE BAPTIST CONVENTION OP ONTARIO AND QUBBBO. " EVERY MAN WHO HAS ANY THOUGHT OF LOVING HIS NEIGHBOR AS HIMSELF OUGHT TO GIVE HIMSELF WITH HEART PURPOSE TO THE CARRYING OF THIS MEASURE. lb' IT SHOULD FAIL THROUGH THE NE- GLECT OF CHRISTIAN MEN, THERE IS VERY LITTLE INCLUDED IN CHRISTIAN BUSINESS THAT CAN HOPE TO SUCCEED." 16 RBV. T. a WILLIAMS, D.D., MONTRBAL. 1 J " The tide in favor of prohibition has been steadily rising for years past, and notwiths'andipg the load assertions of the saloon and its friends to the contrary, it still continues to flow. This grand result has been achieved by the unceasing effort and unflagging zeal of men and women who have labored with Christ-like spirit and many dis- couragements and in the face of unprincipled opposition. Though derided, their numbers have steadily increased and their force has multiplied. THE LARGE ADVANCES HAVE BEEN MADE AND SIGNAL VICTORIES OF THE PAST WON BY ENER- GETIC AND UNITED ACTION ON THE PART OF THE FRIENDS OF PROHIBITION, AND BY SEIZING AND TURNING TO THEIR ADVANTAGE OPPORTUNITIES AFFORDED UNWILLINGLY AND UNWITTINGLY BY THEIR OPPONENTS. THE COMING PLEBISCITE PLACES THE POSSIBILITIES OF A GRAND MORAL VICTORY IN THE REACH OF THE TEMPERANCE PEOPLE OF ON- TARIO. Remember the grand victory won in Manitoba, the moral effects of which are felt from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and under its inspiration let every man, woman and child work faithfully to make this Plebiscite shake the foundations of the saloonists and make them set their houses in order for the coming of prohibition." OROSSLBY AND HUNTER, BVANaBLISTS. i "When asked 'WHAT IS THE GREATEST HIND- RANGE TO EVANGELISTIC WORK?' WE ANSWER, ' STRONG DRINK.' THE BAR-ROOM IS SATAN'S CHURCH. The liquor traffic is an EVIL, hence it ia an OUTRAGE on law and a gross iniquity to LICENSE it. The function of law is to PRO- HIBIT evil. Prohibition is a moral question, and not merely a financial or political one; hence, NO ONE CAN TAKE A NEUTRAL POSITION. He that is not for prohibition is against it, and so becomes responsible for license and its results. The only question before us in this contest is, ' Are you in favor of prohibition orUcense?' LET US KEEP OUT EVERY OTHER QUESTION AND AVOID ABUSE, SO MAY WE HOPE TO HAVE THE SYMPATHY, VOTE AND CO-OPERATION OF CHRISTIAN AND MORALIST, CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT^ TORY AND GRIT, TOTAL ABSTAINERS AND MODERATE DRINKERS. We appea/ to every lover of God, humanity or country, to vote without fail in favor of prohibition on January 1st, 1894." 17 BBV. W. H. WITHROW., D.D., TORONTO. " The theory and practice of British legiaUtion are alike, ' broa.l- based upon the people'n will.' This is expressed in the maxin., •SalusPopuli Supreraa Lex.' 'Government of the people, for the people, by the people,' is the ideal of modern legislation. While there are diflFerent modes of ascertaining the popular will, the plebis- cite on a non -part Uan question aflFecting the morality, the welfare, the highest happiness of the commonwealth, presents special advan- teges. IT SEPARATES THE QUESTION FROM STRIFE AND RANCOUR OF PARTY POLITICS AND LIFTS IT INTO THE ^ERENER ATMOSPHERE OF HIGHER ETHICS AND CIVIL RIGHTEOUSNESS. Persons differing widely in their political relationships can here unite upon a common ground, and with a united voice demand a much-needed reform. That government is wise which endeavors to find out and be guided by the convictions of the best friends of society, the moral and religious part of the community. While governments cannot be expected to outrun moral convictions, they should be held sternly to account for neglecting or overruling these convictions when ctrongly expressed. We trust that the approaching plebiscite will be such an overwhelming verdict in favor of the prohibition of the liquor traffic as shall convince both our governments at Toronto and Ottawa that the time is fully ripe nrr^ot" ^l^^ rneaBure. LET THE TEMPERANCE PEOPLE CLOSE UP THEIR RANKS AND ACT AS OVF MAN TO PROMOTE THIS RESULT. Let the electors of this province thunder forth their will in tones which those who make our laws will understand-such a clear, strong, overwhelming verdict agamst this greatest evil of our land and age, that it may stand forever demonstrated that the voice of the people is the voice oi trod— and, like His voice, omnipotent." BBV. W. JAOKSON, D.D., PRESIDENT OP THE MONTREAL OONPBRBNOB, PERTH, ONT. '•We sometimes boast of this Province of Ontario as one of the most Christian states on this continent. IF OUR BOASTING nv TRUE WE OUGHT TO ARISE IN OUR MIGHT AND SlO^ THIS ACCURSED TRAFFIC OUT. THE PROFFSSINP SfmaTh^? ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ «™N^ ENOUGH ?o ^f^t^^ ^ STRINGENT PROHIBITORY LAW AT THE HANDS OF OUR LEGISLATORS. The plebiscite affords tZ v.. vppuf .-oni-.j, 01 -iiuwing what they CAN do by united and con- centwted effort. If Christians CAN blot out this traffic it is hardly needful to say that they OUGHT." RBV. WM. JOHNSTON. PRESIDENT OP BAY OF QX7INTE OONFERBNOE, TWEED. ONT. " I have long been convinced that the chief source of poverty, wretchedness and crime in this fair land is the legalized traffic in intoxicating drinks, and that the misery thereby produced over- weighs a hundred-fold any advantage the country gains from revenue or otherwise. I REGARD IT AS THE IMPERATIVE DUTY OP THE CHRISTIAN, THE PATRIOT AND THE PHILANTHROPIST TO USE EVERY LAWFUL MEANS TO PROHIBIT THE MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF INTOXI- CANTS AS A BEVERAGE THROUGHOUT OUR DOMINION ; and now that the electors of Ontario are asked for an expression of their views ou the subject by a Plebiscite vote, to be taken in January next, I sincerely trust that all lovers of humanity will give their emphatic declaration by marking their ballot for the Plebiscite. " REV. GEORGE DOUGLAS, LL. D., OP WESLEY AN THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, MONTREAL. " When the Mowat Government consented to a Plebiscite I felt that A SUPREME HOUR HAD COME WHICH WOULD LIKELY DETERMINE THE DESTINIES OF PROHIBITION FOR A GENERATION. If the manhood, moral and religious, of the province, proclaim in trumpet tones its determination that prohibition shall be the law of the land, that voice will be potential to guarantee the desired resaU. DOMINANT ABOVE ALL OTHERS IS THE VOICE OF ONTARIO IN OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. LET HER BE FLANKED BY MANITOBA IN THE WEST AND BY THE MARITIME FORCES IN THE EAST AND NO GOVERNMENT COULD RESIST SUCH A UNITED DEMAND. The Moloch of our age, the destroyer that blights home and heart, that smites with a ruin more terrible than the grave, would disappear, and our Dominion would stand before the world regenerated and free. THE MAN WHO IS INDIFFERENT TO THESE TREMENDOUS ISSUES SHOULD KNOW THAT HIS INDIFFERENCE LENDS AID TO THE FORCES THAT WILL DESTROY UNCOUNTED THOUSANDS ALONG THE GENERATIONS. If I were a citizen of Ontario, as I am of Quebec, I m ould by prayer, by endeavor and vote, seek to hasten the excelsior time when Ontario and the Dominion shall be free forever from the curse of intemperance. May God give victory to the right ! " 19 Why the Traffic in Strong Drink Should be Prohibited. 1. BECAUSE IT IS CONDEMNED BY THE CHRISTIAN CONSCIENCE OF THE NATION, AS EXPRESSED IN THE HIGHEST CHURCH COURTS. (a) The General Conferenee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1888, declared, " The liquor traffic . . . can never be legalized without sin License, high or low, is vicious in principle and powerless as a remedy ; " and also affirms, " We are unalterably opposed to the enactment of laws that propose by license, taxing, or otherwise, to regulate the dnnk traffic." (b) The Kansas Methodist Conference, in 1888, declared, " Partisan friendship with the saloon must be accepted as hostility to the church, ^he home, and all that is valuable in society. No party is worthy the support of Christian men that fails to antagonize the saloon." (c) The Philadelphia Methodist Conference, in 1888, declared, " High license is not a temperance measure. It is a trap adroitly set for timid and half -informed temperance men. It was originally offered and is now urged as a compromise by the influential political friends of the saloon. Their object is to kill the movement for Prohibition, and prevent the threatened annihilation of the liquor traffic. We pray God to open the eyes of those who have been -deceived." {(/) The Supreme Court of Presbyterianism in Canada has declared, " The general traffic in intoxicating liquors is contrary to the Word of God and the spirit of the Christian religion, and it ought not to be legalized by the votes of a Christian people." (e) In 1888, the Presbyterian Assembly of the United States adopted these sentiments : "In view of the evils wrought by this scourge of the race, this assembly would hail with acclamations of joy and thanksgiving the