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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.
BT
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
2
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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.
I
s sok'mn
anuot do
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
.e.„a,.sLH,„.„:':re-rt r„;T. r;r::;' '""• -^
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 "
<vom"hirttfflc"''K" T°T" '"" •" '"= ""'"'"■> "' "-""'"'y
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^
4 THK TEXT BOOK KOfl THK CAMPAMm.
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
ative A.S-
an be in-
lountrj <it
Irink up-
le country
I dollars).
5te of the
istilleries
ushels of
of bread.
t if these
d pave a
rying out
iputation
M.P. for
5,000,000
per head
Mr. Ros:^
traffic is
een, only
;, leaving
5,000,000
cially to
such an
ish. As
tliat we
n dollars
3 million
tain who
'ter little
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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
'n Llv- H f \'T ''^' '' "^^"^^^ '-^ y-' -« - «P-ding
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
6
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Thk Piiysicai, Kfkj.( ts ok Stu()N(; Hiunk.
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,
I'm, si nil tod
plcxy, pnr-
liicli more,
batllcrt of
roiigf.li and
is not tliiit.
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•ny (lamiot
icians and
' education
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it roiilrarii
ccption of
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ave united
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ny against
eds of the
id Ireland,
mont, and
li, but, on
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ices which
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t which it
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^riTiy and
nguished
d in the
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total ahstinonoo f on, „ , "li""; "' ""'''' '' -""1-tihh, litl.
'onn of anient .1^1.1^^^^^^^'''''^'^''' ^^J'"t''«'- i" tl.o
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,
TIIK TEXT M(.(»K Hm TIIK < AMPAKiN.
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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THF TKXT BOOK FOR THK OAMPAKJN.
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!
TrrK TK.XT BOOK FOR THK (WMrMV.S. \\
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
THE TEXT BOOK FOB TKE ClMrAlcm. ,3
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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OR THE t'AMl'AItJX.
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
THE TKXT BOOK KOK THE CAMJ'AUiN. J^ij
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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TIIK TEXT BOOK KOR THK CAMPAmN.
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
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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^.
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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:;:'"'' -- - --
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-:;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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
THE TEXT BOOK FOR THE CAMPAIGN. 29
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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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 !"