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 iME extent and expense of the lu|uor traftic in Great Britain, 
 the United States and tanada — The loss of life and the 
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 1 . Xook at the extent and expenaVof the liquor tratt'ic in Great 
 Britain, the United States and Candida. NAbout one-seveutli of the grain 
 of Grkat Britain is wasted o^ this traffic, Vhen thonsak^s of the people 
 are oil the verge of star^fttion and living in abject poverty. In the 
 United Kingdom, 52,659,000 bushels of grain are destroyed yearly to 
 make beer. Prof. Foster says that 100,000,000 bushels of grain are 
 annually destroyed in the Anglo-Saxon world, which wottld give two 
 barrels of flour to eVery family in England, the United \^tates and 
 Canada during the year. The Church of England Temperance Chronicle 
 endorsed the following calculation :— *William Hoyle, Esq., M.P. for 
 Dewsbury, England, stated in the spring of 1880, — that during t^e laat 
 seven years the large total had been spent of X987,0OO,0OO, or £200,- 
 000,000 more than the national debt of Great Britain. And this 
 was not all, for it cost at least £l00i000,000 more to pay for the n^is- 
 chiof that it caused. That gave a cost of £241,000,000, or aboAjk 
 $1,200,000,000 yearly for their drink billl. He says that if they de-\ 
 ducted £41,000,000 for revenue it still left £200,000,000 as the cost 
 and loss to the nation every year, or £8,000,000 more than the foreign 
 trade of England, and that when the expenditure for bread is only about 
 £75,000,000, and the great charitable institutions of the country only 
 receive about £2,000,000. Rev. Canon Baldwin stated in Toronto that, 
 according to Hayles, in forty towns in Scotland there are 980 people to 
 each bakerj 1,026 to each butcher, 2,228 to each bookseller, and only 
 
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 149 to uiich beur-Hhuii. Ac(!^rding to thii», ilriuk wan mvuu timen luuri* 
 prizod than boof or muttou, and tiftetiu moro than iittelligonce, and that 
 in one of the hont e<lucatud countrioH in tho world. It said that thurt* 
 are about 200,0C)0 places in Groat liritain whoro liciuof ia Hold, and tliusv 
 are probably doing more to hinder God's Cause than tho 40,000 
 ministers of religion can do to advance it. As the result, mainly of in- 
 temperance, they have nearly 3,000,000 ap|>lying yearly for pariah relief 
 in that wealthy country ; 85,000 inmates in their asylums ; 60,000 con- 
 victed of crime ; at least 250,000 vagrants roaming about the country ; 
 and about 1 20,000 brought annually to a premature grave. And these 
 liquor shop* arc Hftnctioued by law to lend away .the people from God, 
 from happiness and heaven. Thus the liquor traffic of Great Britain 
 costs as much us would support 000,000 missionaries at 81,200 a year ; 
 500,000 schoolmastera at 8500; build 6,000 churche$ at 810,000 ; 5,000 
 school-houses at 84,000 j would give to the world 200,000,000 of bibles 
 at 25 cents each ; and 500,000,000 of tract*at81 per 100 ; would give 
 100,000 widows, 8100 a year; and 200,000 poor families, 850 a year. 
 In short, would provide a machinery that would evangelize the world in 
 a short time, or pay off the national debt in four years. Dr. Young, 
 chief of the Bureau of Statistics at Washington, estimated the cost of 
 liquor to the consumers of the nation, in 18G7, at 8600,000,000. The 
 amount is much larger at this time. Dr. flargreaves "Wasted Re- 
 HOUBCEH," in 1872, estimated the direct cost of liquor in the United 
 States at 8734,720,048, one-half of Mfhich is profit; whereas the largest 
 cotton crop ever raised, 1859-60, was only worth 8246,516,117; and the' 
 flour and grist mill products, 8144,955,143. The upproductive liquor 
 traffic etnplpys half a million persons directly, besides their famiUes and 
 dependents. In contrast, the 57,000 clergymen cost the United States 
 but 812,000,000 yearly, while seeking to elevate and save the people. 
 
 The late Hon. Wm. E. Dodge (Senator from New York, and accord- 
 ing to Ilev. Joseph, Cook, one pf the besit authorities in the United 
 States on the liquor traffic), stated in September, 1880, that there were 
 175,000 places where intoxicating liquor was sold, involving a direct 
 outlay and waste of not less than 8700,000,000, and and indirect lo8§ to 
 the country, by crime, pauperism, &o„ of 8700,000,000 more ; and this 
 results in the destruction of 100,000 lives yearly. Mr. Dodge showed 
 that in Maine, before prohibition, there was one drunkard for every 
 fifty-five of the population, and one million gallons of spirits was dis- 
 tilled annually, while the liquor bill amounted to 810,000,000. Since 
 prohibition there is not a distilleiy or brewery in the state, the recent 
 sale of liquor amounting to the mere fraction of the former quantity sold ; 
 whereas the death rate had been reduced to one in 300 of her popula- 
 tion. A very valuable paper was published in the Catholic Presbyter- 
 