utter extermination of the traffic in intoxicating liquors as a beverage by the power of Ohristian. conscience, public opinion and the strong arm of the civil law." ao 4#„ (/) The MissiMippi Baptist Convention of 1884 resoWed, "That we raise our oncompromiaing pruteat against the U8e,manafactare and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage . . . We will endeavor to bring ibout prohibition as soon as practicable." ig) The Quadrennial Convention of the Christian Church, held in 1882, resolved, " Intemperance is the greatest evil of the age, and liquor-selling is the ' crime of crimes ' against God and man." (A) Bishop Ireland (Roman Catholic) has delivered many of the most powerful speeches for the cause of temperance ever given by man. He declares : " Intemperance is an evil most heinous before God, and most dreadful in its results." Cardinal Manning, of the Roman Catholic Church, says, " So long as the revenue is raised upon intoxicating drinks, I hold that we are all partakers of the crime and misery, and the disease and cruelty, and the evils of body and soul in time and eternity, which are caused in such prolific abundance by the trade jin strong drink. " 2. BECAUSE THE LEGALIZED LIQUOR TRAFFIC MAKES EVERY VOTER, TO THE EXTENT OF HIS ACQUIESCENCE, A PARTNER IN ALL THE SIN AND SUFFERING, WRETCHEDNESS AND RUIN, THAT SPRING FROM THE BAR-ROOM AND THE SALOON. The liquor-seller, under license, is the agent of the Government, and the Government, under representative institutions, is the agent of the sovereign Christian people. Qui facU per aUumfacit per at. What one does through another he does himself. This principle is everywhere admitted as both legal and just. Every Christian voter who consents to the legalized traffic is, in effect and in morals, selling liquor through his agent, the liquor-seller, to demoralize and curse his fellow-countrymen. The nation biecomes, in effect, a liquor-seller through its recognized agents, the liquor-sellers ; and both individual and nation are partners in the guilt incurred. 3. BECAUSE PROHIBITION NOT ONLY FREES THE CHRISTIAN NATION FROM THE GUILT OF PAICTNERSHIP WITH THE RUM TRAFFIC BUT ALSO ABATES VERY LARGELY THE EVILS OF INTEMPERANCE. Kansas, with prohibition, and 100,000 more people than Texas, has but one penitentiary and 996 prisoners. Texas, with saloons and 100,000 people less than Kansas, has two penitentiaries and 3,000 convicts. 3t 661,000 people of that State, 146,666 have $50,278,452 deposited in the savings' banks, so that prohibition cannot have ruined business. 21 A gUnce at local option in operation in Illinuia ahowi that th« prohibition town of Pullman, with a population of 11,000, geta along admirably with a police-force of but two constables in all. The Dakota Farmer says : " Notwithstanding the efforts of the liquor-dealers to the contrary, drunkenness has been almost wiped out— many a former moderate drinker has quit the habit ; and, above all, a host of young men have started on a sober and industrious career under three years' influence of prohibition. The drink 'bill of the two DakoUs dropped off 60 per cent, the very first year, and has • been growing materially less ever since, and no one has been msde the poorer thereby but the saloon-keepers, brewers and distillers. James O. Blaine said, in 1888, " Maine, for the last thirty -seven ^ years, has been under a prohibitory law. I think the State has derived great advantage from it. I think that the State is far richer and far better bacause of that law than it would have been without it." Hon. John A. Martin, who retired as Governor of Kansas, in 1889, said: "Fully nine-tenths of the drinking and drunkenness prevalent in Kansas eight years ago has been abolished .... The population of the State is steadily increasing, the number of criminals steadily decreasmg." General Neal Dow says : — "The liquor traflSc in Maine is reduced to one-twentieth of its former proportions. In more than three-fourths of our territory, containing far more than three-fourtha of our people, the traffic is practically unknown. An entire generation has grown up there never having seen a rum shop or the results of one. Our State saves annually, directly and indirectly, more tlian $20,000,000, which, under any form of license would be spent and wasted in driok. In the old rum time, Maine was the poorest State in the Union, spending in strong drink the entire v lue of all its property in every period of 20 years, as the nation is now doing in every period of 35 years. As one of the results of the law, Maine is now one of the most prosperous 3tate8 in the Union. After more than 30 years* experience of the benefits of prohibition our people in 1884 put it into the constitution by a majority of 47,075, the affirmative vote being three times large than the negative. I feel myself warranted in declaring the Maine law to be a great success. In Maine the word failure is never seen or heard in connection with prohibition. It !