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 THE TEXT BOOK FOR THE CAMPAIGN. 
 
 AN APPEAL TO THE CHRISTIAN PITBLIC 
 
 AGAINST THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC, 
 
 AND IK BEHALP OP 
 
 THE DUNKIN ACT. 
 
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 Rev. W. A. MoKAY, B. A., Baltimore, Oat. 
 
 Feixow-Christiahs, 
 
 ■ In the providence of God yon are placed in very solemn 
 
 crcumstances. Yon will soon be called npon to take de d d 
 acfon for or against the Liquor Tramc in onr „idst. I ve " 
 -ay that never have you exercised the franchise when more" 
 tant njterests were at stake. It „U1 therefore be your desire on 
 h,s solemn occasion to act according to the heavy respniMlit; 
 
 the fet mqu.ry of the great Apostle on submitting himself to the 
 Loni Jesus; and throughout his whole life of toi and triat h 
 w 11 of Christ never ceased to be his law. It is our dutv and 
 pnvUege to look to the same great source for direction a^Td 
 ance I purpose, therefore, to set before you in this paper some 
 considerations that n,ay help you to ascertain the mind! Ch fat 
 and, therefore, yonr duty on the subject before us. As to conle 
 
 SI °r"'', ^""r!'^' "' "^ ^''^"^ ^""°"- »" f™-"he 
 mtom of ,:° r T/f '"""^ '" ^^^^ ^8"™'' t'" -inking 
 the CO of so doing, and deter.-nined to fear God r,ather than man. 
 
 !rem^ r , ™ '"•'™'' ''""^y- ""''■ '' ^od so wills it, I am 
 
 prepared to endure more, but I cannot and dare not be silen ■■ I 
 
 he watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet and 
 
 lie people be not warned ; if the sword come and take any p ,^"„ 
 
 from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity, JSZ 
 
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 ■mil 1 require at the watchman's hand." In view of this solemn 
 warning, as a mini.stpr of the Gospel, " here I .stand; I cannot do 
 otherwise ; so God help nie." 
 
 ^ I shall first lay before you some of the results of the Liquor 
 TraOic, and then I shall consider the objections urged by the 
 liquor dealers and their friends against the kind of legislation we 
 are now seeking. Our antagonism to this traffic is not a mero 
 sentiment or theory : it is based on unquestionable facts, many 
 of them dark and dreadful enough. To a few of these I will now 
 refer. Look first at • , . . . 
 
 The Financial Effect of the Liql'ou Tkaffic. 
 
 While a Christian's conduct in a matter of moral right or wrong 
 is never to be determined by the mere consideration of" dollars and 
 cents, yet, doubtless, in conjing to a decision this is one element 
 which, as a citizen and a Christian, he has a right not to overlook. 
 Besides, our opponents are .Unually pre.ssing this matter of. 
 finances upon us. llow is the Government going to be sujiported, 
 it is asked, if the Liquor Traffic is prohibited '( To this we might 
 reply, in tlie words of the great \V. K. (Jladstone, when he was 
 Prime Minister of England. To a deputation of brewers who urged 
 upon him the loss to the revenue by any step towards prohibitfon, 
 he said : " Gentlemen, you need not give yourselves any trouble 
 about the revenue. The question of revenue must never stand in 
 the way of needed reform. J3esides, with a sol)er population 
 not wasting their earnings, I will know where to obtain the 
 revenue." lesser intellects than (Hadstone's can understand 
 that temperance will enrich a nation, whereas intemperance 
 will as certainly impoverish ami demoralize it. But, not to 
 rest in a general statement, let us descend into particulars, 
 and see the gain or loss to the country, financially, from thi& 
 traffic. We will look at both sides of the account. On the credit 
 side we put the amount annually received by the country for 
 licenses, and for excise and import duties, amounting to the very 
 large sum of $5,000,000. This is all on that side. Now let us 
 make up the debit side of the account. And first we put the 
 salaries paid for collecting those licenses and duties— a very con- 
 siderable sum. Then we have the amount paid for the prevention. 
 
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 le Liquor 
 d by the 
 latiou we 
 t a mere 
 "ts, many 
 will now 
 
 or wroii<; 
 liars and 
 
 element 
 overlook, 
 latter of ■ 
 ipported,. 
 ■ve might 
 
 lie was 
 ho urged 
 >liibition, 
 y trouble 
 stand in 
 )pnlation 
 tain tluv 
 (lerstand 
 nperance 
 b, not to 
 rticulars,, 
 rom this- 
 lie credit 
 ntry for 
 the very 
 V let us 
 put the 
 ery con- 
 ivention,. 
 
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 beeu occupied with thecCr ,'V,'"'"'',^"'°S ""> '■"'" "'ey have 
 
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 the country are owinrr to th^ jw n^ J criminal cases in 
 
 "Wort „, paupers ^ade by l„e t.affic. We n.ust 1™ at 
 tl.e value ol the property annually destroyed bv «res 7 
 dotseaused by drink. Fro.a returns n.^ t ' , . rie, enri 
 . anufaoturer., merchant., and contraet„« in Onta io W a sl t 
 
 t".cc hitlib of tlie accidents, and the destruction of property whi.l, 
 ""..".ally occur, are traced by then, to the use o i, to^irat 't 
 |I.".1«. wlule most of tl,o en.pbyers assert that they 4ll t ho" 
 ...Sly employ any hut temperance men " 
 
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 om this rattle. Icr. be it remembered, tlie man who wastes his 
 toe n Idleness inflicts a lo.,s „ot only upon himself and fl^ij^ 
 but also upon the community at lai^e. The country is so much 
 poorer than it would be were that man industrious. Now conTder 
 how grea is the number bf those idlers through drink. wZn J 
 le where I wnte. in a respectable rural district. I will not under! 
 tale to say how many-enough to sadden the heart-who th,L 
 waste, some of them the whole of their time, and most f them 
 a considerable part of it, in tippling and drunkenness. Nor dH 
 suppose hat this district is worse than other, or even so bad a^ 
 ^ome. There as not a bar-room in Canada around which does n" 
 c aster a number of loafing do-nothings. It is computed tha 
 there are at least thirty thousand persons in this I W o„ wh^ 
 
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 lose not less than thirty day3 in the year tlirnuirh diinkinj; habits. 
 If they couUl earn $1.50 a day— and many of them could earn 
 much more— then by their drinking the country loses $l,:i50,00() 
 a year in productive industry. Mark the amount, anc million threr 
 hundred and fifty thousand dollars ! An enormous sum, truly, but 
 still far within the reality, for we shall, by-and-bye, see that the 
 time of every man engaged in thvi traffic is just so much lost to 
 the industry of the country. 
 
 Again, it has been frequently stated in our Legislative A.s- 
 sembly that every industrious able-bodied man that can be in- 
 duced to come and settle amongst us is \/orth to the country at 
 least $1,500 ; but statistics prove that through strong drink up- 
 wards of 4,000 lives are sacrificed every year. The loss to the country 
 in this respect is therefore $6,000,000 a year {six million dollars). 
 But this is not all. The largest item in the financial waste of the 
 Liquor Traffic is yet to come. There are consumed in the distilleries 
 and breweries of the Dominion annually about 2,750,000 bushels of 
 grain. This would make 41,250.000 of four-pound loaves of bread. 
 To form some idea of this enormous waste, observe that if these 
 four-pound loaves were laid as paving stones they would pave a 
 road 30 feet wide for 700 miles long. And yet we are crying out 
 " Hard times ! " and "Scarcity of food !" From a careful computation 
 submitted to the House of Commons by G. W. Eoss, M.P. for 
 Middlesex West, it appears that every year the sum of $25,000,000 
 is absorbed in the Liquor Traffic, or about an average of $6 per head 
 for eveiy man, woman and child in the Dominion. Mr. Ross 
 reckons that the financial loss to the country from this traflic is 
 $41,000,000, while the revenue derived is, as we have seen, only 
 $5,000,000. Here then we have both sides of the account, leaving 
 a net loss to the country from the Liquor Traffic of $36,000,000 
 (thirty-six million dollars). Now, I ask, is it wdse financially to 
 sanction a traffic that is every year costing the country such an 
 enormous sum ? This is surely penny wise and pound foolish. As 
 a member of Parliament expressed it : " Is it not absurd that we 
 must spend such an enormous amount as forty-one million dollars 
 in order to raise the comparatively small amount of five million 
 dollars of revenue ?" There was a nobleman in Groat Britain who 
 died a few years ago, who was very particular in looking after little 
 
mmmmmmum^mmm 
 
 iiig hal)its. 
 'otild earn 
 M,:^50,000 
 illion three 
 truly, but 
 ! that the 
 ;li lovst to 
 
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 an be in- 
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 Irink up- 
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 5te of the 
 istilleries 
 ushels of 
 
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 t if these 
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 rying out 
 iputation 
 M.P. for 
 5,000,000 
 
 per head 
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 traffic is 
 een, only 
 ;, leaving 
 5,000,000 
 cially to 
 
 such an 
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 3 million 
 tain who 
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 tliing., and wa« penurious in regard to sumll sums of money. One 
 < ay n. dnv.ng he accidentally dropped a shilling down the slit of 
 the carnage window; he at once drove round to his coach-maker 
 and asked hat the .shilling be taken out for hin. A few days after 
 he received from the coach-maker a bill to this effect : -'To ex 
 rae n,. com from the slit of the carriage window, five shillings" 
 Iha was, you say, a poor financial transaction. But that is Tust 
 what, as a people, we are doing in sanctioning the Liquor Traffic We 
 -e paymg five shilling.s in order to get one shilling Nay, worse 
 than that we are paying forty-one milliom in order to raise a 
 revenue of >.. ^nilllons. And what return does the traffic yield uS 
 lor tins vast outlay? Von see the return in the indolence 
 
 our .^n"' ^ '^' T'"'^'' "^■''^' "'"^'^«^«' «^"«"1««' ^itb which 
 
 h okpn f T" "' '^'""^' ^"^^'^'^"^^ fi"^^^- You have it in the 
 l»ok n hearts m.poverished homes, diseased bodies and lost souls 
 of which perhaps the world never hears. I put it to you, my 
 Chistian re.uler,.s this rights At a time when thousand are 
 er s^, n, for ,ead, and tens of thousands for lack of knowledge, is 
 't light directly or indirectly to countenance a traffic that is he 
 occasion of such a frightful waste of food and money? 
 nissionary schemes are languishing for lack of funds. The cry of 
 the heathen is sounded in our ears, "Come over and help L" 
 abourers are sayin,, "Here am I, send me;" but we must turn'a 
 
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 annually in that which is ruining the bodies and souls of our fellow 
 
 en, two huM tmes as much as is raised for sending the gospel 
 throughout the world. Is this right ? How long shall thif con- 
 But the great question before ns rises infinitely above the 
 neasurement of dollars and cents. Even if there were no fina ! 
 ul loss connected with the Liquor Traffic, though it were a source 
 of pi incely revenue, the State could ill afford to encourage it 
 Health happiness and good morals are of more importance to the 
 
 ndChri i" -"«t';"tly overflow with money, the true patriot 
 7^;^T^j:^'^Tr!^ -^^-- ^'-t the dying words 
 
 Look at 
 
 nice of Orange: "God h 
 
 ave 
 
 mercy on my poor country 
 
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 Here indeed the "sin rei-ns mild dciitli," TlieCominittee to wliid, 
 I hfivc already rofem'd, in its report to tlie House of (^unmons, 
 says : " Intoxicating drinks ])rodiiee disease in every Ibnn, stunted' 
 growth in tlic young, premature decay and deatli, apoplexy, par- 
 alysis, idiocy, madness, suicide and violent death, l.v which 'more 
 lives arc wasted in a single year than by all the jreat battl..«s of 
 the last century." 
 
