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Io symbolo ▼ signiflo "FIN". Los cartaa. pian ch aa, taMaaux, etc.. p o u vont Atra fHmia A das taux da rdduction diffAronta. Loraqua la documant aat trap grand pour Atro roproduit on un soul oHdiA, N ost fUmA A partfr da I'angia supAriaur gaudw, da gaudw A droita, at da Iwut an has, an pranant la nombro d'imagaa nAccasalra. Las diagrammas suhMints Mustrantla mAthodo. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 \ THE r^-. TEETOTALER'S HAND-BOOK, IN FOUR PARTS, BUNO A. GOkPILA.'nDN OF TALUABLI mikliaf ATKHT FOB TtBHk UBIB OF ALL OLABSBB, AN INiSBOinKnBION AMD AFPtalDIX, BEVERSND WILLIAM SOOTT, EoiTOB or TBI Cakada TumAMOi Adtooatb nu)K 1861 TO 1858. » "I • TOBqp»: PUBLISHED BY ALFRED DREDGE, 88 TOMOB BTBBIT. t-st \ HV507>S.S4 J ::x^^h I .-#H^-=%t '' I have Been a print after Gomgio, in which three femald figores are ministering^ to a man, who sita fast honnd to the root of a tree. Sensuality is soothing him, Evil Hahit is nailing him to. a branoh, and Repugnance at the same instant of time is ap- plying a snake to his side. In his fiuse is feeble delist, the re- ooUection of the past, rather than perception of present pleasues, languid enjoyment of evil with utter imbecility to good, a sybari- tio effeminanoy, a submission to bondage, the springs of the will ^ve down like a broken dock, the rin and the suffering so instan- taneous, or the latter fbremnning the former, remoee preceding aotion ; all this represented in° one point of time I When I saw this, I admired the wonderful skill of the painter. But when I went away, I wept, because I thought of my own conc'ition." Chablm Laml's Elu. W: SMi4.. ^.^nt-ximt.-* INTRODUCTION. The Publisher has thought proper in the title page to refer to my conneoiion with the " Ganada Temperanoe Adyooate" for a number of years. It is not offensive to me that he should do so, for on the review oi those years of literary labour I do not find any ground for regret, except that my convictions of the nature and importance of the temperance movement were often very in- adequately expressed. Such however being my public relations* to the cause, it was perhaps not incongruous that I should be invited to introduce this volume to the friends 'of temperance, and especi- ally to those who are net ashamed to be called " tutotalirs." This Hand-book makes no pretension to anything above a com- pilation of various and important intelligence for general cironia* tion. On examination of the table of the contents it will be ob- served that while there is no attempt at historical detail or vtgor mentative reasoning, there is nevertheless a conuderable amount of that information which it is desirable should be in the hands of the temperance people of Canada. Passing over the history of the great temperance refimnation contained in the first part of the book, the iihoughtful advocate of the cause will be gratified that so much has been accomplished in many places towards the attain- ment of the entire prohibition of the traffic. In Canada, we are yet far behind many States of the neighbouring Union, and have soaroelyjgained as much ground as the friends of Prohibition in England. Tet even here, from the record of Canadian acti• Madagascar, 76 « «< Liberia 76, Hawaia,77 " " England, 77 *' " South Seas, 77 Results of, in Connecticut 125 " " Maine, 126 " <' Massachu. 146 « « Michigan, 149 " " Rhode Isl'd,160 << i< Vermont, 163 Permissive Bill of U. K. A., 195 Society's right to protect itself, 63 Testimonies in favour of Prohibi- tion,— Chesterfield 77— Bishop of Salesbnry 77— Bishop of Oxford, 78— Stephen Hales 78— North- wiclc 78— John Milton 79— John Wesley 79. Traffic, Prohibited, 72 United Kingdom Alliance, 195 134 CONTENTS OF,|PART^THIRD. - POETET, BONOS AND HTMNS. Abstainer's Rock, 280 Bucket, which hung A!o.,'.The, 2G9 All's well. 228 Caution, 286 Anniversaries, Hymn for. 287 Cold Water, 308 Anniversary, 299 Closing Ode, 280 Annual Meeting, 300 Cold Water Army, The, 275 Anid Lang Syne, 227 Come and sign, 228 Away the Bowl, 259 Come, Tonng Abstainers, 221 Bible Teetotalers, 284 Confession of a~Drunkard, 215 Blessing implored, 300 Convivial Banquets, 209 Bowl, The, 284 Come all ye Children, 240 COMTKNTB. ?U Cold water for me, Gome, Brothtri, Come, Cap of Death, The, DMh it down, Deaert the eparkling Wine, DismiHion, Drinker tnra uidleaTe jonr bnnished, 286 Sparkling bowl. The, 288 Standard, The, 808 Stop and think, 808 Temperance Trumpet, 804 Tempter, The, 306 Temperance National Anthun, 296 Thanksgiving, 896 Teetotal forever, 268 Topers, The,- 24T Temperance Band, 248 270 Temperance Anthem, 231 There's nae luck about the hottM,229 320-299 Singi 219 Sons 301 298 297 236 238 807 292 267 243 272 253 286 802 232 233 2H-216 Three 297 241 263 232 Temperance Ohampion, 226 Trumpet, The Temperance, 226 246 Try, John, 21T 236 Temperate drinking, S15 224 Temperance, 214 268 Temperance Star, 282 277 Triumph of Sobriety, 288 266 Turn, O, turn, 291 212 There is a happj time, 264 223 Voice flrom Heaven, 806 281 Water, O water for me, 273 260 We Temperance Ohiefb, 223 257 When is the time to sign, 221 203 Water King, The, 274 237 Water the drink for me, 276 261 We will praise Thee, 296 viii OOnTIKTS. Will /ou come to the Bower, Will joa lign the pledge, W« will be free, Wttning , The Drnnkard'i, We'll nerer drink again, 244 245 246 204 268 Widow's appeal. The, 805 Wife'i appeal. The, 8 1 1 Tonng Wife'i lait appeal, The, 810 Tooth of Oanadai t88 CONTENTS OF PABT FOURTH. FAOTt AND AN lODOTIS. Anoient Pledge, 888 Adalteration of liquori, 818-3 1 1 Alexander, Death of, 825 Anacrson'i plea and ladies rttort,876 Aqrlumformebriatei, 328 Beer honiei, 32-86 Oan'tgiye ap my besetting lin,: Ooet of Intemperanoe, OonfBBsion of a Drunlcard, Decanter, Song of th^, Dashaway, A, Bzcitants and temperatare, Bxpensiye, Father Matthew's conrersion, Female Intemperanee, Grocer's Wife, The, How to rise in life. History of a Distillery, Homer and Pope, Heroic woman, The, Immense waste, IndiaA, The, and Distiller, Incontrovertible facts, Interesting facts, warnings, 361-376 Jay, Rev. Wb. of Bath, his views,385 Jack and Harry, 392 Keeping Tavern, 398 ,379-80 Noble 388 333 382 378 403 338 324 330 396 327 329 347 377 332 390 336 Legal suppression, 60 years ago,329 Low position defined, 387 Liqnor seller's ezcnse, 399 Methodist Oonferenee In Maii., 318 Missionaries, OpinioDS of 318 Minister and the demijohn, 395 Noble boy, A. 392 Physicians orO|inada,Testimony,386 Parsonage, How to adorn a, 403 Prayer, The value of, Ross, Gapt., his practice, Ramseller's Drearn^ Sad testimony, Sabbath, The, Seamen's wages. Shingling a honse, Teetotalism favorable to reUglon;334 Teetotal spoons, 881 Tree at Dissipation, 883 True use of the Tine, 401 Various interesting facts ftc,339-346 Valuable Testimonies, 384 Washwoman, The Scotch, 390 Wesley on the Traffic, 351 Wesleyans, To, 350 Toun^^manon fire, 886 398 828 t 88*r 8WI 400 APPENDIX. The Prince of Wales' Visit to British America, Address from the Ten^perance I bodies of Upper Canada, Reply to Address, Ooncluding remarks, 406 4tY 408 PART FIRST. THB TEBTOTALBB'S HAND-BOOK. CHAPTER L BiBfOBT Of TBI TlMFBBAlfOI OAUfl. •IBLI ITIDMrOB— fOBIFTOWl » tATMl OV ABITmvCII. The inspired writers employ a number of different terms to denote varioos kinds of drink, and spetk of these in great diverrity of tone and language. We leave oat of aooount here, t%ro$hf the name of vine Jruitf as this, though uniformly rendered wine in our version, has been proved not to signify a Uquor at all. The other terms occur in Scripture, altogether two hundred and HoefUjf' three times. The drink denoted by one of these (ihechar) ia invariably disapproved by God, and its use, as a oommon beverage^ denounced in terms of loudest warning and woe. The drink denoted by another of them (jfain) is sometimes represented as a possible good, but in the vast minority of oases, it is branded as a mighty evil to man. The articles denoted by the other words are spoken of with diversity of expression, as it seems, aocording to the presence or absence from them, of the intoxicating principle. Altogether, there are about a hundred and thirty warnings and admonitions in Scripture against intoxicating drinks, while there are not over twenty instances of distinct approval of wine, under all its names, in the whole Bible. And these passages, as &r as their evidence is eiqplicit, show the wine commended, to be of aa unintoxioating quality. All the other cases in which the word wine occurs, are doubtful or jieutral in the Temperance question, since thcgr contain bo proof, either on the one side, or on the other. \ 10 THI-^llTOf ALtt'8 HANX»-BOOK. t Are Boc (licia moii importaiit tnd ngnifiMot fiurts ? Who ow fldl'to pereaiTe they hare a tom and » meaning 7 How can a^jf kaBing. We point HktOL In illna- tration, 4o Ihewhde lat i e p ^of laaael, dnnng their &rty yean' knxtuj thnmgh the wilderness. God oonld aa eadly have given JhuA wine, aa He niin^d down manna on tSheui'fimn heaven, and ^Roaad water to ton to them from the amitten xoek. Bat he HA not ao. Throoj^ nSi ihnae yearn, we are told, 1h«y " drunk neither '~^%ine nor atrong drink.^ The Lord waa ever hind to them, He Ibd them with aogela* Ibod, He c9ieiished4hem with IMvine e^,. hut they were a nation o£ ahstainer^, trained to he ao, all thia lime, h^ the only wiae God. .AgaSn we point to Samaon. Hia 'mother; when promiaed a aon, waa ihiui eommanded— '^Now Iherefofe beware, I pray thee, and dHnh not wine tm atroi^g 'Sriinhi and eat not any nndean thi|ig< Tor lot Ihon Auii oon- CMve, and bear a aon, and no raior ahall come on hia head, loot the diild ahall be a Naiaiite nntotSod ftom the womb, and he ahiill >gin to deliver lapMil out ^ this hand tXHna Fhilu^ines:" madneia to think Vie of stroDfest'irinef, And itroDgeit drinka our.eliief support of health, Ifhan'tlod, with thea^ forbidden, made ehoiee to rear Bll Btgkty'dMnnpion, itrong atrofre compare, IVlMae-dHakwaa eirif froai «h»Uapid bwok. VoHher, we pdnt to Samuel. Hia piooa mother received him, in anawer to her prayer, and she pledged heraelf in this, to devote 1dm aa « ITtuarite all the daya Of hia lifb. Notice here, adao, the liaiie, in Om conaeoraUon and dhuaotar of hia noble career. In ^'^'^•'(w ^B WP"^Pi^^ ^•^•••^ W ^HF^j^jp^^ * M^^h ■ ^H^i^Nv^vMHflpVIP^^^Bp »* aeted ag judge of his nation Haimi^ • long j^miod of ill liuiUKSf. He waft hpnooied aa its lefoimar till be daaoen^ed ftQ tfw i^Ti ip a good old agOy bdovad ai4 lameptei bgr lo* WM^ing ooo^ttiy. Moreover, we poini to Daniel and hia ibiper &i9Blci9. li^ ^ Coort of Babjlottj * ike Sing afppinted tlievi tk 4«i|iy fuxmim^ tbe win» wbioh lie dranlc,' ' bnt IMel jmjymA ixi,l»a Ji«Krt not todfifilehim8elfwitli.it,' and behold the lemlt io hift Mtb and ^rigonr. He and his oompanionB piefivsed thift. leqpeat) ^ Oiw «a pulse to eat, and water to diuk; ' * and. at the end of ten dagra their ooontenaneee appeared &ixer amd fitt^eR m fleshy than a& |be ebikliea who did eat the portion of tihe b)ng!s meat' Xet ag|iii we p(Httt ta John 4he Baptist. In announcing his birth to JSeoh»> rias, the aog»l Gabriel thus for^d bis- abstinenoe, 'He diall (bink neither wine nor strong dnaikJ And|ioie here,^ also, what £allawB in the deseriptkm of his ebafaoteri^ * He shall be filled with the Holy Gihost„ even £r«b& Ms moiher'ii wcpb « * and Christy whom he was chosen to herald* deolared». * Amoi^, those b^m of wjconen, (here has wA arisen a greater tluul John/ Onoe more we point to the Beohabites, Tbsij^ wera a oomijui- nity especially devoted to God* They were i^narkable tw ihrnr strict piety,, they wwo: bcftbd to drinlc no wine, but to ^ve thon- selTcs to a contemplative life, and avoid aU occasions of hagaxj and avarice, ' They were,' observes Dr. Chahners, ' a Temperance Society,' united, it has been added, by a family pledge, to whiob they adhered with intelligent fidelity, and for doing so theg[ are commended by God.' Then observe here the striking connection ^^d consequence of the laws of this sacred fraternity. * Jonadab,* say they, ' the son of Rechab, our; father, eonunanded us,^ saying— Ye shall drink no wine, ye, nor your sons for ever, that ye may live long in the land wherein you are ttrangen* In a word, we point to the Naaarites. * One part of the special sanetity of a Nazarite consisted in a total abstinence from wine or- anything that intoxicates, that he might the better attend to the study of the law, and other exeroises of religion, which justifies ift part li rttM mroTAUBMi hand-book. ii|bat Maimonedes says, that Naiarites irere adraneed to the d^ titb^cf priests, who were not allowed to drink wine in the time ol^ ihdr ministration.' And maik the des^ of this Divine appoint- ment It was intended of God, to praserre a people fer Himself^ eminent fiw « life «f sanottty and devotion. < Then will be fonnd,' pays Br. Haweis, * some more eminent for their graees than others ^th^l9aaju^tes, amidteg their t)rethren, not to taste wine, that thej might ishdw thoboselves pattoms of sobriety, and be ever fit fer the 8(^mde of Go eept at saerifiees.'* H V be dnmk in tlw OMnp, mv Mjtti^g' mm water .* aad liiAt evwy j«^ Md magittim^ oftitam jfrom-imiM durwg Ae year of Atf ^ ino0rMfra<^." "Athenian lav>§ 0/ SoLOV. An Ardbon^ who was the ohief magislrate, if leen drttnk in pahli«, was pfanidMd wiih death." " Ltcubous, 0/ Sparta, A Laoednmonian knew not what il iwe to driali fer p li n w w .. Brafdaenneit wwt intoouk Slirfet ordte to iM^ire ibun with abhonenoe of this fiUl^ im!* TixpSBANOB 01 XMM f^^OKUJKmk^^*^lh WW tbwf wn!tenaiie» fean OOBRBO «id fUnple; tktit eommtmdtinh wntWy leldoiA wipe. Q^ Ut^eisa and aotiTit^ of their bodiea were wonderfoL" Futhnth and Thbxb Followimo CiNa^UBja». — ^^ Qn thai nmval of literatami. after the daric agee, int^peranoo in drin)^ waaezooednigly pre?aibnt; hot, aa men heoame more enli^tened* Hfgfy had reoonrae to meamsoB calonlated to preyent it. 4^d iiii. a.«onoQA &cty thai in the fifteenth and nzteaith oentories, rpnee MfiB 1Wmp»i «t gliiiM of wio«, irUoii wef» to b* drmk ia Boikvifaiii IkMi draughts. The liMof the eape is iiof speoified. A Moitlgr, Ibt instanoe, established about the sixteenth oentnxy, for the promo- tion of temperance, had its ftrndMnent al kw constituted on Uie principle, that none of its members should drink mor than four' teen passes of wine dailj. A eortain general, in one of his rego- ktions, ordered, that no oflBcw who dined at his table dumld esoeed two bottles of wine." A Tempxramoi Sooutt w SoosLAiiD^Oini Huitdbid Yxabs Ago. — " We» the inhabitants <^ Lea^UuUs, haiing taken into ouif most serious consideration the foqner direfyil effects of the mall distiHeries, and being justly apprehensiy<; of the like fMal conae; quenees in time coming, an we hear that these deyouring nmehJnei are again to be let loose, nnimimous^ come to iht fi^owing int/§i Intions: — " Ist. That the malt distilleries have been the principal eaiue of the immoderate use of sprituous liquors, which has been firan% by experience, highly detrimental,' not only to the health, but ifaK> to the morals of menkiud, especially to the kbouring part theitooC » it being pi^uctive of all kinds oS debaucheries, drunkennesS| in- dolence, and, in fine, the very enemy of social hi^piness, " 2dly. They have, ever since they cune to any height, been a principal cause of the flunine, while such immense quantities of the best fi>od, designed by the bountiftil: hand of Providmaee tat the subsistence of His creatures, have been, by them, converted into a stupifying kind of poison, calcuhted for the sure, thoi^ sbw, destruction of the human race: and therefore, " Sdly, We are firmly resolved, in order to prevent their bane- fid influence, to . discourage, to the utmost of our power, by all publio methods, that pemioions praotioe, being determined to drink no spirits so distilled; neither frequent, nor drink vaf liqurar in, any tsveni or ale-^iouse that we know seUs <^ rstails tlui same. And as we httve no other meami left to eombat tiMM tn^ ' If TBI nnnoTiuai's baii»-book. aiM of ptodty, we hftte ehoMi thli paUie mj of intimttiog our ■ontimonti to tlM world, oMnng tbo oonovnnoe of tU our hn- tbron in like ourcimBtaneee in town end oonntiy, iredemeii, ^ m oe h en io e, end lebonring people of ell denominetiona/' CHAPTER in. XODBBN TIMPX&ANOl SOOIITIlg. Amerloe— Oanade— Irdend— 8cotlMid-^Biicl«iid— WelM. ^ Amibioa. — " In Amerioe, tliis movement begen in 1804, by the inqniriei instituted by Dr. Bnah into the Sects' of erdent epirite upon the body and n^nd. These he published, and they w«ne made the foundation of all subsequent experiments. In 1806, the Bev. Dr. Ebeneier Porter preached a sermon on &e eflfoots of ardent sjpirits, and a sooieiy was organised at Allentown, New Jersey, called the Sober Society, numbering 68 members at the start. In 1808, a society was organised by Dr. B. J. Ohurke, at Horeau, Saratoga Oounty, New York ; the pledge was total absti- nence firom all kinds of distilled liquors, unless required by medi- cal authority, and also retrenchment of wine, with some exceptions. " On the 26ih of June, 1811, the General Association of Mas- iaohusetts appointed Bey. Samuel Worcester, D.D., Bev. Jedediah BiiHrse, D.D., Bev. Abiel Abbot, Bev.» BeEijamin Wadsworth, Be^uben D. Mussey, M.D., William Thurston, Esq., Joseph Tor> rey, M.D., and Jeremiah Evarts, Esq., a committee to co-operato with committees of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church, and the General Association of Connecticut, in devising measures which may have an influence in preventing some of the numerous and threatening ml8chie& that are experienced through- out our country, from the excessive and intemperate use of spiri- 100110 liquors. This oommittee met at difforent times for oquf xoDmi nxmAMOB looiiTxiit XI ■oltation, oorresponded on tlM tnljeot) tnd, finally, d«USnbb«i to make an effort for the formatidn of a State Society fat Hie 8up> pression of Intemperance. A anlHiommittee, consiating of Drir Worcester, Dr. Torrey, and Mr. Wadaworth, waa i^pointed to prepare a Constitution. After being presented to the whole com- mittee, and adopted, it was presented, by them, to a more general meeting, in Boston, on the 4tb of February, 1813. At another meeting, at the State House, on the 6th, the Constitution waa adopted, and a Society formed, called ' The Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance.' The object, aa expressed in the second article of the Constitution, was, ^ To dtteowUenanee and w^preu the too Jree lue of ardent apiritf and itt kindrtd viee$t pro/anene$8 and gaming^ and to encourage and promote temperance and general morality" In 1813, the Bev. Dr. Mempbrey published a soiea of publir oationa on the causes, effects, and remedies of intemperance. The Massachusetts Society for the Suppresuon of Intemperance was then formed at Boston; -and yarious ministers of religion wew holding up the matter in their various circles asja sulgect of in- quiry. The next step was organization, in 1826. The American society was formed, haying for its object abstinence from distilled spirits. At this time, Dr, Beecher's cdebrated sermons, the sub- stance of which had been preached at Boston, were published. His mind had berai training, and he came out at a critical nioment. Many oomplained we were going on too fast; but on we went, and in 1833, we called a Convention ; 440 del^ates attended, and the question to be decided was, that the traffic in ardent spirits was morally wrong, and ought to be abandoned. It was again said, wc were going too fast. However, we adopted the principle. Then we found that men were getting drunk on wine and beer, and were compelled to take up the new position of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquor. In 1835, a year remarkable as bang the year when a prosecution was commenced against Mr. Delavan, damages laid at 300,000 dollars, for publishing in the papers that the water they used for making porter waa obtained from a stag* II rav- fHRovim^ BijnMwoK tami 9001 fflid iHtii tiM cirMMi «f dtud aUkldf^ mi4 into uliiili tfto dnitoiagR of Hie borisl-firdQBd nm^^iift about muA itaff ai^ id «8ed by the London brawen to make their brown atooit, In 1840, the aotion waa decided againat them; and the eoetaweM put mtefh$ fldtAMPilD ilss «• non. « 4. 4>Be flirts j|ft» «iis(Aflr whifik legsUisd ibis ovnfinMd it;; vndiiddle disltt* 4erB «Bd wenimnfimf ei>iBd, unoonstitntionali^, ofipmswian, Immuii ii^tB ; dnnkards and dra iiriends of drmdoadsiweteir^ioed Itt llieir downfall, snd'oiiedin tbsir^tnniiAAilslain! troenadngbl- «>a8'iH theJndgBMnt. ** Learing others to spedc iH diseonragenMifti, jomt (kaaanlMtfi Witt here nOtioe onfy eome of fin prominent eheermg ineidoitB ( f the year. '"1. The «iteni[^ off the Band of Hope moTeinent, % lrh?eh tempennoe'prinbiides andpraotiees nre to 'Ito handed downto Hn generations whidi oome lifter ns, whi(ii witti ns, in the Chmadas, and in Great Britain. "2, The receptiote in love of otur great prindples bjonaB thonsands of yomg men, who, under ike power of Ae 8|^irii.#f God, have become hopeftdly pions, and luvrevnited wHh Qlnislian tdrarohes. This, togisther with «n nmuraal aoti^ty in 0]iriBt|s& laymen in Inreaking up the strongholds of iwielce^bess in «w grsa* OitiM, has given a severe blow to intenperairae. "3. The restoration of the proMbitevy lanr^itf^Hne, iifWr n inro years' lioense law, under whieb the State was^iooded with !«• tndJating -drinki, and oMeineN abMidonJSdJtoik it»«rili* ;% ^st 20 TBI TmOTALBE*! BAMO-BOOK. • foto in the LagUlatan, tlie qiMrtloii wm fabmitted to Um pto> pie et tlie iMUo^boai, when 28,864 totee ibr the m/tan^oikf nd^ onhf 5,912 for the oontiiiiiailoe of lieenee. The kw went into •eiperBtion on the ISth of July bit, with perftct qnietneei. Ai the! time 600 grog^ihopi were open in Portkad, the ehief eity, doing ell their work of deeth, whereee there ere few or none Tiei* blenow. Dmnkennees, end erreets for dmnkenneee, hairedimi- niited mora then qne-half, end penperim e third; end Meine hee onoe mora beoome the tme and bieieed eejlnm for the vnfof* 4taBete inebriete. "4. The decinon of Chief Jnstioe Shaw, of Maaeeehiiaetti^ that, under the law whidi deolaree all intozioating liquon kept illegally for aale, and the imj^ements and yeaeela aotnally need and boildings employed, qommon nuiaanoee, they era to be treated ae eneh, and every person may deetroy them. And though a full Bnaeh haye decided that the nuisance must be personal, otherwise it oan be proceeded against only by indictment, yet it is a deeisMm which (^ree the cowmnnity protection against all illegal sale befora ' unknown, and presents thli once honoured and protpoted traflSo in its tme light, to be shnnQed and abhorred by all good ntiaens. ** Snoh haye been some of the encouraging events in the past year in our land. *' In Russia, where 647 distillmes ara annually yielding 271 million gallons of spirits, a great revolt from all drinking customs has arisen, through an increased taxation upon brandy, and thou- sands in the central provinces are pled^ng themselves to drink no more. In Australia, the cause of temperance is prosperous, under the patronage of Chief Justice a Beoket; and, in the Sandwich Islands, the laxge mission churohes hold fost their temperance in- t^rity. But time would &il your Committee to tell of Afirica .and India, of Sweden and Norway, of California and Oregon, where temperance uad prohibition are slowly but efficiently wend- ing; and of our own seamen too, on the wide ocean, proving the benefit of total abstinence, und who, were it not for the land diarks, lieenMd'byonr Christian and oiviliaed governments, ought MODiBii TumiAiiai Monmi. tl ■■•.,. ,<^ v„ he u prorerbial ibr their icmpemioe •■ thcj tn ftr tiuir gMMio> ■ityand br«Terj. More than thirtj thoaiend hive^ in a ooone of years, nnited with the New York Mariner'a Sooiety; and of nina hnndred who have been at the Seamen's Home ainee Jannaij last, bnitwentj-ftrahaTe been marked as intemperate men. Fov all those thingi we thank Qod and take eonrage. To men who say our oanse is dead, we rejdy-^It is not so. God never raffut a good thing to perish. Our institation is mjgh^ in the earth* Its course is onward. Like tiie son in tjie h^ayens, it enoirolea and blesses the globe." Oavada.— Foremost in the rank of pioneers in tli9 Temperanea oanse in Canada, may be justly pkoed Iters. Joseph S. Ohristmas, G. W. Perkbs, W. Taylor, and T. Osgood; Messrs. Cooper, J. B. Sutherland, Hoisington, Oreig, BeWiU, Fraser, Hedge, W. Lyman, B. Workman, B. P. Janes, J. B. Mills, Greene, BrewBteTy Moore, Ohristie, Orr, Court, and Bougall. Early and perseyering interest was also takM in the eause by Messrs. Workman and Bowman, proprietors of the Oamadian Courantf who, in the midst of ridicule and oppositioik, contended for temperance principles, and kept the columns of their journal open for reports and extracts upon the subject There has been some dispute as to which society was first orga> niied in Canada, and it is bdieved the Montreal Society carries off the palm. Br. Sohofield of Bastard said that he organized the first society, June 10, 1828; but the following authentio report settles the point: — *^ According to intimaUon, i^ven in the public papors, a conn- derable number of persons oouyened in St Andrew's Church, St. Peter's Street, on the evening of June 9, 1828. — ^After some statements on the subject of intemperance, by the Bey. J. S. Christmas, the f(^owing preamble was submitted, and signed m the spot by 29 persons of different religious denominations.'' The organisation of societies went forward rapidly in 1830, '81, '82. At this period, there were aboiU 150 fQcleties iii Canada, and a membership of 10,000 persons,-^moBtly enjoying 92 TBI TIITOTALBll'i DAVD-BOOKI .the public p»tfOMge, uid being in * ilonrighing eondition^—v while twelve newipapen lent their aid to the advitnoe of tempe- nnoe prinoiplei. The first Provinoial Temperance Gonyention for Lower Oanada as held in the Baptist Chapel, Montreal, Fobmory 26, 1884. Present — 22 ministers, 28 doctors, and 40 other gentlemen. Twenty-seyen societies reported 4260 members. On the l5th day of June, 1885, the first Total Abstinence Society in Oanada was formed at St. Catharine's, in the Gore District, when upwards of 40 idgnatares were obtained. On the 22d day oS October following, the Montreal Sooiety for the pro> motion of Temperance, adopted the teetotal principle, conjointly with the moderate nstem. The able assistance of the Bey. Dr. Edwards, and E. C. Deleyan, Esq., was secored on this occasion, rendering the meeting one of unuaoal interest-^the Bey. W. liord presided. A Conyentiou was held at Montreal, 28d of Febroazy, 1886. The following abstract firom the report of its proceedings, will show the state of the cause at this period: — ^Number of societies reported, 30 j Ordinary Members, 4751; Total Abstinence da, 764; Expelled, 205; Withdrawn or Bemoyed, 272; Tayems, 858; Stores Selling Liquor, 207; Temperance Ions or Stores, 84; Distilleries or Breweries at Date of Formation, 43; Ditto |iiow, 21. This is a oondensed reyiew of the ywions reports made to the Oommittee, sbowiog in round numbers about 5500 members of the Temperance Society in th^ Districts from which reports haye been receiyed. A number of the Societies state that they hay« not adopted the total abstinence pledge yet, though many of th^ members act upon that principle. The first Temperance Soiree was held on the eyening of St. Andrew's Day, 1837. Messrs. William Addy and A. Steyenson had abandoned the sale of intoxicating drinks. Mr. Elliott was the first agent employed. Active measuret were in contemplation for the wider spread of light on the subject. XOBIBIf TlMPIBANOI booiiths. 98 !the Bflit Conyention was hisld at Montreal, Jalj 6, 1887, when a constitution for the Lower Canada Total Abstinence Society was adopted ; 27 societies were represented, having % membership equal to 4859. The first extensive mercantile houses which abandoned the traffic in intoxicating liquors, were those of Messrs. J. d» J. Dougall, Amherstburgh, and J. G. Parker, of Kingston. This jrear the Canada Temjyerance Advocate became exclusively devoted to th« advocacy of Total Abstinence, The month of August was rendered remarkable by the arrival of a temperance ship in the port of Montreal, whose oommAR !er, Oaptain Henry Hudson, a teetotaler, had been instrumental in adding no fewer than 226 to the Society. He was presented with a beautiful silver medal ** in grateful acknowledgment of his exertions.'' In the spring of 1880, the friends of the cause began agdn to lift up their heads and consider new plans of usefyness — and in this they were much cheered and encouraged by reports of the astonishing success of Father Mathew's efforts in Ireland. In imitation of whom, the Rev. P. Phelan, of this city, and theRer. 0. Ghiniquy, of Beauport, followed by others, established tempe- rance societies amongst the Irish and French Oanadian population in this province, which soon enrolled many thonsands, an^ exerted an extraordinary influence in rendering drinking usi^s unpopu- lar, and diminishing intemperance amongst the masses; whilsi the celebrated Mr. Buckingham, in his travels tiirongh this coun- try, endeavoured to enlighten the higher classes, upon the same subject. Mr. Wadsworth, the travelling Agent, writes :— ^ *' My second temperance tour through the Eastern Townships has been completed with considerable satisfaction to myself, and in some instances given an impetus to, the good cause, which it is hoped will be followed up by energetic plans and efforts on the part of the officers of societies. Retomed after an absence of 20 .H 42 THl tlXrOTALIB's HAND-BOOK. dayi, Having travelled 330 miles, visited 23 plaees, held 21 pnblio meetingR, delivered 21 addresses and lectures, obtained 433 names to the teetotal pledge, originated 11 societies^ procured 11 sub' Boribers to the Advocate, and eiiculated a large quantity of tem^ perance tracts and Advocates^ I found it extremely hard to induee moderationistt to give up their brandiedvrm^, home-brewed beer» and oidef. Many persons in the towndiips are making drunkards without license. This outrage upon the laws must iict be allowed. Where in former days, in the County of Stanstead, were 27 dis- tilleries and breweries, there is now but one, and that conducted by a Christian I In another place, a member of a church keeps fr tavern." " I have now completed my tour through the Prince Edward District, during which i have held 24 meetings, seen 275 persons sign the pledge of total abstinence, and obtained 26 new subscribers to the Advocate, exclusive of some who sent through the Post Office, and others who will soon send. It is now just two years since societies were first formed in this Districft on total abstinence principles. At present the old ground of abstinence from distilled ^irits only, is idmost totally abandoned; there is not, I believe, one organized society on this principle, and but about 150 scattered members." In 1842, he says j — " At no former period in the history of teetotalism in Canada, could it be said, ' We are a hundred and twenty thousand strong ' ; yet this may safely be affirmed now. The influence of so large a body, pledged to entire abstinence &om alcoholic drinks, is sensibly felt and palpably plain ; else why, I ask, do those who refuse to join us — instead of denouncing us aa ultraists, or pretending pity for our insane attempts at the final overthrow of the demon's reign— oSer a variety of flimsy excuses, objections which have been a thousand times refuted, and then close by saying, ' It is a good cause, I wish it well, but my mind is not yet made up to join.' Yes, well may our conquering hosts exult, whether retrospectively or prospectively, contemplating the work to be acoompliflhed or abready done." ;^,< UOXyiBN TIUPIRAKOI B00IITII8. 25 In a eommnnioation of later date (1845) he writes :—" Well may it be inquired, ' Watchman, what of the night ? ' In answer- ing this significant question, permit me to o£fer some general remarks, and make a few strictures. It will be conceded that from my extensive tours, and favourable opportunities of procuring information, I may arrive at safe conjectures concerning our pre* sent position. I suppose we are 150,000 strong, organized in 600 societies ; of this number, 60,000 are male adults, 52,000 female adults, and 38,000 juveniles, say from five to sixteen years of age. The Pledge adopted by threo-fourths of these societies, is the ' Universal Pledge, ' or the one pijjlished in the A.dvocate" * * * ''' * ♦"* * The Kev. Eiohard Saul, P. Boblin, and J. M'Donald, Esq., were employed by the Montreal Society, and laboured with very great success. One of these Agents writes : — " In the order of a kind Provi- dence, I arrived home on the 5th March, from a tour of four months through the Newcastle District, as agent in the temperance cause ; during which time I had many very interesting meetings, and was ably assisted by many valuable and able advocates on the platform, and succeeded in obtaining 932 names to the pledge, and collected £15, 15s. for the Advocate. I could have wislidd for better success ; but when we see an under-current at work, and that current set in motion by individuals from whom we would expect better things, we are thankful to the giver of all good for the success that has attended the labours of the temperance Mends in that district." Of late years, the success of Teetotalism must be traced through the Reports of the numerous existing organizations, and the marked advances in Legislation by which the sale of Intoxicating Drinks is forbidden on Public Works, during Election Days, and from Saturday evening till Monday morning, as well as the exten- sive power given to Municipalities for regulating or entirely pre- venting the retail of sudi liquors. , 0* 26 THB TllTOTiXlB'g BAMD-BOOK. Temperance Convention, '~- The Conyention called by the Committee of the Montreal Temperance Society, assembled in that oily on Friday, 80th September, 1859. The Business Committee reported five resolutions which received the unanimous assent of the Convention. These resolutions are plain and emphatic, and quite in keeping with the present state of the cause in Canada. ** Reidvedy — ^I. That this Convention, while urging* on all Temperance Organizations, such as the Bechabites, Sons of Tern, perance, and Good Templars, the necessity of renewed exertions for the advancement of the Temperance cause, strongly recom- mends the propriety of organiiing Societies on the plan of the original Total Abstinence Society, to act in harmony with them; so that the entire compunity may be embraced, and the publio mind thoroughly leavened with Temperance principles. '* II. That this Convention, feeling the import&nce of imbuing the minds of the rising generation with Temperance principles, would urge the formation of Bands of Hope, or other juvenile a8Sociatio:\s. " III. That this Convention, in order more effectually to coun- teract the influences hostile to the Temperance cause, and to secure its triumph, would seek to impress on its friends the necessity of circulating Temperance Tracts, and sustaining Periodicals devoted to the cause, as well as by holding public meetings. " lY. That this Convention, while itttaehing the greatest importance to the moral suasion aspect of the Temperance move- ment, yet believe that the object at which we aim cannot be fully attained without the enactment of a Prohibitory Liquor Law, recommend the formation of an Anti-Liquor-Law League, to embrace all classes, without reference to political or religious opi- nions, or personal abstinence. " V. That in view of the importance of Prohibitory Legislation, this Convention recommend united effort on the part of all Tem- perance Organizations, in the employment of suitable Lecturers, lIODlBlf TIMn&LMOl lOOIlTIlSi n that a more general public sentiment in &Tor of Tempeivnoe may be created; and Petitions praying for Prohibition be prepared^ and numerously signed, and forwarded to Parliament during the early part of its next session. Ibeland. — In the summer of 1829, Dr. Edgar of Belfast set on foot the Irish temperance movement, assisted by Bev. George Garr ; and it is believed that the first European temperance society was established by the latter, at New Boss, about June or July, 1829. In June, 1835, Mr. John Finch aided in forming the first Tee* total Society in Ireland at Strabane. The next person who made an e£fort to promote teetotalism in Ireland was B. G. White, Esq., of Dublin. Mr. Thomas Swindlehurst, of Preston (partner of Mr. Finch), also made an effort to promote the cause in Ireland ; he held a largu meeting at Waterford ; he also spoke of its bene ficial effects at various places with good success. Mr. Bobert M'Curdy, from Halifax, in Yorkshire, also visited Ireland, and his labours were attended with considerable advantages. The societies that were formed by these gentlemen and others, received a wonderful stimulus from the visit of Mr. J. Hocking, the Bir- mingham blacksmith, and Mr. M'Kenna, of Liverpool. Thus it was that total abstinence may be considered to have first taken root in Ireland. And, to assist in forwarding the temperance re- formation, the friends of teetotalism, in Ireland, combined together and established the National Temperance Society, on the principle of abstinence from all intoxicating liquors ; the Irish Temperance Union was also designed for the same purpose. To complete the success of the temperance reformation in the sister kingdom, the Bev. Theobald Mathew, of Cork, a Gatholio clergyman, and a friar of the order of Capuchins, long distin> guished for his devoted and disinterested zeal in every cause con- nected with the welfare of the poor, about eight years ago, prevailed upon a few members of his congregation to form themselves into a Temperance Society. This society rapidly increased in numbers^ In January, 1839, it comprehended six thousand persons of both 28 THl TllTOTAUUk'S HAND-BOOK. 8ex«e. The work proceeded so quietly, that many wondered how it happened that so few dmnken men appeared in the streets of Cork. The Rev^ N.- £. Duncombe) an active member of the Established Church, then formed a parochial society, and acted as president ; from it yarious branches were formed : William Martin, a member of the Society of Friends, established a society. Bichd; Dowden also organised a society. These and other societies had been working prosperously for some years, when Mr. Mathew came forward, at the earnest request of Mr. Martin, and interested him- self in their behalf. He put himself at the head of the Cork Temperance Society on the 10th of April, 1838. For a year and arhalf. Father Mathew held his temperance meetings in the Horse Bazaar, Cork, twice a-week. Many early prophesied failure and defeat ; but the work ff enrolment still went on, and the society swelled in numbers. Hundreds of the most abandoned drunkards were reclaimed ; and towards the end of the year 1838, it was stated that Cork was fast taking the lead in the temperance move* ment, and that the people there, and from all the country round, were joining the ranks of Father Mathew in hundreds and thou* sands. We have no space to describe the interesting scenes which were perpetually presented ; suffice it to say, that at the close of the^year 1838, the numbers registered in his books amounted to 150,000. In the following year. Father Mathew adopted the plan of travelling through the country, so that, in the course of five years, almost every part of Ireland ^as participated in the blessings of his mighty mission. On the 2d of December, 1839, he visited Limerick, which presented one of the most extraordinary appearances on record. The Cork entrance to the city was filled with a dark and dense crowd for above two miles; the streets were all but impassable ; every house, and room, and cellar, was literally filled ; and yet, after all, more than 5000 persons were without a bed on that cold December night I The scene was one of the most remarkable ever witnessed. With the military to keep 4)erfect r^ularity, 20,000 persons were seen at once kneeling in Mallow Street; and retiring in order as soon as the pledge was UODSIIN tXMPEaANOE SOOtXIIBfl^ 2» administered. The terms of tlie pledge, wUoh it may be interest* ing to know, were -these, — " I promisOj so long as I shall continue a member of the Teetotal Temperance Society, to abstain from all intoxicating liquors, unless recommended for medical purposes, and to discourage, by all means in my power, the practice of intozioa* tion in others ; ' Mr. Mathew adding, ' May God bless you, and enable you to keep your promise.' On the following day, the work went on, at the close of which 150,000 persons had been en- rolled or pledged. On the 10th, 11th, and 12th of December, he visited Waterford, and administered the pledge to upwards of 60,000 in that district. He seemed perfectly unconscious of the excitement he had produced, and spoke and acted as if he r^arded himself as the least remarkable man of the age. Improvement was not confined to a diminution of brawls, fights, and crimes ; the people had become better clothed, better fed, nnd possessed of greater domestic comforts. Money was also saved ; capital began to accumulate, instead of being for ever dispersed on vicious indulgences. The depositors in the Savings Bank Asso- ciation of Dublin increased from 7264 in 1838, to 9585 in 1841. Ir July, August, and September, 1840, £31,057, 18s. 3d. was lodged in the bank ; and in July, August, and September, 1841, £39,596, 14s. 6d.; being an increase of £8,538, 16s. 3d. As many as 237 public-houses were closed in Dublin during the year 1840. Up till November, 1844, he had registered in Ireland 5,640,000 adherents of total abstinence principle. Of these it is computed that there are one million children. It is ascertained that not more than one in five hundred, on an average, has vio- lated the pledge; and of this number the majority avail themselves of the first opportunity to be once more admitted as members. 0. H. Fitzgerald, late Mayor of Limerick, says: — "Amoral reformation has taken place among the people of this city , which is really most astonishing, and truly gratifying to every philan- thropic mind. Our police reports are much lessened, petty sessions business considerably reduced, and even summonses in tho Court of Conscience have fallen off one-third." 3d Vftl TEBTOTAIIB^S HAMD-BOOlt. Dr. Forbes, Physician to Her Majesty's Household, wjn : — » " My memorandums clearly establish the fact, that the great banded army of pledged abstainers from intoxicating drinks has been broken in pieces, and the numbering of the host has come down from millions to thousands, and from thousands to hundreds. They show, however, at the same time, that though the organiza* tion is gone, the influence of the movement for good has survived its formal existence. It has left Ireland, comparatively speaking, a temperate nation ; and the seeds scattered by it throughout the land in its days of triumph, are now, after lying dormant for a season, springing up everywhere with a broader root and a firmer stem. The encouragers and directors of the new arrangements, discarding the dangej^ous aid of enthusiasm, now strive to base them on the safer ground of reason and experience ; and although they advise and accept pledges, as useful auxiliaries, more especially in the commencement, they depend for permanent success muoli more on a man's convictions of what is for his own good, than on his word of promise. I have strong hope, founded on my own limited observation and inquiries — as recorded in these volumes —that Ireland, within a period of not many years, will once more exhibit the gratifying spectacle of a whole people — not indeed repudiating altogether the use of strong drinks, yet consuming them in an amount so small, as may be called marvellouSi" Scotland. — Tfie first Temperance Society was organized Sept., 1829, at Greenock, by John Dunlop, Esq., — our friend and co- labourer, J. J. E. Linton, Esq. (Stratford, C. W.), being secretary of the meeting. In the early part of October, 1829, a lady, a member of the Society of Friends, named Miss Allen, forioed a society at Mary Hill, near Glasgow. Then followed the formation of the Glasgow Society, on the 12th of November. Mr. Wm. Collins, Mr. Cruickshank, and others, organised many other societies in Scotland: during the first year of 4heir labours, half a million of tracts were circulated, 100 societies established, and 15,000 mem- bers obtained. In the city of Glasgow, in the year 1831, parties i M |fii » . n. i.lat«Mto«l.ll.tfWAMkiM KODEBN TEHPSRAMOl SOOHTDES. 