« our irienda in distant parts of the country who are continually proclaiming that old, old error to the world." 22 4. BECAUSE THE FEARFUL EFFECTS OF THE LEGALIZED DRAM SHOP ARE ADMITTED EVEN BY THE MEN ENGAGED IN CARRYING IT ON OR IN DEFENDING IT IN THE PRESS AND ON THE PLATFORM. Bonfort's "Wine and Spirit Circular," the mo«t prominent organ of Wie liquor sellers in the United States, declares :— "It is all very nrell for the wine and spirit trade to quiet its apprehensions by reverting to the majorities against prohibition in the Michigan, Texas, Tennessee, Oregon and West Virginia elections, but the fact is still apparent that THE SENTIMENT AGAINST OUR BUSINESS IS CONSTANTLY GROWING IN THIS COUNTRY AND GAINING FRIENDS AMONG THE MOST SUBSTANTIAL ELEMENT IN OUR POPULATION. We are all familiar with society's complaints against the liquor traffic. We realize that there is good ground for many of these complaints. We deplore the facts, but stand helpless and without a word of advice to those who would correct them. Herein lies our weakness. We are without a policy. WE SEE YOUNG MEN BECOMING DRUNKARDS, BUT WE OFFEft NO REMEDY. WE SEE OLD MEN TURN TO COMMON SOTS, BUT WE OFFER NO REMEDY. WE SEE THE SLUM OF SOCIETY ALL FLOCKING INTO THE RETAIL LIQUOR BUSINESS, BUT WE OFFER NO REMEDY. WE SEE THESE MEN GAIN CONTROL OF CITY GOVERNMENTS, BUT WE OFFER NO REMEDY. WE SEE THE RETAIL LIQUOR BUSINESS DRAGGED DOWN TO THE LEVEL OF THE BAWDY HOUSE AND LITTLE HELLS ARE OPERATED IN PUBLIC PLACES UNDER LIQUOR LICENSES, BUT WE OFFER NO REMEDY. 5. BECAUSE THE TRAFFIC ITSELF IS THE WORST FINANCIAL SPECULATION A NATION EVER ENGAGED IN. From a paper published recently by Mr. T. W. Casey, we glean the following facts and figures : — BBVENUR FROM LICENSES AND FINES. According to the last official report there were, during tho last license year, issued as follows : Tavern licenses, including wine and beer, 3,040 ; shop licenses, 403 ; wholesale licenses, 21 ; total for The total public revenue received from these licenses, including fees, tran&fers, removals, fines, ^tc., was #665,609.10. 28 There was deducted from this sum the expenses of the license commissioners, the inspectors' salaries, and similar charges to the amount of $75,517. The balance was divided, according to the provisions of the license act, between the provincial treasury and the various municipalities in which the licenses were issued, and the fines collected, as follows :— To the provincial treasury, $300,604 ; to the municipalities, $289,487. These amounts represent the sum total of the public revenue from all sources, and to all parties, from the license system in Ontario. THE CONTRA ACCOUNT. Sir Oliver Mowat says that as a result of over twenty-five years' observation and ofScial experience, " it is no mere oratorial flourish " to state that fully three-fourths of the poverty, crime and wretched- ness arise from this one source, the licensed liquor traflBc. We take this statement then as the basis for the following calculations. The official statistics for commitments are : — Fifty-two county jails, 9,011; Central Prison, 935; Andrew Mercer female prison, 2.34 ; Penetanguishene Boys' Reformatory, 252 ; Kingston Peniten- tiary, 702; total, 11,144. These cost. Common jails, $135,706 ; Central Prison, $65,955 ; Mercer Female Prison, $26,725 ; Penetanguishene Reformatory, 136,977 ; Kingston Penitentiary, $139,358. Total cost, $404,721. These are only a few of a number of items of hard cash paid out. Add to this list a large number more in the various lock-ups, police cells and the like, and the thousands in our hospitals, poor-houses, and inebriate and insane asylums, and the enormous burden laid upon the shoulders of the tax -payers who never drink, by those who do drink and sell, is something that no free and intelligent people should tolerate. The following sums also have a direct bearing on the question of loss from the liquor traffic: — Administration of justice, $391,689; hospitals