 Liquor dealers t^ll us th.'it strong drink imj.arts strength and 
 power of endurance, but their testimony, I beg to say, is n.,t that 
 of skilful, nor yet of disinteiested witnesses. As opposed to them, 
 r wdl call before you a cloud of witnesses whose testimony cannot 
 be gainsayed. We will liear what the most noted physicians and 
 chemists in the world have to say on this matter. Their education 
 and ex]»erience pre-eminently (pialify them to give a sound Judg- 
 ment ; and their testimony is not merely disivtcrcsteiJ, but mntrarn 
 to their otvn pecuniary interests : for, with perhai)s the exception of 
 lawyers, no class would lose so much pecuniarily by the suppres- 
 sion of the Liquor Traflic as physicians. All lionour then to those 
 men who, rising above low and selfish considerations, have united 
 almost as with one voice in testifying against strong diink and in 
 favour of total abstinence. Let us look at nmtirat testimony against 
 alcoholic drinls. 
 
 A large body of physicians, composed of several hundreds of the 
 most eminent of the profession from England, Scotland and Ireland, 
 gave testimony before a Committee of the P.ritish Parliament, and' 
 unitedly declared that — 
 
 Intoxicating diinks are never necessary to men iu liealth, but, on 
 the contrary, are always hurtful ; that they are in fact i)oisonou8, like 
 opium, arsenic, nux vomica, prussic acid, and other substances whicl) 
 trocl has given to be used in small quantities for medical purposes, and 
 which, if so used, may be productive of wholesome results, but which it 
 would be preposterous to think of using as a bevera-^e " 
 
 Nearly two thousand physicians and surgeons of Great Britain, 
 including the physicians to the Queen, the heads of the Army and 
 Navy Medical Departments, and many of the most distinguished 
 medical authorities and writers of the day, have united in the 
 following declaration : — 
 
CO to wliidli 
 
 Coinmons, 
 
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 cont nuo tliem ontirolv ^..., .""""''■*""''■}. with perieot safctty. (lis- 
 
 man that of S,r Astley Cooper, and this is what lie says :- 
 
 " No man can liave a irreitor )in«t;i;M. f„ i i - i ■ 
 
 insomuch that I never suH ,r u v ard .^ ^ ° l;;''^"!-^'-'"!^'".? tl'^n myself, 
 them evil spirits \n,l ifTl. 7 , , ' '"^'' '" '"•>" ''""''''' t^'inking 
 
 dropsies, tli ttte^ed'L^ L'::j^e:rs tSTl. ''^ ^'"^ 'T'' ''' 
 
 »Hn,e„t ,. food). i„,„ „„ j^^o!: ir,;';'. "f i^'a:;': ujo^ir."- 
 
 r)r. Lees says : — 
 
 »i..rfive,.,lL, ;„'d ltt„gT,'76r°' """""""■S ""- '-dred and 
 
 Liebig soys : — 
 
 two Iir,"l7;,:;ri* s' iri?'j"r*-' <:•» "'"" "» '- "°" 
 
 table-knife i» looi-e nntri on, Z! • " '"'" ''" "" "'« P™"« <>f « 
 
 boer." nnt.il,ons th»„ ,„„e .juart, of the l,e»t Bavarian 
 
 yowers of endurance wore put to aa severe » test as man's ever were 
 l.nt^tor . few m,„„tes, and greatly lessens a n,ans power to endnro 
 
 Lo^dor'Fnf'r;P°f """' of emi„e„tn,e,lical men ,„et in 
 linden, E ,«. Dr. Acland presided. A paper was read by I)r II 
 W E^hardson. and the meetinj was addressed by Professor Roles 
 
 oftheOx^TL ;• ^■'; '['■ '^"'^•^'^ Onedieal .superintend:; 
 ot the Oxfoid Lunatic Asylum , and others. The Icneet the "reit 
 
 scnbesDr. luchardson "one who has studied aleohols in all its forms, 
 
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 inore j.eihajKs tlinn any physiclci^Mst or physician livin-'." Here in 
 the testimony ])r. Jiiclinnlhon gives :— 
 
 the' Woofi "S.r" *''^^•"*^, ^"'J>' '^'««''«J J'"«"«eH the constitution of 
 tlie blool, unduly excites the heart and respiration, imralvxes the 
 junute Liood-veHselH increases and decreases, according to7ho degree o' 
 ts apphcation. the functions of its digestive organs, of tl^o ivor and of 
 he kidneys, disturbs the regularity of nervous action, lowers t'heani 
 mal temperature, and lessens the muscular jjower." 
 
 This is tlie matured judgment of "one who lias studied the 
 subject more perhaps than any physiologist or i.hysician living. ' 
 Uw Lancet, commenting on this testimony, says :-" I^t there be no 
 mistake about the voice of medical practitioners or authorities on 
 tlus matter. Jt is on the side of tempera»cc~o/ extreme tempera7icc" 
 
 Our own Canadian physicians are equally emphatic in testifying 
 to the physical evils of intemperance. An examination of 88 
 papers returned from coroners to the rurliamentary Committee, 
 show, that six-tenths of all the cases of deaths needing inquests 
 have been from intemperance. 
 
 Dr. Daniel Clark, medical superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum 
 i oronto, says : — j > 
 
 "On an average, at least one-half of deaths needing inquests have 
 been from intemperance." And he adds, " There" is T raS 
 remedy for the evil but total prohibition." 
 
 Dr. Dickson, the well-known superintendent of Kockwood Asy- 
 lum at Kingston, gave the following clear testimony to the Com- 
 mittee : — 
 
 "Intoxicating liquors used as a beverage not onlv nredisnose to 
 inental and physical disease, but actually Reduce mL' n3 and 
 feed/' "^ '"^ "^'''''^ ''"'^ '" other known noxious substances 
 
 An able writer in a late number of one of our leading peri- 
 odicals says:— "Looking at facts as they stand— facts which can- 
 not be ignored— the term 'Licensed 1'oisonek' might be ap- 
 plied far more appropriately than the strange misnomei° 'Licensed 
 VICTUALLER,' to those whose business it is to sell, not the food which 
 nourishes and invigorates, but the alcoholic poison which, used at 
 It IS used, debilitates and destroys, not the physical frame alone, but 
 the mental and moml being of its thousands of victims." Every 
 bar-room in our land, and thousands of wretched homes, furnish 
 
I fere ig 
 
 Htitution of 
 ulyzes the 
 e degree of 
 VBV, and of 
 •8 the ani- 
 
 idied the 
 .11 living. ' 
 lore be no 
 lorities on 
 npcrancc." 
 
 testifying 
 
 un of 88 
 
 )ininittee, 
 
 inquests 
 
 Asylum, 
 
 lests have 
 radical 
 
 ood Asy- 
 he Com- 
 
 ispose to 
 ntal and 
 ibstances 
 
 ug peri- 
 
 ich can- 
 
 be ap- 
 
 iICKNSEB 
 
 d which 
 
 used at 
 
 one, but 
 
 Every 
 
 furnish 
 
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 9 
 
 . buMdunt illus ratu,n and coutir.nutiou of the foregoing testin.ouie.s 
 to the physical eHects of intoxicating drinks. Iluumn bodies ,so 
 wunderlully made, created to be te.nples of the Holy Ghost are 
 transformed through drink into dens of uncIeanness-bLaTed L . 
 some forms, seething masses of corruption. This is the natural and 
 egitimate resu t of the Liquor TralHc. And does not this clearly in 
 d cate Divine disaj.proval of the traffic, and consequently the duty 
 o every Christian to oppose it by all honourable means in hi.s power ^ 
 Christian reader, call up before your minds eye the four thousand 
 drunkards (to say nothing of others who drink to excess) Zde 
 every year in our Dominion; see them .scarred, defaced, disfigured 
 and diseased by strong drink ; look at the bloodshot eye the burn- 
 jng Hkin the horrid breath, the bloat.d form, the unquenchall 
 t ur , tl e staggenng pace, the delirium, the death, and I ask is there 
 not 11 all his a voice loud and distinct as the thunder of Niagara 
 branding the traffic with the curse of Uod, and calling upo i t h'' 
 
 dislodge this monster scourge Irom his dwelling among us i 
 
 But the financial and physical effects of this traffic, fearful as thev 
 are, are not the worst. ^ 
 
 It JiLIGJITS THE IXTELLECT. 
 