ian, Etlfciburgh, Juno, lh^2, by W. A. PKwell, I-jki., Ne\* York, a load- 
 ing ten|)orttnco writer. It atatM that in 188 1 there were in oporation in 
 the United States 3,210 difltiUeriee. Theeo consumed 31,291,130 
 bushela of grain, with an liggrngato prmluction of 117,728,150 galloBn of 
 proof Hpirita. For the fwcul yejir ending 30th Ju^e, 1H81, total amount 
 of revenue to tjienati6nal treasury from diatilled spirits waa 607,153,- 
 074.83 ; for the sarao period tho total rovoaue from fermented liiiuors 
 amounted to 813,700,241.21. The beer production for the yoar on.llng 
 30th June, was 14,311,028 bushels, or at thirty-one gallona per bushel 
 the enormous aggregate of 434,041,808 gallons. A brewer's authority 
 gives the number of breweries at 2,830, and estimates that there are 
 1,681,(570 acres of land under cultivation for barley and hops. If sown 
 with wheat, at thirty bushels per acre, this land would provide 
 50,456,000 bushels, or about one bushel for every man, womau and 
 child in the United States. Added to the $80,854,210 received by the 
 Internal Ilevenuo Department from distilled and fermented liquors of 
 home manufacture, there were customs' duties collected from imported 
 foreign hquors amounting to $0,409,040.04, making o grand total of 
 liquor revenue to the national treasury for the fiscal year endina 30th 
 June, 1881, of 887,323,859.13. T ^ 
 
 In 1880, according to the ofticial record oflftw-Tntemal Revenue De- 
 partment, there were of wholesale dealers iHpiilled spirits, 4,005 • of 
 retail dealers, 106,801 ; of wholesale dealers in fermented^iquors, 2,005 • 
 of retaU dealers, 8,952 ; an aggregate of wholesale and retail dealers in 
 both distUled and fermented liquors of 181,973, and aU these commis- 
 sioned to prey upon society, and promote crime, pauperism, vice, disease 
 and misery. The census of 1870 shows the total value of churoh pro- 
 perty of all sects in the United States at 8354,483,587, and that the 
 annual contribution for church purposes and benevolent objects amounts 
 to 847,330,496. Add to this the ani^ual expenditure for the public 
 fichools of the United States (census returns, 1870,) of 895,402,726, and 
 we have an aggregate for chutch property, annual contrihutions for 
 church purposes and benevolent purposes, and for public schools, of 
 8497,622,802, with a balance of 8217,447,198 as the excess of the 
 nation s drink hill for a single year. The fair comparison is not between 
 the value of property accumulated for religion, but between the. yearly 
 expenses for religion, benevolence and education, which only amount to 
 8143,839,221, that is, not much more than one-fifth of the direct cost 
 of the liquor bm. Not long since the New York Tribune stated that 
 ihe annual hquor bill in the United States was not less than 8800,000 000 
 yearly, thus corroborating the above calcuhtions. Then if the direct 
 cost of the liquor bill to the consumers is over 8700,000,000 we must 
 remember that the indirect expenses for criminal»^for prisons^ peniten- 
 rianes, asylums, reformatories, &c., is about equal, making the total cost 
 
nation ft1>out 61,400,000,000, th« lame m Mr| Dotlgo 
 
 ^„ , or over nine time" M much an w "pent yearly on edncation, 
 
 reliuion'and btinovolonce, for the elevation and b«n«jht of their own 
 n««i>lt>, aiid for th« conversion of the world. It haa been declared on 
 authority of an official cenwe that the li<|Uor traffic duriiiK tho UhI ten 
 Vfara has Hont 100,000 chiWrcn to the poor houaen in th« Unite<l Statta ; 
 huB comniittcil at least ir)0,(K)0 to priaona and workhouae* ; has made at 
 least 10 000 inaano ; haa determined at leaat 2,000 auicidea ; ha» cauBcd 
 the lo«8, by iire or violonco, of «10,000,000 worth of property ; and haa 
 made 200,000 widows and 1,000,000 orphans, while the clergymen 
 of the United State* cost 812,OPO,000 yearly, the lawyers «80,000,000. 
 There are about 760,000 engaged in the liquor traffic, while there are 
 but 160,000 ministers and school-teachers. It has long been hold by 
 temperance writers that the victirta of the liqnor traffic form an army of 
 000,000 drunkards in England, and C0,000 of thene die annually. This 
 has often been sneered at as absurd and without foundation. Hut lately 
 the eminent Dr. liichardson examined the matter with great care, and 
 found on good data thftt at least 108,000 die annually in England from 
 the use of intoxicants. We may safely conclude with the best author- 
 ities that about 120,000 die annually in Great Britain and Ireland frfihi 
 intemperance. According to the returns of the Secretary of State for 
 the Dominion of Canada, 1883, the (lunntity of spirits manufactured in 
 
 Canada in 1882, was 4,028,847 gallons. 
 
 f Mialt liquors • • 12,036,979 
 
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 Liquors imported and entered for home 
 
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 or nearly four gallons for every man, woman %nd child in the Dominion. 
 
 Duty due on the same*. $4,028,847 
 
 Puty collected on home manufactured liquors..... 3,552,990 
 Duty collected on imported liquors ... ......... 1,661,990 
 
 Total duty collected on liquors in 1882. ... $6,214,980 
 
 G. W. Rqss, Esq., M.P., in 1877, reckoned the cost of the liquor 
 trnftic to the consumet as five times as much as the revenue, then 
 $5,000,000, that is f 25,000,000. Then he reckons $9,000,000 as lost 
 to the productive wealth of the country, through intepiperance and 
 
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 ;'iicriftco af lif«, )?0, 000,000, »ml |)y oUiPr hmnn 81,000,000, in all 
 841,000,000 coiit to the country, or over ^'lO per heailof th« twpulatioti. 
 At the Mtne time Mr. Kom •tutof (hat according to Mr. W)yU,' the 
 traffic in Oreot Britoin cont 820 pot hcail, and in th« Unite t Statfl*, 
 iicconlinK to (Joniinimionor Welln, 81 p«r heail. In o Htatintical report 
 preH«nte«l to a t«mp«mnco coVivcntioft in Toronto in 1809, th« litiuor 
 trattlc is bolievP<l to cost Canoda $4$,fiOO,000. 
 