31 in oonneetion with the moderation Boeiety met t(^tlier to partake of tea and coffee, and were addressed by different friends of the cause, without the presence of any intoxicating liquors. From the outset of the movement, the principle first started with, if principle it could be called, was found defective. Although a few contended from the very first for abstinence from all alcoholic liquors, yet the general voice of the friends of the cause prevailed, and the most of the societies formed simply enjoined upon their members abstinence from distilled liquors. It required, however, but a brief experience to discover that the temperance ship was leaky. It was remarked that • in certain districts, where the con- sumption of distilled liquors was decreased through the influence of the temperance society, the consumption of fermented liqueurs was proportionately increased ; that many of those who were appa- rently reformed, either got themselves drunk upon ale and porter, or by means of these relapsed into their former intemperate habits ; and that all the reformed, who actually stood, practised abstinence from all liquors capable of intoxicating. It was also argued that the pledge of such societies was very accommodating to ladies and gentlemen, but very uncompromising with the mechanics and car- ters, cotton-spinners and weavers, and that they could well afford to give up whisky, who could buy wine. The first attempt known of to improve upon the old temperance principle was made at Dunfermline, in September, 1830. Upon the motion of Mr. John Davie, a society was formed " for the pro- motion of temperance, by the relinquishment of all intoxicating liquors." In January, 1832, Mr. James M'Nair, Dr. Biebmond, and a few others, formed, in a school-room situated in Oxford Street, Glasgow, the " Tradeston Total Abstinence Society." In September, 1836, Mr. John Finch introduced Long Pledge tee-totalism into Scotland, by formmg a good Tee-total Society at Annon, since which, by the able assistance of Mr. E. Morris, the Bev. Gray Mason, John Dunlop, Esq., and other able advocates, A)cieties hav&been established at Glasgow, Edinburgh, and most of the laige towns, and many of the villages ; and it has progressed VHl mrOTALlB'i BARD-BOOK. with anuudiig ihomm. The leal and energy of Meem. J. LiTceej, J. Teare, and T. Swindlehnrat, of Preston, caused them to Tint Scotland, for the purpose of aiding the cause ; their efforts proved very beneficial, and the places which they visited received a power- fill stimulus. To assist in the more general diffoudon of tee-totalism, the Soot* iish Temperance Union was formed, at a meeting of delegateSi held on the 6th and 6th of August, 1838, in Spreul's Court Cha- pel, Glasgow ; and by the united eflbrts of Scotland's best friends, at the close of 1838, there were registered 70,000 pledged tee- totallers. At a meeting of del^ates, held in the Freemasons* Hall,Edinbuigh,on Tuesday, June 4th, 1839, the Scottish Union was divided into twoi district associations, to be called the Eastern and Western, Edinburgh being the centre of the former, and Glasgow the centre of the latter, each having its monthly perio> dioal. Large and extenmye duppng concerns have sent the whole of their ships to sea on the tee-total principle, and "the plan (as in America and England) has been found to wotk well : and tee- totalism in Scotland has emerged from the obscurity which en- shrouded its origin, and it now rears its head as high, and vrith claims as important, as any of the political, moral, benevolent, or religious enterprises which have been commenced to rescue man from the service of sin. ^ The Scottish Temperance League was formed at Falkirk on the &th November, 1844, and consists of those abstainers who neither give nor take intoxicating liquors, and who contribute 2s. 6d,, or upwards, annually, to its funds. It employs several able advo* oates, issues the Scottish JSeview, Abitainer's Journal^ and the Advuer^ and also publishes a great variety of able tracts en the various aiEqpeots of the temperance question. No previous associa- tion in Scotland has taken the same pontion among b«ievolent institutions, or contributed so powerfully to advance the cause. There are also in Scotland several hundred local societies, oom* prising hundreds of thousands c/S members. Many of them are in '!.SS^&SsSz£'^^^^m^^ss:^:^.:;^^tmfEmi.-::2i^'^iMi;^Sr'.:. iioDBEs xmruiiioB •ooxtnii. 8t t state of moat eAoient operation, and are laeoeeding in oeaii]^ a pablie nntinient mpon the snbjeot of drinking whiA, Uda hk to render it ere long disreputable. Snolamd.— ^The movement was earried into Bngland ftom Seotland by Henry Forbes, Bsq., a merehant of Bradfiurd, wbo had attended a pnblio meeting of the O^ufgim association. By bis influence, a temperance socie^ was formed in Bradlbrd in the Spring of 1830. Similar associations were soon after established in Leeds and other luge towns in the liorth of England. Mr* William Oollins, of Glasgow, being in London about this tuasj^ put finrth great and successful exertbtts towards the fbnuataon of a society in the metropolis. The first puUie meeting of the London, since distinguished as the British and Fordga Tesapa? tance Society, was held on the 29th of June, 1830. Two years tbereafter, in July, 1832, many of the risiters and speakers began to abstain entirely from all kinds of intoxioattng liquor. Messrs. Livesey Swindlehurst^ and a few others^ soon afterwards b^n to preach up the entire abstinence dootrine at the meetings, which not only led to greater exertion, but created much discussion *Qn the subject, amongst those who took an into- rest in the success of the Society. On Thursday, August 23rd, 1832, Messrs. John King and Joseph Livesey irigned a total absti- nence i^edge in Mr. Livesey^s shop, Ohuroh'Street. On Saturdaji September 1st, 1832, some of the leaders of the society called • meeting to be held at the Temperance Hall, and at this meeting^ John King, Joseph Livesey, John Oratriz. Bdward Dickinson, John Broadbelt, John Smith, and David Anderton, signed tlio fi>^.lowing pledge, via.— -" We agree to abstain from all liquors of an intoxicating quality, whether aln, porter, wine, or ardent spirits, except as medicine;*' whilst Joseph Dearden, Th.^ From Preston, as a centre, the prinoiplee of entire abetinenoe^ radiated to other quarters, and in 1834, were introduced into the metropolis by Mn Livesey with considerable success; and from the metropolis, they were introduced into many of the towns of the south— 'publicity being advanced by various sn^all periodicala which had already been established in different places. From 1834 to 1838, it may be said that nearly the whole of Uie original societies throughout England extended their principles on the new and broader declaration, and with no little enthusiasm, without which it would be impossible for any cause of this nature to-proik per. The success of these fresh operations having, been mada known in the United Stetes, the temperance societies there, which had fallen into a languishing condition, adopted the same foirmnb of doctrine, and with like advantage. m mroTAXAili bahi^book. I\triiamentaiy Oommittee. — On the 3rd of June, 1834^ on^ (be motion of J. 6. Baokingham, £sq., » seleot eommittee wui appointed by the British House of Gommona, " to inquire into lihe extent, oaueee, and ooneequenoee, of the prevailing viee of intoxioation, among the labouring elasaes of the United Kingdom, in order to asoertain whether any l^idative measures could be devised to prevent the fVirther spread of so great an evil." This eommittee was oomposed of thirty-eight members, and included Ijord Althrrp, then Chancellor of the £xohequer and leader of the House of Oommons: Sir Bobert Peel, the late Prime Minister of England; Admiral Fleming, of the Royal Navy; Colonel Williami^ of the Bang's Army; Mr. Alexander Baring, the most eminent of 3riti8h merchants; and representatives of the agricultural, manu« ftoturing, and maritiike counties of England, Scotland, and Lmk land; so that every interest in the empire was represented in its composition. It extended its daily sittings from the 9th of Juii« to the 28th of July, 1834 ; in the course of which, no less than ifty-ej^t witnesses wwe examined at great length, and these in- eluded physidans and surgeons. of the greatest eminence, magis- trates and offioers of justice, ministers of religion and education^ officers of the nftvy, the army, and the mercantile marine, large htnded proprietors, opulent merchants, extensive manufacturers, <^emists, distillers, keepers of hotels and taverns, and labouring lioien in several departments of industry. Never, perhaps, in the annals of Parliament, was a committee oomposed of more eminent or impartial members — ^never was there a greater variety of wit- nesses from all classes of society, and all professions in life, care* taXtj examined— «nd never ^as there greater unanimity than in the conclusions to which the committee came in the report which they ultimately founded on this evidence, and which was adopted and printed by order of the House of Commons, as well as the large body of evidence itself, forming a folio volume of several Ikundred pages. The National Temperance Society continued up to 1850 its metropolitan mission on a smaller scale, and with particular rela< II Hon to wtaiMi and Sunday Mhoob ; laaintoinnd alaeiviag tgMifly 1847-60 ; petitioned PurUunent and variona pablio bodiea ; wide^ oironlated oopieo of two valuable eertifioatea, both originating with John Danlop, Saq., the fint bearing nearly 2000 rignatnrea, oosft* prising thoae of the chief membera of the medioal pno&aaion, and the second anbioribed by 1600 employen, in opposition to compQlp sory drinking nsi^ges; published a prise eeaay on the best meant of advancing the cause ; and aided the temperance cause through- OQt the world. In July, 1851, the London Temperance League, which hat cooperated with the metropolitan societies, instituted a succes sfu l series of annual demonstrationa and fetes, and procured firom the United Stotes the services of Mr. F. W. Kellogg, in 18fil-52, and of Mr. J. B. GKragh in 1853, whose transcendent capabilities as a temperance advocate bi^gan to be developed in America nine years before. ..^^ On the 1st of June, 1853, a society was formed at Manchester, called the " United Kingdom Alliance, to procure the total and immediate l^ialative suppression of the traffic in all intozicatin| liquors, as beveivges." Letters of adhesion intsantly came pouring in from all quarters, and there was soon a general council of 200, since augmented to above 400 names of leading persons among different denominations of Christians and philanthropists, and in- ' eluding such names as the Earl of Hurrington, Sir W. C. Trove* lyan, Bart., Sir William A'Beoket, Chief Justice of Victoria, Sir W. Lawson, Bart., Lawrence Heyworth, M.P., Bev. Br. Bums, Bev. Newman Hall, Bev. W, W. Bobinson, M.A., Br. F. B. Lees, Father IQathew, and many other clergymen, dii|)enting ministers, Jtmtices of the peace, aldermen, &o., &o. The first i^gregate meeting of this Gleneral Council, for the public inauguration of this Alliance, was held in Manohestei, on Wednesday, October 26th, 1853, About 100 members of the council, firom various parts of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, assembled. Upwards of 200 members of the Alliance and friends were also present as visitors. D* /^'' ^'^M 8d THI^ mVOTALift'a BANKBOOK. Hhe teeoncl aggregate meeting of tlie General Gonnol was lield ^ in Mancheater, October 25tli, 1854. - Wales. — In Wales, the number of societies and members have increased wonderfully, and mudi has been accomplished. There toe, it is stated, more than two millions teetotallers in the princi* polity ; and lier churches are rewarded for the decided part they have taken in the glorious work, in the increased number and pieiy of thdbr members. QlNKBAL BiMABKS. — In 1836, the Temperance enterprise found its way into Sweden, Prussia. India, New South Wales, and the West Indies. In 1837, into the Sandwich Islands, South AfHoa, Turkey, New Zealand, and Brazil. In 1838, into Russia, Central Asia, Oeylon, and Australia. The movement was so rapid and simultaneous, that it has been found extremely difficult to chronicle by regular date the numerous societies, all actuated by one grand self-den3ring principle, and aiming at the same goal—* the overthrow of the drinking usages, the reformation of the fkllen, and the preservation of future generations from the terrible woes denounced by Holy Writ in the books of Proverbs, Isaiah, and Habbakuk. CHAPTER IV. ORIGIN, ZTO., OF OEBTAIN SOOIETIZS. BSOHABITIS.— It is difficult to determine the precise period when this Ancient Order was first established; but memorable mention is made of their obedience and fidelity so early as the year of the world 3397, or 607 B. 0., on which occasion, that gracious promise was made, " Because ye have obeyed the com- mandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hatii commanded you. Therefore thus faith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel ; Jonadab the son \ ORlOnVi WtO.f 09 OSBVAItV MOHTflS. 30 of Reoliftb shall not want a man to stand befbre me fbr erer.** Hence you perceive total abstinence is not a modem inyeMion, for here is the fact of a Total Abstinence Society existing at a period of time two thousand five hundred years prior to the organixatioB of modem Temperance Pieties, and what is no less strange, tha same order with its ancient practice and principles now exists, and which the following extract will substantiate : — The Rev. Joseph Wolf says : — " On my arrival at Mesopotamia, some Jews that I saW there, pointed m^ to one of the AneieiA Bechabites. He stood before me, wild like an Arab, holding the bridle of his horse in his hand. I shewed him the Bible in He- brew and Arabic, which he was much rejoiced to see, as he could read both languages, but had no knowledge of the New Testament. After having proclaimed to him the glad tidings of salvation, and made him a present of the Hebrew and Arabic Bibles and Test*< ments, I asked him ' whose descendant are you " ? ' Mousa,' said he boisterously, 'is my name, and I will show. you who are my ancestors;' on which he immediately began to read firom the 5th to the 11th verse of Jeremiah xxxv. 'Where do you reside?' said I. Turning to Genesis x. 27, he replied, ' At Hadoram, now called Simiar by the Arabs ; at Uzal, now called Sanan by the Arabs;' and again referring to the same chapter, verse 30th, he continued, II 1866-T, John 3. Hall, u i> it 1867-8, A. Smeaton, u » » 1858-8, T. 0. Haynes, n » w 1859-60, Henry Rose, 11 John S. Hall, n Present Statistics : — In the last Annual Report, the G. W. P. says :•—" Let us be encouraged : vast changes have taken plaee in social, political, and civil economy within the past half century, and we may as safely predict, it not as great improvements in tbe progress imd triumph of inventive genius and research, at least a OBIOIN, ITO., or OlETAIir BOOIBTXSS. greater adTanoemeDt of the moral oondiUon of mankind. The next half century will be an age of reform and reyolntion in the moral and intellectual relations of the mind of the people. And a Temperance Millenium will be one of the blessings of the times. That it may not be always an expectation but a reality is most deTOuUy to be wished, and most lealously to be labored for." The Grand Secretary says : — " I am glad to be able to state, that the Order throughout our jurisdiction is in as good a position as it ever has been, and its prospects for the future of a far more- cheering and encouraging kind than any in my experience. In the Eastern Townships, where only a year or two ago, we had not a single Division, there are now six or seven, and within the last week, one Charter has been issued and another Divisioa formed, and the prospect before us is, that before another annual session, your Grand Scribe will have to report the existence of as many more. The following is a synopsis of returns for quarter ending June 30, from 20 Divisions: — ^Members Admitted, 206; Total Number of Members, 793; Temperance meetings held, 32; Number Withdrawn, 35 ; Representatives to Grand Division, 52. Gash Beceived, $304.99; Paid for Benefits, $31.50; Cash en Hand, including money invested, $1595.26; Total Expenses tor the Quarter, exclusive of benefits, $255.42; Per Capita Tax to Grand Division, $54.97." Upper Canada, — On the 21st day of June, 1848, the banner of the Order of Sons of Temperance was first unfurled in Canada West by George Boyd, D. M. W. P., in the Town of Brockvillc, upon which was inscribed in golden letters, " Love, Purity, and Fidelity." The little band only numbered 18, but it continued to receive recruits, until on the 19th of January, 1850, tbie whole number in the Order was nearly 2000. The application for charter to open a Grand Division, 12th April, 1849, was signed by the following W. P.'s, and P. W. P.'s : Wm. Dick, C. Leggo, W. H, Bllerbeok, B. Dick, Wm. Boyle, 40 M» «1IM*AXJ»*0 BAMIKBOOK. J. P. SttitoB) T. 0. Butler, J. Onigbfon, A. B. Purdee, J. M. HukiDB^ H» WUliMiM, A. Parish, R. Golemaa, J. OoIenmB, and J. L. Maodoiitld, repireseDting BfookyUle, Fronteoao, Nortk Avgiutoi Farmenyille, Oolemaa's Coraen, and GanaiKyqii# Diidnoni. Tk» brother who institated ma P. 8. Whiter Seq. The Pioneer D. G. W. F/s were R. Dick, A. B. Pardee, T. O. BaUer» E. Staoey, B. Boyd, J. R. Wright, Joha Kilbom, F. G. OaUender, G. V. N. Rellyea, Wm. Smart, John F. Wilson, W« S. Bttmham, B. D. Wadsworth, John WilUams, Johft Andrewti. H. Whitney, J. A. Spencer, &o., &o. The following Table will show the groiring state of the Order, and keep in remembranee those Brothers who haye been honored with fiBing the two xntot important oflb^es. Wm. Boyle was the first G. W. P., and W. H. Ellorbeok the first G. W. S. Six Subordinate IKTisione — ^268 members ?- Ax. SM. df. W. P.'ff. 6. SoiOBCii. tLJtaa. BID. ][ai(.P.T. Oct 10^ '49. John L. MMsdonald. W. H. EBufbcek. BcackviUs. 24 1,932 24^ '50i Wm. S. Barnbam. „ m 176 12,000 22, '51. A. B. Panlee. H. W. Jackson. M 330 15,363 27, '62^ W. H. EBetbeck. „ ' Oshamu 886 17327 26, '63. B«yv J. E. ByenMMi. Edwd. Stacej. Kiogrton. 315 12,000 25, '64. J.A.B.OOteiHy. „ Bytown. 393 11,260 24,. '66. John Beatty, MJ).,. „ Toronto. 353 10,27tf 22, '6«. B«r. T. Short, D J>. „ Whitby. 359 10,065 Deo. 2, '67. John Beatty, ILD. „ PeriHi^. , 331 10,864 2,861 1, '68. A. EareweU. «, l4>ndoc. 339 8,839 3,616 7, '69. John WflMnb ,, Vmsrket. 814 9,416 3,566 The late Annual Report of this body is voiy encooraghtg : tiom the O. W. P. we learn v — ** There are in connection with the National Division, as last reported, 41 Grand Divisions, numbering 1985 Subordinates. Average number to eiaoh Grand Division, 41. Canada West ^stands first on the list; and has 835. << The number of members admitted to all the Subordinate Divisions during the last year, u 37,987; average to each Grand Division, 996« Canada West stands second on the list, and ORKIBr. Wtft; ^tf iSMBfNkXK MOUffHS. 47 fUbttitiMl 4018 new roemben. Total inimbb. ^ «oiitifl>«tiiig vemben oonneeted with the National DiviuoD, 76,428; jtTeiage to each Grand DivisioD, 1864. Canada atandB fint on the list^ and nambera 10,479. Total number of Femalea oonneeted with the Order, 28,988 ; ayerage to eaoh Grand Diyiaion, 688» Canada West stands second on the list, and numbcn 8468. ** In the number of Temperance Meetings held, end Tracts distributed, Canada West is far ahead of any other Grand Biyi- sion. Of the former, yon number 879; of the latter, 12,676. These data are sufficient to show the important position you occupy in the National Councils of this, the great phUanthropio moyemeat of the 19th century. " I can also oongratulate you upon the present state and tattm prospects of the Order within the jurisdiction of this Orand Division. Though our numbers have not materially increased unce the Semi-Annual Session, yet the peace and tranquilHty pervading the brotherhood, the activity and energy of vary many Subordinate Divisicms, and the healthy tcme of publie opinion upon the question of Prohibition, are cheering indications that S3ed has been sown in good ground, and that, ere long, we nay look fbr a bountiful harvest. '' Paring the post Summer and Autumn, nuaerous pnhlio Temperance Demonstrations have token place, attended in nearly every iostance with gratifying sucoesa, A oonsideral^ nnmber of Deputies refer, in their communications, to those Soirees with much satisfaction. In many places loud calls are made for Lec< tnrers during the approaching Winter. Not a few Divisions desire again to petitbn the Legislature in favour of Prohibition, and many Deputies bear testimony to the great good attending the admission to the Divbion of Lady Visitors." From the Beport of the G. S., we have the statistics : — *' The following is an abstract of the Quarterly Returns received from 249 Divisions, for the Quarter ending June 1859: — Number of Subordinate Divisiops ipad^ retwrns, M9 ; admittod Nftw Mem- 48 THI T1IT0TAL1R*B HAlfD-BOOK. bets, 837; bjOard,40; Female ViflitoTS, 3658 ; W'ithdrawn, 281 ; \ Deaths, 8 ; Contributing Members, compated froui 249 DivisionB wbioh made returns, 9719; Publio Meetings held, 170; Tempe- rance Tracts distributed, 880; Representatives to Grand Bivision, 696; Representatives to National Division, 11. Gash received by Subordinate Divisions, £744, 148. 6d.; Paid for Benefits, £33, 2s. 9d. ; Gash on Hand, including money invested in Sub- ordinate Divisions, £4767, 2s. 8d. ; Total Expenses, exclusive of benefits, £574, 8s. 6d.; Per Gapita Tax to Grand Division, £76, Os. 4d. " The above statistics are collected firom actual Returns received from 249 Divisions, and if compared with the preceding March Quarter, as reported last Session, will be found to show a gain both in numbeAi of contributing members and female visitors. ** During the past year, thirty-three Divisions have been added to the list, and it must be gratifying to know that those Divisions have alteady made rapid progress in our truly benevolent and pbilanthrojnc enterprise. ** Twenty-six sections of Cadets of Temperance have been orga- nized since the Annual Session, and the progress of this Juvenile Order, although not rapid, is advancing fnvourably, and wil receive fresh impetus when the amendments contemplated by your Committee are perfected.'' ^ The following are the Officers of the Grand Division Sons of Temperance in Canada West for the current 1859-60:— John Wilson, Giafton, G. W. P. J. Breakenridge, Brockville, G. W. A. E. Staoey, Kingston, G. S. S. W. Sherrard, Brougham, G. T. Bev. J. M'Killican, Martintown, G. Chaj^Iam S. Roadhouse, Newmarket, G. C. E. Carswell, Oshawa, G. S. A. Farewell, Oshawa, F, G, W, I, oBiaiH, ma.f of on^TAni soonms. 49 FemaU Vtsitort were first admitted to PivitioBly Jvnt 1854 — at the age of 16— do not rote— but take part in Tariowi ways, and may be invited to speak, read essays, or otherwiM oontribate to the improvement and elevation of the meaben. The nnmber of Lady Visitors is rapidly increasing ; and thit concession on the part of the National Division has done mnoh to check the retrogression of our cause in sundry plaoea. United we standi divided we fall. Thv Tbmpli or Honob. — ^The Temple of Honor was broaght into existence by prominent Sons of Temperance, and designed by them for a branch of their own Order ; — ^the object being to strengthen the fraternal relations of the brotherhood; to afford additional benefits, without uniting with other organisations where t otal abstinence was not regarded as a fundamental princi- ple ; and to render tibe beneficial system progresuve in moral and intellectual improvement. The first Temple was organized in New Tork city, Deo. 6, 1845— the first Grand Temple, (that of New York) Feb. 21, 1846. On the 6th of November, 1846, a National Temple wag organized. Not very long after, the separation of the two bodies took place, and after suffering from various causes, so strong was the attach- ment of the brethren to the Temple of Honor, that they patiently endured all. A new Ritual was prepared, new life was infused into the Order, suspended Temples were revived, the membership increased, so that in 1854, there were 13 Grand Temples, 292 Temples, and 9234 members, officers, &o. Officers of the Supreme Oounoil :— JIf. W. T;, Btev. J. Boynton, Hastings, Barry Co., Mich. Jlf. TT. F. r., B. C. Hyatt, MontioeUo, Drew Co., Ark. M, W. R., J. Wadsworth, Cincinnati, Ohio. M. W. Treas., Alex. Van Hamm, Cincinnati, Ohio. M W. Chap., James Davison, Covington, Kentucky. M. W. U., George F. Turner, PhUadelphia, Pa. M. W. G,, S. P. Ohr, Canolton, Green Co., IlUnQis, E* ftO m TUTOTALlft'S HAMD-BOOX. DAUORTins OF Tkmpsranob. — The Order of the Sons of Tempemnoe had been established for some raonthn, and its good effects observed by certain ladies in the city of New York. Th« idea suggested itself, that possibly, similar results might follow were the females interested in a like association. Aooordingly, on 21st October, 1843, with the assistance of several of the Son$, a number oi ladies were organized into a Union of the Daughtera of Temperance, dedicating it to the work of promoting and dif- fusing among the female portion of the community, the sentiments of virtue, love, and temperance. The features of their constitu- tion and by-laws are very much the same as those of the Sons of Temperance. Their pledge is to^al abstinence — they admit no one who has not a good moral character — the benefit scheme is added. They have only a password which is necessary to be kept secret. ^is Order was introduced into Oanada, and worked efiiciently for many years, but is now almost entirely superseded by the Good Tem- plars, a large majority of the Daughters having joined that Order. JuviNiLB SiSTERi OF TfiMPKRAKCE. — Answering to the Oadets, this Order is designed to' complete the chain of Tempe- rance Organizations. As yet, it does not boast of many Assem- blies, as the several little societies are denominated. The effects of the institution on the minds of the young girls who are mem- bers, is salutary. The regalia worn is a blue girdle. Their motto is, " Truth, Virtue, Honor." They declare that they believe Intemperance to be an injury to mahkind, and a wicked- ness in the sight of God; that they regard a good example as often powerful to save and bless; and that they are desirous of shielding brothers, parents, sisters, and themselves, from the ter- rible evils of intemperance. Cadets. — As early as 1850, this organization was set on foot, and for some years conducted prosperously, but from various causes declined, till it almost ceased to exist in Canada. It has, however, been revived again (June, 1859), and is now in full operation. The staliatios we are not prepared to give. oaiozir, no., or outaw locxmif. 61 Rill or TBI Indipendamt Ordbr or Oood Tuiplam. The iDdepondant Order of Good Tomplarg originated in Oentral New York in the year 1851. L. E. Goon, Esq., was the first 0. W. C. T. In August, 1852, Nathaniel Ourtia, Esq., waa placed at the head of the Ordei* as G. W. 0. T. By iho month of December following, at the Annual Meeting, the number of representatives was quite respectable, and the Order began to present an imposing front. At Ithaca, N. Y., in Dec. 1858, the Order look the name of the Grand Lodge of North America — D. W. Bristol, G. W. 0. T., and H. P. Barnes, G. S. In 1864, the Grand Lodges of Pennsylvania, Canada West, Iowa, and Ohio, were organized. At the close of the year, there were about 800 Subordiuate Lodges, 5 Grand Lodges, and over 25,000 members. At Corning, in December of this year, N. W. Davis was elected, and the R. W. 0. L. of N. A. was organised partially, but more fully at Oleveland, Ohio, May 16th, 1855. The officers were as follows : — James W. Moore, R. W. G. T., Louisville, Ky. Dr. W. J. A. Case, R. W. G. C, Hamilton, Canada. 0. W. Strong, R.W.V. T., Chicago, 111. 8. Steele, R. W. G. T., Marshall, Mich. M. 0. Ruckman, R. W. G. S., Mansfield, Pa. G. Taylor, R. W. G. Chap., Romeo, Mich. B. H. Mills, R.W. G. M., St. Louis, Mo. A. Stone, R. W. G. D. M., Winchester, Ind. H. Hoover, R.W. G. I. G, Alliance, O. W G. Fearis, R.W. G. O. 8., Washington. la. N. W. Davis, R.W. P. G. T., Oswego, N. Y. Other Temperance Orders discriminate as to age and sex in making up their membership ; but none manifests greater libe- rality than this. Into this Order both sexes are admitted as early as 14 years of age. The ladies have a vote, and are eligible to office; their over-refining and elevating influence is felt with decided advantage. As the basis of the Order is laid in the great moral principles inculcated by our Heavenly Father in his Holy Word, it was thought advisable to unfold their bearings by 62 THl TSI^OTALIR'B HAITD-BOOK. " Atgnon** fM> 8f to give tbe greatest possible impresmveness to the instraotion which they are designed to impart Tests also haye been adopted for protection against imposition. The rapid spread of this noble institution, is evident from the fact, that the number of Grand Lodges has steadily increased: — 1856, 11; 1857, U; 1858, 15 ; 1859, 18, with a membership of 70,000. Officers of the R. W. Grand Temple :— 'B. G. O, T.f Simeon B. Ohase, Great Bend, Pennsylvania. R. Q. O.J Julius A. Spencer, Cleveland, Ohio. JR. 0, V. T., Amanda M. Way, Winoheater, Indiana. E. G, S.f W. A. Feignson, Hamilton, Canada West. X. G, T.. Jonathan H. Orne, Marblehead, Massachusetts. H, G. Chaplain, Bev. J. W. Pender, HoUey Springs, Miss. B. G. M,, J. N. Stoddard, Joliet, Ulinois. R. G, I, G., A. Gv Skipwith, Nashville, Tennessee. R, G. A. M.y George W. McCrary, Keokuk, Iowa. R. G. 0. G., John Evans, Bellevue, Michigan. Independant Order of Good Templars in Canada. — In Canada, the I. 0. G. T. was organized 28th Oct., 1853, at Merrickville, by Nathaniel Ourtis, D. G. W. 0. T. — named Harmony, No. 1. The Grand Lodge (now styled Grand Temple) was instituted at Hamilton, on Nov. 21st, 1854, by H. P. Barnes, B. W. G. S.; at this date there were 54 Sub-Lodges, and 1500 members. The progress of this Order in Canada West is very encourag- ing, ati the following statistics will show : — Av. Sbsi. S. L. Mbhbebb. Gbakd OFFioiibs. vi-««,a (\r.t ^a »KK at a ana J 3162 1 Dr. W. J. A. Case, G.W.C.T., Niagara, Oct. 16, 65. 97 4,668^ jg^gj and J. W. Stow, G.W.S. 4084 [Dr. J. M. YanNorman, do., 2099 I and J. W. Stone, do. 6780 [Dr. J. M. YanNorman, do., 3690 I and W. A. Ferguson, do. 8999} David Abel, Esq., do., and 4878 I W. A. Ferguson, do. Dr. J; W. Ferguson, and W. A. Ferguson, do. Hamilton, Oct. 15, '66. 138 6,183 Brockville,Nov.2S, '67. 148 10,470 London, Oct. 6, '68. 242 13,877 I Peterboro,Oct. 4, '69. 360 18,672 oRiaiN, wto., or ozbtaIn soonms. 63 The following is the <' Platform'' adopted by the Grand Lodge uf Oanada, embodying their ?iows on Prohibition :— " 1st. Total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors as a beverage. " 2nd. No license in any form, or liinder any oironmstanoes, for the sale of such liquors to be used as a beverage. " 3rd. The abtolute prohibition of the manufacture, importa- tion, and sale of intoxicating liquors for such purposes — ^prohibi- tion by <^e yrWl of the people expressed in due form of law, with the penalties deserved for a orinrie of such enormity. • " 4th. The creatiou of a heakby public opinion upon the sub- ject, by the active dissemination of truth in all the modes known an enlightened philanthropy. " 5th. The ekfition of good, honest men, to administer the laws. " 6th. Persistence in efforts to save individuals and communi- ties from so direful a scourge, against all forms of opposition and difficulty, until our success is complete and universal." The peculiar advantages of this Order we give from a Oircular lately issued — (we believe the remarks which follow will generalljr apply to the " Sons" also) : — " The Grand Lodge of Canada is composed of P. W. 0. T.'s, W. 0. T.'s, and ladies who have served as W. V. T. one fUll term or more, who are contributing members of Lodges subordi- nate to this Grand Lodge, and who have been admitted constitu- tionally. " Every Subordinate Lodge is entitled to one Representative for 50 members or less, (to be styled Regular Representative;) and one for every additional 50, to be elected for one year, (in the month of August.) And every Subordinate Lodge has the right to elect a Proxy Representative for the same term. Their expenses to be borne by each Subordinate Lodge. These Repre- sentatives, with the Grand Officers, make our laws, and are responsible for all decisions of Grand Lodge ; hence the import- ance of every Subordinate Lodge sending a Representative to Grand Lodge Sessions, and that Representative faithfully attend- ing to the business which may pass before him. iH TOI f 14VQTiiLIR'f HAN^-BOOiC. ^' In SMboidiiato Lodges, all die Offieai «r« open to every member who possesses the necessary qualifiGation, without excep- jB<¥ Tfaas it may be oasily seen that the ordinary Member of the remotest Subordinate Lodge may rise to Uie highest post of honor in the R. W. O. T. AU who have filled, or that will eTer fill, 4ho Ohair of B. W. 6. T^ most once haye occupied the lowest pontum among tho members of thia truly Independent and Honorable Order. ** The Revenue of the E. W. G. T. is derived from G. L. Charter Fees; dues from Ot. L. at the rate of $30 per annum for each Representative, (consequently our Grand Lodge dues are $90); proceeds of sale of Books, Cards, Diplomas, Odes^ and Certificates. The Disbursements are for salary of R. W. G. S., travelling expenses o£ Representatives, Printing Proceedings, Rituals, &o. If it be asked what pecuniary advantages do we derive from our connection with the R. W. G. T., it may be answered ; 1. We get our books, &c., for hdf the price it would cost to print sufficient number for our use. 2. We have actually drawn from its funds $36 more for expenses of Representatives than the amount of our tax ; since organization, our tax only being one half-cent per member. ** The Revenue of our own Grand Lodge is derived from Sub* ordinate Lodge Charter fees, sale of Rituals, Odes, Cards and Blanks and Assessment, said Assessment being fixed at tha Annual Session by the Finance Commit^. The $9 charged for Charter Fee, &o., ia applied as follows: $4 to Deputy, and remaining $5 for Charter, 8 Rituals, 3 Degree Books, 22 Odes, 8 Officers' Cards, Treasurer's Bonds and Return Sheets. It will be perceived at once that the charges are reasonable. The Disbursements are expenses of the Grand Officers attending Bession of Grand Lodge, salary of G. W. S,, dues to R. W. G. L., printing Proceedings, Charges, Cards, &c., and incidental eX" penses, Buoh as Postage, Express Charges, ^c. ( i oBidnr, sfOL, m dSfici soomns. ft» *< laMJh Sobordiottfl Lodge h&Tiiig a pltee and vote in the Omiid Lodge by ite regular BepresoDtatiTes, or proxj, ean almjft goard its own rightg : and so abo the Grand Lodge of Canada^ tfuNrngh ito three BepresentatWea in the B» W. G* T^ watohe* over tiie general interests of o«r whole Order in thw PlroTino»r We euinot irsppose, therefore, that there is the slightest gronndf tor suspicion or want of oonfidenee m the financial disposition <^ tibe affairs oi this extensive organization ; bat| on the CMktrarfii the most sati^otorj eyidenee is afforded to eall forth the heaitjr co-operation of Subordinate Lodges to uphold the Grand Lodge, and the G. L. in its turn to sustain the RrW. G. T. At the lMi^ Annual Meeting of B. W. G. T., we had 12,000 members, being 2000 . <-ei any other Grand Lodge, and only paid the sam* amoi;' -i tax as Ohio Grand Lodge, with 6000 member« ship. ** In such matters, it would be easy to show that the I, O. of G. I. in Canada will eompare favourably with other bodies nmip larly constituted. *^ The advantage to members travelling ought not to be ovei^ looked. Thk Order has not less than 15 Grand Lodges, and Subordinate Lodges dotting North America from Canada to Mississippi, and from New York to California. Wherever ottir members go, a ready home greets them, and ready blessingii attend them." The present 0£Eieei8 of the Grand Temple of Canada are av fellows : — Dr. J. W. Ferguson, Woodstock, G. W. 0. T; Mrs. Ellen Michell, Pickering, G. W. 0. J. W. Gifford, Orono, G.W. V. T. W. A. Ferguson, Hamilton, G. W. S. B. D- Wadsworth, Hamilton, G.W. T. James Adams, Embro, G. W. Chmlain* H. H. Stovel, Mount Forest, G. W. M. Mrs. M. A. Heather, Peterboro*, G. W. B. M. W. Johnston, Peterboro*, G. W. I. G. H. C. Crain, Augusta, G. W. 0. G. \ THl TSVTOTALUl's HAND-BOOK. State of the Order in Canada,-^" In presenting to yon my Beport, as Secretary, permit me to congratulate you on the pros- perity of our noble Order. A proRperity under the peculiar difficulties in which we were placed nearly a year ago, beyond our most sanguine expectations, and to me, clearly demonstrates that our principles are just, and must triumph. Thwe has been 110 Temples organised during the year. Total number of Temr pies, 350, 26 of which made no returns since February, but no doubt will do so very soon. You will perceiyo that our increase has been gradual. We number: males, 12,149; females, 6526; initiated during the year, 7100; violated pledge, 600; restored, 200; expelled for violation, 400; expelled for non-payment of dues, 1600; withdrawn by card^ 480; admitted by card, 213; withdrawn froiu the Order, 480. Total number of memberSi 18,672.— Peterboro*, q.W., Oct. 4, 1859." Bands of Hopi. — ^Bands of Hope are simply juvenile tem- perance societies, formed for the purposer of promoting the early training of the young in the practice of total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks, tobacco, and profanity. Now perhaps some will ask why they are called Bands of Hope ? I will tell you, A few years ago, Mrs. Carlisle, a warm-hearted and benevolent Irish lady, who had visited prisons much with the celebrated Elizabeth Fry, and who saw that intemperance sent a large pro- portion of the inmates to prison, asked if something could not be done to prevent the young from becoming intemperate ? She said, ** Let us form the boys and girls into juvenile temperance societies." '' What name shall we give these societies f " inquired a friend. " Why, as our hope is in the young, and we wish to band them together, suppose we call them Bands of Hope?" replied Mrs. Carlisle. I will give yon a brief account of the formation of the first one ever formed. One Monday night, about a dozen years ago, seven little Sunday School scholars were assembled around their teacher in a small room in one of the ancient cities of England. The oBienr, no., of oibtaii fOomriM. 57 teacher bad witeesied the borowb oauaed in many ftMoUies throngh intozioating liqaors. He h^d beard <^ Mn. Oarliale'a suggestion, and felt desirous that scholars should not only be trained up in the praotioe of total abstinence, but that they should also be induced to sympathise with and seek to reclaim the poor drunkards who abounded in that city. The object of the meeting was one upon which the teacher felt Qod's blessing could be solicited, and therefore, after reading a portion of Scripture, the little group knelt down, and prayer was offered that He who seeth in secret, and rewardeth openly, would graciously smile upon this feeble effort to do good. Seyeral temperance songs were then sung, after which the teacher endear Yored to bring before his youthful audience, the evils of intern- perance, that the prisons are crowded with those who are sent there from the results of liquor, and that drunkenness is the most fertile source of crime. After addressing them a short time, and reading several short and interesting pieces upon temperance, they dosed the meeting with singing. The seven members soon increased to 21, and the 21 to 100. Several warm-hearted Sunday School teachers readily came forward to lend their aid to the hopeful movement. Band of Hope Constitution.— ^Axt. 1. This Association shall be called the " Band of Hope." - Art. 2. The object of the Association is to encourage the young to abstain from Intoxicating Liquors, Tobacco, and Profanity, and those who sign the Gonstitution agree thus to abstain. Art. 3. The officers shall consist of a President, three Vice- Presidents, a Secretary, and Treasurer, who shall hold office for three months. The offusers may be either males or females. Art. 4. Any one may join this Band of Hope, by signing the Gonstitution and Pledge, and paying cents into the txeasury. p \ m tarn ^j|W0TAA«B« iu«»-Boos. Art. 5k Aduks may beooHie honorary members by paying not UwB tlian 25 cents into the treasury, if jMoposed by a member of ihe Band. Art. 6. The meetings shall be held at suoh time and ^aoe as the Officers shall direet, and shall be opened with the reading of Scripture or prayer. Art. 7. The general management of this Band of Hope shall be . under the control of a Superintendent. Art. 8. The following Pledge shall be used, and the members shall repeat it in ooncert at each meeting : PLRDOB. I hereby solemnlj pledge myself to abstain from the asa of all Intoxi- oating Liquors as a bererage, from the use of Tobacco, aad from all Profanity. Art. 9. This Constitution may be altered at any regular meet- ing, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present. 7. 0. G, T. Oonttitution of Bands o/Bope. — 1, This Associ- ation shall be called the Band of Hope. 2. Tho object of this Band of Hope is to aid and eneourage the young of -both sexes to abstain from the use of Intoxieating Liquors, Tobacco, Pro&ne and Obscene Langut^; and those who sign this Constitution, pledge themselves thus to abstain. 3. Any person may become a member of this Band of Hope who is not ov^r fourteen years of age, on being proposed by a member, and duly elected by a show of hands, aiid by paying the sum of Ten Cents into the treasury. 4. The r^ular dues of this Band of Hope shall be Two Cents per month. If, however, it is found that the current expenses of the Band do not require so much, the dues may, at any regular meeting, be lowered or entirely abolished. 5. The Officers of this Band shall consist of not less than two Superintendents, chosen from the Temple, and a President, Vice- President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Door Keeper, who shall be deeted onoe in 4hree months. If thought pnqmr, the Band may at the same time elect Monitors. ^ oRiom, iTc, OF trnwAXK' leeiirriBs. 59 6. The duty of the SuperintenSents is to see that the sMietiiig is opened and olosod at the regular hours ; to commence the meet- ing with reading of the Scriptures and Prayer; and to maintain order during the proceedings. The duty of t^*^ P ;nt is to preside o- '.e meetings; put all motions anu declu. _ bho result ; see thati all the Officers attend to their duties; giye the casting rcte in case of a tie; and uiaitttain order and decorum. The duty of the Vice-President is to act in th« absence of the President. The duties of the Secretary are to keep a proper minuto of the proceedings of each meeting; receive all money and pay it oreff to the Treasurer; and perform all other offices generally devoW- ing upon Secretaries. The Treasurer shall receive all money from the Secretary, to whom he shall give receipts for the same, and pay them ov«r as. he may be directed by vote of tho Band. The duty of tbo Doer Keeper is to see that no children are admitted who are not members or about to become such, and also to prevent any improper running in and out of the members during the meeting. When Monitors are appointod, it shall be their duty to take charge each of one bench or seat, and see that those seated thereon pay proper attention and act with propriety. 7. Any of the Officers may be either a Boy or QirU 8. The meeting shall be held at such time and place, and as often, as the Supenntendents, or a vote of the Temple, may direct. The meetings should never be later than six o'clock p.m. in win- tor, and seven p m. in summer, and whenever practicable a still earlier hour should be chosen. 9. The fallowing pledge shall be used, and the members shall repeat it aloud in concert at eaoh meeting ; ->" I hereby s^emnlj pledge myself toabstaia from the use- of all Intoxicating Li^ttors^ from t^e use o£ Tobaooe, and from Profane and Obseeu* lAn-^ gaage" A 60 THB niTOTALBB'S HAND-BOOK. 10. If any mtmber is Moused of Tiolating his or her plfdgo, tbeesse shall be heard before the whole Band ; and if the aoonsed ^ is found gniltji he or she shall be reprimanded by the Superin- tendents for the first or second offence, while for the third the offender shall be expelled. 11. In all cases when practicable, a portion of the time of each meeting'-whioh shall not exceed one hour and a half — shall be deyoted to the recitation of Temperance pieoes, dialognes, or to extempore speeches by the members. The members to discharge these duties shall be nominated the preceding meeting. Singing Temperance melodies at intervals during the service, shall be in order. 11. Each member shall be Aimished with a copy of this Gon- stitution on the evening of his or her election. If this copy should be lost, or anodier one required, it may be purchased for one cent, of the Secretary. 18. Adults may become members of this Band of Hope by a vote of the meeting, on the payment of 25 cents. 14. Any member of this Band of Hope, who is fourteen years of age, and has been a member for one year, may be admitted to the Temple, the Band paying the usual entrance fee. 15. A roll containing the pledge, with the members' names and ages, shall be kept by the Seoretary, and if requisite, it shall b^ mounted oq a roller, in order to be properly preserved. 16. This Constitution can only be altered or amended by the Grand Temple of Canada, at its Annual or Semi- Annual Session. What is Wanted to be Done. — Teach them to sing abstinence melodies — to recite abstinence pieoes — ^to read abstinence books — to take abstinence papers — to tell abstinence stories — to study what the Bible says in favor of abstinence, and against drinking and drunkards — ^to pray for abstinence — ^to pray for the drunkard and his poor suffering children. Tell them what drink has done, is doing, and will do. Warn them— oh ! warn than — ^not to enter oatonr, sro,, of ostTAin tocamTiis. <1 ft liquor shop: ereate in tlien » hstiwd cf diJnV. i&d viiatjftUag eonneoted witk it, and ooatiauc to do so, mmi m due mbmh y«a will reap, if you faint not. Proyide innocent rooreation at home — ^lei the 'B$md of Hope provide innocent reoveaftion alnroad, and train (Im young in it ao that holidays may be appropriately spent, and leisttfe hours jMalth- &lly, joyfully employed. Let there be a weekly meeting of the ofaildren, vndor ibe mqpe- arintendenco of some adttlt male or female who sympaithiwe with children, at an early hoar on a week-day afternoon, to last an how*. Begin by singing, then prayer. Even ehikhnen eaa open mioh meetings by repeating the Lord's prayer. Then let the Aseieises be diversified by a passage of Scripture in fvr but because that whole garnished and glittering establishment, with its bewildering attractions, is to many a young man a chandeliered and crimsoned hell, the very yawning maelstrom of moral death. The dollar which I gave at my entrance is my contribution to- wards sustaining an establishment whose dark foundations rest on the murdered souls of thousands of my fellow-men. Their blood stains its walls, and from the seats of that " pit " they have gone down mayhap to a lower pit where no sounds of mirth ever oome. And now, I ask you, what right have I to enter a place where the tragedies that are played off before me by painted men and women, are as nothing to the fearful tragedies of ruined eouis that are enacted in all parts of that house every night ? What right have I to give the sanction of my example to such haunts of folly and vice, and, by walking into the theatre myself, aid to dcioy others there likewise. Now, on the same principles, not of seZ/^preservation, (for of that I am not now speaking,) but on the principle of avoiding what is hurtful to others, what right have I to sustain those mSgazines of death, where poisonous drinks are sold ? What ri PROHIBITION. 