 01 the li.stdler.s and tavern-keepers of Ontario, I am told, never 
 ails o tell his hearers that the "greatest nations in the worl.i are 
 beer-drinkers; If that is true, I observe that their greatness is no 
 because of their drinking, but in spite of it. It i: not true that 
 drinking men are all men of talent, or that their intellects acquire 
 power as their drinking increases. On the contrary, one has only 
 to ook around hun to see abundant proof of the flict that constant 
 mdulgence in intoxicating liquors debauches the intellect and pro- 
 duces a sort of mental imbecility or derangement. Whatever 
 
 shxng the vital force, necessarily weakens the intellectual powers 
 
 .-_ i„r.t!,o.e who liavc possessed tlie clearest and mo.st profound 
 nunds were total abstainers. Sir Isaac Newton, John Jcke Dr 
 Jrankhn, John Wesley, fciir William Jones, John Fletcher/ and 
 
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 1 r , lent K.h.^Js fu™,,,h .WW,,,, i|,,„„,ti„„, „nUs tn.tl,. O,,,. 
 « ,e e rets by „l„ch these men projucod s„oh ast„„isl,i„, re- 
 sults, md were aUe to perform so much iutelleetnal labour and of 
 ™lnsl, a grade, and to arrive atold a^e in the enjoyment f h aU, 
 n?: ,3! f, *"— • The tact that Ln. dru'S 
 aremenof rntellectdoesnot prove that they owe their talent, to 
 
 he,r dnnk,„g habits, bnt only that ,„e„ of superior inteH e" an 
 large hearts, genial natures and wide sympathies are in great dn'r 
 
 but It „ ,11 bl,ght and degrade. Were it not for blush of shame I 
 «o„W mstanee sad cases in illustration among some of tl.s h ™L 
 lights of our land. I could tell of eminent physicians lawyers 
 
 judges and even ruinisters of religion, who l.L" becon Zy i 
 and w,o, from the highest positions in their respeetive profct 
 
 .«ons, have .sunk to the level of ordinary bar-room loafer, And 
 
 ^";..o image Of o:d-;"::rt„ ::::: t:,^---::^ 
 
 wrth God rs offered, degrading hi,nself so that he a'cts ike a Z 
 . ^il^td •:;"■",■ ""Tf."'^ ^'^^=' l..-andishi„ghis flst,bl s- 
 
 ih ™ i! a iT; * '''^'"- ^'■"■■""» '•^^'"'- ™"'>o" n-aniae;- 
 «li.th,s IS a sight, were it not so common, that mi-ht move to 
 tears every heart not made of Hint. An enemy doe, this Th 
 «nemy is the Liquor TraHic. ^ ' ^'"" 
 
 INTKMPERAKCE WoRKS DKAr., OX A Ma»'s MobaL PoWEBS. 
 
 Here the havoc is awfnl. Ut the habit ofindulgin.. in stron. rtrint 
 
 toonths , All he finer feehngs of the soul are soon destroyed the 
 te,nde,,3t emotmns and kindliest sentiments are obliterated or'pet 
 nfied. The nature becomes hard, the heart becomes callous the 
 . conscience scared, and every g„„d motive loses its power Ori^n 
 
 And thus tlie de norahz.ng change goes on until not unfrenuently 
 the once tender husband and kind father becomes a very fi rd o^' 
 
 Sthe r", T, '"*' "'"' '""' """' ^""- »"'J' °f '"e now belcl 
 th Lt J '"' ''?"""?'■ '"'"■ »"^ "« P"- 1""^ "Wldren fly at 
 the father s approach as they would from a devouring monster Oh . 
 
 I 
 
s truth. Ori(> 
 oiiisliiivT re- 
 ibour, and of 
 snt of liealtli, 
 e drunkards 
 ir talents to 
 utellecta and 
 great danger 
 3ct so great 
 of sliame, I 
 he briglitest 
 ns, lawyers, 
 me enslaved 
 'ive profo?- 
 ^fers. And 
 brutal dc"- 
 >vas created 
 liappiness 
 ike a wild 
 '< fist, bias- 
 maniac; — 
 it move to 
 his. That 
 
 ^^OWERS. 
 
 rong drink 
 !s in a few 
 "oyed, the 
 ed or pet- 
 illous, the 
 Gradu- 
 1-natured. 
 requently 
 r fiend of 
 low belch 
 ren fly at 
 3ter. Oh! 
 
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 tl.o dnnioolic sorrows and desolations caused by drink ! No hlvr^uvr, 
 can describe ihe nnserics of a drunkard's wife or the wretchod- 
 ne.ssof a drunkards home. Kecnll to nuud such recent illustra- 
 Mon.s as the murder of Mrs. Sn.ith by her husband in Sarnia • th.. 
 murder ot Creig by his own son nnder circumstances of peculiar 
 horror the son kicking the corpse of his father; or the n/urdcr of 
 
 Pv^n's rul ^ '"■ 1^'"'^^'"^ ^" I'eterboro'. I cannot forget how 
 
 K>an s htt e g.rl only ten years of age, said at her fathei^ trial. 
 
 la ^^as always kind to raa and me when he didn't drink." These 
 
 mgM be applied to Imndreds and thousands of cases in our land. 
 
 the .n^^in ' ,' ^'"T r"'"''- "^''''' ^ ^'^' ^^'" ^«»"««ted with 
 t'f" 'ir r '"'' '"'"'^^'-""^ ''''-' ''''' '-Hi",^tlieir wives, 
 
 but actually drunk when they committed the crime 
 
 rh^se were not l>ad men e.vcept when they were nnd^r the'lnflu-' 
 
 ir to thl ^^T' /?' '"""'"' '"" '^'^'''' ^''« '"'''' tl^'-^t is poured 
 to the hearts and homes of our people by this traffic. It is enou-d. 
 
 rhurh'rr'n''^ '"'" "' ''"^' '' ^■•'^"^ '' ''■ ^-^ -ill the 
 Umrch of God look on with iudifference, or refuse to engage heartily 
 
 m a movement that contemplates the removal of the ^alse of this 
 demoralization and woe ? 
 
 Looking beyond the family, we .see 
 
 Tjje EfFKCTS of TIIF. LiquOU TR.^FFir OS SOCIKTV. 
 
 chlHrJf ^'T" ^'''" ^'' ''""^^ y'""'' i'^'' «^""«^ o( a serious 
 character have been alarmingly on the increase. We have been 
 
 expenencing what is truly called " an epidemic of crime." Look 
 
 l1 nti " '7'"^'^'' ''''"'' ''''''''''' ^^-'"^t incendiaries, what 
 
 V Zr' ''' "f ^''^"' '-''' ^^^^'^^h ^^— tion. what 
 
 mle mnt : TTr ^^'^^^^^^"«lt-^.-l^'^t--ides, what murders ! 
 
 Thre foui ths of all this we charge directly on the Li^iuor Traffic ; and 
 
 thev knl" ''^r ""^'"""^ "'" ""^ "" ^'^'^ 1--^ testify to what 
 «.ey know, and bear witness to what they have .seen, ind f^r 
 
KnuLKS,, J,,h;ks ON LiguOK aN,> CHiMK. 
 
 The Ibllowin- is. the te.stinionv of some nf th. 1 1 
 the English Courts- " "' ^''' ^^'^"^'^ J^"'fe'es of 
 
 j4raraTrrwr.::;r..'- -"'^ "-^-i... you,,. 
 
 way or anotlier tu drunkenness." ' '' '" ""^ 
 
 Lord ah.». r " J'"''"^ """''' ■'"= » •^""=»«>'e." 
 
 -ha.ts„Mri„,,„,a:::;;:':;ir:fir^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 The Inspector of Prisons in Belgium snvs «< at 
 
 Extends over a quarter of a centtnv oH T ~ % experience 
 Clare tliat four-fif hs of the crin e 7', '"" ^^'"P^atically de- 
 
 public and private cam tvT ""-''^ "^''^ "''^^''' "^ «- 
 
 result of drL- ' ^ " ^ ''"'' "^'"^ ^" ^""^-^^ has been tl/e 
 
 The late Dr. Guthrie says •— " Eprnr^ P.. i i 
 Church and the world I iLe.oh\ ^^'^^ ^nd num, before the 
 
 then.urderofinnun.^alanr2'r"wr:rrti ' ^'^^^^^^^^^^^'> 
 a 1 the povertv in,I ..l,., , . n., " "" "'" '"""<= "' almost 
 
 uudalnfri;,ett^::' %"'™'''r'"l"^ 
 
 .-race and afflict tlS""" ""' '''"'"' "" "'^ '-^"o'"'" "-t dis- 
 
 of thp M-lo,./p 1 ""I «'"PiiaLic. The returns to the oueries 
 
 ^^l:^':^:z:i:^r t> '""'■^°^' '•-"- ^^"«'^- 
 
 " more t!i-., II , e , ^'loiiBs in Ontario, a-ree in asoribin" 
 
«t judges of 
 
 comes before 
 drink." 
 
 ng, you (tlie 
 
 almost all 
 'aced in one 
 
 t comes be- 
 luost of the 
 
 ^om the use 
 iinecure." 
 
 evilofLon- 
 ;he country 
 
 experience 
 tically de- 
 cli, in my 
 ; been the 
 
 Jefore the 
 ?e it with 
 of almost 
 le misery, 
 that dis- 
 
 le Liquor 
 i queries 
 e Magis- 
 iSGribin'7 
 •xicatinjx 
 
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 Boland Burr, Es,.. J„stice of the Peace i„ Toronto „„.l 
 C.ao u „ f„, „„,y twenty year., i„ a staten.ent ,ofo 
 
 our I^g,,,l„t„re says that nine out of ten of the male prisoner, an. 
 
 neteen out of twenty of the female, have been brought th r^ by 
 .ntox,cat,„g h,,„ors. He examined nearly 2,000 prisoner,™ the 
 gaols throughout Ontario, two-third, of whom were male, and La 
 y all signed a petition for Prohibition, many of them stating that 
 their only hope of being saved from ruin w^s to go wher^ ifitTx 
 eating liquor, could not be sold. In four years there we7e 25 000 
 priso^ners i„ our gaols. 22,000 of whom werelougbt there ty Song 
 
 oas!s b^rfh' t ''""f *»> ''- -' down the proportion of criminal 
 oases before that court, duetointemperance, as nine-tenth, 
 
 1 s!..'"^".'" °'"''"' '"' '""^^ J"'™ ^^'^ 2.282, and of these 
 1,843 wereowmg to strong drink. ' "■ "lese 
 
 theft's oTowi^^"™""". '^"""'° "" ''"" """^ "^" l^'O"". -J »f 
 tnese »,UU0 were owing to strong drink. 
 
 and nnf-'^'' "T '''''' ^^''' ^^^^ ^^'^^"^d in Cobourg gaol 440 
 and of this number no less than 371 were intemperate. 
 