 By the direct cont of the liciuor. , $18,100,000 
 
 LoM by land used in cultivation of grain, &c, . . , 2,500,000 
 
 LoM of capital and labour .... », fi,ftOO,0()0 
 
 Low of labour to the rtate by retailer, Ac... 3,000,000 
 
 Loss of labour and time by working men .......... 5,500,000 
 
 Destruction 6f property on land, lakes and rivers — 
 
 loss by theft, bad dflbt and crimes 3,400,000 
 
 Charges through pauporitnii, destitution, sickness, 
 insanity, and premature death, traceable to 
 
 drink. 3,500,000 
 
 "Cost of police, prosecution, courts of justice, sup- 
 port of criminals,. &C., at least .. . 2,000,000 
 
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 Mr. Scott states that, in 1877, this should be increased to $50,000,000 
 We may safely place the present cost of the traltic in the Dominion as 
 about $52,000,000, or over 811 per head of the papulation, $20,000,000 
 being reckoned as the cost to the consiuncr, and that doubled as in the 
 United States. The report of the License Commissioner for Ontario 
 shows that in 1882 there were 4,163 licenses for wholesale and retail 
 shops in Ontario alune, from which a revenue was derived of |9 1,948.75. 
 We may reckon 7,000 as the yearly victims of this traffic m Canada. 
 And all this is sanctioned by law for the sake of a little over $5,000,000 
 of revenue ! We may illustrate the great loss of this traffic to the 
 country by supposing thot it cost the doctor or lawyer $8 to $10 to col- 
 lect every dollar of his fees. We may be sure they would soon refuse 
 their services to their patients and clients at such a losing rate. Fot 
 every dollar the revenue gains the country loses over five directly. - The 
 government thus sanctions the waste to the country, directly and in- 
 directly, of probably $52,000,000 for the sake of about $5,200,000 of 
 j-evenue. The marked decrease of late in the consumption of liquors in 
 Great Britain is causing anxiety to officials, because there has- been a 
 great falling oflf in the revenue. But as the result there will he a most 
 beneficiaUfalling off in the expenses for the restraining of crime, and in 
 
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 soon far more than compensate for t)ie temporary loss of revenue. 
 (The revenue fropi excise is now $25,000,000 less than it was seven 
 years ago.) As an illiistriEition of this we would cite tBe case of Vine-' 
 land, Kew Jersey, 'which practically as well as legally prohibits the sale 
 of intoxicating^ liquors, Yonkers, N.Y., licenses 1^5 spoons, and has in 
 addition 75 places where liquor is sold |n violation of the law. Vine- 
 land has about 12,000 ii^abitants, and Yonkers less than 15,000. 
 Yonkers spends on its police 837,000, and the police duties of Vine- 
 land are performed by one constable at the annual expense of $75. 
 Yonkers has a police judge at a salary of $4,000, and a clerk who is paid ^ 
 J800. Vineland has no police court and needs none. The paupers of 
 Yonkers cost the town $12,000 ; Vineland only' has six, pay $400 
 for the same. Altogether these articles of expense cost Yonkers $43,- 
 800 j^ in Vineland, $475.' Making proportionate allowance for the dif- 
 ference in .population, the government, so far as the expenses are 
 concerned, cost more tbau ninety times as much as that of Vineland. 
 
 Then look at the loss to the community of the labour of the army of 
 drunkards. If we reckon the number in Britain or the United States 
 as 640,000, and allow oidy $500 in each case as the loss of their labour 
 to the community, which would be a moderate calculation, as many of 
 these are men of education and ability, whose earning might add live or 
 six times as much to the wealth of the country, and we have thus 
 $3t)0,000,000 lost to the productive wealth of the country by this item 
 dJUfm* 'And this muaf be multiplied manifold by the habits transmitted 
 to iheir children, so that the system of impoverishment goes on increas- 
 ing from generation to generation. Looking at this aspect of the 
 maC^ar, we have solved the question as to the grand cause of the pauper- 
 ism and indolence ifhich presses as a heavy incubus on Britain, the 
 United States and Canada. Dr. Richardson add/' other eminent 
 physicians hold that the predisposing causes are heredit^ary, and that the 
 evfl tendencies become worse the longer they continue. An4 I have 
 found as a matter of careful observation,'' during a long experience in thei 
 ministry, that nii^e-tenths of the ca^es o{ abject poverty I have known 
 could be trlaced to the use of intoxicants as the cause. Then, in Great 
 Britain, the United States and Canada, three of the most Christian 
 countries in the world, over 22Q,000 persons perish annually as victims 
 on the altara of this modem Moloch ! e 
 
 Probably over $3,000^000,000 wre spent annually on intoxicants, in 
 Christendom, wbile not the tenth part of the funds that are needed can 
 be obtained to obey the command of the Bedeemer to give the Gospel to 
 every creature, not more than $8,000,000 being given yearly for the 
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 It ha9 generally been helcl by^ judges, magistrates, sheriffs, chaplains of 
 prisons, and others in positions enabling them to judge, that three- 
 fourths to four-fifths of the crime and misery existing in Britain, the 
 United Staties and Canada are the result of the liquor, traffic, with all the 
 enormous burdens thus inflicted on society. The ^uef of the Toronto 
 Police Force states in his report for 1882, tha| of vi,om) arrested in 1882 
 2,974 were for being drunk and disorderly, and that many of the other 
 cases of crime were caused by drink. The Massachusetts Bureau of 
 Statistics ha<3 declared in an official report that intempisrance enters as a 
 leading cause into 84 per cent, of the crim^ brought to the iiotice of 
 the. law in that iState. Rev. W. Searles writes 2nd March, 1883^ that 
 during the ten years that he .has bjpen Chaplain of the Auburn prison, 
 Now York, there have been confined there 4,800 individuals. Of this 
 number, 2,924 acknowledged that they were intemperate, while 1,011 
 put thdm.selves on record as "moderate drinkers," Full one-fralf 
 acknowledged the use of intoxicants as the cause of their downfall. He 
 says, •' Idleness and drunkenness are the great causes of crime, and they 
 usually go hand in hand." We learn frotm the report of the License 
 Commissioner for Ontario for 1882, that the number of licenses given 
 in 1874, under the Act then in force, was 6,185, the number issued in 
 1876, under the Crooks Act, was 3,939, the reduction being more than, 
 one-third. 
 