71 right have I, as a lover of God and man, to petition for them, or to sustain that traffic in any shape or manner ? If a glass of wine on my table will entrap some young man, or some one whose in- clination is very susceptible to alcoholic stimulant, into dissipation, what right have I to set that trap for his life ? What right have I to throw over that drinking practice the sanction of my usages and influence, so that he shall go away and acknowledge me as his tempter, and quote me as his authority for sinning ? If the contents of that sparkling glass make my brother to stumble, he stumbles over me. I am an accomplice in the wrong. If he goes away from my table, and commits some outrage under the effects of that stimulant, I am, to a certain degree, guilty of that outrage. The blow he struck was mine ; the oaths he uttered in his debauch were, to a certain degree, my blasphemies. I have a partnership right in them. But for me, he might not have uttered them, and by giving him the incentive I prompted him to them. The man who (in the language of Scripture) " puts the bottle to his neighbor's lips,'' is accountable for what comes from those lips under the influence of the exciting draught, and is accountable, too, for what the maddened and bewildered man may do during his temporary insanity. Bat, in the next place, if it be wrong for good men to set before others an example of drinking alcoholic drinks, how much more is it wrong to offer them directly as a matter of merchandize and traffic ? Here, too, I wish to present the moral argument. That the sale of alcohol is legalized in many of our States, I do not deny. 1 see that, and know it, and weep over it. Under the existing regulations of the commonwealth in which I reside, the traffic in intoxicating drinks is made legal, and tor certain speci- fied suras men have " license " — as it is technically termed — to dispose of alcoholic drinks in certain quantities, to be drank as a beverage. They have licensj — a legal permission. But, in spite of the ridicule that has lately been levelled at the doctrine, I submit whether there be not in existence a higher law than the enactments of this commonwealth ? — I submit whether the iofi- \ 72 THE TEXTOTALSB'S HAND-BOOK. nite Jehovah of Hosts be not a mightier Potentate than the governor of any state, or the conncil of any city ? And in the primal statute-book of the universe I read this anathema — whose thunderbolt no human hand can stay — '' Woe unto him who put- teth the bottle to his neighbor ! " This is the Divine declaration, however men may sophisticate themselves or delude each other. The full import and power of a license to <' put the bottle " to a neighbor's lips, is greatly misunderstood and over-rated. Will a '* license" free a man's conscience from the legitimate effects of that which he is doing ? Will that make reparation to a man for the loss of his money, time, character, health, and soul.? W ill that make reparation to families robbed of protection, and the community robbed of its real wealth, the name and strength of its sons ? Will that license soothe the widow, whose outward badges of mourning are but faint emblems of the darkness that hangs like night upon her broken ^irits ? Is there any trafficker in strong drink who means to take his license up to the Judgment bar ? If so, I entreat him to look well, and see wly>se " image and supersdription it bears. He may then find that fatal docu- ment countersigned in blood, and registered with the tears of the lost in God's book of remembrance. — Temperance Messenger y U. S. CHAPTER II. ; — .....,.^ ' PARLIAMENTARY ACTION. The Traffic Prohibited in Various Countries — Testimonies — First Parlia- mentary Committee in Canada — Forbes M'Kenzie Act of Scotland — Ditto for Canada — Canadian New Municipal Law. The Tkaffio Prohibited in Various Countries. « Prohibited in Africa. — The following proclamation, on the subject of ardent spiriti, appears in the Graham^s Town (Cape of Good Hope) Journal of 22d March, 1838. It has been printed in the Dutch, Bichuana, and English languages, and extensively circulated in the country north of the Orange river : — PARLIAMENTARY ACTION. 73 " I haba 'nohu, BIchuana Land — A Law Prohibiting the Traffic in Anient Spirits. " Whereas, the iDtroductiou of ardent spirits into this country has, in a great measure, been subversive of the good effects, both of religious and civil government, in every part where it has been allowed, and immediately caused disorder, immorality, and vice, and more remarkably, poverty and distress, demoralization and destruction of life, by incessant depredations upon the property rights of the weaker tribes of these parts: " Be it hereby known, that the traffic in ardent spirits in every part of the country under my government, shall, from the date hereof, be illegal ; and any person or persons found transgressing this my law, shall be subject to the confiscation of all the spirits thus illegally offered for sale, with all other property of every kind belonging to the person or persons thus found transgressing, that may be on the spot at the time of seizure, and in any way con- nected with the same. " Given at Thaha 'nohu, this eighteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hui ed and thirty- seven. <• The mark X of Moroka, Chief of the Borolongs" Lieut. Forbes, a recent African traveller, states in his journal that " drunkenness is not allowed in Dahomey. As a public example, the king kept a drunkard and fed him on rum, and exhibited him at the customs (the annual festival), that his ema- ciated and disgusting appearance might shame his people from making beasts of themselves.'' Anti-Liquor Law op New BauNSWiCK.-^Petitions in great numbers preceded its introduction into the Local Assembly, where it was carried — then it passed the Legislative Council — and was signed by the Lieut.-Governor April the 7th, 1852. It was then sent toEngland for ratification, which it finally obtained 74 THI TUTOTALXB'S BANIVBOOK. by the signature of ker Majesty. The preamble is, — *' Whereas, experienco has proved that the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage is the cause of a very large proportion of the ills that affoot communities, in producing crime, poverty, disease, and demoralization : And, whereas it is the duty of all governments to legislate for the happiness, comfort, and prosperity of the people." The number of clauses in the Act is 17; the li^th of which repeals all laws inconsistent with this, and the 17th fixes the 1st of June, 1853, as the period when the Act shall come into force. The scope of the law is to suppress the manufacture and sale of all alcoholic liquors except beer, ale, porter, and cider — 1. e., fermented liquors are to be allowed as heretofore, but all spirituous liquors are prohibited, and the manufacture of them placed in the category of illegalities along with the coining of base money. Prohibited in Pitcairn IsTiAND.-»-About sixty years ago, a number of English merchants interested in the prosperity of the West India possessions, fitted out an expedition with the view of introducing the bread fruit tree into the islands of those seas. The ship Bounty, ladened with the plants, and under the com- mand of Lieutenant Bligh, was on her way from Otaheiti. Exas- perated by the overbearing conduct of the commander, Fletcher Christian, the mate, assisted by several of the inferior officers and men, seized the commander, ^nd forcing him, along with nineteen others, into a small hoat, set them adrift upon the wide ocean. Fletcher Christian, the leader of the mutiny, took the Bounty to Otaheiti, where a great part of the crew left her; part of whom were afterwards apprehended, while he and eight others, who each took wives, and six natives, shortly afterwards proceeded to Pitcairn's Island, ran the ship ashore, and broke her up. In consequence of the gross oppression to which the mutineers subjected the Otaheitans, revolt succeeded revolt, until the sole survivors consisted of a man named Smith, and eight or nine women and several children. This man subsequently assumed PARLIAMKMTART ACTION. 75 the name of John Adams, and hcoame patriarch of the colony. The dwellers on this lone islet in the drear expanse of the South Pacific, now number eighty-six females and eighty-eight males, or nearly two hundred ia all. They still speak the language and profess the faith of the English nation. But the fact remains to be stated to which the extraordinary character of this people is doubtless in no small degree traceable. M'Koy, one of the mutineers, had formerly been Employed in a Scotch distillery, and being an intemperate man, set about making experiments, and unfortunately succeeded in producing an intoxi- cating liquor. This success induced a companion, named Quintal, to turn his kettle into a still. The consequence was that both were habitually drunk, and M'Koy, one day, in a fit of delirium, threw himself from a cliff and was killed on the spot. His com- panion's conduct was so horribly savage, that John Adams, along with another, considered it necessary for the preservation of the general safety, to put him to death by felling him with a hatchet. The conduct of M'Koy and Quintal so shocked the rest of the community, that they resolved never again to touch intoxicating liquors, and to this day they have kept their resolution. The only spirituous liquors allowed to be landed on their shores, are a few bottles of wine and brandy for the medicine chest of the doctor. Were these simple islanders not wise in joining in a confederacy of entire and perpetual abstinence ? The visitor of their secluded ocean home will search in vain amid its deep ravines, and towering mountains, and lofty trees, for an hospital a workhouse, or a barred and grated jail. Prohibition in Liberia. — In Liberia is a prison which deserves more the designation of a Model Prison than ours. le has no inmates, and is scarcely ever entered except to " clear it of the insects, and keep it clean." In answer to inquiries, I learned that in Monrovia, the capital, there were only three places of public entertainment ; and that there was so high a tax upon spirits, that they were but little used. I asked, if public-houses \ 76 THB TEXTOTALBB'S HAND-BOOK. trore multiplied, and taxos reduced, how would it be with the > prison ? " It would soon be tenanted/' was the reply. This aimplo people have not attained to the wisdom of older and greater states. PROiimnoN IN THE South Seas. — The evil had become 80 alarming that the missionaries felt that something must be attempted, and therefore determined to sot the people an exam- ple, by abstaining entirely from the uso of ardent spirits, and by forming temperance societies. Thosa worked exceedingly well, especially at Parpara, the station occupied by our venerable and indefatigable brother, Mr. Davis Tn one place Mr. Williams remarks, — '* I am truly thankful — and in this feeling every friend of missions will participate — that the people, with their chief, have b3en brought to see their folly, and abandon the uso of that which was unfitting them for earth and heaven, by rendering them poor, profligate, and miserable." " In this very critical period, wo are further informed, the Parliament met, and before the nembcrs proceeded to business, they sent a message to the Queen, to know upon what principles they were to act. She returned a copy of the New Testament, saying, ' Let the princi- ples contained in that book be the foundation of all your proceed- ings;" and, immediately, they enacted a law to prohibit trading with any vessel which brought ardent spirits for sale ; and now, there is but one island in the group, Porapora, where these are allowed." Prohibition in Madaqasoar. — Madagascar contains four million inhabitants; all total abstainers from intoxicating drinks. In this island, the Maine Law is ingrafted on the constitution. When the Rev. David Griffiths was on the point of administering * the solemn rite of the sacrament, for the first time, an edict came direct from the throne, ordaining — not for the first time — that no intoxicating wine was to be used, it being a breach of their laws. In obedience to that law, he made use of the pure pressed juice of the grape. g''^^*! ?^ j ^ '' ' ' V M» 'M >i w i T.''i ' ''". i^**»*p'¥*Sa^g*^^*^'W^ PARLIAMENTARY AOTION. 11 Prohibition in Hawaii. — The king of tlio Hawaiin Islandi enacted a law, in October, 1840, prohibiting the manufacture and use of intoxicating liquors within his domains. Prohibition in England. — It is a curious and important fact, that during the period when the distilleries were stopped, in 1796 and 1797, although bread and every necessary of life was considerably higher than during the preceding year, the poor, in that quarter of the town where the chief part resides were apparently more comfortable, paid their rents more regu« lurly, and were better fed, than at any period for some years before, even although they had not the benefit of the extensir charities which were distributed in 1795. Testimonies in Behalf of Prohibition. SKNTIMBNTS EXPBBSSBD OKKTCRIU AGO. Lord Chesterfield, in the course of the debates on the Oin Act, in 1743, when the distillers flooded London with their poi- son, drunkards lay in heaps on the streets, and government was defied by the mob — addressed the House of Lords in the follow- ing terms : — " Luxury, my lords, is to be taxed, but vice prohi- bited, let the di£Sioulty in the law be what it will. It appears to me, my lords, that really, if so formidable s body are confederate against the virtue or the lives of their fellow-citizens, it is time to put an end to the havoc, and to interpose, whikt it is yet in our power, to stop the destruction. If their liquors are so delicious that the people are tempted to their own destruction, let us, at least, my lords, iecure them from their fatal draught, by bursting the vials that contain them. Let us crush at once these artists in human slaughter, who have reconciled their countrymen to sickness and ruin, and spread over the pitfalls oi debauchery such a bait as cannot be resisted I " The Lord Bishop of Salisbury said, in the course of the same debate : — " If this bill be passed into a law, I hope some of your lordships will rise up aud move for a repeal of the riot iMt; ' G* • a . 78 THI TIITOTALIr'B HAITO-BOOK. for I should think it very hard to entioe poor people to become riotoQS by provoking them to drink gin, and then to murder them because they are riotous." The Bishop of Oxford said in the same debate : — " Poisons, my lords, of all kinds, ought to be confined to the apothecary's shop, where the master's character, and even his bread, depends upon his not adminbtering too great a dose to any person what- ever, and where the price is generally too high for any poor man to oomoiit a debauch. Will you, then, commit the care of dis- pensing this poison to every ale-houso-keeper in the kingdom, I may say to every man in the kingdom who is willing to pay half- a-crown to the justices, and twenty shillings a-year to the govern- ment for a license? Will you enable them to dispense this poison at so cheap a rite that a poor thoughtless creature may get drunk for threepence, and may purchase immediate death for a shilling ? A c(«dial may be necessary in some distempers, and may be of SOTvice to the patient when moderately and skilfully adininistorod; but no climate, no temperature of the air, can make a dram of spirituous liquors necessary to a person in full health and vigour." Stepeien Halbs, B.D., Clerk of the Closet to H.B H. Prince of Wales, who published a tract, in 1754, entitled, ** Friendly Admonitions to the Drinkers of Gin, Brandy, &o. With an humble representation of the necesMtiea of restraining a vice so- destructive of the Industry, Morals, Health, and Lives of the People,' Bays,-^"Now, since it is found by long experience,, extremely difficult for the unhappy habitual dram-drinkers to extricate themselves from this prevailing vice ^ so much the more it becomes the duty (^ the governors of the nations to withhold from them so irresistible a temptation.'' NoRTHWiOK, in his " History of London,'* referring to th& doings of Parliament in 1552, remarks : — ** The increase of taverns and wine-vaults now engaged their attention, and it waa enacted, that the number of taverns r5tW, it would both clean rid the poBsibility of committing that odious vice, and men might afterwards live happily/ and healthfully without the use qf intoxicating liquor* ? " Key. John Wesley, in a letter which ho addressed to the Right Hon. William Pitt, says,--" Bath, Sept. 6, 1784.->Servants of distillers inform me that their masters do not pay for a fortieth part of what they distil ; and this, only last year, (if I am rightly informed)^ amounted only to £20,000. But have not the spirits distilled this year cost 20,00O lives of his Majesty's liege subjects 7 Is not, then, the blood of these men vilely bartered for £20,000 — not to say anything of the enormous wickedness which has been occasioned thereby, and not to suppose that these poor wretches have souls ? But, to consider money alcne, is the king a gainer, or an immense loser ? To say nothing of many millions of quarter* of corn destroyed, ^hich, if exported, would ,jidd more than £20,000 to the revenue, be it considered, dead men pay no taxes ; so that, by the death of 20,000 persons yearly (and this, computation is far under the mark,) the revenue loses fnr more than it gains. But how can the price of wheat and barley be reduced ? By prohibiting for evbR — by making a full end of that bane of health, that destroyer of life and virtue — ^DlaTILLINO.'* \ 80 THE TIITOTALIB'S HAND-BOOK. First Parliamentart Committee in Canada. On the 24th day of Feb., 1859, the following were named a Select Committee to receive all Petitions in favor of a Prohibitory Liquor Law, examine their contents, and Report with all convenient speed — viz. : Mr. Simpson, Hon. Mr. Cameron, Mr. Playfair, Mr. MoDongall, Mr. Walker Powell,- Mr. McKellar, Mr. Cook, Hon, Mr. Mowat, Mr. Hartman, and Mr. A, P. McDo' 'd. On the 30th of March, they made the following Report : — "REPORT. ^ ,; " There have been referred to your Committee, up to the date hereof, 240 petitions, signed by 108,894 individuals, 22 petitions from Municipalities, 3 p. itions from temperance organizations, and 1 petition from the Canada Christian Conference, praying for the enactment of a stnngent Prohibitory Liquor Law ; 2 peti- tions from Municipalities, praying that the use of liquors may be prohibited, except for medicinal and mechanical purposes; and 3 petitions, signed by 328 individuals, praying that the sale of liquor may be restrained. "Your Committee have had before them several gentlemen who have long taken a deep and active interest in the extension of the cause of temperance— viz. : Messrs. Beatty, (of Cobourg,) Fare- well, (of Oshawa,) and Burr, (of Toronto,) whose evidence and observations accompany this Report. " Your Committee were anxious to obtain,^ and, through one of their number, invited, ihe attendance of the Honorable Neal Pow, as they considered his thorough practical acquaintance with the subject referred to them would be of signal value. Mr. Dow, however, was unable to leave his official duties for the length of time requisite for a journey to Toronto, but kindly favored your Committee with a very interesting communication on the history and working of the prohibitory system in the State of Maine, which also accompanies this Report. ^ :-i . ,v ^s* ». " Your Committee invited the attendance of the Police Magis- trate and Recorder of Toronto, the Governor of the Toronto Gaol, PABLIAHBNTABT ACTION. 81 and the Episcopal Chaplain of the Provincial Penitentiary. The evidence and remarks of these able and experienced officers also accompany this Report. " And among the evidence will be found the statements and viewr of two gentlemen, one of whom is largely engaged in brewing, the other in distilling. And your Committee append returns showing the quantity of whiskey and beer manufactured in Upper Canada during the year 1858 ; and also the quantity of wines, liquorS| and beer imported into the Province during ^he same year. " Your Committee forwarded a series of questions bearing upon the subjects referred to them, to the SheriflFs and Wardens of Counties ; the Mayors, Recorders, and Police MagistralSes of Towns and Villages in Upper Canada; 03pies of which appear in the Appendix to this Report. " Returns have been received from the Sheriffs of 38 of the 42 counties of Upper Canada, from which it appears that in the gaols under their control, 15,975 persons were imprisoned during the three years ending with 1858 ; and as from the united testimony of these gentlemen more than three-fourths of the prisoners were committed for drunkenness, or for offences perpetrated while under the influouce of liquor, it follows that 12,000 for the three years, or 4000 per annum, of the entire commitments, are directly trace- able to the use of liquor. By the same returns, it is shewn that in 24 of the counties intemperance is on the increase, while in 14 no increase has been observed. " From the evidence appended to this report, from the returns received by your Committee from all parts of the country — ^from villages, towns, and cities, as well as from the rural municipalities — and from their own personal observation, your Committee are thoroughly convinced — " 1. That indulgence in the use of intoxicating liquors is the causo of most of the suffering and sorrow, the poverty and crime, which afflict Upper Canada ; and, " 2. That it is the duty of Parliament to n^itigate, diminish, and, if possible, extirpate the cause of these evils. \ 82 T^ I vextotalsb's hand-book. ^' Your CommittM therefore recommend that an Act be paMed^ MithoriKing and establishing the prohibitory system in all the Municipalities in Upper Canada, wherein, in the month of July next, at a meeting of persons authorized to vote for school trustees, held for the express purpose of considering the matter, the majority of persons present at such meeting shall not vote against its taking effect within the limits of said Municipality." We take the evidence of the different parties in the order in which we find it in the Report : — John Bbatty, Esquire, of Cobourg, was in attendance, and was examined as follows : — 1. What do you consider the state of the public morals in refe- rence to the use of intoxicating liquors ? — My convictions are, that the prevalent use of intoxicating liquors has a most deplorable effect upon public morals, and is a principal cause of the very great maj(mty of the crimes which so seriously affect all classes of the community. These convictions are based upon— ^Ist. Personal observation forced upon me in pursuit of my profession. 2. Per- sonal experience as Surgeon to a County Gaol for several years (at different intervals.) 3. Upon the discharge of duties for many years as a Magistrate, wherein a very lai^ majority of the cases coming before me are directly caused by intemperance; and I think I would not be overstating the matter by saying that 19-20 of these cases may be traced directly or indirectly to this cause. 4. The privations and suffering affecting so large a proportion of the lower classes in cities and towns, are, without doubt, in my mind, vastly augmented, if not directly caused, by the more than wasteful expenditure of limited means, and by the thriftlessness whiek the habit of intemperance be^jets. 5. Statistics of crimes published by Police authorities, records of all descriptions of Cri- minal Courts, testimony of public officers, presentments of Grand Juries, and the history of public executions, will all confirm the truth of the convictions above ezpreseed. PARLIAMEmCART ACTION. 83 2. What remedy would you BuggeBt fbr the evils now ezisdng ? The remedy must be in some degree commensurate with the evil) and the only one which appears to present any such feature, is a stringent prohibitory law, directed against the common traffic in liquors of every form. Personally I would us»i every effort and influence to enforce any restrictive measure, but it would still be with the conviction that a temporary palliation was being applied to the evil, not an effectual remedy. In surgery, it would be un- hesitatingly condemned as malpractice, to apply an emollient poultice or soothing sedative to a gangrenous limb, where nothing but excision could save the life of the patient : what estimate should be formed of similar Legislative practice, for a moral and social gangrene of the most formidable character, judge ye I 3. Do you think the public generally are prepared to sustain a Prohibitory Liquor Law ? — I think that the public in cities and towns, iudging from the increase of int/cmperance therein, is not favorable to such a law ; nevertheless I am certain that the appal- ing magnitude of the evil is forcing very many to look anxiously for a remedy, who were formerly advei*ee to arrything like restric- tive legislation on this subject. The rural coi imuRities, I believe, are prepared to sustain such a law, and it would, in my opinion, be enforced as well as all laws of th^t class are. The Synods, Conferences, &c., of almost every religious denomination of the Province, have pronounced in favor of, and petitioned for a prohi- bitory law. I believe, if time be allowed, that public opinion will be expressed by the number of petitions which will be presented to Parliament, in a manner that would be deemed very significant on any other subject, whatever opinion may be entertained there- upon in reference to this. 4. What has been the effect in other countries with which you are acquainted of the passage of the Maine Law, or other laws of a restraining or prohibitory nature ? — License or restraining laws have entirely failed everywhere to afford a remedy for the evils of intemperance ; indeed, such laws may be said to have nourished, 84 THX TBITOTALEB'B HAND-BOOK. quite as much as to have restrained, the ends referred to. Prohi- bitory laws, even where partially enforced, have been essentially and largely beneficial and remedial. As I am informed that the Hon. Neal Dow is expected to appear before the Committee, it is quite unnecessary to enlarge on this point.- 5. In what manner has the power vested in the Municipalities for prohibition and restraint been exercised, and with what eflFeot ? — This power has been exercised in but a few instances, and the attempt to do so has been almost, if dot quite, abandoned. This has arisen from two causes : First, from the conviction of the very great difficulty which must be met with in the attempt to enforce such a measure in one municipality when surrounded by those f>ursuing a contrary course. Secondly, from adverse decisions given in the Superior Courts upon cases of appeal. The decisions convinced the friends of such measures that it would be almost impossible to frame a by-law that could not be set aside. In the decision of Chief Justice Bobinson, in the case of Barclay versus the Township of Darlington, it appeared to be set forth that the Municipal Councils cannot by by-law prohibit the sale of liquors in taverns. Other decisions of a similar character are to be found in the records of our Law Courts. On this point I would refer the Committee to a lengthy and instructive note by Mr. Harrison, upon section 245 of the last Municipal Act, to be found in the last edition of the Municipal Manual. Circumstances like those referred to, led to the conviction that local measures of a prohibitory character could only lead to vexation and expensive issues, and that a general law aflFords the only ground for hope of ultimate success. , .. , t *j- >.>i*i;;. . H;,|. A. Farewell, Esq., of Oshawa, gave the following : — 1. What do you consider the state of public morals in reference to the use of intoxicating liquors ? — I understand your first ques- tion to have reference to the eflFects produced upon public morals by the use of intoxicating liquors. The public is an aggregation PASLIAMENTART ACTION. 85 of individuals, aud as you find individual morals generally, so you may expect to find those of the public. I am clearly of opinion that the liquor traffic, from beginning to end, produces a debasing and corrupting influence upon the minds of those connected with that traffic. Consider first the effect upon the manufacturer and vendor of spirits. It is asserted with confidence by those who ought to know, that the most of the liquors consumed in this coun- try are adulterated — some to a greater extent, and some to a less degree ; and proof is not required that persons engaged in this work of adulteration, are either hardened sinners, or in a fair way to become such. A large dealer in spirits in Albany said thai the process of adulteration is carried on to so Vast an extent in Europe that it was doubtful whether one gallon in one hundred imported into America was pure ; and it is alleged that upon this Continent, like manufacturers may be found! but those who have the means of knowing, allege that the great proportion of liquors of all kinds are adulterated, and that the most deleterious drugs and poisons are freely used in the compounding operations — surely the direct tendency of such an avocation cannot be otherwise than corrupting to the ri'ind. Take the first case of the honest manufacturer or vendor ; can he reflect with satisfaction upon the business in which he is engaged ? Does he in times like the present, that all our available grain is required for human food, does he consider that for the large sums of money which he receives from the Isr bouring classes he gives them in return what benefits them not — nay, what does them a great deal of harm ? Can he dare to lift his eyes and voice to heaven, and implore a blessing upon the work in which he is engaged ? If not, his avocation produces in his own mind a moral apathy, and tends to destroy spiritual life. Consider, secondly, the effect upon those who drink to excess. Both science and observation teach that the animal passions and propensities of man become inflamed and excited under the opera- tion of spirits; that drinking disturbs the equilibrium of the intellect, and lays a ruthless hand upon the whole moral and spiii- 86 THE TIITOTALB&'S HAND-BOOK. tnal nature of man'; that it oonfusei and deadens the mind, and lets the passions loose without guidance or restraint. It lights the torch of the incendiary, guides the dagger of the assassin, and steels the heart to the commission of all crime; it deadens all the healthy sensibilities, and produces coarseness and stupefaction, thus putting an end to all culture, and shutting up the source of the pure and lofty pleasures of reading and moditation — spiritual growth entirely ceases, and moral life becomes extinct. Morally, the traffic bites like a serpent, and stings like an udder. The statistics of crime, the records of criminal courts, work-houBes, jails, and penitentiaries, throughout Christendom, fully confirm the above statements. About three-fourth;\i of all the criminal oases in all communities where spirits are freely used as a common beverage, are directly attributable to the agency of those drinks. So apparent has this become in our own country, that for some time past it has claimed the special attention of all parties con- nected with the administration of justice. In this city, it would be a matter of surprise if a Grand Jury were to make a present- ment without special reference to intemperance as the frightful source of the most of the crimes committed. But a short time since, an intelligent Grand Jury of this city stated that, in com- mon with all past Grand Juries, the members of the present one cannot but reiterate their conviction, from painful experience, that the large proportion of crime and misery found in this city and everywhere through ;:t the country, must be traced to the facilities furnished by the nuinicipal author** ies for the sale of strong drinks. And his 11 oaor Chief Justice Draper, C.B., in answering that Jury, said : — " You rightfully point out as one of the most frightful sources of crime, the multiplication of places in which liquors are sold, and in which drunkenness prevails ? 2. What remedy would you suggest for the evils now existing ? — My answer to your second question is — Prohibition, entire pro- hibition from dealing in intoxicating drinks, except for medicine and to be used in the arts. The history of the traffic proves that you cannot abolish the free use of liquort), and the evUs resulting PABLIAMENTAET ACTION. ar therefrom, by the license system ; and all persons conversant with the working of Prohibitory Liquor Laws agree that the more stringent the measure the more easily and effectually it can be enforced. . 3. How do you think the public generally are prepared to sus- tain a Prohibitory Liquor Law ? — I have no hesitancy in answer- ing your third question. The most of the rural districts in Canada West are ready to sustain and enforce a Prohibitory Liquor Law. The villages, towns, and cities are not. Why this difference ? Some say a higher moral tone of feeling exists in the rural than in the more populous parts of a country. Whether this opinion be correct or not, certain it is that in the villages, towns, and cities of Canada, a much larger interest is invested in the liquor business than in the country parts, and the difference in feeling upon the Prohibitory question may be fairly attributable to this interest. Propose any sanitary or moral reform, and as far as you propose to affect our pocket interest, without an adequate return to pocket, so far, generally speaking, you create enemies to the measure. All men are selfish in one sense of the term, some much more so than others. 'Tis Heaven's first law that man should take care of No. 1 ; but we are not to regard our own without reference to the welfare of others, and men generally do not. But we have seen that the traffic in liquors reasonably and naturally produces an effect upon the minds of those engaged therein calculated to weaken those strong sympathies and good wishes which God designed man should have for the welfare of hia fellow man. All Prohibitory Laws have been, and will continue to be, violated, and the more directly such laws cross the path of interest, the more determined the violation. The grasping avariciousness of some, and the cold selfishness of others, no doubt, will lead to frequent violations of a Prohibitory Liquor Law in this country. But are the best inte- rests of the many to be forever sacrificed to the selfishness of the few ? I think not, and am of opinion that a large majority of the people of this country think not. A stringent Prohibitory Law would at once be enforced in very many parts of the country, and 88 THE TIITOTALER'S HAND-BOOK. gradually and by degrees their influence would produce so irre- sistible an eifeot upon the villages, towns, and cities, as to compel them to yield obedience also. 4. Do you think the public mind prepared for a Prohibitory Liquor Law? — In answering your fourth question, I would remark, that apparently much difference of opinion exists with reference to the successful working of Prohibitory Liquor Law8 in those countries where they have been in operatioi. The character of this difference of opinion is worthy of conside- ration. The difference is between two classes. The friends of prohibition generally agree that when the law has had a fair oppor- tunity and a fair trial, it works well ; some of the enemies state the contrary. Having been commissioned in 1855, by the Prohi- bitory Liquor Law League of Canada, to visit, in company with G. P. Ure, of this city, the Eastern States, in order to ascertain from personal observation the workings of prohibition ; and having trtovelled on that occasion through most of the towns and cities in New England, and having the opportunity of personal intercourse with very many of the leading men in thost States, I unhesitat- ingly answer that prohibition was working woU wherever it was getting a fair trial. Governors of States, Senators, Legislators, Judges, Sheriffs, Jailors, Police Magistrates, Justices of the Peace, Keepers of Almshouses, and Merchants, Manufacturers, and Tradesmen, all agreed that the law was v^orking well, and doing more good than its friends had anticipated. I cannot refrain fiom giving you the testimony of several of these persons as it fell from their lips in our presence. Before doing so, however, J would remark that many of the disadvantages under which the friends of prohibition in the United States labour, could not be encountered in Canada. All their laws require to be so drafted as not to conflict with their own written constitution nor that of the United States, while in Canada the public weal is the constitution, and the people have only to will prohibition, and the constitution yields to their inclina- tions. PARLIAMENTART ACTION. m Testimony of John W. Bull, Hartford, Connecticut. — I have been engaged ,in the importation and (iale of earthenware here for the last 25 years. I was opposed to the Maine Law when it passed, and when the select-men culled a meeting for the purpose of appointing agents for selling liquor under the law, I and my friends opposed the appointment of agents, thinking thereby to render the law obnoxious to the people, so as to cause them to demand its repeal. But the agents were appointed, and we deter- mined to give the law a trial. From that time to the present it has been growing in public favor. Those friends who acted with me in resisting the law at first, are now all decidedly in its favor, and property holders take a deep interest in maintaining the law. Professor Silliman, Yale College. — My impression is that the law has worked very favorably. My wife has been in the habit of visiting the poor, and where she used to find misery and vice, she now finds happiness and comfort. Governor Dutton, Connecticut. — The law has completely swept the pernicious traffic, as a business, from the State. The longer the beneficial effects of the law are seen and felt, the more firmly it becomes established. Governor Morrill, Augusta, Maine. — In all our cities and towns where the authorities have been favorable to the law, it has worked admirably. It is too much to suppose that you can extinguish intemperance at once ; but the traffic has been wonderfully cir- cumscribed, and will finally be driven out. The people demand that the law shall be made more stringent ; but where the present one has been enforced, it has done much good. I can give you a list of towns where rumselling has been absolutely extinguished. Calvin Record, Councillor and Attorney, Maine. — In the prac- tice of my profession, previous to and since the passing of the law, I have had an opportunity of witnessing the change, which has been very marked indeed. In Danville, where I "eside, it was thought the law could not be enforced. It was at first difficult to convict the accused, but the enforcement of the law in other places 90 THE TEKTOTALER i HAMft-BOOi:. produced a favorable imprcasion upon us, and now, when the law ^ ref|uire8 it, oonviction is easily obtained. The people require the law tu be made more strinjr mt. W. 11. McElrith. —The firm with which . . am connected em- ploy oil 700 men in the lumbering business last winter. We sup- plied no liq lor to the camp, nor was any used by the men, and both eii.ployora and employed were delighted with the workings of the law. Tlic men endure fatigue, perform more work, and do it better, than in former years. J. L. Adams, County Clerk, Burlington, Vermont. — The Grand Jury, in their last report, say, " We would also express our grati- fication at finding the Jail destitute of inmates; a circuuistance attributable, in a very great meas.ure, we believe, to the suppression of the sale of intoxicating liquors." " The "\iLaiue Law Illustrated," from which I have copied the 8 boTO Gxtrret, gives the evidence of hundreds of persons, chiefly of the better class of society, nearly all to the same effect. This p tmphlet of 94 pages was published by the Anti-Liquor- Law League ia Ihis city, and I think Mr. G. P. Ure, of this city, may have a few copies in his possession. . 5. Your fifth question, regarding the action of the Municipalities in passing and enforcing prohibitory laws, can be answered briefly. Up to the passing of the present Municipal Law, the action of the courts has been against the Municipalities, which, with the difficulty necessarily attending the enforcement of a law of this nature, so local in its operations, has prevented many of the Muni- cipalities from availing themselves of this provision of the Statute. Many of the friends of general Prohibition oppose the passing of these local measures, saying they cannot be enforced so easily as a general measure, and the strong desire of the country appears to be, to have an opportunity of trying the effects of such a measure. I I PABLIAMKNTART AOTION, 91 [Gironlar No. 1.] Sib, — The Select Committee to which was referred the subject of a Prohibitory Liquor Law, beg f" 'bmit the following ques- tions, and hope you will return th^' ith answers, as soon as possible: — 1. How many prisoner oen confined in your Gaol during' the years 1866, 1857. :)8 ? 2. How many of these were committed for drui keuiioss y 3. How many for offences committed while under the influence of drunkenness ? 4. Is intemperance on the increase in your County or not ? 5. Has the number of places for the sale of intoxicating liquors, in your County, increased or diminished during the last three years ? 6. Are the regular Taverns ka productive of injury to the commu- nity as the Saloons, Recesses, and other Qroggeries ? 7. Is the public mind, in your judgment, prepared to receive and carry out a Prohibitory Liquor Law ? 8. Or would you think it advisable, in order to prepare the public mind gradually for such a result, to suppress all mere Groggeries, by Legislative enactment, and to restrict the number of Taverns in proportion to the number of resident inhabitants, and the probable proportion of travellers to be accommodated ? 9. Would it, in your judgment, be more acceptable to the public generally, with a view that no interest should suffer, that the diminution should be made as existing licenses drop through any cause, or that the work of suppression should be at once commenced ? , John Notman, V. ; i . Clerk to Committee, [Circular No. 2.] Sib, — The Select Committee to which was referred the subject of a Prohibitory Liquor Law, beg to submit the following ques- tions, and hope you will return the same, with answers, as soon as possible : — 1. What was the number of convictions before your Court in 1858 ? 2. How many of those were attributable to the ^.v^ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 1.1 £ Ufi 12.0 6" Fholc)gra{J]ic Sdmces Carparadon 23 WIST MAIN STRIIT WttSTII,N.Y. t4SM (7U)t73-4S03 '^ 92 THE teetotaler's HAND-BOOK. use of intoxicating liquors ? 3. Can you suggest any beneficial amendments to existing laws relative to the use of intoxicating liquors ? 4. Do you think the public mind prepared for a Prohi- bitory Liquor Law ? John Notman, Clerk to Committee. i The Chairman read the following letter received from the Hon. Neal Dow by Hon. M. Cameron, dated Portland, Maine, March 8, 1859 :— Dear Sir, — On my return from Augustar— our State Capital — .for a day or two, wh^e I am for the winter, being a member of the Government for this year, I found your note of the 4th, invit- ing me to visit Toronto, to give any information in my possessi'^n in relation to the Maine Law in this State, and its operation and eflfects. It will be very difficult for me to spare so much time, just now, as a visit to you would require, but I would be very glad to give you any aid in my power in the work you have in hand. In this State, as everywhere else in the civilized world, the sys- tem of licensing shops and taverns for the sale of alcoholic liquors to be used as a drink, continued until 1846. In that year the entire licensing policy was abandoned in ^yiaine, the question of its evils and impolicy having been discussed freely amongst us for many years. An attempt was made in 1847 to repeal the law of prohibition, but the Bill introduced for that purpose was refused even a consideration. But the law of 1846, while it prohibited the sale of all alcoholic drinks, did not provide adequate penalties and summary processes for the enforcement of its provisions. The traffic, however, was very greatly diminished by it, chiefly for the reason, that, being outlawed and rendered infamous by the statute, the traffic was immediately abandoned by all respectable citizens, and by all who wished to maintain even a decent position in society. PABIJAHENTAET ACTION. 