 The Chief of Police in St. John, N. B., declares :_ 
 
 Harorff r '' ^"''"^ "' '""^'"'''^y '' ^he use of intoxicating 
 Muors as a beverage. From the experience of a life-time of which 
 
 tith wIh"''^ ^^'^"'^ ^^'" "^^^ '^'''^ '^^'^ ^-^-^''^om evil 
 with which we are surrounded." 
 
 in.^nr^"^'''''*^ ^r**' "^ ^''' P^^^« ^" '-' Legislature, speak- 
 ■ng ot intemperance, said :— o . i n 
 
 whit' '""??' r™P"«on, probably three-fourths, of the vice 
 
 «)nten(l with, of the lunacy, the idiocy, the poverty and the 
 misery of every kind, was owing to the foul evil of intLpei 
 When from one frightful cause such enormous evils resulted Tas 
 
 e" Zlr/ """ "'° ""'""''^' "■» '^--'"-■'. -"1 "- Christian we : 
 excited m thcr endeavour to provide some remedy " 
 
 tho'imidfthr'/' °'u f7 """'"""''■ '"■•' ^ «"' " =» » '^Pl" of 
 thousands that nught be furnished. It ousht to have weight; it is 
 
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 u cry from ti.e portals ot eternity. And if it is a solemn uurnin.. 
 
 rorn danger, n is „o less a solemn call to (Joels people to co 1 to 
 
 the rescue of the perishing. ^ ^ °'"® *"* 
 
 m dying speech of the munhrer Hunrplnr^, execute,! in Windsor 
 last month, was as follows :— 
 
 ," Wy dear friends-I am now on the scaffold to pay the last 
 penalty of the law, and I bless God that He has seen fl to 
 I^rdon me and wash away my sins. I feel that ^^6 
 1? just and I want to warn you all, my dear friends never 
 never to touch the intoxicating cup. IT WAS ALL TWPnnpS 
 LIQUOR THAT I CAME HERE Ohrmy trienl as v^^ 
 
 ::!:' t^h^n r T'^' '''' ^^p ^^-^ 1^:1:: j::^ 
 
 harm than all other things put together, and has been the 
 rum of thousands as it has been of me. May God have Lrcv 
 upon me and give me grace ! " ^^ 
 
 ^'hristian reader, reflect that the- blighting effects of this traffic 
 are not confined to tune ; they extend into eternity. One mi^ht 
 we 1 thmk that the abounding pauperism, the physical suS^. 
 juul mental degradation, the immorality, the ruL I ad ^^ 
 hon.es he domestic brutality, the brawls, the suicides, the rn u^ rs 
 caused by mtemperance would present a picture suffic ently dLma 
 
 omove to a better mind the most selfi..,! opponent of I>LSn 
 lint there is more yet, and worse yet— '""luiwou. 
 
 THE LOSS OP THE SOUL. 
 
 No drunkard shall inherit the kuigdom of God (1 Cor vi 10) ' 
 Christian, think what the loss of a soul implies. Oh '• there i. 
 
 2:aZi^ Xz f^"'^" "^ '-'' ca/ciescri^^^ori;::^: 
 
 inn ,mn i i •» i , , Jinglaud alojie not fewer tljan 
 
 000,000 hab,t„al drunkards. •• Of these 00.000 die every year and 
 thetr plaees are supphed by 00.000 others drawn into the vorterof 
 
 duation So that every ten minutes some fresh victim becomes a 
 .Irunl^ard-every ten nunutes some drunkard's soul is 2^^ 
 a drunkard s etormty ! " r„ th„ United State., there are about th^ 
 sanre nun.ber of drunkards and of deaths therefron, ' f 'rys '^ 
 
rail warninj- 
 2 to come to 
 
 ill Windsor 
 
 ay the last 
 seen fit to 
 7 sentence 
 ids, never, 
 THROUGH 
 s, as yoti 
 done more 
 been the 
 ave mercy 
 
 this traffic 
 )ne might 
 sufferinir 
 wretched 
 e murders 
 tly dismal 
 ohibitiou. 
 
 i. 10). ■ 
 there is 
 r human 
 ioul, and 
 ^'cr than 
 'ear, and 
 v^ortex of 
 n of mo- 
 comes a 
 irried to 
 "out the 
 says an 
 
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 America,, writer, "all the victims „l' tl,e r,„„ (ruffle were .,,tl,ered 
 
 before our eyes we slmuUl see a tl.ousa unerals a w;:k Vom 
 
 tbe,r namber ■laeed i„ a proccssio,,, five abreast, the r^^kt j™ f 
 
 fcZ:,:r ' vtr:n:""Y"; ■"'"'"■'" "-"^ "- '-^^'^^ 
 
 and swift destractio,, more tb,.„ 4,0«« of th; a t w 3 
 away into a druukard-s awful eteri.itv ir„ """"T P-'ss'ng 
 appidling is such u fact ■ H w 1„ I Ls t "'""If "'""'' 
 to come to the rescue) Buttlu h „L 'iT , Z '"'"'"''""' 
 »ou,s of mtdtitudes who ^^.^X^^J^Z^Z"^ 
 cfinstan hab,t of tipplin,. ;„ bar-rooms cannot fail '-"juaUv ! 
 
 modern bar-room Tlip ^i,^^r 7>n v u • i ■ .. ^""vt-isauon ot a. 
 ..11 fi . T". ■ -'^'^- '^'ibnskie, of N. York savs- "Or 
 
 and of the cup of devils. Let the reader look ro i,f .^^ 
 
 the congregat.on with which he himsdf is connected J "I 
 
 ^™to,,aswell as drunkenness bard „ t Te!r . f ''°" 
 sp,rit„al m«ue„ce and, as fa, at least, ::^:^:j:2::Z 
 
 tI:! r;:: :„rntf :if' "" "-^^ »?■ '--est m c^li:;: 
 
 world, a stumhlin^lr:. T k^ICert "^^^Z" " '"= 
 
 Think- nffl ""^'/^l'-^^^^ the salvation of the drunkard's children 
 ti.e mother contracts the evil habit .^1::;:^ "^^^^r S 
 
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 to whom Ood has g>vcn I Mdre , ^T" ^ '"'""'"'' """ ^'<^- 
 heaven, „„ito,l to4her in iki 'It , "T""^ "P by them for 
 them coolly down to p^VeL? A„" ^"" ''7^' -<> '-''-« 
 in the neighb„„ri,„od of every tavern "1\, """' T"'''* "^'^^ 
 them in these countie, InnorenTTl , . "^ "'''' '"'"'^'«'>' "f 
 conscious of their da ger d T; Lhe " ^'^ °''''''"'' P''*""^ ""- 
 the altar of a modern Mol„.t f , *""* '"""'''■' ^' ™tin>s to 
 
 ^fo. .horn I Jur;tLtrthro^r:^ '"^""''" ^"' 
 hJr;rh::a\r„';^'^rr""";''''"^ "■- ^^^- --* 
 
 department of the Chu,^rswlThfrf'T"V"'' '"''^'<' ^^-^ 
 opposition places, the abodes respectivefv "7 r ". ""^ o """"^ "» 
 more the bar-room prospe:^ thelesH^l 1 f '". ^'^"^ '^' 
 the more the ehurch prospers the le,s ^ , .J'T ^™'P"' "" 
 The stru^Ie between them i, as Mr rT , ^. """^ P'"*!*"' 
 
 " °- --"p- »f t-.e wa: bre^t::!:: rr^Si^- "■■ -- 
 
 ing't;' of Irnt^Ltffd"'^' t' *' '■■' "■" -^*' -' °f O-k- 
 
 against the Li^uorZffir m/SI M, "r^'r '^ "^ *^'«^* 
 strong drink, and s„eh thenature of h 1 °'' '" ""= ■"""'» »' 
 
 where there is drinkin. there wm » ^'T <=»'"""!<-. that 
 
 its terrible consenuenc^s We 21?^'/' <>™nkenness. with all 
 for drunkenness and a 1 itf etw ' f "t ""^ '™'»'= ™P»'">'e 
 geti>er. Together they i^e aSltn "''f'- ^"^ ''°"' «" '"- 
 mese twins, they are fn 1™™m " '"' "'"'^ "" -^i^' ^iko Sia- 
 other will die ^ t ri;"^ ^rtf V"' '"^ °"^ "^"^ '"^ 
 ■loaway with drunkenness otha'> ^T"' '^"""'' ""<' y™ 
 to understand the enorm ty of i^ ?"?"' ^is people grace 
 faithfulness in dealing w^ff it f """ «'"'' <="'> """ 'strength and 
 
 the uICtZi r:i"af irT'^'T"^ " '^^■•^■»"™ ™ 
 
 ■■Temperance Aet of ,86?'b"trbr I' "°- " " "''''^ "'" 
 »..d by this designation I'sha '' ''f ^"^ '=,°''-" "^ the Dunkin Act ; 
 
 This Aot, if it sLuld becote ^^: ,', 1^^ t:^^'' "V,'' 
 
 "" "^ "^" " ^™'- ™ "- -'. inch*: thrL'rs'^f 
 
 * 
 
'nient of ruin- 
 Evnd and wife, 
 ^ by them for 
 , and leading 
 scenes exist 
 hundreds of 
 perfectly un- 
 13 victims to 
 heathen god, 
 
 quor Traffic 
 ndeed every 
 3ar-room are 
 Satan. The 
 )rosper, and 
 )m prosper. 
 ^- P.. says, 
 
 )t of drink- 
 36 charged 
 
 nature of 
 Jtion, that 
 5, with all 
 esponsible 
 )th go to- 
 Like Sia- 
 dying the 
 
 and you 
 ople grace 
 ngth and 
 
 lation on 
 illed the 
 kin Act ; 
 }ak of it. 
 manville 
 mties of 
 
 THE TEXT BOOK TOR TllK IAUPaCON. ,7 
 
 Nortln„„berto„d ,u„| D„rl,u,„-a„ area of abo.a 1 oOO snuare 
 ™les, and c„„tan„„« about 10«,u,.0 souk. I!,„ u,„,.o over w 
 law on the Statute liook, of any country a,-aiust wl, c oblr.t „' 
 wou ,, not be urge,, by those whose interests were i^u i u W 
 
 TlIK OUJKCTIONS liUOUOHT AGAINST THE DUNKIN ACT 
 
 by the liquor sellers and their friends are not a few. Let us 1 ,„I- 
 
 Zltt/iJ "?•"■" r"'"* '""'^*«« '«ll>^ to J or 
 ariiilcwlutt please,,, md ,jou Imve no lujIU to -lietate to ,m» o,,, 
 
 country ,s indeed free, but not for any one to do whoever he 
 
 pleases wuhout regard to the interests of others. Our country 
 
 ■s no iree to sell lottery-tickets, indecent pictures, or LZ m 
 
 moral pubhcations. It is n„t free for oouuterfeitiu - coin "op n 
 
 w iMbi't'T""! "[■ """"'■ "'■ """""'"« -'•'Wishn.;,;;. ' c 
 
 :," , M '"'' "' '"'""''' "'™' ""■^ "'■ »'l>'I'e.ated food. A nd 
 
 the sake of g„„,, would be ,,uite ready to engage in these evil pnc 
 trees, ., ,„„, ,,^^^,^^,_ ^^^^.^ =^ _^^^ ^^^ev. p„c 
 
 but for I e hurt ot the connuuuity. And no good citizen caUs 
 these proluhitions tyrannical, or an uudne interference wit^e J„ " 
 .berty But the Li,,uor Traffic, as we have seen, w.u-l^ fL : ;„ 
 njury to .socety tlu,u any or all of these pr,u,tices ogether Wo 
 
 the ibl roT??"-" '" "?•"«""«"' If " '» -'■ inconsistent wh 
 the hbetty 01 a tree country to prohibit the sale of uuwholesonre 
 
 Z' 'r '"'r'^T "'■ """"""-' "" '""■ W--"^ ^1- that 
 
 We live not in a savage but in a civilized community and in 
 Euch a state every man's liberty is linrited by the good of soi^ 
 ne tavern-keeper has no ri^ht to interfere with the righte of othe« 
 Wrves have ngbts; children have rights: ,uiet, petceable me, J 
 bers of ocrety, who wrsh to live in security of life and property 
 have rights, and these rights must be preserved even at the ex-' 
 
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 in 
 I *"' 
 
 oh,l,,.„,tl,c.y„u,„es-t„„ „„„„l, .„ b. .„i,,,„rt«l l,y tl„. sut. 
 