 Number of persons committed to the county jail, Toronto, for drunk- 
 enness, in several years, taken from the Blue Book :^ — 
 
 • 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 
 
 4,032 3,785 3,581 3,795 2,328 3,497 - 
 
 Thus it will be seen that under the Crooks Act, whemthe licenses have 
 been fewer that the number of persons committed for drunkenness has 
 greatly decreased, notwithstanding the increase of population. 
 
 Central Prison for Ontario report for 1882. Prisoners committed 
 from the beginning of the prison up to 30th September, 1882: — 
 
 Temperate...,. ,. 1,280 
 
 ■;,;,. : ■ 5,371 ■ ■■■ 
 
 That is more than three- fourths of the prisoners have been intemper- 
 ate, and their criminel career consequently be traced to the use of intox- 
 icants. Prisoners committed to Central Prison during the year ending 
 30th September, 1882 :— r _ 
 
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 H«re we have more than six-eeventha of the prisonevs intemperate. The 
 report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Asserably^of Canada, 
 Ke year 1849. states that Capteiu Wiley Chief of fohce for the 
 city of Montreal/reports the total number of offences for 1848. 3,524 of 
 thL 2.001 we;e for being drunk. Mr. McGinn. Montreal, gaoler, 
 jeports number of prisoners committed to jail dunng 1848 as 1.462 ; 
 ^07 of these from intemperance, or mpre than two-thirds ot them. ■ 
 
 This traffic is also one of the chief causes of poverty and stervation. 
 Dr. Richardson states that 75 per cent, of the cereal produce of Ireland 
 aoes for the production of barley, whicli goes in its turn for the produc- 
 tion of whiskey. When we look at aU these facte we are forced to the 
 conclusion that the chief source ofpoverty as well as of crime, and the 
 chief hinderance to the prosperity of our country is the liquor tratfac. 
 And we see good reason for the conclusion of such men as Hon. Wm. Ji. 
 Dodce. that the indirect expenses and loss to the country nearly equal 
 the direct cost of the liquor, and that the whole of this^ or nearly so. is a 
 direct loss to the country, because unnecessary for the health or well- 
 being of the people. That is, the government of these three Christian 
 countries sanctions a tratfic which causes most of tJ>\«"'"«;j^J?J?'l^*'^ 
 by the people, and which causes the destruction of about 228 000 lives 
 yearly, and the waste of 2,600 million of dollars, for the sake of less 
 than $280,000,000 of revenue, while impoverishing or hindering the 
 prosperity of the country eight or ten times as much thereby. 
 
 We may calculate the loss of property to the nation, but who can 
 compute the wretchedness caused to jtmilies, the poverty, cruelty dis- 
 appointed hope, broken hearts, sad and withered lives, and diseased con- 
 stitutions, transmitted by drunkards, and the vice and crime which this 
 traffic occasions; together with the happiness which it prevents, and 
 above all the awful misery resulting from the eternal rmn of so many 
 
 nrillions of souls 1 ■ , i » j ^i. i. 
 
 That great statesman, the Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone„ha8 (kclared that 
 the intemperance of the Anglo-Saxon race, especially of Englishmen, 
 Scotchmen and Americans, has injured them more than war, pestUence 
 and famine. And it has certainly caused more destruction of life, as the 
 above statistics abundantly prove. Dr. Guthrie states that a^ great 
 French statesman once said, "Were it not for the drunkenness of your 
 people> you Anglo-Saxons would ride the world." 
 
 3 Dr Daniel Clark, Medical Superintendent of the Provineial 
 Lunatic Asyl""^. Toronto, is of opinion that 50 percent, of the cases? ot 
 insanity may be traced to intoxicants, mostly through the parent or 
 Rrandpareut, as a predisposing cause. He says that a large proportion 
 of the tendency to drunkenness is hereditery, and that the impulse to 
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 Dr. Kichard8on states that Dr. EdRar Shepherd declares that 40 per 
 cent, of the persons who come into the Great Asylum at Colney Hatch, 
 Encland. are brought there from the direct or indirect effects of drink. 
 The Cal Commissioners say that the^irect effects are represented by 
 Trper/ent. Dr. Mason of England, says : ''Th«inebriety of par^^^^^^^ 
 should be regarded as one predisposing cause of insanity n children, 
 m principaUauses is the inebriety of parents ; 92 out of 116 cases in 
 
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 and Insanity transmitted by parents to children.and that this tendency 
 
 may continue to increase with greater intensitji ^^o"? f^^'^V^^/^^?'"" 
 eration. He says : " Herelike as a'^resf may begin from the implan- 
 tation of a single plant, so from the beginning of the taking o akoho , 
 the mischief may progress from generation to^ generation, ,^^^^.^\^^^^^ 
 if such efforts as oSrs were not put forth to check the evil thisjorid 
 micht indeed— I am speaking the words of truth apd sobernbss-^beeome 
 "ne gigTnti^^^^ D- Howe, in his -^kno-n^eport on 
 
 the state of idiocy in Massachusetts, states that the habits of oi^ or both 
 parents of 300 idiots having been learned, U5 ^^ t^«.f f^}^^^^^^^^ 
 nearly one-half, were found to be the progency of habitual drunkards 
 Dr. Howe give^ the case of one drunkard who was the parent of eleven 
 idiots. .Dr. A. Mitchell, in his evidence before the Committee of the 
 British House of Commons, said he was quite certain that the chUdren 
 of habitual drunkards ^ere in larger proportion idiotic than other 
 ^ children, abelief shared in by M. Rousel, M. Taquet, Dr. Richardson. 
 