93 This was a very great point gained, because the public Opinion came yery soon to regard the liquor traffic as on a level with the keeping a gambling house or house of ill-fame, or any other infih mous occupation inconsistent with the general welfare. The agitation of the question of prohibition continued untO, in 1851, it culminated in the enactment of the Maine Law, so called now, and known by that name, over all the world. But I may remark here, that among the many thousand of petitioners for the law, there were a great many of our best men who lent us their names from sympathy with our general objects, but who frankly told us they did not ^believe we could accomplish them in the way we proposed. They gave us their influence that we might have an opporliunity to try the experiment of stringent prohibition, though they were sure the experiment must fail. There were others, in large numbers, persons of influence and respectability, who declined to lend us their names, not from disapproval of the object we had in view, but from the conviction that the measure we proposed was unwise, and would aggravate the evil which they deplored as much as we did. Immediately upon the enactment of that law in 1851, the liquor traffic throughout the State received a severe check, everywhere it was greatly diminished in amount. In considerable sections of the country it ceased entirely; the wholesale trade was utterly destroyed without a single prosecution, and where any remnant of the traffic remained, it fled for shelter to secret places and dark retired comers, so that everywhere in the State the law seemed to have a perfect execution, because the liquor traffic was nowhere to be seen among our various occupations. Under the operation of the law, pauperism and crime diminished wonderfully. In some of our towns pauperism ceased entirely, and in all, the falling off in that department was v6ry great. In some of our counties the jaild were literally tenantless, and in all of them the number of prisoners were greatly diminished. In a word, the effects of the law were more immediately*favorable than its most sanguine friends had even hoped that they could bo. I \ 94 THX TUTOTALXB'B HAND-BOOK. am sore it is not too much to say that the quantity of aleoholic drinks consumed ii^ Maine under that kw, were not one-fiftieUi v part so great as it was before its enactment. But, from various causes which would not interest you, which are not pertinent to this enquiry, and which it would require large space to explain, another party came into power in 1856, and the Maine Law was repealed. The leaders of this party, however, had pledged themselves to the people, that they would not repeal the Maine Law, except for the purpose of substituting for it a more suitable prohibitory law. Instead of keeping faith with the people, however, they restored the license system. The effects of this return to the old system were everywhere visible, and that immediately, in increased intemperance, poverty, pauperism, and crime. Grog-shops everywhere sprung up all over the State, like toad-st6ols, in a single night, and the traffic was earned on as freely, openly, and extensively, as before the enact- ment of the law of 1851. Many friends of temperance despaired of success, and gave up all for lost ; but I never for a moment doubted the triumph of the cause of prohibition, because I knew it to be right and philosophi- cally sound, and had faith in the virtue and intelligence of our people. This new law (the license system) was enacted in April, 1857, and was in operation only five months, when, at the election in September of the same year, the license party was swept out of power amid the scorn and execratioiis of the people. Only one person of the entire Legislature, who voted for *^^ ^ repeal of the Maine Law, was re-elected I No party ever beio^ d so crushing a defeat in Maine ; and now, prohibition is the law and the fixed policy of the State. It is conceded on all h>«uds, that no license law will be re-enacted here. The present law is not executed so thoroughly as the original enactment was. This may be accounted for by the fact that for abojit seven years the public mind has been greatly excited on this subject, and agitated by alternate success and apparent defeat. Now, again, prohibition is in the ascendant, and the excitement of PABLUMIMTABT ACTION. 0» the contest Laa passed away with the last victory, and there i» quiet amongst the people. At least for a year past there W been- comparative quiet, but now the people are beginning to arouse themselves to a new effort to complete the work, so auspiciously commenced, with a resolution and energy which we have never ye^ seen equf lied. Under the operation of the law, the liquor traffic is greatly crippled and curtailed. In this city, for example, there are no open liquor shops at all ; but at the time of the enactment of the law, in July, 1858, there were more than five hundred, many ni them wholesale shops. At least one-half of these shops ceased the traffic entirely and immediately, without any prosecution, by the moral force of the law, while all the remainder that continue to sell, do so with very great caution, and only in secret places. Th^ wholesale traffic is entirely destroyed. The favorable effect of the law upon intemperance, pauperism, and crime, is again very apparent. Pauperism in this city had fallen off thirty-seven per cent., aad drunkenness more than one- half, and the same results are observed throughout the State. And I am very glad to be able to say that great numbers of the persons of character and influence, of whom I spoke as doubting the expediency and wisdom of our movement, or as opposed to it entirely as certain to work mischievous results, have changed their views, and co-operate with us now in favor of entire and absolute prohibition, as not only the best, but the only, mode by which intemperance, with its long and frightful array of evils, can be eradicated from society. I earnestly hope that the Canadian Parliament will also adopt this policy. It would certainly promote, not only the happiness of the people, but the material prosperity of the Ganadas, more than any other measure that could possibly be devised. The liquw traffic drains away to entire waste more of the wealth of the people than all other causes of loss combined. The money that is spent in it is not only a dead loss to the people and the country, but the traffic entails a more fearful mischief upon the people, by ui^der- 96 THS TBlTOTALIB'a HAND-BOOK. mining their habits of industry and thrift, and by inducing directly and inevitably a vdft amount of ignorance, poverty, panperism, sufiering, and crime. As the liquor traffic is the greatest curse by which your people can possibly be afflicted, so its suppression by law would be the greatest benefit and blessing which tfie Government can bestow upon them. I hope most earnestly that the happy results #f this policy may very soon be experienced among you. Georqe L. Allen, Esq., Governor of Toronto Gaol, attended the Committee in obedience to a summons, and stated that the queries addressed to the Sheriff had been sent to him for reply, and which read as follows : — Deab Sir, — I beg leave herewith to transmit you a tabular statement containing the answers to the two first queries of the circular addressed to ^you by a Committee of the Legislative Assembly. In reference to the third query in the circular, I can afford no positive information, not being myself personally aware of the circumstances connected with the primary arrest of the offenders, nor of the circumstances under which the crimes were committed ; but, firom my experience in such matters, having been now going on fourteen yeai'S dealing with them, I unhesitatingly assert, that were the criminals not actually committed for drunken- ness analyzed, it would be found tiiat three-fourths of them com)! mitted the offences with which they were charged, through the agency, directly or indirectly, of intoxicating drinks. No. 4. My opinion is that intemperance has increased in a far greater proportion than the increase of our population would fairly warrant. No. 5. The number of places for the sale of intoxicating liquors has increased, and very largely increased, in your country, within the last three years, — ^more particularly has that increase been ^ible in the City of Toronto, for, while its population cannot be said to have doubled its numbers within that period, the number of places for the sale of ardent spirits, licensed and unlicensed, has increased more than three-fold within the past four years. PABLIAMENTART ACTION. 97 No. 6. I feel quite satisfied that the regular taverns are not productive of anything like the amount of injury to the community that is produced through the agency of saloons, recesses, and other groceries. Begularly-kept hotels and taverns are generally closed at an early hour of the night, and are frequented hy a different class of persons from those usually found in saloons, and it must be perfectly evident to every one, that it is, and will continue to be, impossible to maintain firstKslass hotels and taverns in the com- munity, so long as almost the only profitable portion of the trade is permitted to be nearly entirely absorbed by small or large recesses or saloons, which are thus doubly injurious. To show that I am not exaggerating on this point, you must be aware that nearly every one of our first class hotel-keepers have become insol- vent within the last two years. It is a notorious fact that many of these saloons, recesses, and other groggeries, are kept open all night for the accommodation of the very worst class of society, both male and female. In these places all sorts of crimes are hatched, and their perpetration determined on, at hours when all decent members of society are at rest. While I am free to admit that a very large proportion of the public is fully prepared to carry out a prohibitory liquor law, and another portion of the public would be willing to give it a fair trial, although not placing much faith in its efficacy — I think that a stringent license law, by which houses of entertainment should be rigidly regulated, and their numbers curtailed according to a fixed scale hereafter to be devised, according to population ; high rates and grades of license or otherwise, as the case may be, would afford the most general satisfaction to the entire community. No. 8. This is a very difficult question to dispose of, and indeed I do not almost see how it is to be met. Most certainly it would be advisable to suppress mere gn^geries at any tune, but I do not think that would be the best course to adopt to prepare the public mind gradually for the enactment of a prohibitory law. It would, I think, create agitation, and irritate the public mind, and proba- bly cause ft hostile public feeling against such a law being enacted. r 9S THl TXETOTALZR'S nAlTD-BOOK. Aii(6thor reason why this question is difficult of solution, is, that some saloons are absolutely required in cities, where those gentle- men who are living outside their limits, but whose daily avocations oblige them to resort to the city, should be able to procure necessary reflreshments at mid-day; but there can be no doubt that three- fburths of those places now in existence in Toronto, might be snp- {>res8ed with great advantage to the public, and any recesses or saloons licensed ought only to be allowed in connection with large taverns or hotels, in order that such establishments may be main- tained in the community efficiently. No. 9. In my humble opinion, the work of this suppression of these new groggeries cannot b^n too soon. But, in order to gradually steal on the public mind, as it were, and prevent a popu- lar /uror being raised d^nst it, I think it would be more advisa- ble, " that no interest might suffer," and the cause of temperance be advanced, that the diminution should be made as existing licenses drop through. But, beyond all question, the licensing power should be invested in some body not dependent upon popular election. Statement exhibiting the whole Number ofPriwnen committed to Gaol in the United Counties of York and Peel, for the Years 1856, 1857, and 1858, and also shewing tliose who were committed especially for Drunkenness : — 1856, i. Number of Commitments, 1979 for Drunkenness^ 1511 of Commitments, 1906 for Drunkenness, 1530 of Commitments, 1941 for Drunkenness, 1482 1857, 1858, n it John Carlino, Esq., M.P.P., was then examined as follows : — What is your name and llyisiness ? — John Carling ; my business is that of a Brewer. "What number of barrels do you make annually ?— About 6000 ; sverage value, 98 each. r PARLIAMKNTABT AOTIOH. 99 that "What number of bushels do you oonsume ? — 20,000 bushels of barley, and grown in my own iloighbourhood ; about 8 tons of hops, grown also in Canada. Hops $15 per hundred weight. What amount of capital invested ? — $40,000. What amount in buildings ? — $25,000, and employ 15 or 16 hands. What would you lose if your business was prohibited ? — ^Abonf $12,000 in the buildings and the fixtures. Do you employ deleterious drugs to any extent in the manufac- ture of beer ? — Not any, and I am not aware that such drugs are used. What is your opinion of the policy of a law prohibiting the manufacture of intoxicating liquors ? — t don't think it oould be carried out. The Committee then adjourned. Georqib Duooan, Recorder, Toronto, submitted answers to the four following questions : — 1. What was the number of convictions before your Court in 1858 ? — I say the number convicted in the year 1858, before m' Court, was fifty-eig>it. 2. How many of those were attributable to intoxicating liquoiis ? — That twenty of these were attributable to the use of intoxicating liquors. 3. Can you surest any beneficial amendments to existing lalni relative to the sale of intoxicating liquors ? — The answer to this is embraced in the answer to number four. 4. Do you think the public mind prepared isst a Prohibitory Liquor Law? — I consider the public mind strongly imbued with a deep sense of the enormous amount of immorality, pauperism, violence, crime, and misery of every kind, of which intoxicating liquors are the fruitful source. I also think that the public at large is impressed with the belief that existing laws afford no ade- quate protection against the great evil complained of, and that 100 THl TUTOTALBB'S HANB-BOOK. they would accept, and carry out with results highly heneficial, any measure lai^^y and in earnest fiioilitating restraint upon the use of intoxicating liquors, and reserving to the communities to he affected thereby ample privil^s in relation to its application to themselves. Then I would respectfully suggest that, in amend- ment to existing laws, a law should be passed, to come into force ftt a future day, say January 1860 or 1861, prohibiting everywhere throughout Upper Canada the sale or purchase, directly or indi- rectly, by retail, of intoxicating or fermented liquors, except for medicine for the sick and under medical direction, to be given in writing with the signature of the practitioner, with power from time to time, however, to any County (which shall include the Town and Village therein), and to any City, to authorize the sale by retail of spirituous liquors within the same for a period of two years at a time, upon the passage or adoption, by the Municipal Council of such County or City, of a resolution declaring that, in the opinion of such Council, it would be truly beneficial to the inhabitants of the Municipalities to authorize the sale by retail of spirituous liquors therein, and upon such resolution being approved by a majority of the ratepayers ; the time of the year for the above proceedings to be fixed by statute. It would be desirable that the party to grant individual licenses should not be subject to those influences which are generally pressed on persons seeking periodical elections in the community in which he is to act, and the resolution above suggested should also state the maximfum number of licenses to be at any time existing during each of the two years. Drunk- enness to be declared a misdemeanor. Also, when any person is found drunk in any inn, place of public entertainment, or other house or place where intoxicating or malt liquors are sold, the proprietor, keeper, agent, or other person in charge or exercising control thereat for the time being, to be deemed the cause of drunkenness and guilty of a misdemeanor, unless such party proves that the person so found drunk had been received at such inn, &c., for protection and care, and had not during his continuance there partoken of any spirituous or fermented liquors. It should also PABLIAMIM^ART AOnON. toi be nade tmlanrfVil for any penon on Sunday (persona bdonging to ihe house, boarders, and travellers, excepted), to be at or within any inn or other place where spiritaous or nudt liquort are retailed, or to be thereat between the hours of 8 p.m. and 8 a.in. on week days, unless having other business than that of occupying Uie place as an inn, &o. This provision, I think, would check idling and tippling, and the desertion of the family circle and domestio hearth by both young and old, rich and poor, so deeply interesting to society at large. I would recommend that the buyer and settw be competent witnesses where either is concerned, providing that no one be convicted on evidMMe given by himself as a witness in any such case. I would advise moderate penalties, summary authority for the trial of offences egainst this law, with power on third, or other subsequent conviction, to sentence to hard labour to the extent of three months, and that all Peace officers should be authorized to enter inns, &c., in the day time, and at any Ume at night whilst some of the guests or inmates are still nnretired for the night, to see that this law is observed. Rowland Bubb, Esquire, of Toronto, then submitted the following : — , 1st. I believe the morals of the public are greatly injured by the use of intoxicating liquors. My experience as a Justice of the Peace and Jail Commissioner for nearly twenty years, shews that 9 out of 10 of the male prisoners, and 19 out of 20 of the female prisoners, have been brought there by intoxicating liquor. I have visited the Jails from Quebec to Sandwich, through the length and breadth of Canada, and I have personally examined nearly 2000 prisoners in the Jails, of whom two-thirds were males and one-third females : they nearly all signed a petition that I presented to them for a Maine Liquor Law, many of them steting that it was their only hope of being saved from utter ruin, nnlesB they could go where intoxicating liquors were not sold. I examined the Jailors' books, wherein they all kept a record of the number of persons, their age, country, and oooupaiionB, and -. H* lot THl TIBTOTALIB'8 BAND-BOOK. their orime, alio whe^lMr th«j were brought there by the use of intoxicating liquors. In four years there were 26,000 prisoners in the Jails, and it appeared from the records that 22,000 of thai number had been brought there by intoxicating liquors, and I belieye, from the 2000 whom I examined, that 24,000 out of the 25,000 would never have been there had it not been for Liquor Trade and License Law. I have the record' now before me, kept by myself, of the Liquor Dealers of Yonge Street, for 54 yean past, 100 in number, and I will mention the abstract of the reoord| ▼ii.: — Number of Ruined Drunkards in the 100 FamUies, 214 Loss of Property once owned in Real Estate/ £58,700 Number of Widows left, 46 „ Orphans „ 235 Sudden Deaths, 44 Suicides publicly known, 13 Number of Premature Deaths by Drunken- ness, 203 Murders, 4 Executions, 3 Number of Years of Human Life Lost by Drunkenness, 1,915 I have been acquainted with these 100 families, and I have kept written records of them, for the purpose of prindng them, leaving out the names. 2nd. The remedy, and the only remedy, in human power, is a Prohibitory Law. In this opinion I am supported by the Report of the Committee of 39 of the most illustrious members of the British House of Commons, recommending such a law, after sitting in Committee during three months, and taking evidence from Judges, Sheriffs, Mayors, Jailors, Magistrates, Naval and Military Officers, from all parts of England. The Report of the Committee occupies nearly 600 pages, mostly of evidence of such a black character as I never saw before. i pARriiAMiimmT AonoR. 108 I tan dao rapported by the teeUmony of thmuHuidi of peraoni wiahuig in their sober momeiitit to refrain, but when the liqnor if within their reach, the sight, taste, or smell of it overoomes all good desires, and they are rained. 3rd. I believe the people of Canada yre prepared to snatainA Prohibitoiy Liqnor Law. In the towns and cities there wonld be difficulty and labor at first; but in the city of Toronto there is a suiScient number of Prohibitory Law men to furly support such a law if we had it ; but it must be a strong one. If the law is mi»- tified, and not dear so that all oodd understand it, it would then fail. But give us a clear, strong, sensible Law, and I have no fear but that in 20 years the Government would be out of debt most assuredly, and not one pauper or prisoner to where there are now ten. Some years ago, when there was a Bill before the House for a Maine Liquor Law, there were 180,000 persons petitioned for it, and I have no doubt that two-thirds of the householders are in &vor of it now. 4th. The effect it had on the State of Maine worked well for some time, but its friends relaxed their energy, and the opponents got new men in power, who repealed the law ; and the iiquor- dealers sprang up like mushrooms. Grime and misety returned to such a fearful extent, that, in about five months, the people of the State became aroused like a lion bereaved of her young, and at one sweep sent all the Members out of the "House who voted for the repeal, save one, and re-enacted the law stronger than ever ; and it is now a blessing to the people of the State. I have travelled through six States which now have the Maine Law — ^they are all doing well : the State of Minnesota has embo- died it in the constitution on becoming a State. It is not entirely carried out in any of the States, but is increasing, and i^xe people are generally satisfied with it; there is no class of people so much benefitted by the law as the liquor dealers themselves. It has been ascertained to a demonstration that three-fourths of the dealers themselves were ruined by the traffic, and often their fami 104 THE TBITOTALSB's HAND-BOOK. Kes.' I visited their jails: some were without a prisoner, somd had one or two ; and Judges, Juries, Magistrates, Lawyers, }r. Jailors, had little to do. 6th. As to the power of the Municipalities of restraining the sale of it, I reply, in answer, that the Township of York exercised its iiill power, and would not grant licenses. The Supreme Court of Law quashed their By-Law, and every man got a license that asked for it, and made the matter worse than ever. Ghinguacuosy, in their council, discussed the matter, and decided that, the way the law stood, they had not the power to refuse any man a license that had a certificate of certain qualifications, whatever might he their situation or standing in society. So all got licenses that asked and had the qualification. The Township of Lobo carried it out until the decision bf the Judges in the York Township casej then they threw open the flood gates. Samia and Darlington were similar oases. Amount of Wine and otlier Intoxicating Liquors Consumed in the Province : — 4 11 11 The importation in the year 1855, £250,672 1 Do. do. 1856, 360,252 4 Do. do. 1857, 122,380 4 Amount of Duty For 1855, £ 85,498 7 4 „ 1856, 133,117 4 11 „ 1857, 55,436 19 7 >: ; r*' Amount of Spirits Distilled in the Province : — Year Lower Ganadn. Year Upper Canada, 1855, 6 stills, 668,694 gallons. 1855, 112 stills, 2,011,882 gals. '» ^f 1856, 6 1857, 14 618,766 936,824 1856, 107 1857, 94 „ 2,346,057 , „ 2,218,732 -^ »■ Amount of Duty on /Stills and Liquors :- Lower Canada. Year 1854, £2,836 4 6 1855, 3,192 3 4 1856, 3,658 18 8 1857, 9,555 2 11 » Upper Canada. Year 1854, £9,133 15 6 1855, 9,472 16 10 1856, 13,620 1 3 1857, 14,807 1 6 » It » Total Amount of Duty in the Year 1857, £24,362, 4s. 5d. » f ' PARLIAMENT ART ACTION. 105 The annnal average amonnt of gallons is 3,000,000. This is more than doubled by drugs and water, and costs the consumer at least half a dollar argallon, equal to $3,000,000. Imported Spirits and Wine amount to £1,000,000, and tiiat will cost the consumer doublo. the foreign cost. I may safely say that Liquor costs Canada Five Millions per annum, or Fifty Millions in the last ten years. The average income to the Government on the Duties and Licenses on Wines and Intoxicating Liquors, is as follows : — Average Duties on Imports, 0400,000 Cost of Collecting do 200,000 Net proceeds, $200,000 Duties on Stills and Liquors, 100,000 Tavern and Shop License in every way, 200,000 Annual amount, $500,000 The Government derives, in ten years, 5 millions; it costs the people 50 millions; leaving a loss of 45 millions of dollars in 10 years to the whole Province. ^ The num^r of bushels of grain annually used in the Distilleries, chiefly wheat, is one million, equal to 10 millions in the last 10 years. The amount of barley used in brewing, for the last 10 years, amounts to ten million bushels, and costs the Province ten million dollars, amounting to 55 million loss in ten years. "■* Then the cost of Criminal Justice is annually $100,000, of which can fairly be set down to liquor one half, which amounts ia ten years to $500,000 — making a fair average loss of $55,500,000 in 10 years, deducting the revenue derived from the business. According to the table which I have kept of 100 liquor dealers for. 50 years, the loss of human labour by drunkenness in 10 years would amount to 30,000 years, which labour, at $200 per annum, would amount to six millions.of dollars, which should be added^ r 106 THB TlXTOTALER'g HAND-BOOK. There are many other ways in which the Province has suffered great loss in dollai^ and cents, of which I have not the statistics, and cannot oompnte. But I have answered the ,5 questions which you put to me, to the hest of my ability. i GiORax GoODEBkiAif, Esquire, in obedience to summons firom Committee, submitted tlie following : — 1. What is your name and business ? — George Gooderham. 2. How long has your firm been engaged in the distillery busi- ness ? — Upwards of twenty-five years. 3. What amount of capital have you now invested ? — In distil- ling, between eighty and one hundred thousand dollars. 4. How many bushels of grain do you distil annually?— About one hundred thousand. 5. How many gallons do you make annually? — About half a million of gallons at 35 per cent, under proof. 6. What is the wholesale price of whiskey per gallon ? — Just now, twenty-seven cents. 7. Is your whiskey consumed in this Province, or do you send any abroad ? — Our trade extends to Belleville, north to GoUing- wood, and west to London ; this extent of country consumes all we make now. 8. If a law were passed prohibiting the manufacture of distilled liquor for use as a beverage, confining the sale to foreign purchasers and for domestic use in the arts, how would your business be affected ? — It would nearly destroy our home trade, and oblige us to have recourse to exportation, which is at all times critical, and could not be prosecuted to advantage, only at particular times, and during the season of navigation. The Bev. Hannibal Mulkins, Chaplain to the Provincial Penitentiary, was summoned before the Committee, and submitted the following : — PARLIAMENTARY ACTION, 107 /' - 17th March, 1859. Ti) ilie Chairman of the Select Committee on the Prohibitory Liquor Law, Sir, — I b^ to submit to you the following answers to the several questions preferred by the Gominittee, as far as it is in my power to do so, and as £fy: as they relate to the Provincial Feni- tentiaiy. 1. I cannot say as to the Gaol; but the nmnber of prisoners confined in the Provincial Penitentiary for the years mentioned, are as foUows :— '55, 707 ; '56, 836 ; '57, 907 ; '58, 1036. 2. Cannot say. 3. In the Provincial Penitentiary, the number of convicts of the different Protestant denominations in the several years above mentioned, and the official returns concerning them on the sul^ect of intoxicating drinks, are as follows : — Total Number Protestant Convicts in 1855, 408 Total Abstainers, 10 ; Moderate Drinkers, 60 Intemperate, 1 69 ; Habitual Drunkards, 82 . Under the Influence of Liqaor at the time of the Com- mission .of the Crime, 141 In 1857, of the Protestant Convicts then in Prison, 146 were in the habit, before conviction, of using liquor to excess ; 73 used intoxicating liquors in moderation ; 186 had been drinking at the time the crime was committed. The returns for 1856 and 1858 are not at hand. 4. I think it is. 5. I am of opinion that the number of places for the sale of intoxicating liquors has largely increased during the last three years. 6. I do not think the reguJar and well-kept taverns as produc- tive of injury to the community as the saloonp, recesses, ai.*^ various places where liquors are to be had. Tet, notwithstanding, the regular taverns, and especially in the country, are very inja- rious to public morality. % r \ 108 THE TffltTOTALSB'B HAim-BOOK. 7. The pi^Uo mind, in my opinion, is mnch divided on the ^ subject on this question. I belieye that in the old settlements of the country, and in the Townships generally, a judioio'js Prohibi- tory Law would be well received and carried out. In these places I think the population are prepared fur it In the Cities and Towns there is not the same preparation in the public mind| as, in these places, greater interest will- be affected by it, and a more compact organizatiQU to resist it is in existence. 8. In answer to this question, no doubt mnch might be done to prepare the public mind for final and total prohibition, if aa act were passed to suppress all places where liquors are wAd for the purposes of drink, and leaving it with the Municipalities to decide whether any Taverns should 'be licensed or not; that no Municipality should Issue a license unless the peoj^e in the Bud Municipality, called to vote for that purpose, should oast a majority of votes in favor of issuing licenses; and that the statute should fix the number in proportion to population, beyond which no Municipality could go. 9. I do not think it would be more satisfactory to the ]»ublio generally. It would leave the question open, and become a source of oonstaat irritation and contention. In regard to the second list of questions, being four in number, gubmitted by the Committee, the 3rd and 4th are the only ones to which it is necessary for me to reply. 3. I think many suggestions might be made for the amend - ment of existing laws on the traffic in liquors, especially that their importation should bear a high duty, that the duty on the manufacture should be increased, and that the adulterations of liquor offered for safe should be deemed a very grave offence, if not made penal. 4. The liquor traffic is unquestionably the source of great evils, of numerous vices, immoralities, and crimes, which infest and corrupt society. Any measure which will diminish these evils will be a boon to the country; and, moreover, a Prohibitory •M^Mi* PABLLUfBNTABT ACTION. 109 Liqaor Law would have a most bonefioial and salutary .effect in promoting the general mosality of Booiety, and is called for upon the same principle as any other law which is intended to suppress the causes of other vices and immoralities. In the Proyinoial Penitentiary, a large proportion of the con- yicts have, in my opinion, been addicted to the use of intoxicatii.g liquors, and a large number have admitted that it was directly the cause of their criminal acts; while others, and not a few, have stated that ' ' 'lad indirectly led them on from vice to vice, until — with property lost, and character blighted, and hopes destroyed — ^it had ultimately plunged them into crime. The degree of mortality among the convicts is usually smal\ I do not think that any convict has suffered much sickness, much less death, in consequence of his sudden abandonment of liquor, or separation from his evil habits, in consequence of his imprisonment. During the visitation of the cholfra, a few years ago, about fourteen convicts died. I am of opinion that these persons had generally been addicted to the use of intoxicating drinks before their incarceration, and that therefore they fell more easily victims to that terrible disease. Yours, very truly, Hannibal Mitlkins. Mr. Chairman then read the following statement from the Customs Department : — Statement of the Number of Gallons of Proof Spirits Distilled in Canada West in the Year 1858 : — Number of StiUs, 110 Gallons Manufactured, 2,643,701 Return of the Number of Gallons of Malt Liquors Brewed in Upper Canada, with the Number of Licenses Issued from 8 r ! TkKLlKMtfnMXt ACTION. M up- ' " It is hardly eorroot to describe this Act as a new Ia#, eipbo- dying a principle not formeriy recognized in the legislation of this country, although this has been confidently asserted; for it !• merely a restoration of the ancient Sabbath law of Scotland, em- bodied in five Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, passed from 1661 to 1701, which made it a crime to sell anything on th6 Sabbath except for the accommodation of bona fide travellers. In an act passed in 1828, commonly called Mr. Home Drummond's Act, a clause was embodied in one of the schedules, intended to repress with greater strictness, and to punish in a more summary manner than was competent under the Scotch Acts, the trade of selling spirits on Sunday, which had then crept into use in some places; but, by a decision of the Court of Justiciary on 25th February, 1833, in a case in which the Magistrates of Edinburgh were parties, it was found that the clause had been so framed as by implication to sanction the sale of spirits on Thursday, except during the hours of Divine worship. From the date of that deci- sion ^he sellers of spirits became a privileged class in Scotland, being allowed to carry on their trade on Sunday, while all other traders were restricted by the ancient Sabbath law. The effect of Mr. Forbes Mackenzie's Act has therefore been, not to introduce a new principle, but merely to abolish this peculiar privily which the spirit-dealers had inadvertently acquired, and to put them on the same footing as the traders in Bibles, for example, or other commodities, all of which it is unlawM to sell on the Sabbath- day." Forbes M'Kenzie Act of Canada. We give below a certified copy of the above Act, from the Official Gazette, of the 9th April, and which is now the law of the land. The assent of the Governor General was given on the 26th March, 1669. We hail this measure as a first instalment of a more general and extended Act for the whole province and for every day in the year ; we r^ard this measure as a yery important step in tihe na THB TIBTOTALBE'8 BAMD-BOOK. right direction, not only on acoonnt of the good that is likely to flow ftrom it, but also tfirom the fact, that the L^islature has now admitted their right and duty to l^pslate in this direction, on this subject. Bemember that it is not merely a By-Law of any one municipality, but a Statute of the country, passed by the L^islfr- ture, and having received the assent of his Excellency the Governor General, may not be violated or evaded with impunity. The Law, 22 Vic, 6 cap., 1869. • " Whereas it is expedient to restrain the sale of intoxicating fiquors during certain periods : Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the L^islative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows :■ — " 1. In all places where, by the laws of that part of this Province called Upper Canada, intoxicating liquors are or may be allowed to be sold by wholesale or retail, no sale or other disposal of the said liquors shall take place therein, or on the premises thereof, or out of or from the same, to any person or persons whomsoever, from or after the hour of seven of the clock on Saturday night till the hour of eight of the clock on Monday morning thereafler, or during any further time on the said days, and any hours on other days, during which, by any By-Law of the Muiiicipality wherein such place or places may be situated, the same, or the bar-room or bar-rooms thereof, ought to be kept closed, save and except to travellers lodging at, or ordinary boarders lodging at, the place or places where such liquor is sold, and save* and except in cases where a requisition, for medicinal purposes, signed by a licensed medical practitioner,, or by a justice of the peace, is produced by the vendee or his agent, nor shall any such liquors be permitted or allowed to be drunk in any such places, except as aforesaid, during the time prohibited by this Act for the sale of the some. " 2. A penalty for the first offence of not less than twenty dollars, with costs, in case of conviction, shall be recoverablerfrom, and leviable against the goods and chattels of, the person or persons who are the proprietors in occupancy, or tenants or agents in VABLIAMSIITAET AOTIOir. US :ely to 8 now V nthifl ly one oooupanoy, of said place or places, who shall he fband hj himself or herself, or themselves, or his, her, or thieir servants or agents, to have contravened the enactment in the first section hereof, or any part thereof, — ^for the second offence, a penalty against all snch of not less than forty dollars, with costs, — for a third offence, a penalty against all such of not less than one hundred dollars, with costs,-— and for a fourth or any afler offence, a penalty against all such of not less than three months' imprisonment, with hard lahour, in the common gaol of the County wherein such place and places may he, — ^the number of said offences to be ascertained by the production of a certificate from the convicting Justice, or by other satisfactory evidence to the Justice before whom the information or complaint may be made ; and it is hereby enacted that convic- tions for several offences may be made under this Act, although such offences may have been committed in the same day : Provided always, that the increased penalties hereinbefore imposed, shall only be recoverable in the case of offences committed on different days. " 3. Any person or persons may be the informant or informants, complainant or complainants, in prosecuting under this Act ; all proceedings shall be b^un within twenty days from the date of the offence ; all informations, complaints, or other necessary pro- ceedings, may be brought and heard before any one or more Justices of the Peace of the County where the offence or offences were committed or done ; and the mode of procedure in, and the forms appended to, the Act sixteenth Victoria, chapter one hun- dred and seventy-eight, for summary proceedings, may be followed as r^ards the cases and proceedings under this Act. " 4. The said penalties in money, or any portion of them which may be recovered, shall be paid to the convicting Justice or other acting Justice in the case, and by him paid equally, one half to the informant or complainant, and did other half to the Treasurer of the Municipality where the place or places refened to are situated. Ill TBI TllTOTAIiU'l BAND-BOOK. '' 5. The wovd " Liquon " dudl be undeniood to mean and oomprehend all spirituous and malt liquors, and all oombinationa ^ of liquors or drinks which are intoxicating. " 6. This Act shall apply to Upper Canada only." Thb New Municipal Law, ^ec. 245 of 22d Vic., cap. 99, A. D. 1858. As the Municipal Act of last session differs very materially in many essential points from former Acts governing Municipal affiurs, we deem it advisable to give a short c^nopsis of so much of it as will be of immediate use to our readers, without reference to former Acts or parts of Acts. The qualification for a Councillor in Townships is Freehold to four hundred or Leasehold to eight hundred dollars. In Incorpo- rated Villages, Freehold to forty and Leasehold to eighty dollars per annum. In Towns, Freehold eighty dollars per annum. In every case, the property, whether leasdiold or freehold, must have been assessed against them, in their own names, on the last revised asserament roll of the township, village, or town. The term " lease-hold " means tenancy by the year, but not for a shorter period. They must be British subjects of the full age of 21 years. Those disqualified are the Judges, Jailers, Officers of any Municipality, Bailiffii, Sheriff's Officers, Inn, Tavern, or Saloon keepers, persons receiving pay from Corporations (except as Mayor, Warden, Beeve, Deputy Beeve, or Councilor), persons or their partnei^ or those whose partners have any contract with or on bdialf of Corporations. Of those who are exempt we shall make no remarks, because if such claim the exemption, well and good — if not, they cannot be disturbed. Those having a right to vote at election for Councillors, are the Male Freeholders of every .Municipality, and such of the house- hold thereof as have resided in the Municipality one month prior ta tiie election, and who were severally rated on the last reyised PABLUMBITTAIT ACfflON. Ill MfleBament rolls for saoh property, held in their own righl-er tiiat of their wiyes, 'as proprieton or tenants. TLey must be lut^ti of Her Mfgesty, and of the foil age of 21 yean. In Towns and Incorporated Villages, the proper^', whether freehold or leasehold, whieh entitles a person to vote, mnst have been rated, in Town at twenty dollars, and in Villages at twelve dollars, annual value. When Municipalities are divided into Wards, no Elector is entitled to vote in more than one Ward. When landlord and tenant are both assessed for the s^jne pro* perty, both are entitled to vote. Joint owners or occupants of real property, when such property is assessed at an amount sufficient, if equally divided between them, to qualify each to vote, shall each have a vote ; but if insuf- ficient to qualify each, when divided, then none of such joint owners or occupiers can vote. Elections, for the future, cannot be held in Taverns, or houses wherein spirituous liquors are sold. Municipal Councils are empowered by By-Law to fix the place or places for holding the. next ensuing elections, otherwise the election may be held at the place or places where last held. The election of Councillors shall take place on the first Monday in January in each year, and when there is no division of the Municipality into Wards, the election shall be by a general vote, otherwise, in each Ward. Returning Officers, for every Municipality or Ward, shall be appointed yearly by By-Law. In case of the death or absence of .the Betuming Officer on the day and at the place of election, the electors shall, after the expiration of one hour from the time the election should have commenced, choose from among themselves a person who shall be Betuming Officer for such Ward or Muni- cipality. ll« TBI TmOTALn'l HAND-BOOK. Retarning Oftofen are required to giro ton dayi' noUoe, by posting up, in four public places in hb Municipality or Ward, notices of ttic election to be held by him. Township Olerks are required to fbmish to Returning Officers • correct copy of so much of the then last revised assessment roll as contains the names of the householders and freeholders in each Ward or Municipality, which copy or copies shall be verified by the Clerk to be true and correct. Returning Officers to furnish poll books, and to con^mence the elections at ten o'clock in the forenoon. He may close the election in one hour, if no more ^candidates are proposed than by his writ he is bound to return. If, however, there are more than one can- didate proposed, and a poll is demanded, he must keep the poll open until four o'clock ip the afternoon of the first day, and then ad >um until ten o'clock next morning, and continue until four o'clock of that day, unless he is satisfied that all the electors have had a fair opportunity to vote, and if one hour at one time elapses without any qualified elector giving or tendering his vote, the Returning Officer may dose the election. The oaths which can be required of voters are — that he is 21 years of age ; that he is a subject by birth op naturalization ; that he is the person named in the last revised assessment roll, and that he is, and has been for one month, a resident householder in the Municipality; that he has not before voted at that election; and that he has not received, nor does he expect to receive, any gift or, reward for his vote. Returning officers to administer such oath or oaths to any person tendering his vote, at the request of any candidate or elector. The Returning Officer shall publicly declare the candidate having the greatest number of votes at the close of the election, duly elected. pmoHiBrFMir unwn iw xmava iTATis. iir CHAPTER III. PBOHIBITOBT AOnOR IIT UllXTBD ITATM. Maine Law Morement— Its Origin— «nd Renilto : whnt it kM dol# M the United Stntee, nnd would do for Oannda. Mains Law Moyimvnt in Unitsd STAtii. IT8 OBiaiN. In the State of Maine, some of the promoters of the temperaoM reformation had so far forgotten their prineiples as to oompromiM with wine-drinkers, and form with them a consolidated bodj called the " Maine Temperanoe Uoion." A school of soand tempoKUMW men (among whom was Neal Dow) arose from the ruins of th« old organisation, and their first appearance in the L^gislatiire of the State was in 1837, when a memorial, drawn op by Oenenl James Appleton, of Portland, was presented, demanding, not only an abrogation of all license laws, " as the support and life <^ «li# traffic," but also " an entire prohibition of all sale, except for medicine and the arts," for the same reason that the State makes laws to " prevent the sale of unwholesome meats, or for the remoyal of anything which endangers the health and life of the oitisen, or which threatens to subvert our civil rights at overthrow the government." Much credit is due to (General Appleton for this truly gallant achievement ; for, however brave he may have been in the exercise of his profession, we cannot suppose that he remembers any aotkM on the battle-field with anything approaching the satisfaction with which he may reasonably regard this " first attack " On the greatest enemy of every civilized community, a " l^alized liquor tn&o." In 1837, however, the country did not seem prepared for so desided a step as that proposed by General A^leton. I 118 fc#' THE TISTOTALEB'S HAMD-BOOK. rt. ,/ Many took the strong position, that " if the rum traffic could not be outlawed, no ipermanent ground could be gained ; and that while moral suasion was to be used with the inebriate, the man who effected the ruin must not only no longer be licensed in his horrid work, but must be rooted out and driven from his business by the strong arm of civil power, for it could be done in no other manner." To this one object did Neal Dow devote his life from '^ this time forward, sparing neither labor nor money to arous» in the people of Maine that righteous indignation at the atrocious liquor traffic which resulted in the enactment, in 1851, of the first Prohibitory Liquo^ Law in the United States. The labours by which this great victory was achieved are worthy of a penua.ient record. Neal Dow first advocated the principle of prohibition in 1839, (before the Board of Aldermen. He then succeeded in inducing the Board of Aldermen to refer the ques- tion of license or no license to the direct vote of the citizens of Portland. In a vote of 1163 he was defeated only by a majority of 35. The fact, however, that in a population of about 15,000, 664 of the adult male citizens had voted against granting licenses for the sale of liquor, was regarded by Neal Dow as a cheering indication of ultimate success. Neal Dow's next aim was to secure a municipal regulation which should render the whole traffic in intoxicating liquors illegal. Unwilling to assume this responsibility, the authorities referred this question to a vote of the people. The progress made iu public sentiment in about three years, chiefly through the exertions of Neal Dow, was indicated by the result of this ballot. From a minority of 35 on the simple question of withholding licenses in 1838, we find him, in less than four years, carrying the still more important point — prohibition of the liquor traffic, by a majority ^440. In 1843, Neal Dow printed and circulated, at his own expense, petitions to the Legislature, praying for a stringent law, and " that the traffic in intoxicating drinks might be held and adjudged as an infamous crime." The petitions were received, and in Feb. PaOHIBITOBT ACTION IN UNITED STATES. 