 I . i;»l..;.. 1 -all.c. Now, >vl,at. I ,v„„M ask ti,o «|,|,„„.„ts of I'ro 
 UUon .s tl„»-la,v„ „,v., and ol.il.i,,.,, and ..esp'ei.al.lc ,„,,,: 
 of society „„ ,.,.1,1 to clai,,, |,v„to.tio„ fro,,, ,„d, „„„, , 
 
 a...„lt. a, t:,o al,„ve , Or a, „av., .!,„ .J^^^^ ZoZ 
 
 bear all tl,e .xpo„,e., connected with tl,c arrest, inclrce ati n 
 «nu„„„„l„,,e,,t„ftl,c.cf„„r„.cn, and the »„„p„rt of the wid";' 
 and seven helpless children, no ,.i,.hts ? M„!,t they ta,, ely tv 
 fc,r ,„o„cy, tbld their hands, and say notl,ing ? i:!, ^;'^J2 
 Prol,,l,,t,on says that when a bnsiness donhles the taxes^n.d r t 
 ders l,fe and property inseeare, society has a ri,.ht to say whet "r 
 or not that business is to he tolerated. Tlte^.,- is ,hi. I 
 rrat«c has heen so pampered and petted that it it ■■ .; „ L "i",': 
 k,cks at all restnctions. It hlls o„r la„,I with idleness, i'r,- 
 g on, innnorali.y, violence and crime, and then, looking „p ,,.„ i s 
 b ,,„et „ b,.„ke,. hearts and mined l,opes and fallen d,a ,,ct™ 
 
 fwo";! Ti ''"™ """■ "■" """■ "" """" '" "■'«■'■"- B 
 
 7 ■ , ;-, " '" """""» "■''"" "■'" "™"««l traftic will be 
 
 prohibited like any other nuisance or crime. 
 
 fTf '* , ■ "'" "'^ "' I'emotnus of old: " Sirs ye know 
 
 ha by this craft we have our wealth. . . . our craft is hi d,," 
 Acts X1.V. 24-27.) But notwithstanding tli* money-loss to Deme 
 tnus and his fellow-artizans, the cause of Trutl/weiit o™, 
 And so It must be now. These men must remember that there T, 
 be no cha,,ge in the leg slation of a country, or i„ the customs or 
 opinions 01 a people, without affecting more or less injuriously fb 
 a time the interests of some persons. But no one' ever ZlZ 
 ol compensation being given in these cases. In the words of the 
 leading paper ol our Dominion : " Changes in fashion and nation^ 
 
 \ 
 
skey and j»et 
 yomifr men, 
 se of ji man 
 self, Jii.s wife 
 uiet, inuffen- 
 tiiist the in- 
 ifc and seven 
 ^ tlie Stiitc. 
 iiite fruit of 
 ents of Pro- 
 'Ii' meiidtei's 
 iiiiirderous 
 , who must 
 ration, trial 
 tlie widow 
 tamely pay 
 my friends. 
 !S and ren- 
 ly wJiether 
 this Liquor 
 id fat," and 
 ess, irreli- 
 ip from it.s 
 iiracterri, it 
 fere. But 
 he will be 
 
 of tavern 
 
 ye know 
 1 dauf^er." 
 to Deme- 
 
 i'orward. 
 there can 
 istonitj ui' 
 ously for 
 er heard 
 's of the 
 national 
 
 I 
 
 THK TKXT BO .K KOR THK CAMPAIGN. ,j 
 
 customs Often lay certain industries desolate, and divert c-n.n.n 
 
 111 Miuii cnauifes there rnav 1io rr..,>..f i i i • 
 
 l.«ip«i- a,„. c„,n„en«U,i,.„ /, nev ■■„'„,'":;''":?„;'",•'". ^" 
 jennv n,i„«l tl.ou.sa.uU „r i.,>,„|.,,„„., „,; ^ „, ,,;,?",'""" 
 »l.m „,. ,na„y „ t„n,i.ike tHv„„., „.,t,,„„t ,;, j, .J Wt "T 
 co,>,„„,.„l,„„. s,, „„„ it |,„ „,iH, i„t„xi„at ,, „,. „,J ° 
 
 ^"■■■■>«-- "^ir>-, a„, ,:,: t,.d ' ; :t i: :,■:?,"'■ 
 
 community to abstain frotn drinl-ino- fi . peisuadm- the 
 
 .o,.i.te„ti;a.at ,.e.e 1, 'f:.';;™:: -'"»■, ■"■"'" - 
 tl- value of „„ p„p„,, , f „. r' r^„,,„^ have dep,.ee,atej 
 
 I." compensation would be thousl.t of. ""'"""'^ 
 
 We arc constantly l,ei„g told "that Eritaiu paid tw,.nlv n,ii- 
 p.mnd. sterling tor tl.e abolition of slavey n t tu c 
 ■lot at all parallel. The monev was niM , .1 , "' "" 
 
 compensate bin. fo,- propen, ^CrL't t ^U^ta^ r;Zl,'» 
 
 ":-e =:r'Bsr::i°:tf t^dr - - 
 
 new cncumstances. Nor has Prohibition been "dtuv T' 
 ru,.tly sprung upon these men. For forty v til, ^ "'" 
 l-s been gradually aoc,uiriug strength a' ainstZ; laffi ° T,'"'"" 
 every year additional restrlctions°have° ee Im ul^'it '^l^' 
 l..ese„t Act has been on the Statute Book tZ t ,i ten'y a ' Tl " 
 J«ders have been constantly reminded that th days of tb '" 
 traitc were numbered . Rn^ nt nU n • .i ^ ^^ ^"^^^ 
 
 with a full k ow ed..e 01 :r;:''"\''''"'"' '»»--■"'''. 
 f.eir money in the bnsC s mp^ b™ ^ "r "'^^ "'«^^'«^ 
 connected with it. These are far n.o e han the rT""' """'^ 
 business in the world, being reckone It at t twel""' °"'"' 
 Y'y per cent., but at several hundred 1 -ce^rld , T 
 these n,en are building new taverns; h.ZL thUn^^ 
 ...g newspapers, eoUecting enormou sums\ „ n^rt^. 
 
20 
 
 TIIK TKXT HO(.K K(.K TIIK CAMPAION. 
 
 agents and lecturer., and keeping at work a ccunplete nuvchinery 
 all, as tl.ey say then>selves. "To opi>oso the agitation of the Tem- 
 perance organ,.ations ;" and then they coolly tnrn round and say 
 to tlK-se len.peran,.e people : "(Jive us back our n.ouey ; pay us tor 
 our Taverns. I .eweries and Distilleries.- (ientlen.e.'^sVou ll 
 made your bed yon n.u.st lie in it. I5esi<I.s. it there is to be con». 
 pensafon. let a be nn.tual. We, too. want to get son.ething back 
 - something lav nmre precious than money. As Dr. Guthrie so 
 pathetically puts it :— . 
 
 me 1 er who in *! V''"'"' f '' •"^•'^'°'"' ^'^^^ l'"^'>>« ' I'^ve lost ; -Wve 
 
 Z J V , ^r^^ ^^^^V' ^'"'»'^ not opening the mouth Reb-evR „« 
 
 vi:;;;;;? ™ .::'lt:,"- jt:;:;tir:'-' '""■ "-" ^"^-^ -^ '- 
 
 Do this, and then talk of money. 
 
 3. " The Liquor Traf/i.c gives employmmt to a hrfje numher of «.r- 
 sm., and thnsbe>u/ii. Ike .ndnstr,, of the count..,. But this Aet lill 
 d^W^vc them of that employment, and thus dimhnsh the industry 
 
to tJKicliiiievy, 
 y (>r till! Tom- 
 luiid anil say 
 y ; pay ns tor 
 , as you have 
 is to t)e com- 
 iKitliiiJt,' l)ack 
 f. (lUtluie so 
 
 y whon he ro- 
 fHnncoriHpled 
 -'e|)ing niotlier 
 )ther, lis inno- 
 i pnch other's 
 't in the sanio 
 rother would 
 
 UH, -wiiimiii-r 
 f'Iffd firiofis, 
 il I)iow — fjivo 
 iig heart was 
 receiving her 
 
 heart he has 
 arrow to tlio 
 uthful ihiyn, 
 ivo me back, 
 1 tJie j)iil|)its 
 
 have closed 
 Old haggard, 
 'e lost ; give 
 'ur ministry, 
 '< she prowls 
 this youth 
 I now, while 
 ny, lies laid 
 t are left to 
 
 Relieve us 
 id the souls 
 ee, and are 
 
 sweeps its 
 
 bcr of pgr- 
 is Act vjill 
 iustrif." 
 
 TIIK TKXT BOOK FOK TIIK CAMPAOIN. 21 
 
 A littla examinaUon will ,l,„w that thi, „r,.,„„o„t U falla.io„,. 
 T . r„ H „„ |,,„„,,,| ,„„„ „|^.,„,|^, ^,_,,,,|^^ ,^_^ ^^.^^^^ ^^ 
 
 , ■' . .""■'•J' """,« » ""' l""'l"<^i").' valu:,l,l„ (,o.„I., ,„. a.Ulin.. 
 