 Dr. Norman Kerr, and other competent observers. . 
 
 ' The transmitted insatiable craving for drink— the dipsomania ot 
 , the physician-every day becoming more prevdentin England, is owing 
 to the increase of female intemperance, transmitted to their children, is 
 the opinion of Dr. Norman Kerr, F.L.S. , 
 
 5 If the traffic can thus be shown to causp so much evil and misery, 
 and'thatit tends greatiy to hinder the productive wealth and^Por^^^f 
 the country, is it sustained because it is necessary for the health of the 
 , people and promotive of longevity 1 No ; longevity is greatly promoted 
 by total abstinence from all intoxicants. The English ^%f'^l'^'\^l 
 Companies liave taken gre^t care in .doUecting statistics of life, health 
 and disease; they find that more than three drinkers die for one ab- 
 stainer (357 to 110). J o ^ 
 The temperance life assurance offices have not half as many deaths a^ 
 the Other offices. Dr.' Carpenter says that in the general societies, the 
 average mortality for all ages between lo^ and 70, is 20 per 1 00^ 
 whereas in the Temperance Provident Institution it was only 6 pe 
 I.OPO. The able and scholarly lecturer, Rev. Joseph Cook, m his pre 
 
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 lude to a lecture at Boston, 3rd February, 1883, saya that one of tlie 
 foremost life assurance societies of London, England, had been accuse 
 tomed to distribute every five years bonuses to its two sections ; that is 
 to the total abstainers on the bne hand, and to the moderate drinkers on 
 the other ; and that the result has l>e«n» during the past sixteen years, 
 that they have issued 9,345 policies on the lives of moderate drinkers— 
 that i» of those who are not strictly abstinent in the use ot alcoholic 
 liquors— and 3,396 on the lives of total abstainers. Of the former, 524 
 have died, but 9t only of the latter, oi less than one-half of the propor- 
 tionate number, whiefi of courselwoali be 190. Thus less than one-half 
 ^e number of abstainers have dJied, compared with the number of non- 
 Sbstainers, who were strictly tei^perate, and this ihjbhe experience of 
 sixteen years. Another life assutance society declared ^uring the years 
 1872^1875 and 1878, a bonus tc^ the temperance section 15 p6r cent, 
 higher than i^the general dopartipent ; while in 1881, th^ bonus was 
 23 per cent, higher to the temperance section. Mr. Cook say« that the 
 United Kingdom Temperance and\ General Provident Institution insures 
 member in two sections, one in wtiich all the members are total abstain- 
 ers, the other moderate drinkers, all intemperate persons being excluded. 
 Th6 two sections being alike in oth:er respects, about 20,000 lives being 
 insured in the general section, and j 10,000 in the temperance section. 
 Returns of the expected actual claims in both sections for fifteen y^rs, 
 from 1860 to 1875, show that in the general section 3,450 deaths war© 
 expected, and that 3,444 took place j whereas in the temperance sectiJ^n 
 the expected deaths were 2,002, and the actual deaths only 1,43 3v 
 •Duringtheyear 1879 the expected claims in the temperance section 
 were 195 for £40,844 ; the actual claims were 164 for £28,649. In 
 the geiieral section 305 wel* expected for £64,343, the actual having 
 been 326 for £74,950. The five years' banuses in the temperance sec- 
 tion have been 17^ per cent, greater than these in the general section. 
 In an experience of nearly 40 years, and the insurance of rfore than 
 100,000 lives ; in societies making a distinction between tempeftte, non- 
 abstainers and total abstainers, have proved that 'under ,the law of 
 averages, a bonus of from 17 to 23 per cent, must be p^id to the section 
 of total abstainersi, 
 
 Heare is cool, stem business sagacity applied to one of the most com- 
 plicated gommercyd matters, and the outcome we have in this greatpro- 
 portion, sustained as it is by 4)he most exact application of the law of 
 averages, that nearly 25 per cent, must be paid to total abstainais above 
 what is paid to moderate drinkers. And many of these total abstainers 
 have not been such all their lives ^ their health may have been injured 
 in many cases by early indulgences. By and by when these societies 
 com e to have s e ctions fill e d by m e n who h a ve been tot a l ab s t a iner s al l 
 their life, the average of bonus will be higher still to the temperance 
 
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 sections. Then we should remeknber that the section of moderate 
 Sinkers are not drunkards (who We Qxc^ed), Vut respectable men. 
 S of them merely wine drinkers. Mr. Cook declares that the liquor 
 bill V the iTnited States is greater tUthe'bUls for Cml Service the 
 army tind navy, the cost of Congress including river and harbour appro- 
 Driatioh. and all they pay to state 4nd city governments, and common 
 sSrek'atioiJ. allLLJamountinlto ^0.000 ; w^^^^ 
 ing to ty\New York Trihane, the fcor bUl is $800 000,000 ^^ , 
 