119 1841 he appeared before a oommittee in the Representatives' Hall ia the Capitol, whioh was crowded with an intelligent audience, and there, with his own convincing arguments and earnest elo- quence, he advocated the claims of the petitioners. The committee reported a bill favorable to his views, which passed the House, but was unsuccessful in the Senate. In the fall of 1844, Neal Dow again printed and circulated petitions, again addressed a committee in the Hall of Representa- tives, in the Capitol at Augusta, but with no better success than before. From this time the friends of temperance began to bestir themselves generally. They determined to appeal to the " sove^ reign people." Meetings were held through 1844, '45, and *46, in every part of the State. Neal Dow was pressed to attend them, and zealously did he pursue the work. The winter's cold, the summer's heat, snow, rain, exposure, and expense, were all disre- garded when his duty to this important mission needed his attend- ance, and " many," says one of his companions in travelling, " are the school districts, those hiding-places of power, which can testify to the force of his reasoning, the aptness of his illustrations, and the severity of his animadversions on the traffic and the traffickers." In every speech his great object was to show rumselling to be an infamous crime, and the ballot-box its antidote. The faith of an apostle seemed to inspire him. He worked like one who knows his mission, and he never doubted his ultimate success, but knew well that it could only be secured by his own unceasing diligence. In the spring of 1846 he tra^^elled over four thousand miles, within Iwo months, in the counties of York, Oxford, and Cumberland, and at numerous meetings he came in contact with many thousands of citizens, creating a deep-rooted and wide-spread enthusiasm among the people which the experience of years has fully justified. The conviction which he impressed upon the citizens was, that talking and working for temperance would do little good without voting for it as well ; and there can be no better proof of the last- ing character of the conviction he produced than the fact that the Legislature became at every election more and more composed of i( u f' '-■■■ i' Majbe laqtunr Law men, until this became a test of nniversal aj^Uoaibn and an issue at all elections. v In Jvly, 1846, Neal Pjw appeared again before a committee of the Legislatare, and presented one petition from Rutland, 6£ty- nine feet in length, with three thousand eight hundred names, most of which had been obtained by his own personal efforts. That it might be seen to advantage, it was suspended from the book-oases on either side of the speaker's chair. This was followed bj other petitions, and the aggregate names signed in favor of prohibition at this session was forty thousand. This heavy pressure from without could no longer be resisted with impunity, and a bill abolishing the license system, and leaving all sale forbidden, was passed by a vote of eighty-one to forty-two in the House, and twenty-three to five ip the Senate. Neil Dow, in communicating this cheering intelligence to the Secretary of the American Temperance Union, sad, " This is the first instance, I believe, in which the government of a civilized Christian State ha^ declared by statute that there shall not be within its bordei5« any traffic in intoxicating liquors to be used as a drink ; and that if any such liquors shall be sold for such pur- pose, under any circumstances, it shall be against law and (tqaitj and a good conscience. It was enacted in answer to petitions of more than forty thousand of the good people of the State, and eonstitutes the Jirst blow only which the friends of temperance here propose striking at the traffic in strong drinks." It will be seen, therefore, that Neal Dow, although a great enthusiast, conducted the work with the coolness and judgment of a philosopher and the foresight of a statesman. If he could not secure all he desired, he would accept whatever the Legislature would grant, and patiently labor till the next session, again to renew his exertions for more perfect legislation. The act of 1846 for a time produced a good effect ; but as the penalises for its violation were small and the profits large, the law was evaded by a variety of subterfuges. pROHinrosT AOTxoN IN vsrs:shop, so called, is to be tottnd in tho State -book. Tifo TO Off I. — Iq 000 instooco whore o hotel-keeper fenced up his well, the good people of E. H. went forthwith and dag two others in the street olose by, which are much more convenient than the former. That is the way. These men will find two to one, all over the State, before they get through. ErvBOTS OF THB Mainb Liquor Law on thb Pombstio ANA Bbligious Habits of tqb People. — ^The effects of our law consist not simply in closing rum-shopa, preventing disorder and crime, and emptying prisons and alms-houses; they aro already felt, we believe, in many a family that has long been oursed with the evils of intemperance. Many a miserable abode has been converted into a pleasant, happy home ; many a heart- broken wife gladdened) by the reformation of her intemperate husband ; many a group of suffering children provided with the comforts of life. Indeed, wherever the influences of the liquor traffic have been felt in years that are past, there the iniuonces of this most excellent law are felt now; and the tendency is to prevent, and in a measure to undo, the countless evils which flow from the traffic in ardent spirits. These thoughts have been suggested by a particular case which we have had occasion recently to notice : A man who for several years has not even entered the sanctuary or attended any religious meeting whatever, has been repeatedly of late in the house of God on the Sabbath. For a long time neither himself nor his » family were provided with clothing suitable to enable them to attend public worship. The money that should have been used in purchasing clothing and other articles necessary to their comfort, was expended for rum. But they are all well-dressed now, and we shall be greatly disappointed if they are not, in future, habitual attendants upon the sanctuary. They are provided, too, with the comforts of life, and prepared for the approaching winter far better, probably, than they ever were before. Who can witness one such case without lifting his heart to God and thanking him for this Pro- hibitory Law ? Who oan think of hundreds like it scattered all PBOHIBROBT ACTION III UmnO) IVATIfl. m orer the State, and not feel himself called upon to do all id hia power to enforce and perpetuate this law ? LouNQiNO AND Idlbnsss. — ^Not half the time is spent in lonoging and idleness, within my obseryation, that there was before. Tbadi and Industt.— I expect, as a natural result of these improvoments, that the legitimate home trade and industry have proportionably increased. No Danobr to thb Poob Man's Castle. — The opposition to it is chiefly based on the assumption that it interferes with the natural rights of the citizens, and the danger of the poor man's castle being invaded. But not a single case of hardship ftom the right of search has ever been heard of; in fact, search can not be made in a private dwelling unless there are very good grounds, for the authorities to entertain the belief that the owner has invaded the scKrednesa of his own house with the rum bottle, and turned it into a dram-shop. Pbopebtt Impbovid. — The law is decidedly ben^cial, and property-holders everywhere are becoming more and more in favor of its strict enforcement. PuBLio Opinion.— So strong is its hold upon the community already, that no political or other combination, in my opinion, could be entered into to repeal the law. Any change will be to make it more stringent, in order to its more thorough enfbrce- ment. Public opinion is bearing in strongly in favor of the law, and I have no doubt that in a few years it will be as easily and as thoroughly enforced as the laws against theft, licentionsness, and gambling. Beolaimsd fbom Intehpebanoe. — I could give a long list of names of men formerly idle and drinking, who are now sober and industrious. So it is in Hartford County. Jails and Alms-Houses. — Their juls and alms-houses are almost empty. These are samples of the effects of the law. Mfe VWtMALlk'l SAVtt-BOOK. AlmilDAifOl AT Ohitroh. — The attendanoe at plsoei of worship has iaproyed as ^n intariable result of increased ■Obriety. Bali or Liquor not RitPiOTABU. — No respectable man if now engaged in the liquor traflBo in this town. Public HlAItTH.— Physicians oomplain of having nothing to do. Tbadi.-— The increase in legitimate home trade is very great. One grooer told me that his bosineas had increased one third. Another said he had tn elve men with plenty of cash on Saturday evehingSy at his store, who had always before been represented by little girls with a few cents. DftiRKiNa DiMiNiSHBD.^-I havo been police justice here fbr the latt twenty years, dnd I know a very great difference since this law went into operation. I think that when the people become tired of selling in violation of the law, my ooeupation vdll be pretty nearly gone. If you stop drinking, you stop the cause of all the quarrels and fights. It is perfect nonsense — ^it is a perfect ftlsehood— 'to say that the law has increased drunken- ness^ That drinking is totally stopped, nobody claims ; but it is stoppeu at least three fourths. I have known some of our con- stables here have as high as $90 in a quarter for fines for breaches of the peace; if they reach $25 now, it is the head. The parties brought before tbe police court will average eight out of ten Irish. The Irish are our only foreign population, with a few Germans. Drunkards Dsobsasid Ten to Onb. — I have been a policeman here since the Ist of May, 1854. I have seen ten men drunk on the streets before this law passed for one that I have seen since. These men, although they would have been liable for prosecution under the new law, were not taken up under the old law. It was only when a drunken man was making some assault that he was taken up formerly. On one Sunday, before the law was passed, I arrested seven men for breaches of the peace while in drink. Since the 1st of August I have only PROHIBTOET AOnOV HI mCUD alATlB. m arretted two men on Sandaj for boiag drank. Thoro iro oight night-watohmen, aad Mldom a night passed wbhoot leme man being taken np by them for beating hia wife or children while in a Btate of intozioation. Now it is a rare thing to take op one. This law has taken at least $6 a-month right oat of my podcet, for we hare no fines now. It would be almost impossible to make any one believe the difference in the quiet of our city. Thi Mainb Liquor Law vbom Hbavkn.— I h»ve been in the field as city missionary for three yean and a half. I have a Mission Sabbath School, ]^anoed after the Five Points School of New York. Since the Ist of August it has increased mote than one third in numbcra. Before that time there was hardly • Sabbath but there was some one there the worse for liquor. Since the 1st of August thero has been but one instance that even the smell of liquor was in the school. Before the law passed, I could many a day have gathered up a wagon-load of intemperate men — almost, indeed, any day; since the 1st of Angust 1 have sel- dom met with an instance. I have many times seen, in pasung my rounds, wives and mothers, and even young women, the worse for liquor ; but all that has changed, aud in my oonversa- tions with the poor people many of them say that the law mual have come from Heaven — it is too good to have been framed by man. The little children that used to run and hide from their fathers when they came home drunk, are now well dressed and run out to meet them. Opponents beoomimq Friends. — Many of the opponents of the prohibitory enactment have become its friends. A Trie is Known bt its Fruit. — In a word, the law works admirably I The fruit of it is good, and only good. While it infringes upon the just and lawful rights of no one, it protects the rights of those who hav^ long been a prey to the nun- seller. Public Health. — The ddirium tremenf^ which I r^ard as the worst kind of insanity, was formerly prevalent, the cases being frequent, bat now them mb no such eaaes. 188 THB TESTOTALXli'S HANIVBOOK. I. Ex-BuMSSLLERi^ BEOOMINO Indttstriovs. — We have near ns a little hamlet whe^ there were a number of groceries; and though there was no need of a single public house in that vicinity, the proprietors of these places lived comfortably by selling the poison to the neighbors and the hands of two furnaces near by. The law cut off their profits and set them to looking out for some other way to get their bread. One of them, who was formerly a mason, but had not done a day's work in some years, was glad to solicit c job in stone-laying, and the others are most of them now getting their living honestly, and the character and condition of the neighborhood is so changed that it does not appear the same. The change is noticed and spoken of by all who are acquainted with the place. Improvement in Dress, etc. — In dress and general appear- ance some who were intemperate have decidedly improved. A Woman's Blessing for the Maine Liquor Law. — " Mr. Editor : I want — I must tell you my thoughts. My heart is running over with happiness, and my soul goeth forth in praise toward Him who hath blessed me and all the State with me. Blessed be God for the Maine Law. My husband — ^be still, my heart, vrhile I tell the glad tidings — ^he who so often returned to me with — in place of his own kind heart — the rum fiend, and has been so harsh, so cruel, is himself! And now he's kind and affectionate ; we have all we desire, and happiness, full, complete, is all our own. Again let me say, blessings on- the Maine Law, the true friend of the poor. If all who have suffered from rum in this State might speak, what a shout of joy and thanksgiving would go up to the glad blue sky ! a cry right from the heart, of thanks for the blessiug of God. You may think that this is strong language, but • . < Go feel what I have felt, Go bear what I have borne,' , and see whether your feelings are not altered. — Baohel." PBOHIBITOBT ACTION IN ITNTFID STATES. 133 Maternal Thankfulness. — An aged widow, who has a son who was addicted to intemperance, said to me last week, '' I can- not be thankful enough for the Maine Liquor Law." Such is the language of the reformed inebriate's relatives everywhere. Bloated Faces. — A decided improvement has taken place here in many bloated faces. " The Most Blessed Thing." — ^An excellent lady, who for many years had suffered almost to death from a drunken husband^ said to me, from experience, " Is not the Maine Liquor Law the most blessed thing that ever took place ? " Thirty Dollars Saved in One Month. — One formerly very intemperate man remarked one month after the Maine Liquor Law went into operation, that he had thirty dollars in cash, and that had it not been for the law, he should not have had a cent. Fhtsigians, Lawyers, and Jailers, Short of Employ- ment. — ^While the Maine Liquor Law has proved a very great blessing to some, and a benefit to all in our community, a few are prevented in part, or in whole, obtaining th^ Income of their for< mer employment, yiz., physicians and lawyers, who have less to do ; and a jail-keeper in an adjoining county declares he is out of busi- ness in his line, for the jail is without a tenant. One year ago it had about fifty. Kelievino Distress. — So far as I can learn, the law works well here, and is doing wonders in relieving distress in many poor families. ; The Prodigal Returned. — There is in my congr^ation a young man of a respectable family, kind, pleasant, and agreeable, who earned good wages as a mechanic — the only support of a widowed mother and an only sister — had got into dissipated habits, and for four or five years past would have gone on a drunken spree for weeks together, and was, consequently, a great source of afilic- tion to his friends. Reasoning and remonstrance were in vain. But the law came to his aid. The temptation was removed, and he has since done well. He has recently purchased a small house 134 THE TIBTOTALSB'8 HAMB-BOOK. for his motiher and tuster, and furnislied it comfortably. He is a regular attender at ohuroh, and expresses very feelingly his gratifi- ^ oation at the enforoement of the law. Talb College. — Consumption of Wine in the College,-^ Professor Silliman says : — " My impression is that the law has worked very favorably. I am not now in the college, and can not say so much from actual experience there, but I have heard sieveral of the students speak of the law as having produced a very deoidecUy good effect upon the students generally. Not a quart of wine or li luor is drunk now, where before gallons were used. I am decidedly of opinion that it has produced a very marked change in the college." -^Gmtoma of Society.-^" It has also produced a great change in the general customs of society. My wife has been in the habit of vbiting among the podkr, and in houses where before she used to find misery and vice, she now finds happiness and comfort." Effect of the Maine Liquor Law on Students. — ^Professor Thacher says : — " I am convinced that the law has niade a very great difference among our students. Fprdierly some of the\u used to drink so as to be affected by it. They got the liquors at the medical halls, nicely labeled as cordials, and kept it in their own rooms. Such a thing is now entirely unknown. We have had no case of intemperance in the coU^ since the law passed, that I know of. It was whispered about that the chief of police had escorted two young gentlemen to their lodgings recently, who, but for his kindness, might have been arrested. It is believed that he has frequently made himself serviceable in this way. But we hate no outward indications now among the students that drink is used. There is none of that noise and uproa? among them that used to be. The only objection we can have to the law is, that it does not stretch far enough. Persons can send to New York for a basket of champagne, and get it delivered at their houses without any difficulty. It has been reported that some of the students have done this, but I have seen no instance of it myself." PBOHIBnOBT AOTION IK VRIVaD 8TATB8. 136 College Oovemment More Ea»y, — Mr. Dwight^ Beeident Tutor, : says: — " The results of the law have been maoli more favorable on the institution than I had any idea tiiey possibly oould be. The law has made a very decided difference in the coll^. I have no doubt there is some drinking still, but it must be greatly dimi- nished, for its outside developments aire entirely done away. I live in the college, and have an opportunity of seeing what goes on, and I am satisfied that college government is now much more easy than it was before the operations of the Maine Law. Classes Free from Liquors. — Mr. Mathieson, Freshman, says^: — " All our classes are free from the use of liquors. I think if they were inclined to intemperance I should have heard of it. There are no places about college that I know of where liquor of any sort can be got." Testimony of Methodist Episcopal Pbeaohebs. — The New London District Preachers' Meeting of the M. E. Church, at its recent session, unanimously Resolved, That having come together from all parts of the eastern portion of the State, we most cheerfully unite our testimony in favor of the efficiency of our new Prohibitory Liquor Law, and unanimously declare that its success has been hitherto marked and triumphant. > Prison Cells to be Let. — At a convention on the 27th instant. New London reported: " Prison Cells to be Let." Out of Business. — ^The jailer of New London Couniy. The county prison is empty. The Maine Liquor Law is justly held responsible for this result. Last year, before the law went into operation, from the 1st of August to the 1st of January inclmdve, there were upwards of fifty prisoners in the county jail ; since the 1st of August last the number has been gradually diminishing, till on Ne^ Year's day there was but one poor fellow in durance, who, " solitary and alone," was awaiting trial for the violation of the Liquor Law. isa VBB TSBTOTALBB't HAITIVBOOK. Bsws OF Iniquity Clomd. — Three dens of iniquity have heaa. cloaed, their inmates, numbering forty or fifty souls, scattered, and some of these persons are now honestly employed. XIINB. Statembntb of thb Goyebnob. — ^His Exoellenoy Governor Morrill, in his recent Annual Message, makes the following vala- aible statements : — Sustaining the Maine Liquor Law. — The law for the sup- pression of drinking houses and tilling shops has been very fully disouffled by the people of this State, and become a question of prominence and deep interest in our elections. The result proves conclusively that the people are by a very huge majority in favor of sustaining that law — k happy verdict for the cause of humanity throughout the land. Had Maine declared against the law, her decision would have been felt most disastrously by other communi ties, where strong efforts are being made to obtain similar l^is- lation. Control of ike Traffic. — That any law which human wisdom can devise will at once rid the public of an evil so vast and deep< rooted as intemperance, should not be expected; but that the traffic which produces it can be cireumscribed and controlled by penal enactments, as surely and as Intimately as other crimes, there can be no reasonable doubt. And iti is equally clear that the pepple are determined to pursue the effort faithfully, and give the law a fair trial. They see and feel the terrible ravages the traffic in intoxicating drinks has made on society and its best inte- rests. They feel deeply the loss of many valued citisens who are constantly being hurried to the inebriate's grave. They folly realize that the sale and ase of alcoholic liquors as a beverage, are in direct conflict with the health, morals, industry, peace, and happiness of society, and that this fact is so apparent, that those individuals who insist on selling in violation of law should be made to feel its consequences. PR0BISIT0B7 AOnblf Vf WKSWB> WfATEB, The Traffic a Crime,' — ^It is too l»te to plead tbst makhii; tum'^ iaebmtflB, or giying them the faoilitieB to become siteh^ is no erime; none but the more deprayed or xeckleM will Bapport • doetrine so pemioious and absurd ; and it is belieyed that few are now engaged in the traffic in this State except those persons ^ho are alike indifferent to puUie smtiment, thedeuands of humanity, . and their own best interests. « Enforeement of the Maine Liquor Law. — Pramiasive effortflf having been exhausted on this class of men, the law should be enforced in protection to society and in meroy to the offender* This important statute has not had a &ir trial. Executiye offiGert have been culpably negligent in seeing it enforced. Too often has the officer, whose duty it was to honor and execute it as the law of the Oommonwealth, been found more willing to exculpate the offender than to bring him to justice. Such official dereliction of duty emboldened violators of the law to repeated offisnces, which they would not have committed, with the full assurance thai the law was to be faithfully administered. This error must be cor- rected, the law must be faithfully enforced. The people demand that gr(^-shops be closed, whether found in spacious saloons and popular hoteb, where the temptation is presented in the most alluring form, or in the filthy cellar or den, where poor, degraded humanity is made loathsome to the last degree. Imprisonment for First Offence. — ^No man sells ardent spirits in violation of this law throii^h the promptings of patriotism or humanity ; he has no hi^er motive than a reckless or sordid love of gain ; he should be held strictly accountable for tibe mischief his traffic produces. Let this be done, and none will continue in the business except such as are madly'bent on suicide. I would surest the importance of so amending the law as to impose impri- sonment for the first offence. The penalty for the first conviction is truting, and the schemes devised to avoid detection ore so nume* reus, that many severs, undoubtedly, realize large amounts ftioot the business before a nviotion is had. Let the prison be opened for their reception and reformation, as it is ibr <^eBd«nh(^ lefltf 189 TBI TIBTOTALIB'b EAHD-JiOOK. magBitadd) evea the uahajj^py viotims of their trafllo, and be assared its prospective ohasteiung> iaflaencee will be felt more reatruniagly thui merelj taking by fine, from the pockets of the delinquents, a trifling part of the money the business had given them. Prohibition of Rum Carrying. — The willingness of rumsellen in other States to supply those in the same business, and the faci- lities afforded by steamboats and other common carriers to bring liquors into this State for unlawful purposes, call for such improve, ment in the law as shall meet this prolific source of evil and cut off a great artery which is pouring the -poisonous liquid into this State. Evouion of the Maine Liquor Liw. — Other amendments may 00 desirable to give e^oienoy to the law and meet the modes of evasion which the ingenuity and cupidity of determined violators have invented. Statembnts op Host. Neal Dow. — Consumption of Liquor in the State Diminished. — The amount of liquors consumed in tiie State I think is not one quarter so great as it was seven months ago, and it will become less very rapidly, as the people in the country towns are now enforcing the law more extensively and vigorously every day. From many towns in the State the illegal traffic is entirely banished. Support oj Temperance Men. — The law calls ont new and increased interest (even enthusiasm) from temperance men, and has birought over the timid and wavering. Implements of the War/are. — The law is easily enforced in every town, if you have three temperance men t^ho are not afraid, one good justice of the peace, and one ^ood constable. Gbnsbal Bbsults of the Maine Liquob Law. — I can state that, under the operations of this law, I have seen drunkards made sober ; families, sunk to the depths of poverty and wretched- ness, raised to competency and respectability; rumsellers abandon ^1^ business and engage in honourable callings ; villages and cities PBOHDITORT AOTIOM IN VRniD OTITIS. 189 morally tranafonned, and Sabbttth-ridtB ^Ting way to tlie aanetity '' which becomes the day. I have seen men who fought the law at first as the worst law in the world, now supporting it as one of the best. EooNOHT OF THE Mad^e Liquob Law. — ^A tract, issued ^y the Maine State Temperance Society, makes the following remarks on this subject : — " Before the enactment of the Maine Liquor Law thore were expended by the people of this State annually for strong drinks, at the lowest estimate, more than two million of dollars, and this expenditure involved a loss to the people in time, diminished industry, in unthrifty habits and other sources of loss, to an amount of at least two millions more ; so that we had an expendi- ture for these drinks, directly and indirectly, of at least four mil-> lion of dollars per year. Now what is the result to the State of . this great expenditure for strong drinks ? Have the people baen the happier for it — ^better fed, better clad, better sheltered, bettoK educated ? No ; but just the contrary. This enormous amount of four million of dollars has been a dead loss to the people year by year ; and even worse than that, for they have hot only had no valuable equivalent for it, but have received that which under- mines their morals, and tends directly to their impoverishment and degradation ; while no persons are benefited by the rum traffic, except a few men who have grown rich in furnishing the means of ruin to their countrymen. What a vast amount of good may be accomplished by four million of dollars properly expended I That sum would construct a railroad every year as costly as the Atlantic and St. Lawrence; would furnish every city and town in the State with churches, academies, school-houses, and libraries, and support oomfortebly all the pastors and teachers necessary for them; would construct el^ant hospitals for the gratuitous accom- modation of all our sick ; asylums for the reception of the super- annuated poor, and all the orphans in the Stete who have none to care properly for them; and would endow all these institutio&i 140 mi TinOTAUB'S BAinVBOOCr nittk ampli (iindi ^ woold oMtte i^ Amd wheralj all our Stoie iad^ miuuoipal taxesmiglit be paid, to that the peo|d» of Maine wovM be entwely exempt ftom, taxet for the support of goTemment. la one woi"*., the entire sappreasion of the traffic in intozioaHng drinks within oar borders would render the people of Maine in a few years, ii> proportion to their numbers, the riohest people ia the world ; they would be the most yirtuous and the happiest people; better fed, clad, sheltered, and oduoated, and more indus- trious and prosperous, than any other people. Intemperance would be entirely unknown among them, except as yeUow feVer is known to us by a few imported cases ; our jails and prisons would be tenantless, at nearly so; of paupers We should have none, or if any^ so. few that alms-hooses would not be necessary; and vice' and crime would be §o far reduced in amount as to be soarcdy known to exist amcmg us. Such will be the effect of the Maine Law, if it remain upon our statute-books and be steadily enforced. Men of Maine I is all this desiraUe, or not ? Do you prefer that ramselUng, with its long train of fearful evils, shall exist among us, or that it shall be suppressed, that we may enjoy the wonderful benefits of the change? For many generations all the goyem- ments of Europe and America have felt the rum traffic to be a great evil, and have endeavored to protect their people from its eflfeets as far as possible. All these governments have often enacted laws to regulate and restrain this traffic ; they did not think it eould be destroyed ; but Maine has'undertakea to expel this traffio enti^ly from her borders, and with wonderful success. The ^viH'zeJ worid is now looking with admiration upon this great experiment ; if it succeed, the people of Maine will be happy and prosperous, and all the -nations of the earth wiU follow her example ; if it do not succeed, it will be through the indifference or timidity of professedly good men, who fear to resist bad men in their effi>rts to overtiirow this law, which restrains their appetites and passions and affects their interests. In tiie year during which this law has been ia existence, its effects have been more decisive and salutary thM its warmest firiends had aiiticq»atedr The wholesale traffie PROHIBITOBT AOTIOir IN JfflVID ff ATK8. lit in strong drinks has been entirely annihilated throngiiww' *h% State; the grog-shops are very few, and are kept in dark and seoret pktoes, so that temptation is entirdy removed from the way of the yonng and inexperienced. The quantity of spirits now sold in the State can not be more than one tenth part so great as it was before the enactment of the Maine Law, so that the saving to the people is already at least one million eight hundred thousand dollars per yeur. The result of this can be seen in the improved habits and circumstances of our people. Many men, former^ miserable drunkards, are now perfectly sober, because temptation is removed out of their way ; many families, beforo miserable and dependent upon the public or upon charity for support, aro now comfortably fed, dad, and lodged. " Our alms-houses are not crowded as they were ; their inmates aro greatly diminished in number, and some of them are nearly empty. Our jails are almost tenantless, some of them entirely so ; our houses of correction ar» now almost without occupants, and aU this because few men become paupers or commit crimes except under the influence of strong drinks." Statemxnts of Hoy. Neal Dow. — Commitments to the county jail : From June 1, 1860, to Maroh 20, 1851, nine months previous to the enactment of the Maine Liquor Law, 279 Corresponding period 1851 and 1852, after the enactment of the Maine Liquor Law, 136 Deduct Liquor-Sellers committed under the Law, 72 DeJuct 83 ~ 63 Difference in &vor ' Law, 3 ■ 4 . :• ^ • — • 4 Difference in favor of Maine Liquor Law, 21 Showing a falling off of eighty-three per cent, in the short period of nine months ! We und<"*stand that the jailer of that year made the remark, that the Maine Law had damaged him (rednoed his receipts) more than five hundred dollars in that year. The com* mitments to the jail for all crimes and offences, as near as can be ascertained, during the succeeding years — 1852, '53, '54 — ^have been ap follows, viz. : 140, 131, 144. Liquor as Medioine. — So far as my medical practice goes, I think liquor can be dispensed with even as a medioine. I have always been of opinion that it does more harm than good, even as a medicine. I do not say that it is never useful, but I do say that the balances are against its use as a medicine. If a strictly pro- hibitory law were introduced into the House, restricting its use as a medicine, I would most certainly vote for it. The Effect op Temptation. — One man who had been reclaimed from intemperance by the operation of the Maine Liquor Law, having been tempted during his visit to a rum-drinking State, died of intemperance soon after his return home, leaving a young wife and two or three children. Education. — Better school-houses are now built, more school- money raised, and children are better educated. PROUIBITORT ACTION IN UNITBD STATU. 148 The Polior havc Littlr to Do. — T am aosured by the, members of the police and watch that they now liave little to dof while before the enactment of the law against tippling shops their number was insufficient to preserve entirely the quiet and peace of the city fh)m the numerous persons to be found in our streets at all times of the night more or less excited by strong drink. Bkliqious Mrctinqs Undisturbed. — I am also informed on sufficient authority that religious meetings, held in the evening formerly suffered serious disturbance and interruption from persons who would come there from oyster-shops and drinking saloons, strongly excited by intoxicating drinks, but at present no troublb is experienced from this cause. Testimony op City Missionary. — Mr. Mitchell has been city missionary rbr many years. He has had under his supervision from six hundred and fifty to seven hundred families, and he adds that not one twentieth of intemperate drinking can not\r be found of what existed when the' Maine Liquor Law went into effect. In his constant walks about the city, he does not meet one intoxicated person a day ; and he does not recollect more thau five or six oases for the last six months of complaints of wives that their husbands drink too much. In many inveterate cases which he knowPi where both husband and wife drank to excess, they are entirely reformed through the effect of the law, and live happily together. • New Churches Erected, — Since the passing of the law five new churches have been erected in this city. I remember at jhe time these churches were commenced, objections were raised by some that it would draw off the people from the old congregations ; but such has not been the case. Every old congr^ation has increased, and our new ch irches are well filled. The fact is, we require one or two more churches. Sabbath Schools. — With regard to Sabbath schools, I know of many children now attending Sabbath school, who, before the passing of the law, were children of intemperate par<:nts, and were never to bo seen at a Sunday school. m TBI TKITOTALIb'S HANO-BOOK. Gamp Mvctinos. — In oamp moetings and religionf assem- blages we find a great benefit fh)m the Maine Liquor Law. The intemperate used to be a great obstacle in our way, but noiir this curse is out of the way. This is true of all assemblies of the people, and with few exceptions; once it waa otherwise. BiBLBS IN THE Plaoe OF DISSIPATION. — I was at Booth Bay a year ago last summer. At certain periods of the year there are immense fleets of mackerel-fishers, come with their boats, some* times from 30O to 400 at a time. One Sunday morning I was passing by the head of the pier, where about 300 of the mackerel fishermen were seated. Everything was perfectly quiet as I passed by. Some had out thleir Bibles, and were reading. As I passed one group, I said, " Hud you not hotter go t? church, shipmates ? " Some remarks were made, and simultaneously they all rose and aooompanied me to the church where I intended to preach that morning. The scene was so very gratifying that I could not help saying to the landlord of the hotel that he must have a curious class of fishermen in that quarter. '' Ah I " said he, '' if you had been here before the Maine Law passed, you would, on such a day as this, have seen these rocks all along covered with blood. No female dared venture out of the house at such a time." That Sunday, I assure you, was as orderly as any Sunday could be, and there was not a bottle to be seen in the whble company when they left in the evening, but one bottle of yinegar. A Bettrr Trade than the Liquob Traffic. — The tavern- keeper, above quoted, continued : " I opposed the law with all my might because I thought it was going to injure my trade ; but now i make much more money when these men are on shore than I did by supplying them with liquor. When they go away they take with them whole 6anoe-loads of eggs and hams, and other necessaries." PBOHIBirORY AOriON IN UMITID ITATI8. HI Mains Liquor Law among thk Lumdirmbn. — The fimi to wbioh I belong employed 700 men in the lumbering buBineiS last winter. We supplied no liquor to the oamp, nor was anj used by the men, and both employers and employed were delighted with the workings of the law. The men worked better without it, and the winter pusses away much more pleasantly and cheerfully. Last winter there were on the Aroostook River a large number of men waiting to be engaged for the season, and the quiet way in which they conducted themselves was a general subject of remark. It was, indeed, gratifying to see scores of our hardy lumbermen, who formerly were in the habit of drinking very freely, spending their leisure days — which with all that class are days of temptation — soberly and orderly. How IS IT Now ? — The law of 1858, which went into effect on the 15th of July, is a stringent prohibitory law. It will enable magistrates to shut up drinking houses, that are praotioal nui- sauces, and may perhaps allow summary proceedings in case the public authorities are in any way remiss in their duty. Publio opinion has clearly settled the rights, duties, and proprieties of the whole question, and while it justly regards the selling of liquor, for the purpose of making drunkards, as a heinous crime, it does not call for any extreme measures to punish or prosecute the pro- per use of liquor. All Hotels and Eating Houses are entirely safe from any interference, unless they shall prostitute their busi- ness to the making of drunkards. If they do this, shut them up, and use the strong arm of the law. On We Go ! — The usual difficulties attend the prosecution of liquor dealers. Since the passage of the new Maine Law by the people, they have been carrying up their cases from tho Municipal Court and from the Supreme Court to that of the full bench, on exceptions and demurrer. Chief Justice Taney recently announced the decision of the court, which was, that the exceptions are over- ruled, and all the cases are remanded to the other court for judgment ! I The civic authorities are doing what they can to enforce the law. 146 THE TEETOTALER'S HAND-BOOK. HASSACHUSGTTS. The Law efst Enforced where there has been most Energy among TEMPi:RANCE Men. — It would seem that the public officers of every town would feel bound to enforce every statute of ♦he Commonwealth, or else to resign their places to others ; but with a law which enlists against it the basest passions of man, this may not be always the case. Public officers, we regret to say, are not always regenerated by being put into office. Even if disposed to act, they often look to the courage and energy of a few persons outside to sustain them in their duty. It is one of the merits of this law that a few resolute men, sustained by the moral sentiment of the better part of the community, can in most places insure its exec:^tion. If those men happen to be in office (as at Lowell and elsewhere), it is so much the better. But expe- rience has already proved that where this is not the case, it costs less trouble for energetic men to do the work themselves than to urge an unwilling or timid board of officers to do it. A town government, especially, is not apt by its nature to be a strong government. We caution the friends of good order, therefore, against relying exclusively upon such an one. If they can secure a body of selectmen or policemen who will act as a vigilance com- mittee, very well ; if not, let them form themselves into a vigilance committee to sustain the public aijthorities, if desired ; or if not, to do the work in their own way, provided they can find a single reliable justice and constable. We are acquainted with one town in Worcester County where a committee of twelve citizens has held weekly meetings ever since the law took effect. They have made, or caused to be made, five seizures, of which four have been successful, and the fifth is still pending; and the trade in intoxi- cating 4nnks may, for the first time, be considered as suppressed in that town. We commend that example to the friends of tem- perance generally, believing that the law will .be best enforced where private energy is greatest, and that it will be most popular where it is best enforced. It will of course be understood that every effort must, nevertheless, be made in all cases, to induce the PROHIBITORY ACTION IN UNITED STATES. 