 .y !..» Ial.„u,- U, tl,„ „.„alM, „f ,|„. o„„„„„„itv i„ .„ r„n„ i, ^ 
 
 cn„„„al,s, am of tl,i,, cla.,. Thcv an- ,,„„„„,„.,» „ ..clv. „ ,',1' 
 VKlcl l„r out of ti,„ labou,. „f „«,,,,... Now, ,o tl,o oils , Z. 
 »aa„.r« h.,o,„ all tl,o,« eu,a,„,l i,, tl,o r.i,,„„r T,,,„i„ Tl, y ivo 
 
 "' "'" """■"""ly y a. 11,0 ,s|,i,i.r a.ld, to tho |,ro.s,,o,ity of „ 
 
 • "J all oogas.0,1 ,„ ,t throw,, ou.,ook.ty ro,..s„p|,o,.t, tl,„ K.alo wo„m' 
 1,0 no wo«o „,ril,a„ it i» „ow. Thoso ,JL wi, „U1 |, „ c , 
 
 »u,aors a„,l „o„-„.d„oo,. t„o„, as tl„, a. •. Kcce, i„ a f 
 
 . be,„..a„ arf.„„„.„t ,„ favo,,,.,!' tho Li,,„o,T,.allic that itcaploys 
 ».. ,..a„y p„,.H0„.. ,t i, a ,t,„„,, a,«u,„c.„t a.miost it. ThXZl 
 pmons ,t o,„ploys. ,1,0 ,.oato,. i» tho los. to tl.o oo„„t,-y. b™,, e 
 .t koeps m the oh,., of oo„»,„„o,. those who „„,,ht to l,o plo.luc™! 
 
 Tht "tt'r."l"°' "■"' '" ''""T '•"^"""* *" "-f '""'■ '"«"« •'■■ 
 do notfe li ,"r rP"="""° ""■■" ™'-'"""-"' '" "'- ''"-"OSS I 
 
 d„„„tfeel,|,,p„sodt„de„y, but that the h„,,i„o,s itsolf is resueot- 
 . be r do most e„,phatically deny. It is a soul-destroyin,, O , 1 d . 
 ■ono,,,.,,,, b„s,„ess, as it is at present earried on. w/are tr , „ t„ 
 
 rrt;: r^r-"":,^ """ ' -'"'"' '""^- "■»'■ "■ - »--!;: 
 
 fi !l.l M ^ '" '"" ''"'= " '"«"«'^' ^'I'i"!'. »■ not so pro- 
 
 iniy will laye the sat,sft>ction of know!,,.. tl,nt they and tb^ir 
 
 «„,I,es are I,yin,, upon n.„uey honourably obtained a,ol „t in 
 
 tlio price of broke,, heart, and desolate homes, m,; bu 1,^3' ! 
 
 all the sot^l df T • '""" """ '" "^ "''"'' H"= I'istorios of 
 
 aa,,;,;:::: ."ni.— iToI: fstrrin:;:'"'' -- - -- 
 
22 
 
 Tlir TKXT HOOK FOH THK (■AM»'AK;> 
 
 -:;t^Jz:-^^:;;;!:^n;::x"'-- - 
 
 B«r the followers „f Cln-ist-and it wlTx i ^'"^"'- 
 
 than any other cau e' .V ^ ''''^^''^''ty mul to ruin souls 
 
 ",)- uniLr cause. i>ut the argument is vot tkiip ti 
 
 aiiu pensiuno, wiUi the necessar es ami <oi.itort« of ir 
 It would be nvested in >.iiv,-»„ +4 ■ -ouiioits ol life, 
 
 n^esteci in buying flour, grain, vegetables, fruit, &o 
 
 The following calculation, taken from the "Cnn-wb.,, T 
 Almar.," to which T .. indebted il\ n :;Sr fri^T 
 embodied in this - ,vr.r ».,-n u , "^ ''^^ts 
 
 benefited by IVoMbf,,.":'" ■''"'"■ '•">>■ *''« '-n- w„„,d „e 
 
 rj^K;; '"ilr^*?;; t. -r^^^ --«- ,-«*. or „„» 
 
 With this a„,o,mt if „„„,., ,. ,iiffeZ?«n ■; ■'«• l«'r P-e, to »18 25. 
 tl,e teetotaller migl.t pm-chieV ' '" """ """'^ "f t*- JOav, 
 
I nor dealers 
 yt'iir.s past. 
 '•iduwN, and 
 I'lcinaturG 
 •"» years of 
 
 1111(1 il loss 
 
 S2!);5,r>()(). 
 tlic'i/ own 
 as well ns 
 
 of hn-ln/, 
 »r',Muncnt 
 3ssing far- 
 'ore have 
 lo hi^'hcr. 
 ire not to 
 'ideration 
 I'tli much 
 to oppose 
 uin souls 
 riie ])as.s- 
 e farmer, 
 re, as in 
 lligently 
 )re God. 
 ^'ere the 
 are now 
 
 of life. 
 
 pei-ance 
 « facts 
 nld be 
 
 "■ of one 
 
 m 25. 
 
 le year. 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 TriK TKXT nooK roR tub campaion. 33 
 
 ."•0 Ilw. of mmit ai R/i 
 
 lf>^»ll>.. of flour ■ Z 
 
 I.^'II'M. ollmtter : .'^ 
 
 I" I'lisli. ot potiitofs 2 fiO 
 
 I 1>I>I . of Mppll'H " " ' 7 1.. 
 
 Hiuuliy liiriii iiM.l Hiir.ioii i.io.luce.! ... .'."." r> 00 
 
 ^h'r;;n:,:!;i:j:;':,;;:;;;-.;:';;;;;vr;l'''«''','v''i '""'- r ■■'"""™' ^ 
 
 . f^eaving a balance of TTTTi^ 
 
 .n favour of a^rienlturo l,v .arryin,, out univer.ursobdoty: 
 
 '■evnur at prcmif received for /irnisrs." ^ 
 
 This ol.jeotion, like the last, is addresse.l to .self-interest and is 
 .jua ly fallacioi. I.t „s see exactly how the matter s J ^r I^ 
 
 8^.000 '^ .?'■?""'"'•'"'' '^"'^ '^'•'■'""" ^here are upwards o^' 
 a^n;;r ;'"'', '^^^^^^-^^^ -<-- »Von. tavern licens:^ 
 about Um\ not mcludmy the town.s of Cobour. and I>ort Hope 
 withwh.ch at present we have nothing to do. Supposm.. h^' 
 that the hcenses were abolished, and all the moneva pre^ n r 
 
 ™^x::c:::tr=:r 
 
 But even this small amount would not require to be so raised 
 If the large number of men now dissipated and idle through dnk 
 were made sober, they would acquire means, and thus increase he 
 taxable property, and so decrease taxation 
 
 - I .1 in. gien.er extent than oU cnts a year throucrb 
 drunk.,, men being „„aUe to pay their debt.. The X ^n"t 
 to pay n,„re on the goods he b„y.. in „,.Jer to „„.ke „p to the ."efc 
 
24 
 
 THE TEXT BOOK FOR THE CAMPAIGN. 
 
 11 j 
 It-' 
 
 HI 
 
 these losses. Let tl.ose considerations be taken along witli the loss 
 o he revenue pointed out in the beginning of this paper, and any 
 intelbgent man can decide, without difficulty, whether ^ur Countu s 
 are enriched or the reverse by the Liriuor Traffic. 
 
 7. " The DnnUn Ad cannot he enforml It has jrrn.cd a failvre 
 ^.erevcr tned." Who .ay so i Not the irionds of Prohibition, but 
 Its or-ponents. And may not the wish be fatlier to the thought ? 
 " No man e'er felt the halter draw, 
 With good opinion of the law." 
 
 The foot is, if this Act were more inefficient it would be less 
 oi)].osed by the liquor dealers. That tlie Bill i. perfect, or anything 
 approaching to it, no wi.se person will presume to say. Nor is thi"s 
 to be e.vpected. lieformations like this do not spring, Minerva-like 
 .'^ once into full-grown maturity. But that this Act can bo enforced 
 «o as to lessen immensely-if not entirely abolish-drinkin.^ we 
 are prepared to show by an array of testimony which cannot elsily 
 be set aside. Prohibitory laws precisely similar in character to the 
 Diinkin Act have been enibrced in some of the States of the Ame- 
 rican Union for very many years, and carried out with as 
 imjch success as any other law on the Statute Books. Tn a pam- 
 plilet entitled " Prohibition does Proliihit," by J. N. Stearns we 
 are ppesented with testimony from the highest authorities oV the 
 and, such as Governors, United States Senators, Representatives in 
 Congress, Clergymen, Attorneys-General, Judges of Supreme Courts. 
 Necretaries of State, State Constaldes, Mayors of Cities, Chaplains 
 >t Pn«ons. Chiefs of Police. Editors, Internal Revenue, Prison and 
 I oor-house statistics. Tlie united testimony of all is that " there 
 IS no one-tenth the quantity of li.p.orsold and used inthese States 
 force " " "'' "" '^" rrohibitory Liquor Law came into 
 
 Judge Davis, of the Supreme Court of Maine, says : " No observ 
 ing man who has lived in this State for 20 years,' and has had an 
 opportunity to know the facts, can doubt that the Maine Law has 
 produced a hundred times moi'e visible improvement in the charac- 
 ter, condition, and prosperity of our people than any other law that 
 was ever enacted." 
 
 Prohibition has been in force in Maine for 26 years The 
 people have time and again voted on it, and always with an increas- 
 
mimMmaumumu^m 
 
 THE TEXT BOOK FOR THE OAMPAiaX. 25 
 
 ing majority, and now the Hon. Neil Dow tells us there is no snch 
 thin,o: as a repeal party in the State. This fact speaks volumes 
 It is not generally known tliat prohibitory enactments similar to 
 the^oMo M-e are now seokin.i^ have for years been enforced in parts 
 T w??n •'^^'•^^^"'^' '^"'^ I^-^'l'-^^d' ^"d with the oreatest success, 
 testifv' ''"'^' '"^'''^' ^ '"P-^ ^'••^'" ^^'« pamphlet just referred U>. 
 
 ri^OVINCE OF CANTEIJBUIIY, ENGLAND. 
 
 In February, 18f;t>, a Committee of the Lower House of Oonvoca- 
 um oth. Province of Canterbury reported 1,475 pari.shes where 
 I roiubjtion prevails, and say that 
 
 o]i2iu'J\r''^ ^' helieverl are co-ni.ant of tho fact-which has been 
 SoviW^ r ^TT «"T'^'-^-t'^'^t there are at this ti.ne, within the 
 J. evince of Canterbury, upwards (,f one thousand parishe.=e in wliich 
 
 to f."'''*''^"^^"^ these inducements to crime and pauperism, accLlincr 
 ami c^uifoft'or.r" ''f '" *'" --"""ee, the intelligence morality: 
 
 A writer in the Edinburgh Review for January, 187)^, says: 
 
 whrnl^th'^eTinlTv^ffi '?^ t^'"'^""/"" 'f ■'*'•' "^ ^^^"^''^^^ "^"^ S^^tl'-^n-l 
 wnoie the di ink-trattic has been altogether sur)niessed with the vm-v 
 
 ha,>piest social results. The late Lord Palmerslin i pre d the xZI 
 
 shops m Komse.y as the leases fell in. We know' an estate wldch 
 
 stretches tor miles along the romantic shore of Loch Fyne whe"-e no 
 
 wages than tlieiriieighbours wlien they go to sea." 
 