and charities, $151,574; insane asylums, $185,081; reformatory asylums, $9,216; Central prison, $46,915; lock-ups in out-lying districts, $14,967 ; Crown counsel prosecution fees, $8,882, Making a total cost of $808,324 ; add this to the above $404,721, and we get a total of $1,213,045 ; three-fourths of these sums, all paid out of the provincial treasury during the year, would represent $909,- 783 ; paid in for license fees, etc., $300,604 ; balance to the loss side, 1609,179. The it'6rn9 given above are taken from our official reDort-Si and it is clear enough that, if Sir Oliver Mowat's estimate is correct, our 24 r^:i provincial treasury loses over half a million dollars every year, because of the continuance of the license system, over and above e^ery dollar of revenue thus obtained. THE MUNICIPAL ACCOUNT. The municipalities do not fare any better. They receive, all told, from liquor licenses and fees, 1289,487, and against this comes all the expenses of the police, constables and the like, the payment of jurors and other court expenses of trials, the thousands and thousands required for the maintenance of the poor, the aiding and supporting of hospitals and kindred institutions, which, all added together, swallow up that revenue as completely as the lean kine of Pharaoh's dream swallowed up the fat kine, and yet remained lean. Dr. Willard Parker declares that <' in 1867 the State of Pennsyl- vania for every f 14 received from license fees spent |100 in support of the victims of alcohol." 6. BECAUSE OF THE FRIGHTFUL EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE, WHICH IS LARGELY THE RESULT OF THE LICENSE SYSTEM. (a) Rev. Sam. Small, M. A., declares that reliable statistics show that intemperance is the proximate cause of 100,000 untimely deaths each year in the United States ; that it yearly makes 60,000 widows and 250,000 orphans, and that 600,000 men every day are too drunk to earn their wages. (6) Dr. Willard Parker has affirmed that '* Ten per cent, of the annual number of deaths in the United States are due to alcohol ; that fully 35 per cent, of the insane are so either directly or indirectly through its use ; and that from seventy -five to ninety per cent, of the inmates of the penal and pauper institutions owe their condition to its influence ; in addition, forty per cent, of the inmates of the asylums for idiots are the offspring of parents addicted to drink." (c) Sir William Gull, a Fellow of the Royal Society and Physician to Her Majesty, stated in his evidence in 1877-78 before the Lords' Committee : — "I should say, from my experience, that alcohol is the most destructive agent that we are aware of in this country. • • • j would like to say that a very large number of people in society are dying day by day, poisoned by alcohol, but not supposed to be poisoned by it. I know it is a most deleterious poison." 7. BECAUSE THE LICENSED LIQUOR TRAFFIC AND ITS NATURAL RESULT, INTEMPERANCE, IS THE MOST FRUITFUL SOURCE OF CRIME IN CHRISTEN UOM. 26 (o) A Committee of this Parliament of 1875 reported that the commitments to the common gaola of Ontario and Quebec in the year 1870, 1871 and 1872 were 28,289, of which 21,236 we.e for drunken- ness and kindred crimes— 80 per cent, of the total. In nine years, from 1875 to 1883. inclusive, the total number of commitments to the gaols of Ontario were 98,069, of which 33,444 were for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, or 34 per cent, of the whole. In 1881, the nine cities of Ontario had a total number of arrests for all crimes of 13,196, of which 6,926 were for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, ^ being 45 per cent, of the total arrests in those nine cities. (6) The investigations of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics show, that during the twenty years, from 1860 to 1879, the totel number of sentences pronounced in "he Commonwealth was 578,458, of which 340,814, or 60 per cent., were for what the Bureau denom- inates distinctly rum crimes, that is, crimes which came directly from violations of the license laws, and cases of drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and from excessive indulgence in spirits. Subsequent investigation showed that very many of the remaining 40 per cent, of crimes were indirectly attributable to strong drink, swelling the 60 to 72 per cent, as the correct proportion of crimes originating in intemperance. (c) Mr. Frederick Hill, late inspector of Prisons in