147 public authorities to do the duty which plainly devolves upon Jj them. The law must be recognized as standing in precisely the same position with all other laws, and to be enforced by the same methods. , In Spite op all Drawbacks, the Law has Suppressed THE Open Sale of Liquor through a Large Portion op IHE State. — The accounts which have reached us from all por- tions of the Commonwealth go to indicate this fact, — an immense diminution in the open liquor traffic. They believe this form of traffic to have ceased in nine tenths o£ the towns in the State. The unlawful trade has Ijeen in some cases — in many cases — annihilated ; in many cases it has been only driven into secret retreats. But what a blessing is even this ! How many does it save from the beginnings of vice, which is most attractive only when it becomes reputable. No law can annihilate sin, but only diminish it by making it disgraceful. Law has not suppressed licentiousness or gambling ; it has not even suppressed theft and murder ; it has only diminished them by making them more diffi- cult and disgraceful ; yet what legislator would repeal such laws as these ? The friends of the Temperance Law only claim that it is doing its work as rapidly and thoroughly as can reasonably be demanded of any law which has a moral purpose in view ; and it is only more important than these other laws because it lies at the foundation of them all. Its results are not more numerous ; they are only «s numerous, and /ar more valuable. The Retail Trade. — Excepting the cities of "Worcester and Boston, the retail trade is pretty effectually broken up. There is no such trade carried on opcnhj. Improvement among Fishermen. — k. large portion of the class of persons engaged in the fishing business had no other per- manent employment. Their supply of rum was from three to six barrels for a crew of eight to twelve or fourteen handa, and almost everybody drank as freely when at home.- I hardly need say that we believe now there is not a vessel from our ports provided with stores of liquor more than for medical purposes. j^jS'J*bi*««»*"»» *"•■■'■■' ^ 148 THS TBXTOTALXR's HAND-BOOK. Support of the Gospel, etc. — I suppose at this time we have advacced five hundred per cent, in the support of the Gospel, schools, and public improvements, since our prohibition com- menced. Duke's County, on the island of Martha's Vineyard, is one of the &vored spots of the earth, or, rather, of the ocean. Situated at a distance from the continent, it has made a declaration of free- dom from intoxicating liquors for more than eighteen years. The results of prohibition, continued for this long period, are such as every temperance advocate would naturally expect. The enormous reduction of crime, and the peacefulness of the neighborhood on the island since prohibition has been enforced, are some of the happy consequences of this great reformation. — Population, 4540. « Grime before Prohibition Commenced. — ^While the traffic continued, the courts were in session for about two weeks each term. Crime since Prohibition Triumphed. — ^What has been the result ? Crime has not only diminished, but it seems to have entirely left the Vineyard. We are informed that no case of crime has come before the courts for something like sixteen years. Civil cases have been greatly diminished, and there are now very few that come in for trial. The judges go down in one boat and back in the next. A Blessing to the Community. — ^Within two years past there were open grog-shops in very many of the towns in the county of Franklin. At this moment I do not think there are ten in the whole county. The decrease is owing entirely to the enforcement of the law. It has been a blessing beyond anything we have ever had, and I am satisfied that wherever it is enforced it will prove a blessing to the community. Its effects i^ lessening rowdyism are very marked. Before the law passed, our streets were noisy and riotous, and it was unsafe for any female to ven- ture out in the evening unprotected ; but now it is not so. PROHIBITOKT ACTION IN tTNITIO ITATn. 149 jom July 19 to October 19, 1851, 282 For corresponding months of 1852,.... t 177 Difference in favor of the Law, 105 Butler's Hospital. — The number of insane persons in this hospital has been reduced about one fifth. VEBMOMT. Inpmjbnce op the Law. — That the law has exerted an immense influence, and accomplished great good, is as plain to him whose eyes are not resolutely closed to the light of truth, as is the light of the sun to him who opens, at mid-day, eyes that have not been deadened and darkened by paralysis or vailed by oataraot. s<' PROHIBITOBT AOTIOM IN VNITBD STATU. V» PowiB RXQUiRED TO Enfoboe thb Law. — Fiye energetie men can ienforoe the law in any locality in our State. No Rbaotion. — I ma.' ' y * is no place in this ■'' .. '. iv'^ere a reaction has taken place uj^ainsi ._e law, and there is uo danger of a reaction against the law, for its friends are gradually increas- ing, and its beneficial effects are becoming generally felt. These will secure its enforcement. Testimony op the Grand Jury. — The Grand Jury, not composed of friends of the law, but a body appointed to note offences against the laws generally, iu their last report say : " Wo would also say that we feel highly gratified to find the jail destitute of inmates, a circumstance attributable, in a very great measure, we believe, to the suppression of the sale of intoxicating liquors." Testimony of the Oyerseer. — A year ago, when the law was much less enforced, the overseer of the poor told me it had reduced the poor-tax at least $500. It will be more this year, although provisions are very high this winter. YiGiLANCB Committee. — ^About a year ago we had a public meeting, and appointed a vigilance committee to go round and raise money for the enforcement of the law, to pay counsel and all other necessary expenses ; ^,nd you may judge of the feeling in favor of the law, when, in a short time, we had 1000 o^mesi on the subscription list. Effects of the Law on the Burlington University, Vermont. — ^With respect to its effects upon our own institution, I can safely say there is a very great diminution in the use of liquors by the students. Some five or six years ago we were much troubled with cases of intemperance among our students. Since the law passed there has been a great improvement. Though we have no doubt it is still used in a secret manner by some of the students, from the effects which sometimes manifest themselves r vm «H1 TWKSmMUal% KAMD^BOOB. yiBl tiwre if none of it oied openly. We find the nGsultg of the law in that respect highly beneficial. We have not had for a yeav past any of that kind of rowdyism which is sometimes manifested among students in such an institution as this. These noises grow mostly out of ^ intemperance, fbr if student? drink, they will b0 noisy in some shape or other. Bkaooadooio of thb Eniht. — A great many offered resist-. ance ; a man who kept a public house in Rutland prior to the passing of the law, swore that they should never search his house ; bat it was all braggadocio; he was brought up and fined, and^ made no renstance whateyer; now he has left the tayem and* dxartd ouU I Montpeller, Yemumt, 13th Oct, 1850. IfOTBBNOB'S MBSSAOa. Ttitoxieatinff Drmkt. *< Oar laws prohibiting the traffic in intoxicating liquors have become the settled and approved policj of the State. If any additional legislative provisions to increase their efficiency should be found vecessary, I shall be rvfj ready w ooncur in them." OANAPXAN AOTIOA IM' CHAPTER IV. CANADIAN ACTION. Pstition for Profaibitory Liquor Law, 1869 — Memorials to Councili»-- Petitioa for Prohibitory Liquor Law, 1860 — Form of Act ■nbmiltcd therewith. pBOHmroRT LiQTTOR Law for Canada — Petition bent in TO Provincial Parliament, 1869. This circular is signed by tlie Grand Scribe, E. Stacey, on behalf of the Sons ; and Grand WorUiy Secretary W. A. Ferguson, for the Good Templars. In connection with this subject, we give the fbllowing form of petition which has also been adopted. by the some committee, and which we hope will be signed by the entire temperance community, whether they belong to these orders or not. We are more and' more convinced that we must have a Maine Law in all its strin- gency and power before we can expect to grapple effectually with the evils of intemperance. ** lo the Honorable the Members of {he Legislative Assembfif^ in Parliament Assembled, Thr Petition of the under- signed Inhabitants of the of , " Humbly Sheweth : " That your Petitioners reiterate the conviction expressed in numerous petitions to your honourable body, that the traffic in intoxicating liquors, as drink for man, is the immediate cause of most of the crime and pauperism, and much of the disease and^ insanity, that afflict our fair and fertile Province ; that every- where, and in proportion to its prevalence, it deteriorates the moral character of the people, and is the chief outward obstruction to the progress of religion; that your petitionem rqgurd intemperanot. 163 THE TUTOTALIB B HAND>BOOK. (the legitimate fhiit of the liquor traffic,) as a great moral and gooial evil, destructive of health, virtue, and happiness, and pro- ducing disease, lunacy, and cri>ae; entailing heavy burdens on society, and erecting a fatal barrier in the path of individual and national greatness ; that observation and experience prove that al} measures of regulation and restriction, however good, so far as they go, are inadequate to the prevention and removal of these pressing evib, and therefore pray for the abolition of the traffic in intoxi- cating liquors, by legal enactment. " And your Petitioners earnestly pray that your honorable body will, without delay, enact a stringent Prohibitory Liquor Law ; and, as in duty bound, will ever pray. \ " 1859." The petitions presented had 150,000 names appended — ^but the measure did not carry I Memorial to Councils of Corporations/ of the Different Townships throughout Canada West. " That the matter of petitioning the Legislature of the Province of Canada, for the enactment of a Prohibitory Liquor Law, has engaged the attention of your Memorialists, and they would respectfully submit that the Township, County, and City Munici- pal Corporations, more properly represent the feelings and desires of the People of Canada than any other in the land, and that Intemperance, being peculiarly a social evil, consequently comes within their province. " That the partial recognition of the principle of legal prohibi- tion contained in the recent Municipal enactments of the Legisla- ture, your Memorialists hail as the precursor of future good. " That your Memorialists are of the opinion that the present License Laws have failed in accomplishing the objects for which they were enacted, that Intemperance is still fearfully prevalent, and that the only way eflfectually to suppress it will be by enacting a Law entirely prohibiting the traffic in intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and that such a law is desired by a majority of the inhabitafuts of Upper Canada. OANADIAR ACTION. 167 " That the baneful effects of the traffic in intoxicating drinks ' are the same everywhere. The latest Report of a Parliamentary Committee on Public Houses, published by authority of the Imperial Parliament, distinctly admits ' that the Uctimng nffBtem has totally failed, and that something much more stringent must be adopted to cure the evils of this trade in strong drink " : and Special Committees' Reports of our Provincial Legislature have presented equally startling facts — that the traffic in intoxicating drinks has proved to be the great source of our pauperism, disease, lunacy, immorality, and crime. " From a Return of Convictions, ending December, 1858, from a comparatively new and sparsely settled county in Canada West, there have been during 270 days, 500 criminal cases of petty and major crimes and misdemeanors, chiefly induced by 200 places where intoxicating liquors can be procured. The statistics of crime in our Cities, Towns, and Villages, are also proved to be just in proportion to the prevalence of the liquor traffic. Of the crimes charged against 3089 male, and 1098 female, prisoners in the City of Toronto for ^he past year, there were directly charged with the crime of drunkenness 1073 males and 704 females; and directly and indirectly induced by the same cause, there were arrested for assaults, fighting, keeping disorderly houses, riot, selling liqubr without license, and larceny, 1171 males and 277 females, being upwards of three-fourths of the whole of the arrests — chiefly imputable to the shameful enticement of dram-shops and the facilities for procuring intoxicating drinks. " That the burden of taxation arises from the expenses of pau- perism, the administration of police and criminal justice; and your Memorialists are of the opinion that no Government can be justified in deriving its revenue from any system, the tendency of which is to degrade and demoralize the mass of the people ; that the suppression of the liquor traffic would be a great blessing to this rapidly growing country, would advance the social and moral' condition of the people, lessen crime and lawlessness, and lighten taxation. IM TnS TSKTOTALKR'g HAlfI>-B0OK. " That the liquor traffic presents an insuperable barrier in the path of individual and national progrcuH, ixrUether n;ligiou8, moral, educational, commercial, or ecouomicul. " That at this crisis in the history of our beloved and highly- favored country, when the prospect is brightening, to .show us that at no distant day Canada will bo a great and glorious empire whose just and beneficent sway may extend over that vast tract— . those fertile vales of the Assiniboiue and Saskatchewan — capable of sustaining millions of people (un area of country equal in extent to France and Austria), it is the imperative duty of the people of Canada, in whose hands is the destiny of posterity, to place the laws of our country upon so just, healthy, and solid a foundation, as to assure the greatpt amount of happiness, peace, and prosperity, to the future intelligent, virtuous, and loyal millions who may people this noble Province. " Your Memorialists therefore respectfully and enmestly pray that your Worshipful Body will, without delay, petition the L^is- lature of Canada to enact a stringent Piohibitory Liquor Law for this Province." Petition now (Feb. 18G0) in course of Signature. A Meeting of the Joint Committee of the Grand Division Sons of Temperance of Canada West, and ^he Grand Temple Indo- pendant Order of Good Templars, appointed to consider the best means of petitioning Parliament during its approaching Session, for the passage of a Prohibitory Liquor Law, was held in the Kooms of Hamilton Division S. of T., in this city, at two o'clock p.m. this day. Present on behalf of the Grand Division, Brothers W. Wheaton of London, Edward LaflFerty of West Flamboro, and C. H. Van- norman of Hamilton ; on behalf of the Grand Temple, Brothers D. Able of Simcoe, B. D. Wadsworth of Hamilton, J. G. Curtis of Markham, and Sister Mechell of Claremont. CANADIAN ACTION. 150 On motion, R. D. Wadsworth was appointed Chairman, and C. H. Yannormivn Secretary, after which the following Reaolutiona were aeverally proposed aud unanimously adopted. Rvmlved lat^ — That, for the present, the mode of petitioning recommended by the Grand Division at its late Session be adopted, nam ly, that instead of circulating petitions, as heret( ore, for individual signatures, the Grand Division and Grand Temple, together with the Subordinate Divisions and Temples under their jurisdiction, do each petition in the name of the Division o." Tem- ple, as the case may be, each petition to specify the number of members represented by the body petitioning, and bo signed under official seal by the Presiding Officer and Secretary. Remlved 2n(f, — That the following Form of Petition be adopted . *' To the Ilonorahle the. Legislative Assembly of the Province of CanatiUf in Parliament Assembled, The PETITION o/ : : , located in , representing Member Sy " ITnmbly She teeth : '' That your Petitioners regard Intemperance as a great moral and social evil, destroying health, virtue, and happiness ; producing disease, lunacy, and crime ; entailing heavy burdens on society, and erecting a fatal barrier in the path of individual "^nd national progress. That your Petitioners regard Total Ak > , ace from the use of intoxicating liquors, as the only effectual means of pre- vention or cure of this great evil, and they deem H the duty of a wise and patriotic government to protect the community from the immense pecuniary sacrifices, the mental aud physical maladies, the outrages on life and property, and the moral contamination, consequent on the use of alcoholic beverages. Therefore, your Petitioners would reiterate the prayer expressed in numerous petitions ' heretofore presented to your Honorable House, and humbly pray that you will pass a legislative enactment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors except for medi- cinal or mechanical purposes. And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray." 160 THE TBZTOTALBR's HAND BOOK. Resolved 3rff,T^That the Chairman and Secretary of this Committee be authorized to get a sufficient number of the fore- going Form of Petition printed to serve the purpose intended, and that they be forwarded to the Grand Scribe und Grand Secretary for distribution. The expense of printing to be borne equally by the Grand Division and Grand Temple. Resolved 4^A, — That the Secretary of this Committee be instructed to forward a copy of the Form of Petition adopted, to each of the other Temperance Organizations in the Province, in the hope that the same may be adopted by them, and signed in similar manner by their proper officers respectively. Form of Act submitted .with the above Petition. BILL. AN ACT FOR THE SUPPRESSION OP INTEMPERANCE. Whereas the common traffic in Intoxicating Liquors, and their use as a beverage, is a fruitful source of crime and demoralization ; and whereas it is the first duty of Government to prevent those evils, as far as possible, and to protect the people against them . therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows : — § 1. From and after the passing of this Act, it shall be unlaw- ful for any person or persons to import into this Province, manu- facture, buy, receive, barter, sell, or dispose of in any way, or for any purpose wherever, except as hereinafter provided, any Intoxi- cating Liquors; and for the purposes of this Act, any liqimr known as being alcoholic or intoxicating shall be deemed and taken to be Intoxicating Liq-ior, as well as any other liquor which does or may produce intoxication. All liquor kept in violation of any provision or provisions of this Act, shall be deemed, and are hereby declared to be, a public nuisance. CANADIAN ACTION. 161 le, manu- § 2. The Council of each Municipality in Canada shall appoint a; suitable person or persons, as the agent or agents of said Muni- cipality, for the purchase and sale of Intoxicating Liquor for medicinal, chemical, and mechanical, and wine for sacramental purposes only, and said agents shall receive such compensation for their services as the Council appointing them may allow, and in the purchase and sale of Intoxicating Liquor such agents shall conform to this Act, and to such rules and regulations as the ■ Council may from time to time prescribe for their guidance, not contrary to the provisions of this Act ; provided that there shall be no more than two such agents at the same time in any town- ship or village municipality, or in any ward of a town or city. No such agency shall be kept in, or connected with, any tavern, store, grocery, druggist or apothecary shop, boarding or victualing house, saloon, oyster shop, or any place for dancing or gambling, or for using Intoxicating Liquors for chemical or mechanical purposes, nor in or connected with any house or place of permanent or casual ente.:tainment, amusement, or recreation, nor shall the owner or keeper of any such house or place be eligible to hold the office of such agent. § 3. Before entering upon his duties every such agent shall receive a license from the Council appointing him, authorizing him, for not more than twelve months from the date of such license, to sell Intoxicating Liquors, at the place specified in such license, for the purpose authorized by this Act only ; but such license shall not be given to such agent until he shall have executed and delivered to the Council appointing him, a bond in favor of the municipality^ with two good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Council, in the sum of not less than one thousand dollars each, conditioned as follows : — " Know all men by these presents that A B (the principal) and C D and E F (the sureties) are jointly and severally held and firmly bound unto the municipality of in the penal sum of dollars ; for payment whereof we bind our- 162 THE TESTOTALSB'S HAND-BOOK. selves, and each of us binds himself, our and each of our heirs^ executors, and administrators, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals and dat^d this day of A. D. " Whereas the above bondman, A B, has been appointed agent for the said municipality, to sell at (here name the particular place) Intoxicating Liquors for medical, chemical, and mechani- cal, and wine for sacramental purposes only, from the day of to the day of , unless sooner removed from such agency. " Now the condition of this bond is such that if the said A B. shall in all respects conform to the provisions of an Act passed in t!ie 23rd 3 ear of thf reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and entitled, ' An Act for the Suppression of Intemperance,' and to such rules and regulations as now are, and from time to time shall be established, by the said municipality, touching the sale of In- toxicating Liquors, the same not being contrary to the provisions of this Act, then this obligation to be void, otherwise to be, ajjd remain in full force and effect." And such agent may purchase Intoxicating Liquors from any licensed manufacturer, or import the same from abroad. In the purchase and sale of said Liquors each such agent shall observe and be governed by tb^ following rules,^to wit: — Ist. He shall not purcl ise any intoxicating liquor in this .Pro- vince, from any person except a licensed manufacturer, or another duly authorized agent for the sale of such Liquor. 2nd. When making application for such liquor he shall exhibit his license if required. 3rd. No liquor shall be removed from a manufactory, nor im- ported into the Province, for him, unless the vessel containing the same be plainly marked upon some conspicuous part thereof, or upon a card or label attached thereto, with the name of the liquor, CANADIAN ACTION. 163 the name of the vendor, the place where purchased, the name of the agent, and the place vrhere consigned; somewhat after the following form, but varying to suit the occasion : — BRANDY. From To Graio & Co., John Green, of Toronto, Agent, Osbawa. 4th. He shall give a written or printed receipt for all purohafles of zuch liquors, and receive and file aH bills of purchase. 5th. He shall not sell to any minor or apprentice, knowing him to be such, without the written order of his parent, guardian, or master, nor to any Indian, soldier, or seaman. 6th. He shall not sell io nny person known to be of intemperate habits, nor to any person whatever, after having received a written notice from a Councillor of the municipality, a minister of the Gospel, or a Justice of the Peace, that the use which such, person makes of Intoxicating Liquor renders it improper to sell him such liquors on any account whatever. .< 7th. He shall not sell for medicinal purposes more than one quart at one time, except to a practising physician, and in no case shall he dispose of any liquor having reason to suppose an improper use will be made of the same, and he shall only sell or dispose of such liquor for cash. 8th. He shall not permit any intoxicating liquor to be consumed upon or about his premises. 9th. He shall enter in a book a coxTCct account of all purchases and receipts of liquors made by him or for him, wHh the price paid therefor, the cost of transportation, and all expenses connected therewith, and the date and place of purchase, and name of vender. m THE TBETOTALEB's HAND-BOOK. lOth. He shall also enter in a book all sales made under his ' directions, in manner or to the effect following : — ,• • t« 01 o as d • M .a d c "s Ph « s s >> J3 • u 03 u .a O f-4 u O 2 a o 4) a 4> '3 ^-4 O 3 99 83 (K d 'C o 1 o ^ cs M Oi C^ H 11th. Such book shall be opened at all reasonable times to the inspection of all the electors of the municipality. 12th. He shall file with the clerk of the municipality in which he sells, between the 1st and 10th days of each month, a copy of all sales and purchases made as entered in his books, with an affi- davit that said copy contains a true account of all the purchases and sales and manner of disposing of liquor, by him, or for him, during the previous month. 13th. He shall attach to each vessel in which liquor shall be conveyed from his premises, a card, or label, upon which shall be legibly written, or printed, a statement of the date of sale, the kind and quantity of liquor therein, the purpose for which purchased, as stated by the purchaser, and his own name ; in form or to the effect following : — Toronto, April Ist, 1860. Sold James Brown One Quart Brandy for Chemical Purposes. Moses Gbown, Agent. § 4. Every such agent shall properly account to the munici- pality for all monies coming into his hands by virtue of such agency, paying the same to the council when required ; and when directed shall deliver to the council said books and accounts, with OAMADIAN AOTIOV. m 16S all funds and property in Us -hands belonging to the mnnioipalitjr, and if any such agent shall violate any provision of this Act, he shall forfeit his license and be deemed an offender against this Act, after which he shall be ineligible to act as such agent ; and the imposition of any fine shall not discharge him from any other penalty or liability. § 5. The council of any county or city may license^one or more persons, being freeholders and residents of such county or city, to manufacture intoxicating liquors at such place, within the muillci- pality, as may be designated in such license, and to sell the same to licensed agents only ; but no sur i license shad be valid for more than twelve months from the date thereof, nor be granted until a bond be delivered to the municipality, with two good and sufficient sureties), to be approved by the council, in a sum not less than two thousand dollars, conditioning that such manufacturer will not, during the continuation of his license, violate any provi- sion of this Act or of the council not contrary to this Act; but no person engaged in the manufacture of intoxicating liquors at the passing of this Act shall be refused such license, if he apply there- for. Every person so licensed may manufacture and sell intoxL eating liquor, and shall enter in a book each sale of liquor* made by him, or for him, during the continuation of his license, inserting the date of sale, the name and place of residence of the purchaser, the quantity and kind of liquor sold, and the price paid therefor, which book shall at all reasonable hours be open to the inspection of any Justice of the Peace or Councillor of the municipality,— > and at the end of every quarter he shall file a true copy of such book with the clerk of the municipality which granted his license, with an affidavit that the same is a correct copy of said book, and contains a true account of the manner in which all intoxicating liquors were disposed of. at his manufactory during the preceding quarter. Said manufacturer shall not permit any intoxicating liquor to be consumed upon or about his premises, and shall be deemed an offender against this Act for every sale or disposal of intoxicating liquors at his establishment to any person or persons 166 THI teetotaler's HAND-BOOK. t* \ oUmt than agents for the sale of such liquors, and shall also forfeit ^ his license and be rendered ineligible to engage in such manufao* taring for twelve months thereafter. The imposition of any fine for a breach of this Act shall not relieve him from any other penalty or liability. He shall also attach a written or printed card, or label, to each vessel in which liquor shall be taken from his premises, in manner or to the effect following : — Toronto, March 1st, 1860. • Sold 40 Gallons Whisk/ to John Coon, Agent of Municipality. Timothy Caret, I Manufacturer. § 6. No defect in bond, or writing, or recognizance, with secu- rity required by this Act, shall, in any manner, invalidate the same, but the person executing it shall be bound to the full extent of the law requiring the bond, writing, or recognizance. § 7. The clerks of the peace of the several counties shall keep a record of the names, residences, and certificates in full of all persons authorized by said municipalities, respectively to manu- facture and sell, as hereinbefore provided in sections third and fifth, which record shall be open to public inspection at all reason- able.times; and they shall furnish a list of said names, with their residences, to all persons authorized by boards respectively to manufacture and sell spirituous or intoxicating liquors, and to all agents of towns and cities, whose names have been furnished them as aforesaid, within their respective counties. § 8. If any person shall adulterate, for the purpose of sale, any beer, or other malt liquor, or any wine, or any distilled liquor, or any spirituous or intoxicating liquor, intended for drinking, with ooculus indicus, vitriol, grains of paradise,, opium, alum, capsicum, copperas, laurel water, logwood, Brazil wood, cochineal, sugar of lead, or any other substance which is poisonous or injurious to health, or if any person shall sell any such liquor, intended for drinking, adulterated as aforesaid with any substance above named, CANADIAN ACTION. 167 or any other substance which is poisonous or injurious to health, knowing the same to be so adulterated, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than three years. § 9. All intoxicating liquor found in this Province, except in the possession or under the control of an officer of the law, having seized the same under this Act, or an agent for the sale of such liquor, or a person duly authorized to manufacture the same, without having attached to the vessel containing such liquor, a written or printed card^ label, or mark, as herein before provided, and all liquor kept, used, or held for use, in violation of this Act, and the vessels^ or casks, containing the same, are hereby declared to be forfeited to the municipality in which the same are fuund, such card, label, or mark, being attached to the liquor, shall not be taken as proof that the same is not held, or intended, for un- lawful sale or use. § 10. Any mayor, alderman, councillor, sheriff, deputy sheriff, chief of police, or deputy chief of police, city clerk, deputy or assistant clerk, police officer, constable, or watchman, in city, village, or township, may, without a Warrant, arrest any pe in or persons whom they may find in the act of illegally selling, rans- porting, or distributing intoxicating liquors, and seize the liquors, vessels, and implements of sale, in the possession of said person or persons, and detain them in some place for safe keeping until warrants can be procured, on complaint made, for the trial of said person or persons, and for the seizure of said liquor, vessels, and implements, under the provisions of this Act; and it shall be the duty of the several officers aforesaid to enforce the penalties pro- vided in this Act, or cause them to be enforced, against every person who shall be guilty of any violation therfeof of which they can obtain reasonable proof. And if any sheriff, deputy sheriff, chief of police, or deputy chief of police, constable, or police officer, shall be furnished with a written notice of any violation of this Act, and the names of witnesses thereof, and shall for two weeks 168 THS TIBTOTALIR'S HAND-BOOK. n^leot to commenoe an action thereon, or prosecute any complaint thereafter, shall be liable for all fines imposed and collected for said violation of this Act. § 11. If any expressman, common carrier, or other person, shtdl, for the purpose of conveying to any other person, receive any spirituous or intoxicating liquor which has been sold, or is intended for sale, in violation of this Act, he having reasonable cause to believe that the same has been so sold, or is so intended to be sold, such expressman, common carrier, or other person, shall, on con- viction thereof, pay twenty dollars and the costs of prosecution, and shall stand committed until the same be paid ; the same to be recovered on complaint before any justice of the ^ace, or police court having criminal (jurisdiction, either in the place where said liquor may Ibe received, or in any place through which it may be carried, or in the place at which it may be delivered to the pur- ohaser or any person for him. ' § 12. It shall not be lawful for any corporation, person, or company, knowingly, to receive, transport, or carry, any intoxi- cating liquor, from one place to another, within this Province, nor bring such liquor from abroad into the Province, excepting in bond, unless each vessel, or cask, containing the same, be plainly marked or labelled as aforesaid. § 13. No person shall procure intoxicating liquor from an authorized agent or manufacturer, professedly for purposes per- mitted by this Act, and make an unlawful use of the same, nor procure such liquor by forging, or improperly obtaining, any card, mark, or label, referred to in this Act. § 14. If a.tj three municipal electors shall make oath, or affirmation, before any Justice ot the Peace, that they have reason to believe, and do believe, that intoxicating liquor, intended for sale or barter, or to be used in contravention of this Act, is kept or deposited in any house or place, in such municipality, or on any adjoining water, the said Justice of the Peace shall issue his warrant to any Sheriff, police officer, bailiff, or constable, requiring OANADIAN AOTION. 169 him, forthwith, to search for, and seize such liquor, if foand, and . the vessels or casks containiog the same, and to arrest the owner or keeper thereof, and to oonvej the liquor, and vessels or casks, so seized, to some proper place of security, there to he kept until fiDoi action thereon, and the owner or keeper, so arrested, shall he brought before said Justice, or some other Justice of the Peace, and if it be proved that the said liquor was kept, or in- tended, for sale or use, contrary to the provisions of this Act, it shall be, together with the vessels or casks containing the same, declared forfeited, and the owner or keeper of such liquor shall be deemed an offender against this Act. § 15. In any proceeding for a violation of the provisions of this Act, it shall not be necessary to specify or prove the precise kind of liquor which is the subject of the charge, but to allege it as " intoxicating liquor " only, and proof of the unlawful charge in relation to any such liquor, shall be deemed sufficient, although the particular kind may not be able to be shown. All clerks, agents, and servants, shall be proceeded against as principals, and incur the same penalties for a violation of any section of this Act. § 16. It shall be the duty of the xK)unty attorney to prosecute all suits, under this Act, which may be brought befOTe the mayor, or other presiding officer appointed' by law, of any city, if so requested, and it shall be the duty of the county attorney, by himself, or by deputy, to prosecute all suits under this Act, which may be brought before a justice of the peace, or before the court of common pleas of the county or district, and to prosecute all appeals of suits under this Act, in the circuit courts and courts of common pleas of his county or district ; and where there is no city attorney, he shall prosecute all suits under this Act, before the mayor of any city, &c., &o. § 17. If the owner or pos«essor of liquor seized under this Act, shall bo unknown to the officer making such seizure, the liquor shall not be forfeited until the fact of such seizure shall have been advertised, with the number and description of the iro THX teetotaler's HAND-BOOK. «asks or packogeii, as near as may be, by posting up a written or ^ printed notice thereof in at least three public places in said municipality, and publishing the same in a puper, if one be pub- lished in the municipality, and if it shall be proved to the s|tis- faction of said Justice, within two weeks from the time of said seizure, that said liquor was, at the time of the seizure, the pro- perty of any person authorized under this Act to hold the same, it shall be delivered to the owner claiming it, who shall give his receipt therefor, which shall be filed with the other papers relating to the case. § 18. If any person claiming any interest in auy spirituous or intoxicating liquor seized as q, nuisance, and having knowledge or notice, as required by this Act, of the seizure, shall not assert his claim upon the trial, he shall be deemed to have waived his claim, and shall not afterward assert any right thereto whatever, or any claim for damages. Judgment of forfeiture against any spirituous < or intoxicating liquor, under the provisions of this Act, shall ope- rate as a judgment, in rem, and the validity of such judgment shall not be contested, or questioned in any action, in any court by any person, except by appeal of the cause in which the judg- ment of forfeiture is declared ; and no court shall take jurisdiction of any action of replevin, of any other action, to try the validity of the proceedings in which the forfeiture is declared, except as herein provided. § 19. Any peace officer, policeman, or constable, receiving satisfactory information that any intoxicating liquor is kept for sale, or use, or is sold, or used, contrary to this Act, in any tent, shanty, hut, or place, not being a dwelling house, or at any publio fair, or on, or near^ the ground of any cattle show, exhibition, uilitia or military muster, or on any public ocoasion of any kind, is hereby required to make diligent search of such place or places, and if such officer shall find therein or thereat, any intoxicating liquor, he shall seize the same, with the vessels containing it, and arrest the keeper of such place, or the owner or keeper of the OANADIAN ACT (ON. 171 liquor found as aforesaid, \rithout warrant, and forthwith take him bof )re any Justice of the Peace, haying jurisdiction, with the liquor and vessels so seized, and upon proof that the said intoxicating liquor was found in the possession, >r under th« control, of the accused, in any tent or shanty, or other place, ai aforesaid, and was there kept to be sold, or in any way furnished, to the persona there assembled, he shall be deemed an offender against this Act ; and the liquor and vessels, so seized, shall be declared forfeited by the order of said Justice, who shall award such costs as he shall deem just ; — provided, that should such prosecution fail, no officer making such seizure shall be condemned in costs unless it be proved that he was moved to make such seizure by malice. § 20. Whenever a judgment for damages has been or may be recovered against any justice of the peace, justice of any police court, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, or other magistrate or offi- cer, in any action brought against him on account of anything heretofore done by him in good faith in his official capacity under and by virtue of the Act entitled he shall receive the amount of damages and costs,' so recovered against him, of the treasurer of the municipality ; provided the judge or justice before whom the case may be tried shall certify, under his hand, that the Raid judgment was recovered against such magistrate or officer on account of some act done by him in good faith in his official capa- city under the statute aforesaid ; and the treasurer of the munici- pality shall also pay to any such magistrate or officer, against whom judgment may be recovered as aforesaid, such further sum as the judge or justice who may try the case shall, in his said certificate, certify has been fairly and reasonably expended, by said magis- trate or officer, in carrying on the defence of any such suit. § 21. All cases under this Act which shall come by appeal, writ of error, or in any other manner, before any higher court 172 TBI TIITOTALIR's BAUD-BOOK. ihtn a jnatioe's eourt, shall in inch higher court be oonduoted by the county attorney or Queen's counsel in behalf of the prosecu- tion, and shall take precedence in such court of all other criminal business, except those criminal cases in which the parties accused are actually under arrest awaiting trial ; and the prosecuting offi- cers shall not -have authority to enter a nolle prosequi, except by consent of the court, and where the purposes of justice manifestly require it ; nor shall the court grant a continuance in any case arising under this Act, except where the purposes of justice mani- festly require it. § 22. Any person feeling aggrieved by any judgment of the mayor of a city, or justice of the peace, may appeal, within thirty days, to the court of common pleas, or circuit court of the county, but the appellant shall, before the appeal is granted, enter into a recognizance before the justice or mayor, with approved security in the penal sum of twice the amount of the judgment and costs, conditioned that the appellant will personally appear in the appel- late court, and pay the judgment and costs that may be rendered against him, and abide the order of the court, and not depart without leave. § 23. When any appeal is taken, the magistrate shall forthwith make out a fair transcript of the proceedings, and file it with all the papers in the cause, and the appellate court shall try the cause with or without a jury, and render a jildgment, and enforce* it according to the provisions of this Act. § 24. Whenever any spirituous or intoxicating liquor is seized as a nuisance under any provision of this Act, the officer seizing it shall keep the same safely in some secure place until final judg- ment; and if judgment of forfeiture be given against such liquor, or any part of it, he shall deposit such liquor with t&e county agent, duly appointed to sell intoxicating liquor, for safe keeping, and take his receipt therefor for safe keeping ; and if no appeal is taken within thirty days, the officer shall return the receipt for safe keeping, and take and destroy the liquor under the order of OAlf ADIAN AOnoX. 178 the 6oart trying the oatise. But if any appeal ii taken, the ofteer fehall return his order to the proper court, indorsed that he had delivered the liquor so seiied to the county agent for safe keeping, and the county agent shall keep such liquor subject to the order of the appellate court. Whenever judgment is given against the com- plainant upon tne seizure of such liquor as a nuisance, the attorney prosecuting the action, or the district attorney, may cause the action to be taken to the appellate court upon appeal, at any time within three days, without any bond being filed on the part of the complainant. And the officer seizing the liquor shall not return it to the place of seizure until the expiration of three days ; and upon an appeal being taken on the part of the defendant, ho shall deposit the liquor seized with the county agent for safe keeping, and make his return accordingly. Whenever final judgment is given against the complainant in such cause, that the liquor so seized is not a nuisance, and not subject to forfeiture, the county shall pay the costs of the seizure, carriage, safe keeping, and return of the liquors, and the fees of officers, jurors, and witnesses in such cause ; but the county shall be liable for no other costs in any case except the keeping of persons under arrest and imprisonment for a violation of this Act, as in other oases. § 25. Every contrivance or device made use of to sell, or deal out to, or provide for, any person, intoxicating liquor, contrary to the tenor of this Act, and at the same time to conceal or disguise the vender of such liquor, is hereby declared to be a public nui- sance — and both the keeper and owner c^ the premises where such device exists, shall be deemed offenders against this Act, unless it appear, upon the examination, that such device was an- knowu to said owner, which shall free him from such ofifence. § 26. No spirituous or intoxicating liquors shall be given away, or be kept with intent to be given away, in any tavern, boarding- house, public eating house, grocery, oyster shop, store, bar-room, confectionery, or other place of public entertainment ; or in any theatre, museum, or other place of public resort ; or on any steam- \ 174 THE TESTOTALSR's HAND-BOOK. boat, or other craft, carrying passengers ; and for any violation of this section, the person so offending shall be fined to the same extent as for selling such liquor contrary to this Act. ^ § 27. If any person shall knowingly let any building or tene- ment owned by him, or under his control, for the illegal sale or keeping of intoxicating drinks, or shall knowingly permit any such building or tenement, or part thereof, to be so used while under his control, or shall, after due notice of any such use of said lild- ing or tenement, omit to take all reasonable measures to eject the said person from said premises as soon as the same may lawfuUy be done, he shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of aiding in the maintenance of such nuisance, and be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred, nor ir ,i-e than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty days, nor more than six months. ,-..,, :.! :'k, .: lis! ■^ § 28. That for all fines and costs assessed against any person or persons, for any violation of this Act, the real estate and per- sonal property of such person or persons, of every kind, without exemption, shall be liable for the payment thereof; and all such fines and costs shall be a lien upon such real estate until paid. And in case any person or persons shall rent or lease any building or premises, and knowingly suffer the same to be used and occu- pied for the sale of intoxicating liquors, contrary to this Act, such building and premises so leased and occupied shall be held liable for, and may be sold to pay, all fines and cos^s assessed against the person occupying such building or premises, for any violation of thi^ Act; and in case such building or premises belong to any minor, insane person, or idiot, the guardian or guardians of such minor or minors, or insane person, or idiot, who has control of such building or premises, shall be liable for, and account to such ward or wards, insane person, or idiot, for all damages, in conse- quence of the use and occupation of such bnilding and premises, and liabilities for such fines and costs, as aforesaid. CANADIAN ACTION. 