 SALTAIPE, YOKKSHIIIE, ENGLAND. 
 Prohibition has prevailed for many years, and not a beer-shop or 
 beer-house exists. The .Dailji Telcgrajih says : 
 
 " In short, the stage of experiment has been long passed ; the scheme 
 has survived open hostility, envy, and detraction, and is now a brilliant 
 success. 
 
 BESSBROOK, IRELAND. 
 Bessbrook, a town in Ireland of 4,000 inhabitants, has no liquor 
 ahop, and whiskey and strong drink are strictly prohibited There 
 IS no poor-house, pawn-shop, or police station. The town is entirely 
 free from strife, discord, or disturbance. 
 
2fi 
 
 THK TEXT BOOK FOR THE OAMPAIUN. 
 
 TYKONE COUNTY, IKE! AND. 
 
 his county contains fJl square miles and 1,)..),)0 peonlo Yo 
 
 great absence of crimed' '"^.c^istrates testify to the 
 
 A year or two before ]us death, Father Mathew, in a letter to Afr 
 1 'elavan, said : 
 
 .■"«^,™i"itt °H '"'*■!'""" '"'™'» '" ""■ '° '"' «» °"'v ""f-' «"'i 
 
 »t4"l. r,! ■ " r "7': "fj""""!—™- TWs opinion ha, been 
 
 h-teltLdV'H "•■;^''"\'""' - ""«« P-'» of Canada where it " 
 
 «ays ••■ " In the Toin^lT'of "^'""Tn ^°' ^''"""•^ ''"-^ Addington. 
 was adopted in iTfiT.ll^''^'"^"^^' < ""^ty of Lennox, the b^-law 
 time the -e were thtteen '" ''''' T'"" ^""'^ '"^ operation. At that 
 there is not one '^'T'V'T'' ^^''"7 '^^"«'- '" '^'^ township ; now 
 been taken, it has bepn -,,-.]! ^ • , {"°"»'' three votes have since 
 vote, some two veavr^.n L'"'*?^""^^ ^^ '\'^ J^^°P'« ' «"<l ^t the last 
 ever before. The See vf of ? T "'""'^ ^'"•"«'' ^^ ^*« ^'^^o"'' tJ'^»n 
 in the amount to be „2l fn " *''^"'''"l^ i"^«'-'"« me that the falling off- 
 revenue once derived' f 1 Hr"^^''T ^^"^ ^'^" ^'"»^- ^^ ^««*' ^^^ t^- 
 pauper fund alone Th^Coun r^I ^^" '""•'*'"^" been saved in the 
 he assures me from hk nhl '. ^^ '''''•' ^^ my office yesterday, and 
 
 Hichmonda^eVLt succeiT^^^^^ ^^' ^°"^'^^^^« *'- '^^-1^- - 
 
 adopt it." ' "'"'' *"^ ^'« recommends every municipality to 
 
 Mr Cap 
 
 Onnkin Jjill" in"this Wn«l''^°/\r"^''™^'*'''" *"^ -^«" concerning the 
 
 taxation, with ot !w thlu Ti""'''"' ""^•- "'ll'''^'' -i*>> ^he same 
 idleness, and, orcourse W -r'T" "/ '"■"''''■'■^' ■*^"'* less crime and 
 " * * You "S'ioTf^ .''"**" ''"•''^ *'>« «'""«"^ .subjection, 
 we have. I te 1 vou t lisl ' '""T''-'^ '' '^'^ '"^^^ perfit law 
 ten years." ^ '"'' ^''°^'^"" '^"^ '««''%' it" «"^"oess f^or the last 
 
 I-tSnitv oTsayt^thTl belir^'n ' ^S^T, ^ -"^ ^™ ^"'-' *« ''^^ - op- 
 thing bu^t a fS * l'«J'«ve^the Bdl, xn its working here, is any- 
 
 to defeat a ri<rhteons law nr ,n 1 •* '^'^'" ^^'"'^" fe'^'eater elToits made 
 made t„ defeat e'"B;„Tii"t 11" "jr •-<!'<=»'»-. "■-n.^e bein, 
 succeed. * * -» " ^"'- ^tUl, it is doing good and will 
 
THE TEXT BOOK FOR THE CAMPAIGN. 27 
 
 n.^hef^ow;^,tS^!^''^' ^^^"- ^^^-^ ^-"^^' -^^es to 
 
 que^t than tho.e of tl-^jlS^l^t^-J- !: ^ i^:^^^^^^^ l^i 
 _ peaJecl against these, as the law for prohibiting the liquor traffic " 
 
 dprnll/' f"'^^""''"" write.: "I believe its elects have been 
 dec> ledly advantageous all over tlie County, l>ut mainly outside of 
 Hcton. As a Inend of total abstinence, I esteem it a great help to 
 thecuuse to have the Dunkin Law on the Statute Book The Li.'ior 
 Irafficisod.ous in all its aspects-morally, socially, religioullv ; 
 
 fail re in Prince Ed^-ard ; but how could that be when they voted 
 on It three tunes and carried it each time ? Everything had been 
 done in the way of little legal ,uiblling to prevent the^Act going 
 
 cesTT' ]V '' ''■' "^' -^««P-ation, and that with 
 success. One of the results was that at the ne.xt Assize Court 
 there was neither a criminal nor a civil case to be tried The 
 grocery and clothing stores also did a much larger business ; and 
 incret T 1 " , '1 '' '''^'" '"^ '""'''^ ^'^^^^^ '' ^^^'^^ ^o meet the 
 .reatly. ^^ hat ,vas formerly spent on drink was now spent on the 
 aecessanes of hfe. I do not wish it to be understood that there is 
 
 break the law^ and is placed in the same dock with the thief and 
 the burglar. They have no longer the law on their side " 
 
 A gentleman writes : " The Temperance party in this County 
 have surmounted difficulty after difficulty, and to day are the proud 
 
 preXn 1 n "' ""''' ''''' much-abused Dunkfn Act has'sup- 
 pressed at least three-fourths of the drinking in the County. There 
 IS not a locality m which the good results of the temperance reform 
 •-annot be seen. 
 
28 
 
 THE TEXT BOOK FOR THE CAMPAIGN. 
 
 Ir^ 
 
 ,, -'^^j^. 1 '^^.""^ .^««' ^''iio7i, referring to tlie alleged failure of the 
 ])unkm Bill in Prince Edward County, says : " It is a palpable 
 lalsehood made to l)olster up a bad cause. To state that tlie traffic 
 goes on about as it did before the Act came into force, is statin" 
 what every man, woman and child in Picton knows to be false ft 
 IS because the traffic is curtailed to a niinimuni and driven to 
 •sBcresy and darkness tliat the Licensed Victuallers are so displeased 
 with tlie law, and endeavour to cast ritlicule upon it." 
 
 That by improved legislation obtained since 1864, when the 
 original Act was passed, the Dnnkin Act can now be worked is 
 proved by the experience of P.righton Township, in our own Countr 
 ot Northumberland. Tl.ere the JJunkin Act is in force, and that 
 the people are pleased with it is shown by the fact that its repre- 
 sentatives vote steadily for it every time in the Counties' Council 
 and one councillor who voted against it in 1875 was defeated iii 
 consequence wlien lie sought re-election, and has never sat in the 
 Council since. 
 
 Otiier .similar testimony could be added if necessary, and yet, in 
 lace ot all this and more, our opponents tell us the law is a failure. 
 We thank God for the "failure," and hope we may see many such. 
 
 8. "_ You c'tn't make j^c-.^ile moral by Act of ParlinmenL" If this 
 objection has any weight, it might be urged against any law on the 
 btatute Look. We can't make people honest or truthful by Act of 
 1 arliainent, yet that is considered no reason why we should not 
 liave a law agamst theft and perjury. 
 
 9. '' The Dunhin BUI docs notprohMt the sale of liqxior in quanti- 
 ties o/Jive gallons and upy:ards. It toould therefo e increase drlnkinq 
 as persons would hrinr/ it home with them and drink it there." To' 
 this I reply, that we have the most trustworthy assurance that 
 during the first session of l^vrliament, the Bill will l)e so amended 
 as to be absolutely proliibitive. Our Dominion Parliament has 
 a ready declared m favour of the priuci])le of Prohibition by a vote 
 ol 72 to 9, and as soon as the (piestion of jurisdiction is settled the 
 
 five gallon clause," as well as some other defects in the Bill will 
 be amended. So that by the time tlie Act will come into force ia 
 these Counties it will almost certainlv be Total Prohibition But 
 though this were not the case, would it tlierefore be of no use ? 
 home, I doubt not, are so far enslaved by the appetite for stron^ 
 dnnk tliat they would bring it home in large quantities ; but 
 thousands now ti])ple in bar-rooms and form the ruinous habit who 
 would never dream of buying five gallons and bringing it home 
 with them. Is it of no use to save our young men from acquiring 
 tlie Jiabit ot drinking ? Every year, as we have seen, 4,000 of them 
 pass over from the ranks of moderate drinkers to the great army of 
 
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 drunkards But v/ere it not for the bar-room witli its "trontin^" 
 and socuxhty t .ey never would have forn.ed the z nmL S "?t 
 all. Oh, Christian fathers, Christian mothers, whose eves scan tL.P 
 pages, your own dear hoys are in dan<rer W fh n, ,Z > ^ 
 
 cc,mp.,io„, „„ every .,i/e of tl,e,Osiotl.;«e" ' r;!".: - ^^ 
 you WeT„'3,°""" ■ '='" "' "-" » '-'<""»" I"-' 'o -e tC 
 
 vemence l,„tel-kee„er. ,„ay suhfoct the travel 7™"° ti'Z; 
 
 Will create a sup])ly. iso better accommo( at on is to be hnd i"., fi„. 
 country than m those places where Prohibition is entbrc d M 
 Youmans says concenuno. Prince Edward Co. .-" On iL ] ( h 
 
 meTtt e "/T-^^""'^^ ^'^■^^^ "P"-^''^^ "" onmibus wa Tei t to 
 meet the boats bringing tbe judge and others from Toronto Bi^ 
 the teiuperance people were equal to the occasion ; tl ey p^,,vide 
 the judge and others with acco.nmo lation. And how oL d thi. 
 nK.vement on the part of the hotel-keepers 1^1 ll^^^^^^ 
 