England, and a high authority on penal science, writes : — " I am within the truth when I state, as the result of extensive and minute inquiry, that of four cases out of five, when an offence has been committed, intoxicating drink has been one of the causes. " {d) Dr. Elisha Harris, of New York, after a thorough inspection of prisons, says : — "After two years of careful inquiry into the history and con- dition of the criminal population of the State, I find that the concluEiion is inevitable that, taken in all its relations, alcoholic drinks may be justly charged with far more than half the crimes that are brought to conviction in the State of New York, and that fully 85 per cent, of all convicts give evidence of having, in some larger degree, been prepared or enticrd to the criminal acts, because, of the physical and distracting effects produced upon the human organism by alcoholic drinks." (e). Governor Dix, of New York, said : — " Intemperance is the undoubted cause of four-fifths of all the crime, pauperism, and domestic misery of the State of New York." 26 8. BECAUSE THE OBJECT OF ALL LAW SHOULD BE TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO DO RIGHT AND AS DIFFICULT AS POSSIBLE TO DO WRONG. The licenae law, with its 3,400 shops, saloons and bar-rooms, reverses this object and makes it extremely easy to do wrong and extren.wly hard for many to do right. 9. BECAUSE ALL ATTEMPTS AT REGULATION OF THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC BY LAW HAVE PROVED CON- ESSED FAILURES. M Since 1550, when the first license Act was published in EngLuid,over * '*)act8 have been passed— each onea failure. Whatis the result of all /^^ h legislation? Here are a few : 1. Over 3,000,000 of "submerged 7 \^ '. sses " in England, according to General Booth, who declares that ••the tap-root of all the evil is the drink traffic." 2. In Ireland, over $10,000,000 more is spent in drink than in rent yearly. 3. The saloon has become the most potent factor in the political life of the United States. According to .Joseph Cook, it holds the two parties in most abject slavery. 4. In Canada we spend at least $28,000,000 per year in strong drink, say $40 per family every year. 10. BECAUSE THE SENTIMENT OF TEMPERANCE MEN REPRBSENTING ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS, TBE CHUfeCHES AND BENEVOLENT AND FRATERNAL SOCIETIES IS NEARLY UNANIMOUS IN FAVOR OF PROHIBITION. The recent convention in Toronto, with over 1,000 accredited delegates, representing all classes, creeds and parties, r'^solved ; — " That whereas, the leading politicians of both political parties have expressed themselves as in favor of the legal suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors when the country is ready for it ; and, whereas, an opportunity is afforded the electorate of this Province on January 1, 1894, to express their desire for the immediate suppres- sion by law of the liquor traffic ; therefore be it resolved, that in order that no Government or Legislature may have any further excuse for refusing to pass a prohibitory liquor law, this convention calls upon every qualified voter to lay aside every personal and party con- sideration, and rally to the polls and roll up a decisive and over- whelming majority in favor of the total prohibition of the legalized traffic." 27 Suggestions as to Methods of Work. 1. The main dependence must be placed npon HAND-TO- HAND work with the electors. THIS IS THE WORK THAT TELLS MIGHTILY in the final result. Arrangements should be made for reaching and doing individual work with every elector. To accomplish this, thorough organization will be absolutely necessary. Let there be a recognition of the principle of division of labor. In some constituencies the W. C. T. U. have undertaken to visit every woman entitled to vote. This is a suitable work for this splendid organization in every place. 2. The best men must, if possible, everywhere be chosen as leaders, and all temperance organizations SLnd temperance men should loyally accept their due share of the work and a fair proportion of the expense. Both TIME AND MONEY must be ^cheerfully laid upon the altar of our country in this fight. 3. Public meetings are useful in rallying the temperance forces, arousing enthusiasm and diffusing information. If, however, the chief dependence be placed on public meetings to the neglect of indi- vidual work, they will hinder rather than keep us in the conflict. 