176 § 29. Intoxication shall be deemed an ofifence againsihthis Act, and if any person shall be found intoxicated in any public house,' or place, or on any street or highway, or, being intoxicated, shall be found any where committing a breach of the peace, or disturb- ing other persons, by making an unusual noise, any peace officer shall, without warrant, arrest such person, and take him before a Justice of the Peace, and if such person, so arrested, shall fully disclose the name of the person from whom, and the place, time, and manner, in which he procured the liquor which produced his intoxication, he shall be retained as a witness against the vender of such liquor, if furnished in contravention of this Act, and then discharged; — but if such intoxicated person refuse to give said evidence, he shall be deemed an offender against the Act. § 30. If any person in a state of intoxication shall commit any offence against the person or property of any one, the person who furnished such offender thj liquor, or any part thereof, which occasioned his intoxication, if the same was furnished in violation of this Act, shall be subject to the same action, on behalf of the party aggrieved, as might be brought against the person intoxi- cated, and the aggrieved party, or his representative, may bring cither a joint action against the person intoxicated and commit- ting such offence, and the person who furnished the liquor, or a separate action against each. § 31. Any person may maintain an action, in any court in this Province, against any other person who shall, unlawfully, sell or deliver any, liquor to the husband, wife, parent, child, guardian, ward, apprentice, or servant, of the plaintiff, or to any Indian of kin or otherwise, and it shall not be necessary in any such action to aver or prove any specific damage to the plaintiff by such sale or delivery, but upon such proof the court or jury shall assess the damage at not less than twenty-five cents and the costs of suit, and if any special damage be shown, then at such higher sum as may be just, ynd judgment shall be given accordingly. Any mar- ried woman may prosecute and maintain such action in her own 176 THE Tt%TOTALt,WU HAND-BOOK. name, with or without the consent of her husband, and upon the trial of any action under this section, the defendant, plaintiff, wife, or husband of the plaintiff, may be examined as a witness, any law or rule of court to the contrary notwithstanding. All damages recovered by a married woman shall go to her separate use. In case of the death of any party to or against whom action is given by this section, it shall survive to or against his or her executors or administrators. § 32. Upon the trial of any complaint or information, under any provision of this Act, proof of the keeping, delivery, or sale or barter, of intoxicating liquor, by the defendant, shall be suffi- cient to sustain an allegation that the same was unlawful, and unless he prove the contrary, judgment shall be rendered against him. § 33. Any person delating any of the provisions of this Act, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and the costs of prosecution, in the discretion of the convicting justice, which fine shall belong, one half to the prosecutor, and the other to the municipality where the offence is committed ; unless the prosecution be brought in the name of the municipality, which in such case shall receive the whole amount of fine ; and in default of payment of any such fine, and all costs, the offender shall be imprisoned at hard labor until the same be paid, such imprisonment, however, not to be less than ten days, nor more than two calendar mouths, as the convict- ing justice may direct. ' § 34. No person proved to have been engaged in the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor, within one year of the time of any trial under this Act, shall be competent to sit as a juryman thereon ; and if his disqualification be known, he shall be challenged when called as such juror. Neither shall such perso-> be eligible to hold any public office in the municipality for one year thereafter. § 35. Liquors seized under this Act, and the vessels containing them, shall not be taken from the custody of the officer in charge CANADIAN ACTION. 177 by writ of replevin, or any other process, whlld the piroo^ditigd herein provided for are pending, and final judgment thereon shal!, in all cases, be a bar to all suits for the recovery of liquor or casks seized, or the value of the same, or alleged damages by reason of such seizure and detention. § 36. Either the complainant, or other person prosecuting on his own behalf or that of a municipality, or the defendant, in any action arising under this Act, may appeal from the decision of a justice of the peace, and the laws regulating appeals from decisions of justices shall apply in all cases under this Act. § 37. It shall specially be the duty of all peace officers, muni- cipal officers, justices of the peace, and collectors of customs, to enforce the provisions of this Act, and every person legally required to enforce, or to assist in enforcing, its provisions, refusing or neglecting so to do, shall be deemed an oflFender this Act. § 38. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the making of cidci* from apples, or wine from grapes, currants, or other fruit, grown and gathered in this province by the manufac- turer, or the sale thereof by him, in quantities not le::>^ rlian three gallons at any one time, no part of which shall be drroK upon or about the premises, nor shall this Act be construed to prevent the manufacture and sale of burning fluids of any kind, perfumery essences, drugs, varnishes, nor any other articli of trade or com- merce, composed in part of alcohol or other spirituous liquor, if not capable of being used as a beverage, nor intended for use as a beverage, or in evasion or contravention of against this Act, j^, § 39. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to pr&. vent any chemist, artist, or manufacturer, in whose art or trade they may be necessary, from keeping at his place of business such spirituous liquors as he may have occasion to use in his art or trade, but not for sale. § 40. That it shall be right and proper to appraise intoxicating liquor (the personal property of individuals) for legal purposes, 178 THE TXSTOTALSB'S HAND-BOOK. and it shall not be deemed any violation of this Act for the public auctioneer to dispose of the same at vendue ; but such sale shall be only to one or more licensed agents, and to no other person or persons. § 41. In any case where, under the provisions of this Act, intoxicating liquor, and the vessels containing the same, are de- clared forfeited, the officer having the same in charge shall deliver said liquor, and the vessels, over to an agent for the sale of liquor in the municipality or ward where the offence was committed, and file a receipt for the same virith the convicting justice, and if in the opinion of such agent the liquor is unfit for sale, he shall destroy it, otherwise sell the same for the municipality. § 42. All payments or compensation for money, labor, or per- sonal or veal property, made by sale or delivery of intoxicating intoxicating liquor, contrary to this Act, are hereby declared to bo void, and in any action touching such money, labor, personal or real estate, the purchaser and seller of such liquor may be examined as witnesses, and all contracts, notes, bills, bonds, and agreements, made in whole, or in part consideration of intoxicating liquor, illegally sold, shall be void, except in the hands of innocent holders. ,; . § 43. Any person offending against or violating any of the provisions of this Act, may be prosecuted before any one or more justices of the peace having jurisdiction where the offence was committed ; and for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act, such justice or justices shall have, and may exercise, all the power and authority vested in him, or them, by the 14th Vic, cap. 178, entitled, " An Act to facilitate the performance of duties of Justices of the Peace out of sessions in Upper Canada, with respect to summary convictions and orders," and any false oath or affirmation under this Act shall be perjury. § 44. No action or other proceeding under this Act, or which may be necessary to carry out its provisions, shall be held to be void, or allowed to fail for any defect of form, and no particular CANADIAN ACTION. 1179 form of words shall be requisite in any information, prosecution^ or action, instituted or made for enforcing any of the provisions of this Act, and any such information, prosecution, or Action, may he laid and prosecuted to judgment and execution before any one justice of the peace. No specific forms are necessary, but the following are recommended : — Form of Indictment in ease of Common Seller or Manufacturer. County of , ss. At the Court, begun and holden at , within and for the County of , on the Tuesday of , in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty The Jurors for said , upon their oath present, that A. B., of , in said County, yeoman, at , in said County of , on the day of , in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and , and on divers other days and times between said ' "' " day of aforesaid, and the day of the finding of this indict- ment, without any lawful authority, license, or permission, was a common seller of intoxicating liquors, against the peace of said , and C( utrary to the form of the Statute in such case made and provided. (In case of a former conviction add) and the Jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do further present, that the said has been before convicted as a common seller under the Act in said County of ■'•■''i-i iki^:-.^ A true bill : , County Attorney. Foreman. Form of Complaint and Warrant in case of Seizure. County of , ss. To A. B., Esquire, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of 180 THB TEtTO^ALlR's HAND-BOOK. i A. B., 0. D., ftnd D. F., of , t^sidenis in taid County, and oompfetent to be witnesses in civil suits, on the ^ '^ day of , in the year Eighteen Hundred and , in behalf of said , on oath complain, that they have reason to believe, that on the day of in said year, at said , intoxicating liquors were, and still are, kept and deposited by , of , in said County, in [Hero describe with precision the place to be searched] btiid , not being authorized by law to sell said liquors witViiQ said ; and that said liquors are intended for salt «rithin said in violation of law, whereby said liquors, an(3 +he vessels in which the same are contained, have become for- f.'t'Hi to be destroyed; and said , by reason of the premises, has incurijed and become liable to pay a fine of twenty dollars to said , and costs of prosecution, and to be imprisoned , and also to be imprisoned thirty days additional in default of payment of said fine and costs. They therefore pray that due process be issued to search said * , and any yard or building, other than a dwelling house, adjoining the premises herein before mentioned, if occupied by the same person herein described, where said liquors are believed to be deposited ; and if there found, that the said liquors and ves- sels be seized and safely kept until final action aitd decision be had thereon, and that said be forthwith apprehended and held to answer to said complaint, ^nd to do and receive such sentence as may be awarded agamst him, and that said liquoifS and vessels be declared forfeited and ordered -o be destroyed. i-.-. A. B. C. D. E. F. it!-- ss. On the day of the said A. B., C. D., and E. F., that the above complaint by them signed is true. aforesaid, made oath Before me, ;(i ,'-' , Justice of the Peace. OANADUM ACTION. m County of County of ' Constables of the Town of towns within said county. , 88. To the Sheriff of our 8ai4 f or either of his deputies, or the , or either of the Whereas, A. B., C. D., and E. F., of , resident in said County, and competent to be witnesses in civil suits, on the day of , in the year Eighteen Hundred and , in behalf of said , on oath complained to the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the said County, that they have reason to believe, and did believe, that on the day of in said year, at said , intoxicating liquors were and still are deposited and kept by , of , in said County, in [Here follows a precise description of the place to be searched], said not being authorized by law to sell said liquors within said , by reason of the premises, incurred and became liable to pay a fine of to said , and costs t)f prosecution, and to be imprisoned days, and also to be imprisoned thirty days in default of the payment of said fine and costs, and prayed that due process be issued to search said and any yard or building, or other than a dwelling-house, adjoining the premises herein before mentioned, if occupied by the same person herein described, where said liquors are believed to be deposited, and if there found, that the said liquors and vessels be seized and safely kept until final action and decision be had thereon, and that said be apprehended and held to answer to said complaint, and to do and receive such sentence as may be awarded against him, and that said liquors and vessels be declared forfeited and ordered to be destroyed. You are therefore required, in the name of the , to enter the before named, and therein search for said liquors and if there found, to • seize and safely keep the same, with the vessels in which they are contained, until final action and decision be had on said complaint; and to apprehend the said 182 THE TBITOTALIB'S HAND-BOOK. forihwitU, if he may be found in jour precincts, and bring him before me, the subscriber, or some other Justice within and for said County, to answer to said complaint ; and to do and receive such sentence as may be awarded against him. Witness, , Esquire, at aforesaid, this day of , in the year Eighteen Hundred and • , Justice of the Peace. Form of Complaint for Single Sale. County of ss. To , Esquire, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of A. B., of J , in said County, yeoman, on the day, of , in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and , in behalf of said , on oath, complains that , of , in said County, laborer, on the day of aforesaid, at said ,' not being appointed by the proper authorities of said as the agent of said to sell therein intoxicatinj." liquors, did sell a quantity of intoxicating liquors therein, to wit: one of intoxicating liquor to one (or if the individual be unknown, to some person to said complainant unknown), against the peace of said , and contrary to the form of the statute in such cases made and provided. . -d On the day of aforesaid, the said makes oath that the above complaint, by subscribed, is true. Before me, , Justice of the Peace. Form of Warrant upon the Sam«. County of , ss. To the Sheriff of our said County of ' , or either of his Deputies, or either of the Constables of the town of , or either of the towns within said county — Greeting. . CANADIAN ACTION. fi Whereas A. B., of , on the day of A. D., 186 , in behalf of said , on oath complained to me, the subscriber, one of the Justice of the Peace within and for the county of , that , of , in said county, on the day of , at said , not being appointed by the proper authorities of said as the agent of said to sell therein intoxicating liquors, did sell a quantity of intoxicating liquors, to wit : one of intoxicating liquor to one , against the peace of said , and contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided. Therefore, in the name of the of , you are com- manded forthwith to apprehend the said , if he may be found in your precincts, and bring before me, the subscriber, or some other Justice of the Peace within and for said county, to answer to said upon the complaint aforesaid. Witness my hand and seal at aforesaid, this day of A. D., 186 . , Justice of the Peace. Form of a Recognizance in ease of a Single Sale. Be it remembered, that at a Justice Court held by me, the sub- scriber, one of the Justices of Peace within and for the county of , at my office in , in said county, on the day of , in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and , personally appeared and , and severally acknowledged themselves to be indebted to the of in the respective sums following, to wit: ? • » The said as principal, in the sum of dollars, and the said and as sureties, in the sum of dollars each, to be levied of their respective goods, chattels, lands or tenements, and in want thereof, of vheir bodies to the use of the State, if default be made in the condition following. X84 TBI TUTOTALBB'8 HAND-BOOK. The condition of this reoognizanoe is such, that wheioua the taid has been brought before H.-nM court, by virtue of a warrant duly ieHued upon the complaint on oath of , charging iiim, the said , with having Id at , said , one of intoxicating liquors to one , the said not being appointed by the proper authori- ties uf said a;; the agent of said to sell intoxicating liq ors therein, 'ij;ain8t the peace of said , and contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided. And said having pleaded not guilty to said complaint, but having been by said court found guilty of the same, and been sentenced to ; and the said having appealed from said sentenco to the next Court next to be holden at, , within and for said county of , on the Tuesday of - : Now, therefore, ii the said shall appear at the court afort'said und prosecute his said appeal with effect, and abide the order and judgment of said court, and not depiart without license, then this lecognizance shall be void ; otherwise remain in full force and virtue. Witness, &c. -, Justice of the Peace. Form of Recoffnizanre in case of Seizure. Be it remenibered, that at a Justice Court held by me, the sub- scriber, one of the Justices oi the Peacef within and for the county of ' , at my house in said , on the day of , in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty , personally appeared A. B., C. D., and E. F., and severally acknowledged themselves to be indebted to the of , .,-^.. in the respective sums following towit: ^;^.^^,^..^ .,,;,„.; _ - ,.,,... The said as principal, in the sum of dollars, and the said and as sureties, in the sum of ,. dollars each, to be levied of their respective CANADIAN ACTION. ISft goods, chattels, lands or tunementn, and in want thereof, of their bodies to the use of the , if ! J-I .* Form of MiUimua, t.* U*? ^ ^ to Province of Canada. County of ;•• - ' , ss. To the Sheriff of the County of *' ' '■ , or his deputies, or the Constables of the Town (or City) of , and to the keeper of the jail in in our said County — Greeting. >i~«;if---i-is^;vi?i"?'-*r: *■■' \^ > V \> \ \ 1^ w.V» IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 1.1 Ittl28 |«a ^^ mm |2j2 12.0 M tHhik^ < 6" ^ Sdmces CorporatiQn 4l^ ^-^ •<» <^ ^. 23 WKT MAIN STMR WltSTm,N.Y. MStO (71*)t7a-4S03 4^ ^ ^ «^ 1 - 186 THB TlXTOTALm'S HAMP-BOOK. Whereas^ E. F., of ^ in our Conniy of , BOW stands conviotied before me, A. B., one of the Justices of tlie Peace in and for the County of , on the complaint of , who, on his (or their) oath, oomplaiAs that < [Here insert the substance of the complaint.] against the peace of the , and contrary to the form of the statute in siich case made and provided, for which offence, he, tlw said E. F., is sentenced to pay a fine, for the use of the , of twenty dollars and costs of prosecution, taxed at , (and to stand committed until the sentence be performed, all which sentence the said E. F., now before me, the said Justice, fails and refuses to comply with and perform). These are, therefore, in the name of the of , to command you, the said Sheriff, Deputies, and Constables, and eaah. of you, forthwith tc^ convey the said E. F. to the common jail in , in the County aforesaid, and to deliver him to the keeper thereof, together with this precept: And you, the keeper of the said jail in aforesaid, are Hereby in. like manner commanded, in the name of the of , to receive the said E. F. into your custody, in said jail, and him there safely to keep until he shall comply with said sentence, or be otherwise discharged by due course of law. Given under my hand and seal this day of , A. D. I A. B., Justice of the Peace. When the sentence shall be, in addition to the fine, thirty, sixty, or ninety days' imprisonment, the substance of the complaint being duly set forth, insert in the mittio^us instead of the worda included in the foregoing form, in brackets, as follows : (and days of imprisonment in the common jail, all which sentence, the said E. F. now being before me, remains to be performed). If the fine and costs are paid, insert (which sentence to days' imprisonment, the said E. F. now being before me, remains to be complied with and performed,) and in like manner in all oases, OANADIAK AOnOR. m Uie rabstanoe of the oom^aint being set forth, and t^^teoital of the sentenoe oonformed to the fact, the same form in tahetanoe may be used, and shall be sufficient in law. > * § 45. In the construction of this Act, words importing the singular number only, may be applied to the. plural of person or things ; and words importing the masculine gender only, may b^ extehded to females also. § 46. In all cases under this Act, reasonable costs, fees, and expenses, shall be ''allowed by the Justice or Court, in the same manner as are now allowed in criminal cases, and as near as pos* sible corresponding thereto. $ 47. All persons convicted of having violated any of the pro- visions of this Act, shall enter into recognizance for good behaviour for the term of one year after judgment rendered in the case, with two sufficient sureties, iot an amount not less than $100.00, nor more than $5000.00 : — the first violation, thereafter, of this Act; in any of its provisions, will forfeit the recognizance, and the party so offending shall enter into new recognizances. Where proper sureties cannot be found, the offending party shall be imprisoned for not less than one month, nor more than six months. § 48. It shall be the duty of the presiding judge of every court of oyer and terminer, and of every court of seseians, specially to charge every grand jury to inquire into all violations of, or, offences under, this Act. § 49. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the right of any person now having license to sell intoxicating liquor, as a tavern-keeper, or under, the provisions of the Act entitled, " An Act r^ulating the sale of intoxicating liquors," during the period . fbr which ! is license was granted, with respect to such license, but such person shall have and exercise the rights and privil^^ which he now enjoys, until the expiration of such time, subject to all the provisions of law now in fotoe regulating his conduct under suoh 188 THl TXiTOTALER'S HAMD-BOOK. lieenfle, wliiob proyinons are for this purpoie, and with respect to ■aoh persons respfetively exempted flrom the operation of sectioB until the expiration of their respective licenses. § 50. All Acts and parts of Acts of this Province, contrary to the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect any suit or proceedings commenced previous to the passing of this Act, nor have the effect of reviving any Act or part of Act formerly repealed. § ;51. This Act shall come into force and take effect upon th^ day of 1860. J. J. E. Ltnton's Form of Bill. \ [This Form was ntjected by the Joint Committee of the Sons of Temperance and L 0. Good Templars, because of two things— first, it referred only to the Betail Traffic ; and, secondly, it applied only to Western Canada.] An Act to Prohibit the Sale by Retail of Spirituoui and Fermented Liquors^ within that part of the Province caMed Upper Canada. Whereas it is provided by Section 245, Sub-section 6, of the Act passed in the twenty-second year of Her Majesty's reign, chapter ninety-nine, intituled An Act respecting the Municipal Institutions of Upper Canada^ that the sale by retail of spirituous and fermented liquors in any ion -^ther house of public enter- tainment, and in shops and p\ar ther than houses of publio entertainment, in every township, city, town, and incorporated village, in Upper Canada, may, by a by-law, be prohibited, pro* Tided, before the final passing of such by-law, the same has been duly approved by the electors of the municipality; and whereaa it has been found inconvenient and of doubtful accomplishment, for universal purposes, the passing of such by-laws, — Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with, the advice and consent of the Legisla* tive Oounoil and Assembly of Canada/ enacts as follows :—' CAMAOIAM AOTIOlf. 189 1. Tbat within the limits of ei^oh munioipality of,9fvj town* •hipi iooorporated yillage, town, and city, in Upper Canada, there shall not be (excepting as in this Act excepted) from and after the passing of this Act, any sale by retail of any spiritaons or fermented liquors, in any inn or other house of public entertain- ment, or in any shop or place, other than houses tf public enter- ment; Provided hereby, that any sale by retail of said liquors, not herein in this Act excepted and provided for, shall be illegal, and shall be punishable, as hereinafter enacted v— 2. That there shall be saved and excepted from the operation ot the preceding section, the rights and privileges by the licenses which are or may be issued on behalf of each of the said munici- pal ities, until the expiry of the period for which these licenses respectively were issued, — ^and also there shall be saved and excepted as said is, the sale of said liquors, as herein in the next section of this Act provided for, for medicinal, chemical, and mechanical, or wine for sacramental, purposes, — and for such purposes the order, oertifioite, or requisition, signed by a licensed medical practitioner, or signed by the mayor, or a justice of the peace of any city or town, or by a justice of the peace of the odunty wherein either of the aforesaid munictpalities shall be, or by a reeve, or deputy reeve, in such county, or by any three rate- payers of either of said municipalities wherein the vendor after mentioned shall ba licensed, or in the case of sacramental pur- poses, an order, certificate, or requisition, signed by the clergy- man of the church, meeting house, or place of worship, where the same may be required, shall be required to be produced and deli- vered by the vendee, or his agent, to the licensed vender or his agent. 8. That for the purpose of providing for the sale by retail ox said liquors for the aforesaid purposes, each of the municipalities hy the respective councils thereof, shall have the power, and they are hereby authorized to grant a liceniie or licensss available within the limits of each of their said municipalities, to any per- son or persons, he or they being freehcidere in the county where 189 THE TUTOTALIa'g HAND-BOOK. Blioh lieense is granted, (who may be known as the licensed vender or Tenders,) for Uie sale by retail of said liquors for the aforesaid purposes ; provided hereby that there shall only be one sooh license, and one place for the sale by retail of said liquors, for any number of inhabitants in any municipality, not exceeding two thousand, and for every two thousand inhabitants, or part of two thousand inhabitants, over and above the first two thousand, one license and one such place ; each such license to be for one year, said year to end on the last day of FebruMy in each and every year; and for each of such licenses the. said municipality shall be entitled to demand, and to receive, and to apply for cor- poration purposes as by law provided, any sum not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than eight hundred dollars, the same to be inclusive of the duty payable under the imperial statute referred to in the Act cited in the preamble hereof, bat exclusive of the sum payable to the Province, in conformity with the pre- sent laws thereof; and provided also that each of said municipa- lities shall have power by by-law to fix the amount payable for each, such license in conformity with the provisions in this Act contained, and also to decide on the person or persons, he or they being freeholders in the county where such license i8 granted, to whom said license shall be given, and also shall havs power by said by-law to make restrictions or rules as to the character and standing of the said person or persons ', but no act by either of said municipalities to be done, shall be contrary to, and if so done contrary, shall not afiiect or annul the^enaetments and provisions of this Act. 4. That it shall be lawful, for the said medicinal and sacra- mental purposes, to sell as said is the said liquors on any day ; provided hereby, that said liquors, or any of them, allowed to be sold by this Act, shall not be used for drinking purposes as a beverage, nor shall they, or any of them, be consumed or dmnky on the pl^e or premises of the vender, or his agent, where sold ; and also provided, that such place or premises shall not be in, or attached to, any store or shop> saloon, eating-house, h^use oi en- 0AMADI4II AOnOK. 191 tertftinment, inn, hotd, tavern, or placo, wbere bjiaw the i^id liqaors now are, or hitherto hare been allowed to be, manufae* tared or sold. 5. That the said licensed vender or his agent shall keep a book, and shall therein enter and record each sale made, and shall for each such sale enter and record the same by enterii^ and record- ing in said book, the name of the vendee or his agent, the nam* or names signed to, and the date of, said order, certificate, or requisition, the date of sale, the quantity sold, the kind or quality and name of said liquors so sold, the puipose for which the same is so sold, and the price or sum so paid by the vendee or his agent therefor, according as nearly as may be to the form sdt forth in flohedule A to this Act subjoined ; and shall also keep and retain the said order, certificate, or requisition, for at least one month after the date of said entry ; and any rate-paver of the municipa- lity wherein said vender or his agent shall so sell, shall be entitled, and have the right and privilege, on any lawful day, during the hours of the ordinary business of said vender or his agent, to inspect said book, and also the said order, certificate, or requii^- tion, and to make therefrom any extracts, on paying to said vender or his agent, for said inspection and making said extracts, the sum of ten cents ; and each one of the said licensed venders, or his agent, shall, on the first Monday of the month after he com- mences to sell, deposit a copy, duly certified as " a true copy," of the entries in said book up to the date of said first Monday, and shall thereafter deposit on each succeeding first Monday of each succeeding month, for the time while said license continues, a copy, duly certified as '' a true copy,'' of the entries in said book, from the time when so previously made, up to the date of said last mentioned first Monday, with the clerk of the municipality which granted said vender the license ; and all sales made by sud vender or his agent shall be for cash and not on credit 6. That any person or persons, or body, who shall be found by himself, or herself, or-ihemselves, or itself, or his, her, or their, or its, servants, agects, or tenants, to have contravened or vio« 192 tHl TUTOf ALIB'S fiAMD-BOOtt. lated, ftt any time or place, the first enaotmenti and the proTisioiil in the fourth enaotmeDtt in thia Act oontainod, or any parii thereof, the same shall be considered as an offence against this Act, and shall pay for Isaid offence a fine of not less than fifty dollars, with costs, in case of conviction, and the said fine and costs, when not paid, shall be recoverable from, and leviable- against, the goodk and chattels of the person or persons convicted ; and upon a certificate on oath by the constable, or other legal ofiioer, that there is no sufficient distress to be found and to be levied upon, belonging to the person or persons so convicted, the said person or persons so convicted shall be imprisoned in the common gaol of the county wherein the said offence may have been made, for the space of one month, with hard labor, unless the said fine and cost84 and costs of imprisonment, be sooner paid — and in the case of refusal or non-compliance, by the vender or his agent, to keep said book, or to enter and record the said sales therein, or to deposit the copy or copies of the entries, or to alloW the inspection or the extracts to be made, all as provided for in the fifth section of this Act, the person or persons so refusing or non-complying shall be considered as offending against this Act, and shall for each case of refusal or nori-oomplianoe be liable to pay a fine of not less than twenty dollars, to be prosecuted £>r, and to be recoverable, and imprisonment therefor for one month to be made in the same way and manner as is provided for in this sec- tion as to other offences and fines; and it is hereby enacted that convictions, when made, shall not relieve the person or persons convicted, of the liability to be prosecuted for a misdemeanor under this Act, if amenable to be so prosecuted ; and that oon« victions for several said offences against this Act may be made under this Act, although such several offences may have been committed in the same day. 7. Any person or persons may be the informant or informants, complainant or eomplainants, in prosecuting under this Act,— all proceedings shall be begun within twenty days from the date of the offence, all informations, complaints, or other necessary pro- CANADIAN ACTION. 198 oeedings may be brought and heard before any one or more jus- tices of the peace of the county, mayor, or police magistrate, or justice of the peace of a town or city, reeve, or deputy reevei where the offence or offences were committed or done, and the mode of procedure in, and the forms appended 'to, the Act six- teenth Victoria, chapter one hundred nnd seventy-eight, ior sum- mary proceedings, may be followed as regards the cases and proceedings under this Act. 8. The said fines, or any portion of them, which may be reco- vered, shall be paid to the convicting justice, mayor, police magistrate, reeve or deputy reeve, or other aotiog justice in the ease, and by him paid equally, one half to tho informant or oom- plaiqant, and tho other half to the treasurer of the municipality where the said offence or offences were committed or done. 9. The word <' Liquors/' in this Act mentioned, shall be understood to oomprebead and mean all malt liquors, and al^ liquors, and combinations of liquors, or drinks, used as drinking beverages, which are intoxicating. .10. That any knowingly false pretence, or false statements or representation, done or made, and whether knowi'^^ iy done or made in writing or verbally, by the vender or his age ^t, vendee or his agent, or by any person or persons, or body, or his, her, or their, or its, servants, agents, or tenants, in and as respects the selling and buying, obtaining or procuring, the liquors specified in this Act, and as allowed to be vended and sold as in this Act provided, shall be considered as a misdemeanor, and shall be dealt with according to law. 11. All provisions in any Acts relative to the sale by retail of said liquors in that part of tho Province called Upper Canada, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. 12. This Act shall apply to Upper Canada only. 194 THE TBBTOTALE&'l} HAND-BOOK. CHAPTER V. w ORBAT BRITAIN. Maine Law Movement in Groat Britain — United Kingdom Alliance Per- misaive Bill — Proliibitioa in Oroat Britain — Lord Brougham ou Prohibition. Maine Law Movement in Great Britain. P. P. Carpenter, Esq., in a lecture on this subject, gave an account of the forma^on and progress of the " United Kingdom Alliance for the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic." It had only been organized about six years, and yet had advanced far beyond the expectations of its most sanguine iriends. It had gained more members, raised larger funds, and made itself more felt through the community, than even the mighty Anti-Gom-Law League during the same period of time. Not only the friends of tempe. ranee, but the drunkards, were rising to demand protection against the liquor traffic. An active canvass was now being carried on in various parts of Qreat Britain, to ascertain how the voting cltfss would exercise their franchise if the right to make and sell were left to their decision. The lecturer produced the results of the canvass up to the moment of his leaving England. Warrington, a town of some 25,000 inhabitants, famous for its strong ale and hard drinking, has been thoroughly canvassed, and gave results as follows: — [F would vote in favor of prohibition; A would vote against ; N, no opinion on this important subject] — • F N A ■ Streets of Shopkeepers and Gentry,... 68 90 18 „ Irish Operatives, 175 17 19 „ English do " 325 52 37 Total of Ratepayers, 2,248 722 312 „ Non-voting Adult Males,... 2,154 — 183 OUAT BBITAm. 195 Analyzing the votos according to political status, it appean that of those who have an opinion, there are 12 in fitvor of prdiibition to 1 against in the non-voting class, 7 to 1 in the rate-paying, 51^ to 1 in the municipal, and 2^ to 1 in the parliamentary franchise ; shewing that the working classes, who are generally considered the most addicted to liquor, ore the most anxious to be protected from its temptations. The general results, up to the present time, werff as follows, of adult males canvassed : — F N A Enp;lish Agricultural Districts, 622 221 45 Part of Manchester, 3,194 862 480 English Boroughs, 8,120 1,707 989 Part of Glasgow, 1,169 126 139 Galashiels, 1,811 299 186 Greenock, 14,362 1,868 349 Scotch Towns and Villages, 24,167 3,527 1,195 Of the total number canvassed, viz., 40,623, nearly 33,000 decided for prohibition, or 15 to 1. England decided by 8 to 1, and Scotland 20 to 1. And even if the whole mass of nobodies were turned over to the opposite party, there would still be a grand total of 3 to 1 in favor of prohibition. United Kingdom Alliance Permissive Bill. In the November 20th number of the VfeeMy News, we find a formidable list of appointments for one month, one hundred and fifty-four, in over one hundred different places, embracing the principal cities and towns in the two kingdoms, and all these appointments seem well supplied with speakers ; there would seem to be twelve or fourteen paid agents, besides special deputations to some of the principal cities, and quite a number of others associated with these in adding interest and importance to each meeting. And it should be observed, that these men are not content with holding a public meeting, letting off a little steam, and then settling down into a state of indifference as to the results, but have com- mittees in all these towns thoroughly canvassing the electors, not only to ascertain, but also to correct their opinions of the measure about to })e laid before Parliament. 196 TBB TllTOTALll'l BAND-BOOK. This if the kind and degree of effort that at onoe test the sin- oerity of the men at the head of this movement, and the host cal- oalated to ensure suoceiu; ns is evident from the fact, that in almost all, if not all, the places where a vote of the people has been taken, or where their opinion has been ascertained, they have in Uurge migorities given for the Permissive Bill. As this measure may not be well understood by our readers, we give the following short history of it and some of its principal provisions, taken fVom the Leeds Afercury of the 16th Nov., 1859. The writer does not seem to be a member of the Alliance, but is evidently well qualified to give an opinion, and does so with candor. PIRMI88ITI BILL TO Bf PPRBBS TBI BALI OF INTOXIOATINO LIQUOBS. " It is known that the adoption and comparative success of the Maine Liquor Law in the Free States of America, combined with the numberless evils and miseries produced by drunkenness in this country, led many good men some yeard since to propose that a similar law should be recommended to the legislature of the United Kingdom. For this object an association was formed, called ' The United Kingdom Alliance,' to which many of the advocates of total abstinence gave in their adhesion. Others, however, withheld their concurrence, — first, because they could not approve of the principle of a compulsory law, although they saw immense benefit from the voluntary renunciation of intoxicating liquors; and, secondly, because it seemed to them perfectly hopeless to attempt to obtain such a law in England, or to maintain it if it were passed, whilst there was danger that it might provoke a reac- tion of popular feeling against the cause of temperance. " It deserves to be known, more generally than we believe it is, that the advocates of a Maine Law in England, influenced by the objections which were made to their proposition, introduced on essential change in the measure. They no longer proposed a law to suppress the liquor traffic throughout the kingdom, but they OMUT BftlTAIN. IVI •iktd Uiat Pftrliamtnt would put a ' Pcrmumvt Bill,' «mpoweriqg * oitiaf, boronght, purithM, and townihipi,' to deoide, each for It- self, by the Aree and popular vote of the ratepayers, whether thej would allow or forbid ' the oommon sale ' of intoxicating liquon within their own locality; and as the meaaure would still, if adopted, be compulsory in the locality, they proposed that ' a ma- jority of at least two.third$ of the votes taken' should be required in favor of the bill, before it was put in operation. They also proposed that in every cose an agent should be appointed by the justices, who might sell liquors ' for purposes declared legal by tho Act ' — we presume where they were testified by medical certificate to be needful. Of course there would be no interference: with private brewing. " It is evident that the Permissive Bill would be a very different thing from the Maine Law, and would have a much better chance of adoption by Parliament. The arguments in its favor are some- thing liko the following : — Intoxicating liquors are not necessary for health, but, on the contrary, are generally injurious (where il is otherwise, they might be obtained under the Permissive Bill) : — they are confessedly the cause of that prevalent and even national vice of intemperance, which does more than all other causes to demoralise, d^rade, sensualize, impoverish, and render miserable the people of this country : — it is therefore right and necessary, in the interests of public morality and the general happiness and welfare, to give the inhabitants of each district the power of decid- ing whether they will or will not allow of the public sale of the liquors, in places which notoriously allure the young and unwary into dangerous indulgence and ruinous habits : — no direct legisla- tive prohibition is asked, but only the authority of the legislature to the people of each district to act for themselves, as they do in municipal self-government : — in order to prevent any large minority from being oppressed, it is admitted that the consent of two-thirds of the rate-payers who vote should be made indispensable to the introduction of the law: — if tho people should change their minds, they may re-open the liquor traffic." 198 THl TISTOTALM'S HAND-BOOK. Prohibition in Orbat Britain. lo Great Britain, amid much of evil from iotemal oonteotion, great advance has been made by the efforts of moral suasion ists and the advocates of prohibitory law. In England alone, amid 18 millions of people, are 120,000 public-houses, beer shops, and gin palaces, which, in the year, have sent 75,000 persons to the lock>ap for drunkenness, and 76,000 to the penitentiaries for assaults through drunkenness ; and now the cry is, as it never was before, " Down with the traffic— shut up the beer shops and the gin palaces." On the Permissive Bill, or the question of leaving the people to do it in their own respective places, 1 L to 1 have expressed themselves favorable in large districts in England; 17 to I in Scotland ; 41 to 1 in Ireland. 55,441 have expressed themselves favorable in districts where only 9794 were neutral, and 4021 were opposed. Immense and enthusiastic temperance meetings have been held throughout the kingdom, at which distinguished gentlemen have presided and able speeches been made. Most liberal subscriptions have been made to carry on the cause. In answer to the petitions from liquor dealers and victualleri of Scotland, for a repeal of the Forbes M'Kenzie Act, which closes all drinking houses on the Sabbath, the British Parliament have requested the Queen to send a royal commission to Scotland, to examine and report on the results of the Act, and Her Majesty has complied with the request. Temperance Meeting in the EJjglish Parliament.