 In accordance with these findings, two thousand of the most emment 
 Uhysicians of Europe and America, irom Court physicians to country 
 practitioners\ign(!d the following ce rtificate :-" That a yery^large pro- 
 portion of huSan ^i^^'T. including poverty, disease a«^ °'J°^«'^^'^: 
 duced by the usfe of alcoholic or fermented beverages. That the most 
 
 perfect 4alth is VP»*i^^«^^*^*°*^^^*^'H''*'''\^''''? * Tfhn^T/: 
 ages, whether in the form of wine, teer, ale, porter, &c. That total or 
 
 universal abstinenc^rom alcoholic l^everages of all sorts would greatly 
 
 contribute to the he^h, the prosperity, the morality, and the happmess 
 
 of the human family."\ . . / " , 
 
 A similar statement V «8°^^ V ^''' ^^^^^pH^^^' J^®»" ?^ ^^^^^^^i 
 McGill College, MontrealXand by Ainety-six ot the ablest pnysicijiw ot 
 that city. • The most eminW phVsicians of the age declare that alcbhol 
 is not food in any sense, bu\a stUnulant poison or medical drug ; thaftit 
 seriously injures the brain, lil^er And stomach ; that it passes ofif by the 
 excretory organs without. bein^simUated, tod that whUe it acts as a. 
 whip or excitant, it weakens ana deranges th6, powers and^shortens the ' 
 life. Such were the views of th\late Dr. MiV, of Edinburgh, Dr. F. 
 R. Lees, Dr. Carpenter, Dr. D.\B. Richardi^on, Dr. Aiidrew Clark, 
 physician to the Queen, Dr. NorWn Kerr, p.L.S., and Sir B»m 
 Thompson.. \ v 
 
 Sir Benjamin Brodie, Sir James Cla^, Dr. Marshall Hall, and others 
 of the most eminent i^edical men in G^t Britain, declare that man m 
 ordinary healthy like other animals, requires no such stimulants as wme, 
 beer, or spirits, and cannot be benefitted byany quantity of them large 
 or small, nor will their use during his life iiterease the aggregate amount 
 of his lahour. In whatever quantity they are employed they wiU rather 
 tend to diminish it. liebeg, the prince of physiologists and _ chemists, 
 says that he who uses intoxicants, draws, so to speak, a biU on his 
 health which must always be rehewed ; because fpr want of means he 
 cannot take it up. He consumes his capital instead of his interest, and 
 the result is the ineyitable bankruptcy of the body. ^ 
 
 The leading chemists tell us that alcohol causes diseases of the vital 
 organs, debilitates the vigour of the physical system, whik it wea,kens 
 the mind and p r omotes in both pr e m a ture d e c a y . The emi n ent 
 
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 phyeician, Sir Astley Cooper, says, " We have a}l been in error in re- 
 conimending wine as a tonic. Ardent spirits and poison are convertible 
 terms." The stimulus given is not strength, it is always exceeded by. 
 the subsequent depression. It is like the spur used to a jaded horse, 
 when he needs rest and oats, which by forcing him to exert beyond hi? 
 natural strength only hastens his exbflustidn. In the pvesenoe of the 
 highest medical authorities of the world, what then is the value of the 
 opinion of some that liquors are food, and that such stimulants are 
 necessary? There are many facts which show that total abstinence is bet' 
 ter adapted than moderate drinkmg, for all climates. Dr. Rae, the emi- 
 nent arctic traveller, says thsit spirits were oif no use in the frozen region 
 of the north zone except for burning; He found that they would render 
 the men less able to endure severe cold^ So it is in the South ; soldiers 
 and others in India who use alcoholic liquors are more liable to fever, 
 liver, and other dangerous diseases, The water-drinkers of many lands, 
 as th^ Gaffres of South Africa, are said to be equal in strength to two 
 English beer drinkers. The porters of Constantinople carry burdens 
 that would oppress two Britons. . The Ifew Zealanders, with their ex- 
 traordinary strength and stature ; the Circassians, with their primitive 
 longevity and personal beauty ; the anciisnt Grecian, Eoman, and Sarcen 
 annies, proverbially invincible, were all water-drinkers. And with this 
 agree the views, of the leaditig pliysicians of Britain and the United 
 States. Whatis the meaning of all this but God's own testimony in 
 favour of his own laws» which he has enstampod on our nature, by 
 which He shows that the natural and proper condition of man is total 
 abstinence from alcoholic; liquors, and also shows Hitf displeaure at the 
 ^se of intoxiclbts as a violation of His laws 1 
 
 If these conclusions be correct that the liquor traffic is the cause of so 
 much waste of property and destruction of life, and of such a vast 
 amount of suffering and; misery, not merely to the drunkards themselves 
 but to all related to them, and that it is the greatest hindrance to the 
 prosperity of our country, is it not the duty of our Legislature to pro- 
 hibit the nianufiEtcture and sale of intoxicants, save for purely medicinal 
 and mechanical purposes) It is objected that prohibition will be 
 coercion and interference with the liberties of the people. All law is 
 coercion. If we do not obey the law it seizes us, punishes us, and com- 
 pels us to obey. It is the same with both Divine and human laws.' Most 
 of the Decalogue is prohibitory which infringes upon the liberty to do 
 many things to which poor fallen human nature is only too much inclined. 
 pDo we ciy out against the Divine law because of that? No; not many 
 ittChristian lands would like to do so openly; but jio doubt the thief, 
 the adulterer, the murderer, the forger, and the slanderer, think it hard 
 to have their liberty thu s infring e d upon. — Gambling - houses, houses of 
 