4. Attention must be given to the judicious use of suitable literature. Neal Dow declares they carried prohibition by sowing Maine knee-deep with temperance literature. The generous offers of The Templar of Hamilton, and The Citizen, of Toronto, should be accepted by thousands. Send $5 for 1,000 copies of these papers and let every home in Ontario receive one. 5. Care should be taken to avoid alienating any who might be induced to vote with us. Let us sink partyism, sectarianism and everything that would separate any class of voters from us. Avoid abuse and intemperate or offensive language respecting any class. LET US WIN ALL AND OFFEND NONE. We cannot afford tolose one vote. 28 Shot and Shell for the Conflict. INC -POLL'S TERRIBLE ARRAIGNMENT OF THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. " I am aware that there is a prejudice against any man engaged in the manufacture of alcohol. I beUeve, from the time it issues from the poisonous worm in the distillery until it empties into the hell of death, dishonor and crime, that it is demoralizing to everybody that touches it, from the source to where it ends. I do not believe that anybody can contemplate the subject without being prejudiced against the crime. All we have to do is to think of the wrecks on either side of the stream of death, of suicides, of insanity, of poverty, of the destruction of the little children tugging at the breasts of despairing wives asking for bread, of the men of genius it has -wrecked, of the struggling with imaginary serpents produced l»y this devilish thing ; and when you think of the jails, of the alms- houses, of the asylums, of the prisons and of the scaffolds on either side, I do not wonder that every thoughtful man is prejudiced against this vile stuff called alcohol. Intemperance cuts down youth in its vigor, manhood in its strength, and age in its weakness. '* It breaks the father's heart, bereaves the doting mother, extinguishes natural affection, erases conjugal love, blots out filial attachments, blights parental hope, and brings premature age in sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength ; sickness, not health ; death, not life. It makes wives widows, children orphans, fathers fiends, and all paupers. It feeds rheumatism, nurses gout, welcomes epidemics, invites cholera, imports pestilencei embraces consumption, and covers the land with misery and crime. It genders controversies, fosters quarrels, breeds riots It crowds your penitentiaries, and furnishes victims to the scaffold. It is the blood of the gambler, the element of the burglar, the prop of the highwayman, and the support of the midnight incendiary. I., countenances the liar, respects the thief, esteems the blasphemer. It violates obligations, reverences fraud, hates love, scorns innocence and virtue. *' It incites the father to butcher the iielpless uUbpiiug, and the child to grind the parricidal axe. It bums up the men, consumes the 29 women, s:xxu^2i- SL-:^^^^L «x>* ccrix viiw xxxiix viiau scul- •*^ii^ zx^jix:. wU^rtj, Query : How is the Almighty going to separate that crowd on the Judgment day ? m " LI0EN8BD "-TO DO WHAT ? " Licensed to make fche strong man weak. Licensed to lav the strong man low ; Licensed the wi/e's fond heart to break, And make the children's tears to flow. Licensed to do thy neighbor harm, Licensed to kindle hate and strife ; Licensed to nerve the robber's arm, Licensed to whet the murderer's knife. Licensed thy neighbor's purse to drain. And rob him of bis very last ; Licensed to heat his feverish brain, Till madness crowns tby work at last. Licensed, like spider for a fly, To spread thy nets for man, their prey ; To mock his struggles, suck him dry, Then cast the shattered hulk away . Licensed, wheie peace and quiet dwell. To bring disease and want and woe ; Licensed to make this world a hell, And fit a man for a hell below." Lucas House . . ^TEMPERANCE HOTEL 56 Louisa and 60, 6a and 64 Teraulay Streets TORONTO, ONT. TERMS-SI.OO PER DAY. Special. — Day guests may take any cab from the Union Station. We refund 25 cents to each for cab fare. Let Temperance people and the public note this offer. Lucas & CO., Props. • • 31 • • • Hlways Slows . . . That total abstainers are very much better lives than those who are not total abstainers. 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Mention this publication. Hon. G. W. Ross, President; Hon. S. H. Blake and Robert flcLean, Vice-Presidents. Dr. W. Nattress, Medicak Referee. H. Sutherland, Manager .