 Mr. W. H Gibbs, M.P. for North Ontario, in an address deliver 
 ed in Brampton a few months ago, gave an account o f h expen 
 e ice in travelling in Nova Scotia, in Novemb. r, 1875 a d stauS 
 90 nu es, along the cold sea-coast of that Province nis^nafhl V 
 several towns as large as IJrampton, and sto ,p ' a[ Sr^ fass o 'Is 
 lu which no iKiuor had been openly sold for thirty-onf yeart 
 
 V^-^r^1:tix::^^^' ^^'''^ ^^^^^^^^ "^ ^'- ^-^^^y of 
 ''I recall a very plea.sant drive of seventy „ve miles throu-I. tl.P «!f„f 
 
 I hope, will help to peivsuade our friends that a hotel is i o neceZ^J 
 a groggery ; that, on tlie contrary, a gro-^erv slioidd L n n ^ I V ^ 
 hotel. l,.e fear that, in case the ^n^nA:i'i:^ZZ^l^y^ 
 gTolSlel"" ^^^"'^''"°^'^^-" ^- *^-- 1—, i'l reel ^^ 
 
 11. ''But docs not Scripture sanction the drinkinq of wine 2'^ 
 J\e need not here enter into the question whether ^L iiWes 
 ever speak approvingly ot any kind of wine that wouM intZcrto' 
 
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 THE TKXT BOOK FOR THE CAMPAIGN. 
 
 
 w 
 
 Many ^^ood men iuul excellent scholars, such as Professor Moses 
 Stuart, the well-known ccjumientator Albert l>arnes, Prol'essor 
 Owen, President Nott, J)r. Lees, and many others, maintain that 
 they do not, l)nt that, on the contrary, " no precept and no example 
 can be brouuht i'rom the Scriptures to show that the habitual use, 
 in any way oC licpiors, properly called intoxicating, is allowed." 
 But without pas.>,;ug judgment on this, the earnest Christian who 
 sini;erely desires to laiow che mind of God on the Licpior Traffic 
 cannot surely liave much difficulty in so doing. 
 
 " Wine is ii mocker, strong drink is raging; and whosoever is de- 
 ceived thereby is not wise." — Pruo. xx. 1. 
 
 " lie not deceived ; neithei- fornicators, idolators, nor thieves, nor cov- 
 etous, nor drunkards sh;dl inherit the kingdom of God." — 1 Cor vi 9 
 10. ■ ' 
 
 " Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, tliat pattest thj 
 bottle to liim and makest him drunken also." — J/ab. ii. 15. 
 
 " It is good neither to eat Hesli nor to drink wine, nor anything wliare- 
 by thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak." — Ji'om xiv 
 21. 
 
 " Be not ye, therefore, partakers with them. Have no fellowship with 
 the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." — Bph v 7 
 '11. ■ ' 
 
 Christian, you who are guided solely by the authority of God's 
 word, can you read these passages and many other similar ones, and 
 yet hesitate as to the teaching of Scripture on this matter ? Eeview 
 the facts I have feebly brou ',ht before you. See the effects of the 
 traffic on the individual, on the family, on the church, on society. 
 Listen to our judges, our gaolers, our jiolice magistrates, testifying 
 with united voice that it is tb" cause of three-fourths of all tlie 
 pauperism, misery and crime of our land. Hear our medical men 
 testifying to its ruinous effects on the body ; hear the ministers of 
 religion, of every denomination, bewailing the havoc of souls caused 
 by drink, and declaring that no other form of sin so opposes and 
 hinders "the work of Christ, ^uid can you doubt what the Lord 
 would have you to do ? The Lii^uor Traffic is evil, only evil, and that 
 continually. It naturally leads to the violation of every command 
 in the decalogue. The Apostle puts drunkenness along with the 
 other legitimate offspring of tliis traffic, and here is the whole 
 fomily : Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, 
 witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, 
 heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like." 
 Here is an inspired title to place over every bar-room door in the 
 land. And who with the facts I have brought before him. and 
 which every man's own observation will abundantly confirm, will 
 yet maintain that the mind of God is not sufficiently clear to hiili 
 as to the path of duty on the present occasion ? 0, surely nothing 
 could more strikingly show tlie perverse ingenuity of man than the 
 
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 efforts thataro now he.iivy niadp l)v Hip tn„«^. i 
 distillers to twist and di;;to r'jo^s ^'> Sr^s?^'''''','''''"'''^ '^"'^ 
 to sanction tl.oir ndarions w. 1^ T^ rh -i H "' '' ^' "''''^'^"" 
 lives, n<.t t'aiu-Iik-e, for self but (' H.f li V '■?,'^" '' '^'"^ ^^^'" 
 aestrov ti.e souls for wl o ,' ( |ni.7 ^^''^-/^^ ''^^''''- ^''^ ^^'iH "ot 
 arnple^in couutena i^a ^ ev , tl i.;;; ^i' ^'^l^l^.'-y '»« «- 
 refusing to n.ake ... etibrt ^o^^ll^l/^i^^'^^^l^' '^,l;';.;;;t:""^^ '" 
 " For the cause that needs assistance— 
 tov tJie wron-s that need resistance— 
 Hov the good tliat lie can do " 
 
 any ntiK.,- iiw. will'.,? iu ■',;;-,„ '" T'r;i,rT ",'■ ""■»■ °^ 
 
 rise from and rest uikiii H.p ,..„,,, " • . """''• » '"«' iriust 
 
 ;;an.st „„ .„e ..„tt„^ 'feSniLl^ ;^° ,,;'r'"^,,° utlL"' "'■; "' 
 the law, then this law can be enforced is we .^ ., "■^'' 
 
 heve that, under such circunista ce the le -t o ^'^' "'^"'- ^ ^'^- 
 would diminish drinkin- t , cons er .ll ;*" .''^ '''? ''^'^^^"'- 
 'vanish drink into dark corners ' vn i '''^''/^•, " ^^ ^^"^^ 
 theatniospheretha surroTds;i ch^^^ 'l'™""^ "^'^'^'''^ '''''^'' 
 
 ••vould be with doors lo 1 ed stn e o, heiV t , '"'" 7".'^ ^""'^' ^' 
 l.earts/v Ke^p,,,,,.!, ^,^^ f;;^-^^;« ^^^^^^ tear in their 
 
 seen has been the effect elsewhere and tc T r "'' '"', ^^^ 
 the effect here. The law urooe Iv p, . "n , ^''^'''■''''' ''''^"^'^ '^^^ 
 
 jouno. nieu from the Taies f the t . '''" ^" P^tection to our 
 drunkard, wirwoukl In t wl o e. /"" '^f'T"' P^-'^^«^ti«" to the 
 when ten ptatioiTSts Jo' evpr'' T''^' ^''^ .insatiable thirst 
 urd's heari-broken w a n .die ed chi'l.r''''^''; '' '^'' '^'■'"^'^- 
 tavern-keeper himself frcu l^ind' Id In " ' f?1tr ^^ '^'' 
 b.jdies and souls of his fellow me nt /'^ tratfickin- m the 
 
 the tauntof beincvfe ontirSo^d ' '? n 'l^' ''''^''''^» ^■^■«»' 
 
 tion to nKHviduals. t. lloni: ' "t Li^^ ^ ^Sm.' Pur^^ T^^^^ 
 tins, the passing of this Act will slinw m,v J.'^"^'^- ^"'^' 'jesi'ies all 
 nientthat we are in eal e.rnp t ? ."^'™'"'"^ ''^'^'^ ''^>'Iia- 
 
 Our Prenuer, wl o s'l'X to l^T '"' ^"'^"'' prohibition. 
 " Hhow us, by usin.r the 1 vfvon I ^^W^^^-'^^^e cause, says : 
 
 -d we wnf give ^ouMr ^^ n-^T ' l^SlS/^J'^ V''''^\' 
 to take him at his word Am] if w! ^^"'^^'i^^o"-. We wish 
 
 l--n Act in count; ler coin y^itl' Z ""^'"^^ '^ ^""- 
 uttendeditdurin.Tthe,nstvpa?tl!ir ''''^'''' ^^"^^ '''"^^ 
 
 HI a manner not to be SS whit l!^^''"'' 7T ""'" ^^^islators. 
 in favour of -eneiJmo iihi^^^^^^^ sentiment 
 
 result will beC'^Lre'^o I " e wm "et "^ t:^'^] ^"^ ''' 
 the one we are now seeking, ^li:^ ^^^^^^ S:;f ^^ 
 
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 use what we have. Fellow-Christians, coiiteniplato the magnitude 
 of the evil against which we are contending, and arise in the 
 Btrengtli of Ood, and dare and do the right. As patriots, do your 
 duty to your country ; as citizens, do your (hity to society ; as 
 parents do your duty to your children ; and as Clinstians, be taith- 
 ful, lie faithful to the Church of (iod. By all that is great, glo- 
 rious and good, we call on yor. to come to the resc\ie of a crushed and 
 .rroaning humanity. The tears of the widow appeal to you ; the 
 sorrows of broken-hearted wives appeal to you ; the wail ot starving 
 children appeals to you ; the youth of our land, who may yet tall 
 victims if the evil is allowed to go on, appeal to you From 
 Heaven there is a voice calling ujjon you to come to the help ot the 
 Lord a-rainst the mighty. Yea, hell unites with earth and heaven ; and 
 from the hundredsof thousands ofvictimswhothrougli thistraffichave 
 entered an eternity of woe, there conies a piercing shriek calling on 
 us to do what we can " lest others also come into the .same place ot 
 torment." And shall heaven, earth and hell appeal to you iii vain ? 
 Depend ipon it, if we are to secure victory we must work tor it. 
 Our opponents are thoroughly organized : every bar-room is a 
 committee-room, every concession line will be canvassed, and every- 
 thing- that money, whiskev and a Hood of Licensed Victuallers' 
 literature can do will be done to defeat the right. The friends ot 
 humanity and of Cod must therefore devote themselves with con- 
 stant, unwearied application to the work before them, resolved to 
 combat by all honourable means the weapons of sin and Satan. 
 But not only must we work hcnrtily, but we must i^ray earnestly. 
 O ' let there be a close clinging to the power of (Jod. Let the 
 Spirit be invoked in all His awakening and strengthening power. 
 Let the <dory of (iod be our great end, and love to God and man 
 our chief motive in this contest, and then, whatever be the imme- 
 diate result, we know that in the end Truth will and must prevail. 
 
 " Still our onward couise pursuing, 
 
 God sijeed the right ; 
 Every foe at length subduing, 
 
 God speed the right ! 
 Truth, thy cause, whate'er delay it, 
 There's no power on earth can stay it, 
 
 God speed the right !"