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 illfame, lotteries, and such like,, are fotbiddon by law, because injurious 
 to the morals of the people, and because they sap th^ foundation of 
 society, and lead directly to many crimes. Now the laws against all 
 these crimes are sustained by the migority of the people, because these 
 laws are all held to be necessary (or the protection of society and for the 
 best interests of the community. And no doubt were it not for these 
 laws there would be a great deal more crime. Yet all these crimes put 
 together do not cause the tenth part of the injury to society that the. 
 liquor traffic does. Government is an ordinance of God appointed. f<v^ 
 the good of society, and designed to be a terror to evil, and a protectiofT 
 to the weak and well-doing. The very object of its existence is to pro* 
 tect the community against injury on the part Of the unprincipled. 
 Society, therefore, has the right to protect itself, and has always acted 
 on it in legislation. Render anything illegal and you make it discredit^ 
 able, and this goes a good way towards preventing its general practice.! 
 This has been found w be the case in Maine and other states, where a 
 prohibitory law has been enforced, where there is not the twelfth of ' 
 the liquor sold there was before, and where there will not be the 
 twentieth part when they can secure officials who will all do their duty. 
 ' Besides special evils require special legislation. All prohibitory legisla- 
 tion is founded on this idea. If there was a dangerous place on the 
 edge of a precipice or overhanging some fearful whirlpool, where the 
 weak and timid were in the habit of going to destruction, would it not 
 be the duty of the govemmei^ to plate a fence around it to protect such 
 persons from injury 1 Blackistone declares drunkenness to be one of the 
 crimes which ought to be restrained. The American judges hove taken 
 the same view. On this prin^pie every Christian nation acts in pro- 
 hibiting those things already mentioned, and anything that endangers 
 the morals or health of the/people. ' As to interfering with the rights of 
 the people, we reply that |flie liquor traffic is an infringement on the 
 primary rights of society, and tends to counteract its every design. 
 
 Society is/ or ought to be, formed xm thfr principle that every man is 
 to seek subsistence for himself in such a way 'as not to interfere with 
 the rights .or happiness of others. The farmer, the labourer, the^ 
 merchant, the mechanic/ and the professional man, all benefit, society 
 providing for their own households. But it is not so ; with the liquor 
 dealers; they seek only their oWn benefit and that always to the injury 
 of society. Look at arCy community where dntilleries abound ; where 
 the people indulge largely in the use of intoxicants, and you see that 
 blight rests on it ; business declines, and prosperity droops he^ wings 
 and flies away to some more genial region. Everyman is bound to 
 pursue such a business as will tend to promote the welfare of the com - 
 munity, this the dealer in lnto:!|:icant8 does not do ; the few are enriched 
 
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 the many are impoverished, and society at large injured sooially and 
 morally. Suppose a man were to advertize fever, cholera and leprosy 
 for gold, and could and would stsll thoni, what would the community say 
 to such traffic ? Men would rise up and banish such a selfish monster 
 Irora their midst. What would be thought of the farmer who would mix 
 poison in the flour which he sold 1 You cannot express the horror 
 ,which all men would feel at such a transaction. Yet such a tmffic we 
 witness daily, but men have become so long accustomed to it that they 
 feel no borror at the sight. The state prohibit one man taking the life 
 of another by pistol or otherwise ; and shall it not prohibit men from 
 taking the lives of others by the sale of that which sends .'hundreds of 
 thousands yearly to the drunkard's gra ve and awful doomi If the law 
 does not allow arsenic or tainted meat te be sold to those likely to injure 
 themselves, why should intojcicants be allowed to be sold to those who 
 ii\jure themselves and society at the same tim^l Does not the use bt 
 alcohol lead to tjhe destruction of more lives, the commission of more 
 crimes, and the infliction of more misery, than all these other evils put 
 together? Shall we restrain or prohibit the lesser evil and license the 
 greater, because a great many make money out of the vices and weak 
 nesses of their fellow meni The state enacts laws for the protection of 
 Indians, minors, idiots and insane persons, and shall it not protect 
 drunkards from those who cruelly tempt them to their ruin 1 We ask 
 again, is it right for the state to sanction a traffic which, above every- 
 thing, tends to increase crime, waste the national. resources, corrupt the 
 social habits, destroy the lives of the people ! The very existence of the 
 license system proves thatthe state has the right to legislate in this mat^ 
 ter. Now the result of all past legialation abundantly proves that it is 
 impoBsible satisfactorily to Uniit or regulate a system so essentially mis- 
 chievous in its tendencies as the traffic in intoxicants. Besides, licensing 
 l^hat is wrong in itself, and injurious to society, is morally wrong, and 
 i% violation of a higher law. What does God's Word say about sanction- 
 ing and legalizing evil I " Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship 
 with thee that frameth mischief by a law 1" Ps. 94 : 20. ** He shall 
 brin^uponthemtheirowniniduity." v. 23. He punishes the nation that 
 legalizes this evil traffic by gKatly increasjing their' public burdens for 
 criminal proicedure, jails, penitentiaries, poor-houses, lunatic asylums, 
 and asylums for widows and or^hwus j the traffic thus becoming a heavy 
 burden and incalculable loss fp the country. Drunkenness, uid the 
 traffic that makes drunkards, ar^ sins against God and crimes against 
 society, and no l^islation can m<tke them right. Government being the 
 ordinance of Crod, for the good oif the people^ has no right tp enact laws 
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 What an outcry was raised in Britain years ago because of the vol 
 tary uiuniur of a few poor fanatic Hindoos under the wheels of the 
 ^f juggernaut, and the pustom was abolished though it infringed on 
 
 Iibertifls of the people and stopped the gains of the priests. Yet wont 
 ul is the inconsistency of men, that horrified at customs which take 
 life of a few yearly in far distant lands, while they look with ap 
 upon customs which have been handed down from their ancestors, 
 whicL are interwoven with all their habits, though causing a thoui 
 fold more misery td their fellow men. Half a century ago the consci 
 of the British people was roused agaiost the crime of keeping the ite([rQes 
 of the West India Islands in bondage, and the legislature set th 
 liberty ; thus showing a nation jealous of the 'Divine blessing, a 
 termined to get rid of the sin and shame of such traffic, though it 
 by infringed the liberty of the shaieholdero. i 
 
 Is it not then much more the duty of all Christian governments to put 
 tkJ^p to this the moat gigantic evil of the age, by legislative prohibi- 
 tion 1 You tell me go on with your moral suasion and check the evil all 
 you can in that way. As well talk moral suasion to the professional 
 thief, adulterer or murderer, as talk moral suasion to those engaged in 
 this traffic. Their^aliag._paaai«m>avaricfi».it_engag»^ in upholding the 
 traffic, and all your moral suasion will be laughed at and trestea with 
 scorn. And the experience of 400 years of the license system proves 
 that so long as the government permits these dealers to prey on the 
 public and present terhptation, the young and the weak will fall under 
 their influence, and thus hundreds of thousands perish ieinnually in 
 Christian lands. It may be laid down as a primary maxim of morals 
 that just in proportion as you increase temptation you increase crime and 
 misery. 
 
 Let the Christian people then rise in their might and demand at the 
 polls that the liquor traffic be suppressed, and the greatest blot on Chris- 
 tian legislation be forever removed from our statute books. 
 
 In a report of a Select Committee of the Parliament of Canada, in 
 1849, they recommend that each municipality should have the right to 
 exclude the traffic in spirits in favor of temperance houses ; that distil- 
 ling should be heavily taxed if not prohibited; that habitual drunken- 
 ness should be held to amount to insanity, and that a drunkard should 
 be held incapable of contracting and conducting his own affairs ; todi4k, 
 inish theQumber of dealers in ardent spirits, and to abate "groggeries" ; 
 the license fee should be increased, in manj cases quadrupled, in some 
 multiplied by ten; that all public houses should Iw at all times open to 
 the magistracy and police. ' \ 
 
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 i ment of vice a nd crime c a u se d by t he liquor traffic^^and thi s 
 
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 benefit of ili^lillt'rH find vendors of (ipiritnoua .U^uoni, xvhy lihould they 
 not thenwelvea be usiitiiiaed in a sum e(iual to the whole expenditure re- 
 »iuired to allay the treble eviU consequent on their calling I They say if 
 men distil and vend spirits, they should bo mftde responsible for tho 
 consequences ; that is they should have to provide for the im^overishect 
 wives and children of Hrunkards/and bear all the expenses resulting from 
 the crimes caused by the traffic. If this just rule wore strictly applied, 
 tho traffic would cease to pay, aind would therefore soon cease to exist. 
 This principle has been virtually adopted by some of the states of tho 
 American Union. During the year 1882 six states have put rteater res- 
 trictions on the traffic, which has become one of the greatest dSangers of 
 a free country, and which is full of peril to the progress and eloVfttion of 
 the race. Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Mas»achusetta} Con- 
 necticut and Iowa have followed in line with Mai^, Vermonfi Texas, 
 Ohio, and others, as determined to do something to check ihe spread and 
 even ihe continuance of this evil in the land. Though differing in their 
 circumstances and character of their people, they all agree in a public 
 condemnation of the traffic, and some put on very heavy licences, of 
 )|400 or upwards. 
 
 :By the progress thus made, the question of prohibition is but a ques- 
 tion of time. The progress of temperance reform in Great Britain has 
 been very great of late. The Church of England Temperance Society 
 now number about 600,000 members, spending over 8100,000 yearly in 
 this work ; and has the sympathy and active co-operation of the great 
 body of the laymen and clergymen in the English Church. 
 
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 THE EARLHAM "BAND OF HOPE HERIES." ...: .....«»'' 
 
 THE DEATH KINO HOLDINO SOLEMN COURT ! An AII«*K<>ry. I'ack»'t»4 itoiitalnlntt BO. iJ 
 OUR H( )MI';a. A H»*rl»'» of Hinnll Itook.H od Chrlatlan Tenipiraniv, by Mm, O. H. Reaney.JU 
 TEMPERANC!E TRACTM With IIIu-hI^iUwI Floral llordor. .'.ii in piuket. . ..,*>■ 
 
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 Temperance Pamphlets. 
 
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 to house viaitatlon. Price per doz., aS'centa per 10(); t^f.fjQ. ntf. , •.. 
 
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 H. S. l*ATKil»ON, iJi. A 
 
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 Faiknson, Jau. 
 
 WINKS: HCRIITUUAL AND KCCLESIASTICAI,. Hy Nornian K«rr, 
 
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 Canon H. Wli.iiKNi'OKCit. Dr, W. M. TavM)H, Dr. 
 
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 THK VUU'K OK SCIfcNCE OV TEMI'KUANCK 
 
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 PLEDGE AND REGISTER BOOKS. 
 
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 TE.VU'ERANCE PLEDGE BOOK, containmt' 35 pledges, Cloth 40 
 
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 TEMPERANCE PLEDGE iK^fjpK.containinK 50 nlrdKes. Cloih ,13 
 
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 TEMPERANCE SOCIETV, TrHBurer's CaHh Hook. Cloth .^... . 35 
 
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 DEPOT: LONDON, ENGLAND. 
 Full awortment of t heae puhUotloiui kept In atoclc. (Catalogue gent fre e on application.) 
 
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