— That the great British Parliament should ever be converted into a Temperance Meeting, who would have thought it 1 Yet so it is. So it was, we know, in the days of Buckingham, when he brought in his great Parliamentary Report on drunkenness. So it has been now on the subject of the Royal Commission. For several hours genuine temperance speeches were made on the floor, and much important information was couiniunicatcd to minds unenlightened before. Such a discussion U half the battle. It is, in fact, worth everything to the cause. The question was on ffittAT BUTAIir. iW ■ having a eommittee in London, or a Royal Comihidtiton to Tislt Scotland and see what were the results of closing the Sunday liquor traffic. In fayor of the first were the liquor-dealers. Lord Melgund and Sir George Grey spoke for them. On the other side were Mr. Bruce (Lord Advocate), Mr. Hardy (Under Home Secre- tary), Sir Andrew Agnew, Mr. Dunlop, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Kinnaird. Pbohibitory Landowners. — A suggestion has been thrown out, says the Alliance Weekly New»y by a much respected friend of the Alliance, which we trust will, when carried out, supply us with another good document in favor of prohibition. Meanwhile, we must request our friends to kindly forward to us, as soon as possible, tho names and addresses of all proprietors of estates, known to them, by whom the liquor traffic has been entirely prohibited on the whole, or at least some one, of their estates. On looking over our fylcs, we find that many such cases have been mentioned in the Alliance Weekly News ; and from tha^ and other sources we have prepared a list of such noblemen, gen. tlcmen, or ladies, as have been reported to us as endeavouring to secure their tenantry from the perils of the drink, by discouraging the existence of the liquor trade on their estates. Additional names, we hope, will be forwarded by our readers in time for our next number. The Duke of Argyle. The Duke of Grafton. The Duke of Buccleugh. The Mnrquis of Breadalbane. The Marquis of Cholmondeley. The Marquis of Westminster, at Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire. The Earl of Beverley. The Earl of Ducie, at Tortworth Court, Gloucestershire. The Earl of Harrington. The Earl of Minto, at Minto and Ashkirk. The Earl of Zetland, Uplcatham, Cleveland. Lord Wiildingham, Weston Hall, Norfolk. Lord Delamere, Cheshire. Lord Boyne, Brancepetb Castle, Durham. Lord Tredegar, South Wales. 200 THl TBXTOTALIR's HAND-BOOK. ^1': :->'U^Wi^&:s v-ft-varf*!, >.%:-•: -I •ifei-v-is hotd Llaaover, South Wales. Lord Strathmore, a^d other Proprietors of the Parish of laveraritj, Forfar. Lord Belper, at Kingston^ Notts. Ladj Byron, near Leamington. General Sir Arthur Clifton, at Barton, Notts. Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, Bart. Sir Wilfred Lawson, Bart. Sir Goo. Strickland, Bart. Sir John Lowther, Wilton, Cleveland. Sir Horace St. Paul, Northumberland. 0. R. Mansell Talbot, Esq., M.P. H» H. Vivian, Esq., M.P. Captain Byron, Thrumpton, Notts. — Nevill, Esq., Llaunelly. Joseph Pease, Esq., J. P., Darlington. Timothy Hutton, Esq.\ Clifton Castle, Yorkshire. John Michell, Esq., Forcett. W. W. Congreve, Esq., Burton Parish, near Neston, Cheshire. John Richardson, Esq., Great Ay ton. R. E. Stanley, Esq., Paddington, Cheshire. Rev. Peregrine Arthur Ilbert, Rector of Thurlestone, near Eingsbridge. Wm. Hulton, Esq., Hulton Park, Bolton-le-Moors. Rev. Frank Hopwood, Rector of Winwick, brother-in-law of the Earl of Derby. Rev. Mr. Witham, Lartington, near Barnard Castle. Rev. H. W. Sitwell, Leamington Hastings, near Rugby. Rev. Bavazon Lowther, J. P., Shrigley Hall, Cheshire. ^ Mrs. Newcomen, Eirkleatham Hall, Yearby, Cleveland. Stockton and Darlington Railway Companfr. ■ John FuUerton, Esq., Thrybergh Park, near Rotherham. Thomas Bosvill Bosvill, Esq., Ravcnfield Park, near Rotherham. Randle Wilbraham, Esq., Rode Hall, Cheshire. Titus Salt, Esq., M.P. for Bradford, at Saltaire. Robertlloward, Esq., at Ashmore, near Ludwell, Dorsetshire. The Proprietors of Horton Parish, Gloucestershire. Neath Abbey Coal and Iron Company, South Wales. The Proprietors of Scorton Parish, near Lancaster. George Vivian, Esq., Moyallen House, Down. Wm. HoUins & Co., Pleasley Vale, near Mansfield. *''5- R.^D. Alexander, Esq., LL.D., Ipswich. '-^-rvS =T OBEAT BBITAUr. 201 « Among them we see the names of the Dake of Bn'ddlengh aod the Marquis of Westminster, two peers who possess the largest yearly revenues both in England and Scotland^ and the territories of others of them are very large indeed : nearly all Argyleshire belongs to the Duke of Argyle ; and the estates of some of them are not reckoned by acres, but by miles, and nearly comprise whole countic?. These landed proprietors, seeing the evil effects of intemperance, have discouraged it so far as they can, by refusing to lease houses for the sale of spirits, and bringing their influence to bear against it. The moral effect of this will be great, and will strengthen the hands of the friends of sobriety and progress. As those who comprise the list are all Justices of the Peace, and have the decision of applications for license, tho effect of this action on their part is enlarged incalculably. Besides, the very fact of such a list of influential persons shews that the opinion is pervading all classes that intemperance is a moral nuisance, and that tho dens where it is engendered ought to be abolished, and that the fate of the liquor traffic will gradu^ ally but surely be sealed. Lord Brougham on Prohibition. Intemperance is the common enemy; it attacks even persons of cultivated minds ; spreads havoc widely among the multitudes of our inferior orders ; and fills our workhouses and our jails. To lessen its force and contract its sphere, no means must be spared, if we really mean to stay the progress of destitution and of crime, The philanthropist has no more sacred duty than to mitigate, if he cannot remove, this enormous evil. The lawgiver is imperar tively bound to lend his aid, when it appears manifest that no palliatives can avail. Certainly we have the example of the United States to prove that repression is practicable, and their experience to guide us toward it. That no legislative interference can be contemplated until the public mind is ^'epared, we must admit. Such was the course in America, and our palliative mea« sures tend to sfford the required preparation. The evil of THl TUTOlALIB'g BAMD-BOOK. «, . I dnmlMnBeaB had reaoked Bach a height that in the State of Maine^ thirty-five yean ago>i assooiatioDs to promote temperance were formed ; they spread through the country; they influenced by degreei the whole community ; they induced the magistrates to refuse licenses ; and finally they obtained a law of rigorous pro- hibition. Six other States, having a population of seven and a half millions, have made considerable progress towards the same end, more or less rigorously discouraging the sale of intoxicating liquors; and the gp-eatest benefits have resulted to these portions of the Union. But the most important fact is the attempt to repeal the law in Maine, and its signal failure. Like all subjects in a country which, from the nature of the government, and the changes in the holders of all offices, is under the influence of perpetual canvass, this of temperance became a party question ; .ij^snd governors were ch(>8en and removed upon it. Four years ago its supporters were defeated, and a stringent licensing sy^m was substituted in its place. For two years and upwards this plan was tried, with every disposition of the authorities to favor its success. Pauperism and crime, which under the prohibitory law had been reduced to an incredibly small amount, soon renewed their devastations ; the public voice was raised loudly and with rare concert against the license plan ; a resolution was passed at the State Convention that the liquor law should no more bo treated as a party question, and the repealing act was, without opposition, itself repealed. Another efifurt was made to restore the repeal ; but the resolution of the State Convention was referred to, which stood unresoinded ', and all attempts to get rid of the liquor law were abandoned henceforth as hopeless. The happy result has been a continuance of the same diminution both of pauperism and of crimes, which had followed upon the original enactment of the.law. Upon this very remarkable passage in the hbtory of social science it may be observed that at least it affords proof of the experiment having been made, and Euuccssfully made, of dealing rigorously with the evil ; and if the same preparation of the public mind which led to that experiment being tried, and , {■ aeeaced its raooefla, takdi place in other nntrie8, Ifad great e|t* ample may then he followed safely and successfully, ithen tie philanthropist would no longer cumpiaia> with the Recorder of Birmingham, that into whatever path of henevolenoe we may strike^ the drink demon starts up hefore him and blocks his way; or, comparing what is cheerfully squandered u; un the fuel of intemperance with what is grudgingly bestowed upon the means of mental improvement, lament to find tenfold the price of food to the mind paid for poison to the body; but would delight to hear our poor, reclaimed from the worst excesses, free from the yoke of the cruel, though perfidious tyrant, declare, as they did to the American missionary, that the law must have come from heaven, for it was too good to be the work of man. CHAPTER VI. ' APPEAL. Temperance Appeal to the People or Canada. A crisis, pregnant with importance to you sMll^your children, has come I The question is to be settled by yon, whether thia land, overshadowed with the wings of the Almighty, shall belong to drunkards, and be under the dominion of that most heartless of all tyrants, the drunkard maker. The press, the pulpit, and the rostrum, have all been put in requisition to awaken you to tke evUs of intemperance — the beauties and excellencies of tofal abstinence have been fully i]IuB> tratcd by precept and example — the various plans of organised effort, to accomplish the work of reform, have each had their advocates, and need not here be discussed. Our object in this address, is siuu)ly to cull your attention to some ot tl^ evils of tho traffic in intoxicating beverages, your connections with it, asd point oat what we ooneeive to be the only v^edy. 204 THI TIITOTALBR's HAND-BOOK. Evili of the Traffit. The traffic in inftoxioating drinks deprayes those who are engaged in it, wastes their property, ruins their morals, and unfits them for honest industry. It burdens the community, by com- pelling it to furnish liquor-sellers and their families with the necessaries and luxuries of life without returning any equivalent therefor. It multiplies paupers, maniacs, and criminals. It increases taxation, and endangers the security of life and property. It furnishes a place of resort for idle and vicious persons^ perils the peace and quiet of neighborhoods, and furnishes schools of vice for the young. It fosters habits of indolence and extrava- gance both on the part of the vendor and his victim. It leads men into temptation, and thus destroys many who would other* wise be sober and virtuf)us citizens. In short, tj^ere is no vice that it does not foster, and no crime that it does not promote. Dishonesty of the Traffi.c. Again, the traffic is necessarily dishonest. It takes money and property without returning any equivalent, furnishes what is absolutely worthless, nay more, what is positively hurtful and poisonous; ^ It is nigtHJ^^or no person can sell liquor without being-a burden to the^community. It brings overwhelming and number- less calai|iHies upon a community, without a single countervailing benefit. ' ' \ Your Connection with the''Traffi,c. You are in partnership in the business. It is not enough that the venders of the poisQ^ sb^d be ruined in property, morals, and life — it is not enough, thatttchools of vige, idleness, and crime, should be located in every city, village, an'd hamlet — it is not enough, that dishonesty and injustice should goUnrebukcd — it is not enough, that almshouses and prisons should be crowded with citizens, victimized by the unhallowed ^ffic — it is not enough, that the physical, intellectual, and moral powers of men, thould be destrpye4r^that disease, poverty, misery, and death, in ^ IS ed lOt sn, in APPEAL. 205 1 their most terrific forms, should be spread through our land — bnfb tho agents of all this mischief require and receive at your hau'js your license and protection. They pay a pittance into your trea- sury, of their ill-gotten gold, and thus the partnership is complete. In all our public and private walks, you have stationed your sen- tinels, to watch for victims. " He sitteth in the lurking-places of our villages ; in the secret places doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are privily set against the poor. He lieth in wait, secretly as a lion in his den; he lieth in wait to catch the poor." And you, people of Canada, (hear the unwelcome truth,) Judas-like^ stand by and say to these your minions, " What will ye give, and we will betray the innocent into your hands ? " Were you living under the dominion of a despot, whose ^ord was law, you woi^d not be responsible for this alliance of govern- ment with the grog-shops ; but your legislators and judges are your own servants, and for their actions you are accountable. If a family is beggared, robbed, or murdered, by the traffic in strong drink, the bonys given for the privilege is in your treasury. Every farthing thus received by you is tho price of blood ! Every > tear wrung from wretched wives and helpless children — every J dying groan of the wild and infuriate druulardfrf every family ^^^ altar desolated — every stain of this moral leprosy, which has marked society with spotR, redder, more indelible, and infectious, than ever polluted the house of Israel — ^all these, and all other untold and indescribable evils of tho traffic, are authorized and sanctioned by your laws I The Remedy to he Ap^ed. Bepeal every ]fi% that licenses, or sanctions, or protects, the vender of into^cating beverages. The despotism that originated this abominable system of indulgence, and every gov^MKuent, free or^despotic, that has adopted it, have assumed a prerogative that no power in heavCT, earth, or hell, can claim to exercise. ISociety 1^ may be impotent to punish, but it never can license a wrong. Is the sale of intoxicating beverages a kicked business ? Does it THE TISTOTALBE'S HAND-BOOK. oorrupt our yoatb, ? Does it wasto property ? Does it iinpai|p health? Does it destroy reputation? Does it endanger life? If so — ^what goyemment can license or protect the traffic, without downright injustice, without absolute oppression ? Every subject has a right to demand protection for his property, health, reputar tion, and life. Experience proves that all are in fearful peril in a land of grogshops. Dmolve your Partnership with the Trajic. If our children, our property, our friends — if all that wehold dear — must be sacrificed to fires more cruel, more deadly, than were ever kindled at the funeral pile of Pagans, in the name of humanity and humanity's God, let the partnership between you and the workers of this iniquity be dissolved. The Traffic must he Branded as Criminal. . Another thing which we think imperatively demanded, is, to. declare the traffic in intoxicating beverages a crime, and punidi it as such. If all the evils to which we have referred result from this business, what crime recognized by our statute compares with it for turpitude : * We are aware that universal custom has sanc- tioned the practice, but this furnishes no reason why it should not be stripped of its legal robes, and branded as we brand other vices, with the seal of infamy. The African slave trade was once not only recognized as a lawful trade, but the guilty thieves who stole negroes from the coast of Africa were many of them church mem- bers ; now they are hung up as pirates. The long standing of any business, or the respectability of the actors, can never sanctify a crime. You have laws to punish the thief,* ihe highwayman, and the murderer — ^you have even provided a punishment for the petty gambliSr, the profane swearer, and the Sabbath breaker — ^yet for i\\^ crime of liquor selling, which necessarily and universally results in profanity. Sabbath breaking, ana gambling — which directly incites to most of our murders, arsons, robberies, and thefts, — ^you have fixed no penalty, but have even licensed "ffood APflAL. m mornl men " to perpetrate it with impanity. Either repeal joib laws making murder and robbery a crime, or punish the ereatura who nerves the robber's arm, and whets the murderer's knife. The Humaeller must be Punithed as a Criminal, , People of Canada ! would you throw a protection around the sanctuary of home — would you have your sons and your daughtem shielded from the desolating scourge — transform society : empty your lazar houses, and open the " prison doors to those who are bound ? " If this be your desire, you must seal up the fountain whence flows the blighting and desolating flood. You must declare that the vile panderer to degrading passion shall be cut off from all fellowship with reputable society. You must consign the incorrigible rumscUers to the prisons now occupied by their ruined victims. It is our flrm conviction that the dark flood of evils growing out of intemperance will never be averted until liquor vending be declared a misdemeanor, and those who bid defiance to moral appliances be punished as other culprits who rob the oommun;!^ of property and life. In the progress of the temperance reforai, the power of moral suasion has been ineffectual upon those who are engaged in the murderous traffic. Moral Appliances alone Cannot Arrest the Traffic. The miserable drunkard, the heart-broken wife, the ragged and starving child, have all made their touching and eloquent appeals. Alms-houses and prisons, crowded with wretched inmates, have sent forth their piteous tales. A countless company of liquor sellers, ruined in body, estate, and reputation, have lifted their voice of warning ; and, that the whole earth might know the wick- edness and the blighting and damning nature of their business, God has uttered hi<^ voice, and pronounced a woe upon him who dares to put the bottle to his neighbor's lips. The voice of the majority has in some places been heard through the ballot-box, but with like results. A large and powerful Guerilla handy " armed 208 TBI TBBTOTALBE S BAMD-BOOK. and equipped as the law diraote," still make war upon us, without pity — visiting their death>blows, without mercy, upon every age, sex, and condition. Our Potition i» Right and thould be Maintained. We know that we are taking an advanced and high position ; but if it be ttae, why not occupy it ? — why not assume a battle ground from which you cannot be driven, while God's moral government endures ? Here you may deal blows upor your enemy that must sooner or later overthrow him. Petition the Legislature. Petition the Legislature, again and again, to abolish all laws r^ulating the sale of liquor, and to incorporate the traffic among its kindred crimes of theft, arson, robbery, and murder. Let there be harmony of sentiment and unity of action among the friends of tem- perance, and the day of deliverance shall be hastened. Be calm, but resolute — patient, but untiring — kind, but comprehensive — zealous, faithful, and constant — and soon, by the terrors of the law, you will persuade those men who cannot be reached by moral means, to abandon the inhuman and bloody traffic. Amen I I a.. / • at ral my aw8 ;it8 9 be em- ilm, e — the ^ral PART THIRD. . THE TEETOTALER'S HAND-BOOK. POETRY, SONGS, AND HYMNS. CONVIVIAL BANQUETS. By Itn. BAtFOUH. Ob I subtle Falsehood, what a wide dark realir, Amid this rash abd erritig world, is thine ; What dreary mists too oft the mind o'erwhelm, What idols desecrate fair reason's shrine : Oh, for a glorious ray of troth divine To dissipate the gloom that frowns around 1 A light in wisdom's crystal lamp to shine, To show the pitfalls in life's treacherous ground, And scare the wanderer fVom sin's gulf profound. Alast Temptation, with its meteor glare, Bred of foul vapours, lures the thoughtless tread ; False Pleasure, smiling, weaves her flowery snare, Her choicest wreaths are round the wine-cup spread ; While erring Qenius, each pure impulse fled, Lures folly with its sweet pernicious song, The maey labyrinth of guilt to tread. And strives the vain delusion to prolong, Telling of joys that to such course belong. " Oh, son of earth i " exclaims the tempter's voice, *' Come quaflf the draught that soothes the brow of care ; Drink of the sparkling wine-cup, and rejoice I Let cautious grove'ling dullards cry, — ' beware I * Life is a burthen none can gaily bear But those who oft partake the generous flow That streams redundant o'er the banquet fair ; Then, then, the spirits mount in radiant glow, And kindred hearts convivial pleasures know." n tio TBI TBITOTALlE'f BAMD-BOOK. Oh, lilt not to " tht chftrmtr'a " ajren tong, It ii not " Wiielj" that she cbanni thine ear) J07, virtue, peace, to temperance belong — Read hiitory'i page, with ecrutiny levere. And, ielf-abased, impartial truth revere : — Then aaj, what etrife, and cruelty abhorr'd, What foul impiety, what deeds of guilt and fear, What lying arts, with fiend-like malice stor'd, Men have devised when o'er the festive board t \\ Bclsbazzar's impious feast fl-om heaven drew down The written doom, the stern emblazon'd sign. Dark o'er the banquet lowered the avenging frown, The awful sentence of the Power Divine t And was it not o'er flowing bowls of wine. When (as some say) the kindly feelings spread, That vile Uerodias planned her foul deaigu, , And Justice, reason, policy, all fled, Asked and obtained the Baptist's sacred head ? The Macedonian hero gained a world, Wido-sproading conquest on his arms attend— Where'er his dreaded "phalanx" vengeance hurled. The stricken foe beneath his yoke must bend. Yet, though he gained a world, he could not keep a friend j But, mad and murderous o'er his genial wine. Behold earth's mighty conqueror descend To filthy brawls, and grovelling'sink supine, Imbrutcd by the draught some call divine. " In vino veritat I " Oh, specious lie ; Think of the poisoned bowl, the goblet dread, Where subtle drugs in wine lurked covertly. How oft has foul deceit the banquet spread, And lured the victim to his last low bed. Truth dwell in wine ? Faith in the drunkard's ban 7 Answer, old Time, from records Of the dead, — " Truth is the soul of nature's faultless plan, Wine is the frail, false, erring work of man I " u T POITBT, tOKOa, AMD aTMIM. 811 w INTEMPBRAMCl. ' I Mk not for % poot'i dribo, Or Unrelf ftrom the wreath of fWmo ; I loar to rtaoh no fabled height, To tell of thing! which ne'er had light ; I oomt not with % loftj theme, A gaody tale, or fancy's dream ; My only mnit is itudiooa thoaght, I ipeak but what experience taaght ; And all I crate It power to show What lorrowf from the goblet flow; What pain and grief, diieaae and shame, Are hidden in its liquid flame ; What pallid cheeks, and blood-shot eyes, And orphans' tears, and widows' sighs ; What broken hearts, what waot and fear, Have found a lineal birth-place here ; Within that cup there Inrks a foe, A fiend who fills onr land with woe, A traitor to the human race, Who only shows a rosy face, But hides beneath that treacherous guise The source where floods of sorrow rise ; And men, for sake of paltry gain. Hare listed In this demon's train, And lie like spiders in their den, With web, to trap their fellow-meo. Yes, they who hare the drunkard made, And still pursue the baneful trade, Who still the liquid fires display, And ftreely sell, in open day, With each device they weare a charro. Persuade the cup contains no harm : 'Tis but a Julap, punch, or sling, A rery pleasant, harmless thing ; But ye who lift the cup, beware. An adder's sting is hidden there , They surely know, and know it well, u 212 TRK TSCTOTALER'S HAND-BOOK. " ■ k: 'Tis liquid poison that tliey sell ; 'Tis man's bane, 'tis misery's worm. Why call it by a milder term ? A' rose is said to smell the same If called by any other name ; By this same rule, a poison will. Whatever called, be poison still. Oh, is it not enough to bear The ills to which the flesh is heir, Without the aid of poison's breath ■ To strew oar land with crime and death ; Is there not power in human laws That punish crime to stop this cause ? Is there no power can stop this flood, No\T»T| aONOa, AUD STMMW. 2IIL \\ r, let UB ■ >»■ iKi "s ■ . ?*^ Venre-enfoebler, tyftem-shatterer, Thint-increaser, vagraat thief; €oagh-prodacer, treacherou flattarw, Mud-bedauber, mock relief. Businesfl-hinderer, spleen-inatiUer, Woe-begetter, friendship^B bane:; Jlnger-heater, Bridewell-filler, Debt-iuYolver, toper's cbain. Memory-drowner, honor-wrecker, Jadgment- warper, blue-face quack; Feud-beginner, rags-bedecker, Strife-enkindler, fortune's wreck. tSnmmer's cooler, winter's warmer. Blood-polluter, specious snare ; Hob-coTIector, man-transformer, Bond-nndoer, gambler's fare. 8peech-bewrangler, headlong-bringer, Vitals-burner, deadly fire ; Eiot-mover, fire-brand flinger, Discord-kindler, misery's sire. Sinews-robber, worth-depriver, Strength-subduer, hideous foe^ Reason-tbwarter, fraud-contrivet, Money-waster, nation's woel Vile seducer, joy-dispeller, Peace-disturber, blackguard guest:; Sloth- implanter, llver-sweller, Brain-distracter, hatefU pest tJtterance-boggler, stench-emitter. Strong-man sprawler, fatal drop:; Tumult-raiser, venom-spitter, Wrath-inspirer, coward's prop. Fain-inflicter, eyes-inflamer, Heart-corrnpter, folly's nurse ^ €ecret-babbler, body-maimer, Thrifik-defeater, loathsome ^crae. r ^.k n4^ TBI TBBTOTALIB'8 BAMIVBOOX. WitndMtroyer, joy-impairer, Scandal-dealer, foul-mouthed leourge ; Senses-blunter, yonth-ensnarer, Crime-inyentor, ruin's verge. Yirtne-blaster, base deceiTer, Spite-displayer, sot's delight ; Noise-exciter, stomach-heaver, Falsehood-spreader, scorpion's bite. ' Quarrel-plotter, rage-discharger. Giant conqueror, wasteful sway, Chin-carbuncler, tongne-enlarger, Malice-venter, death's broad way. Tempest-scatterer, windows-smasher, Death-forerunner, hell's dire brink ; Ravenous murderer, windpipe-slasher, — Drunkard's lodging, meat, and drink I 4>t 'i,j(»'i"i^ ^ ■ TEMPERANCE. I : The glad so«nd of Temp'rance is echoed afar. The breezes have borne the glad tidings abroad ; The light that is beaming from virtue's bright star Is chasing the darkness from sorrow's abode. The wastes of the desert In verdure appear. With rich blooming fragrance perfuming the air ; The mountains are sinking, the valleys arise. And earth is becoming the joy of the skies. The glad sound of Temperance is echoed afar, And converts out-number the drops of the mora ; Loud songs of rejoicing are borne through the air. From regions long wasted, despised, and forlorn. Now millions awakening receive the glad word. And outcasts reforming, retdrn to the Lord ; The earth and the sea shall be cleansed from the stain. And Temperance triumphant for ever shall reign. »OmiT, JONGS, AND BT11N& ' ' CONFESSION AND APPEAL OF A REFORMED DRUNKARD. Too often, alas ! bad I taken the bowl Whose draughts bring destraction to body and soul ; My blood was on fire, and scorched was my brain, Yet I still went on tasting, and tasting again, Till, day after day, I had warning, poor slave, That this frail shattered frame must soon sink to the grare, Unless I abandoned that dark, dismal path Which leads on to ruin the children of wrath. Then the Lord, in his mercy, gave strength to my heart, And I cried to the fire-fiend, " Destroyer, depart 1 " And I dashed down the goblet that once was so sweet. And the idol lay, shivered and spurned, at my feet. No longer the victim of shame and despair, I breathe as a freeman in Heaven's pure air. And partake of the blessings which God has bestowed With a bounteous hand on our earthly abode. The Vulture which preyed on Prometheus' heart * Gould never an agony keener impart, Than the harpy of drunkenness, when it destroys. With fierce hellish talons, our hopes and our joys. Arise i lie not prostrate — arise ! and be brave- Shake off^ as the snow-flake, the chain of the slave- Stand forth in your manhood, and let the world know You have come out heroic and conquered the foe. ^. .i&jvs-ri T, TEMPERATE DRINEINO. f.l " 'Tib but a drop," the father said, And gave it to his son ; But little did he think a work Of death was then begun. The " drop " that lured him when the bab« Scarce lisped his father's name. Planted a fatal appetite Deep in his infant frame. ni THV VnVOTALU'9 8A1I|>-»00K. 1^ " 'T\b bat a drop,'* the comrades cried, In traant school-boy tone ; " It did not hurt ns in our robei, It will not now we're grown." And 80 they drank the mixture up, That reeling, yoathfal band ; For each had learned to lore the tastCi From hia own father's hand. " 'Tis but a drop," the husband said, While his poor wife stood by, In f&mine, grief, and loneliness, And raised th' imploring cry. » 'Tis but a drop,— I'll drink it still— 'Twill neyer injure me ; I always drank — so, madam, hush i We never can agree." " 'Tis but a drop,— I need it now," The staggering drunkard said ; " It was my food in infancy-^- ' My meat, and drink, and bread. A drop — a drop — 0, let me have, 'Twill so refresh my soul I " He took it — ^trembled— drank— and died, Grasping the fatal bowl. INTTiMPERANCE. By Miss SiGOUBNET. Parent I — ^who, with speechless feeling, O'er thy cradled treasure bent, Every year new claims revealing, Yet thy wealth of love unspent,— Bast thou seen that blossom blighted By a keen untimely frOst ? All thy labour unrequited ? Every glorious promise lost 7 pOETiir, soifos, AMD RtmrB. _ « Wife t — with agony nnspoken, Shriaking from affliction's rod, Is thy prop, thine idol broken,— Fondly trasted, — next to God 7 Hasband I— o'er thy hope a moamer, Of thy chosen friend ashamed, Hast thou to her burial borne her, Unrepented, — unreclaimed T Child I — in tender weakness turning To thy heayen-appointed guide, Doth a lava-poison burning. Tinge with gall a£fectioas tide? Till that orphan burden bearing. Darker than the grave can show. Dost thou bow thee down despairing, To a hermitage of woe ? Country I — on thy sons depending, Strong in manhood, bright in bloom. Hast thou seen thy pride descending Shrouded, — to th' unhonored tomb ? Rise t — on eagle-pinion soaring, — Rise ! — like one of God-like birth. And, Jehovah's aid imploring. Sweep the spoiler from the earth I 417 TRY, JOBN. Try, John ; try, John : from temptation fly, John ; Drunken Joe and idle Ned — pass such comrades by, John. Shun the tempting tavern door. Set not foot within, John ; Each old chum avoid, though dear. That would lure to sin, John. Every thing and every place That tends to lead astray, John, Give them up, renounce them all, From this very day, John. 218 THx teitotalir's hand-book. ^ Try, John ; try, John : I will tell yon why, John,-— ^^ He who fights 'gainst what is bad, will conquer by-snd-bye, Joha. If with all your powers you strive With your habits wrong, John, While they daily weaker grow, Tou will grow more strong, John. % What if shopmates jest and scoff :i Because you hate the sin, John, ,,_ ■: ' Surely, if they laugh that lose, They may smile that win, John. Try, John ; try, John : wherefore do you sigh, John ? " I'm afraid I shan't succeed " — is this what yon reply, John ? Nonsense, man — such coward fear Never won a fight, John ; Let'Ej have faith and courage too, . ,^;^ In what is true and right, John. Lilce the little barking curs ji That love to snarl und scold, John, Evil habits soon. will fly When we're stern and bold, John. ' Try, John ; try, John : think, in days gone by, John, Habits have been conquered vile as those o'er which you sigh, John. How this Idle loon became t«cs". n.^ An energetic man, John ; _ How that hoary, hopeless sot , > Loathed the pipe and pot, John — '* Mark their upward histories well, ,. _^ Histories stern and true, Jolm, ' Teaching you^what you may be, How you may dare and do, John. Try, John ; try, John : look with faith on High, John : You've a Father and a Friend, mighty, loving, nigh, John. ' Qo and tell him you repent Of your evil ways, John ; Pray for help and strength to live Happier, holier days, John. Prayer and effort — this, combined, ' ' ' All success ensures, John ; And, with joy and peace of mind, Victory shall be yours, John. ■I roha. ' .&?:•*- )v. , John. .rtv'i-vi ' ^r'-^.-^/7- ,;,,:, .r '>■: POBTRT, BONOS,. AMD BTMMg. THE DRUNKARD'S HOME. The Drunkard's home I what words e«n show The scenes of misery there ? What mind conceive, what heart can know, Save those compelled to share ? Th' abode of wickedness complete, Whence every comfort's fled — Where want, disease, and ruin meet. And every hope is dead 1 The Drunkard's home 1 more cheerless far Than ever convict's cell, With gianite walls and iron ban. For guilty ones to dwell. The Drunkard's home 1 that barren wast«, That desert of the soul I Without one greeH oasis graced, Where streams of comfort roll : Stricken as by the simoon's blast, All bliss is prostrate laid ; And Pity, weeping, stands aghast To see the ruin mad«. The Drunkard's home 1 the rock-girt strand Where L ^nour, shipwrecked, lies ; The den where Murder dyes his hand, Where Virtue, poisoned, dies I Where Vice spreads round its filthy slime, Where Falsehood forms her lair. The haunt of Infamy and Grime, Of Madness and Despair! The Drunkard's home ! Ye generous youth. Yet from Intemperance free. Attend the warning voice of truth, And from the poison flee I Touch not the cup of liquid fire, Beware of habit's chain ; Quench the first spark of wild desire, And spurn the damning bane 1 290 TBI TSITOTALIB^S HAND-BOOK. THE DRUNKARD'S WIFE. Cold, bitter cold ! no rosj gleam to light the dreary room, No sparkling blaze, with cheerful ray, to smile away the gloom ; And through the broken pane the wind comes fiercely shiieking io, It blowB upon my baby's face, so very pale and thin. Sleep on, sleep on, my pretty child, upon thy mother's breagt, She loves to feel thy pallid cheek above her bosom pressed : Bnt on thy little upturn'd face her tears fall fast and wild, Ah I baby, 'tis a fearful thing to be a drunkard's child. All drearily the midnight hours are slowly gliding by, The snow is falling thick and fast, the wind is bleak and high ; I sit and listen for his step ; but oh I 'tis all in vain, I only bear the angry storm that beats upon the pane. <» My lonely heart, my aching heart, no joy, no comfort now, A weary weight of care and woe hath fallen on my brow ; That brow, a few short years ago, so lit with hopeful light, Not dreaming that so soon the day must darken into night. The past comes sliding back : I stand by his brave loving side, He takes my trembling hand in his, and proudly calls me " bride"; I meet his dark and glorious eye, I hear his thrilling tone, And oh I the joy, the bliss to know his heart is all my own. Sad, sad that o'er so bright a sky the dreary clouds must come. That shadows dark should softly glide, and gather round our home : That loves so strong, so true, should change, even for our pretty child ; But oh I the tempter lured him on, the wine-cup drove him wild. I hear his step : he comes ; he comes ; he enters at the door: Be still my heart ! what tho' the years of joy and hope are o'er, Oh, try to greet him with a smile, as in the days of yore. Thy love for him, still, still thou hast, though his may be no more. No more ! no more I his love doth live, I know it could not die, 'Tis true it is not like tha love of blissful days gone by; But oh I the fearful maddening cup, 'tis that hath hid the flame In that poor heart, so fallen now, so darkened o'er with shame I But oh ! the yearning, strong and wild,.for but one loving word, A single tone of other days . 'tis vain, no fount is stirred In that drear heart where I have poured my hope, my love, my life; Oh I who can tell the fearful gloom that shrouds the drunkard's wife I ]?0ITR7, SOKOt, AMD. liXKMI. 2ai WHEN IS THE TIME 10 SIGN I ;»n. f de"; ome: hild; d. ^W|^: ore. life; ■wife I I aiked a blooming sportive hoy, Will yon come now and ligo, Health beams witliia thy glist'ning eye, this is the golden time ; But no, he cried, and shoolc his head, now is the time for play; I cannot, will not yet, he said, then bounded on his way. I askod him when a youth ; bat then he stopped me with alarm ; Nay, leave the pledge for grave old men, a drop can do no harm ; Youth is the time, for mirth and joy, I'll live thus while I can ; Your sober scheme perchance Til try when I am quite a man. I asked a man of middle age, how gleamed his fiery eye ? Snch fearful signs bis ft-ame betrayed, they gave a full reply ; For many years had firmly fixed the tyrant's iron chain ; His all for drink he'd madly risk, to ask him now were vain. I questioned next iin aged man, a miserable form, His course of life had nearly run, each short-lived pleasure gone; Alas, he cried, in accents wild, with anguish on his brow, Would I had signed it when a child: I cannot do it now. ' COME, YOUNG ABSTAINERS. TcNB— " Gentle Zetdla." Gome, young abstainers, we on yon do call, For while we are able there's work for us all : Let this be our motto, and by it stand true, <* While we live let us try what good we can do." Then come, young abstainers, &c. Intemp'rance the plague of our country has been, Its victims in city and village are seen : Who then can stand idle, such misery view. And never once think there is something to do. Then come, young abstainers, &c. United, and boldly together, we'll stand. And soon shall intemp'rance be banished our land : Then peaceful and happy our homes they shftU be, And sweetly we'll sing the songs of the free. H* Then conte, yoang abstainers, &c. TBI thzotalu'i hamd-book. WB TEMPERANOB OHIELS. ^CNE— " For a' that u a' that" We temperance chiels are tme and leal, Yet ne'er get fon for a' that ; We lip nae draps, frae tippling caps, 0' beer, an' wine, an' a' that An' a' that, an' a' that, The mountain dew^ an' a' that ; We'll len' them far firae Scotia's shore, Nor let them back for a' that It Ung was said, without their aid, We're stupid, sad, an' a' that ; But now I see, we blyihe can be, And vever taste for a' that, For a' that, an a' that, G|m laugh an' sing, an' a' that ; Can crack an' joke like e< b«r folk. Nor feel remorse, for a' Uiat. ,,■ ' " Ye hardj sons of Caledon,' , , Assert your rights for a' that ; From vice refirain, from drink abstain, An' freemen be, for a' that. For a' that, an' a' that, Plead virtue's cause, an' a' that ; ^^4,^^ The pledge come sign, an' wi' us join, We'll do you good, for a' that. ;.vf M- TO TEE LASSES. Ant—" Here's a Health." ,-'J'^'«( jj. Take our thanks, teetotal lasses, Take them cheerily; peace turpanet All the drunkard's noise profane. May you live a life of .gladness, Without Borrow, without sadness ; Every bosom* loves your reign. . NiTBT, loiiot, Am) ■mm. TBMPBRANOB IS A MOBLB PLAN. TvKi-^' This ii no my tin laarie." temp'rance ii ft noble plan, It makes us bljrtbe and happy 0, We shun the cares, and a' the snares, 0' them that taste the drapple, 0. come, our voices let as raise Against our country's greatest foe, ^v And let us advocate our cause. And by example we shall show That temp'rance, fto. We'll try the drunkard to reclaim, , ,^,i ,<,,,, And make him stand erect and free. For if from strong drink he'll abstain, We know that he Will happy be ; For temp'rance, &c. There's many drunkards in onr land Who might be free from care and woe. Had they but known in early life . The blessings that our cause bestow ; Ice. Then parents, come, adopt our plan, i « And teach your children to abstain ; For what you sow in early life. In after years you're sure to gain ; ke. Oome, children, sign the temp'rance pledge, And firmly set it in your mind ; And when you reach maturer years. You'll prove a blessing to mankind ; Ac. ►* A SLAVE TO THE BOTTLE, nv TcNB—" Contented wi' little." Contented I live in my anld minny's cot, And peace is a fiower that I nurse near the spot ; Of fond true love oflTers I've had twa or three~ But a Slave to the Bottle will never wed me. nni suTosAUoi^s* RAm»«ooK. ITe nay laj he «dorei ve, wae'i me Mid elu I What lore can he gi'fl| when ita a' in the glass, For house, wife, or wee anes, he'll care na' a flee— • 0, a Slave to the Bottle will never get me. 0, he thinks it nae sin to sit drinking a' night, To come staggering hame in the face o' daylight ; A' tattered and battered, no worth a bawbee— O, a Slave to the Bottle will never get me. What a contrast he is to the douce sober man, TVba lives in accordance wi' nature's first plan I Wi' health on his cheek, and true love in his e'e— • 0, a Slave to the Bottle will never wed me. Now ilk lassie wha langs to be ca'd a gnidwife, Let a douce sober chiel be your partner through life; E'en take mj advice, tis the best I can gi'e — For a Slave to the Bottle will never wed me. ,««'< THE MIGHT WITH THE RIGHT. May ev'ry year but draw more near The time when the strife shall cease, And truth and love all hearts shall move To live in joy and peace. Now sorrow reigns, and earth complains, -** For folly still her power maintains : But the day shall yet appear When the might with the right and the truth shall be; And, come what there may to stand in the way, That day the world shall see. Let good men ne'er of truth despair, *' Though humble efiforts fail ; 0! give not o'er until once more The righteous cause prevail. ir In vain, and long, enduring wrong, The weak may strive against the strongir But the day, fto. -^ if hJ wownmt'f nonoBj and ancNi; Tbough laUrMt plMtto that noU« dtadi Tb« world will not regard, To noble mindtk that duty bindf, No Mcriflce ii bard. The brave and true may leem but few, But hope hai better tbings in view— > And tbe day, kc. TRB TBBfPBRANOB TRUMPBT. Tcwa--" Mercy'e flree." Harl( I hark i the temperance trumpet*! sounding : Oome and sign ; come and sign ; Our glorious cause is still abounding ; Gome and sign ; come and sign. Thousands have heard the joyful sound : They've signed the pledge, and since have found Abstinence is the surest ground ; Gome and sign ; come and sign. We oall on all professing Christians, Gome and sign ; come and sign ; We'll put to flight the great Philistines, If you'll sign ; if you'll sign. The victory's ours, if you will fight; The landlords all we'll put to flight, And gaze upon the glorious sight, Ifyou'U sign; if you'll sign. * We call on every little-drop man, Gome and sign ; come and sign ; We cry to every drunkard, stop man, Gome and sign ; come and sign^ Give, give your names, at once abstam; Teetotalism will clear the brain, 'Twill free you from contempt and shame. If you'U sign; if you'll sign. 226 TRB TUTOTALIr'S HAHS^BOOK. il. tEMPERANOB OHAMPION. An—" With a helmet on his brow." Wake I Temperance warriors wake f Attend th' inebriates cry ; Tour country calls, yoar honor stake, Up 1 on to victory ! Intemperance, your foe, Exults in misery I * Will you not stay the spreading woe 7 . Then " On to victory I " Chorui — Let the Temperance trumpet sound, And Abstinence reply, Teetotalers must with honor Uve, '' And then with honor die I Yes i we will no^ combine To crush the giant pow'r; . "■'■* Kind Providence will on us shine When fierce temptations lower. Ours is a noble cause, ^' Heav'n is our chief ally; Angels will crown us with applause, Gome " On to victory I " Chorm — ^Let the Temperance, Sic. ' •a;iUi'3i3 :'i ''f*<^1^' H't K ■.>!fSiWfh •i -n ! ) DESERT THE SPARKLING WINE. An—" The gay Guitar." , , if* s- ^ leave the Bacchanalian scene, The poison'd flowing bowl ; ' And come with me where joys serene Compose the " flow of soul I " Come where fair Temperance sheds her ray, Where hope's mild lustre shines; I'll shew thee on this festive day How w« oittom from wines I > y POITET, lOMOB, AMD HTMNfl. 227 r I'll tell tbee of the happy hours Which light life's deepest gloom, I'll lead thee to the beaateons bowers Where health and honor bloom I I'll shew thee the illustrioas way Where natnre's glories shine; I'll bid thee, on this happy day, Dttert the sparkling wine I mt- AXTLD LANG STNB. ^**> Can abstinence be now forgot, ''^\ And never brought to mind ? Can abstinence be now forgot. And mercy to mankind ? With all that's true and kind, my dear. With Areemen true and kind, We'll join the ranks of abstinence. And blessings on mankind. So here's a hand, my smiling friend. And gie's a hand of thine. We'll pledge ourselves to abstinence. And mercy to mankind ; And mercy to mankind, my friend, And freedom from the chain Of Drunkenness ; and Abstinence Shall have an endless reign. Let abstinence be ne'er forgot. But ever brought to mind. Till ev'ry wretched drunken sot Our safety boat does find. And then we'll pull our safety boat With long oars to the shore. And, firm on rock of abstinence, W«'U sail on drink no more. I ' 9%^ vm, TMiif(ysAvn>\ k^d-sook. OOME AND SIGN. Air— " Bright Canaan." ' Come, mj lads, the pledge to sign, Let us all together join To drink the grog no more, „ (\ that will be joyful, ' ■ Joyful, joyful, joyful, * I that will be joyful, When we drink the grog no more. ,1 Moderate drinkers too should come, J.* Now give up the wine and rum, „, And brandy all their store. Working men, you need not fear, I Give ^p all your ale and beer, Your comforts will be more. Drunkards too, we all invite, " To come and sign the pledge to-night, , ^V'M ^Qj j^Qi get drunk once more. ALL'S WELL. Deserted by my dearest friends. Strong drink despair and sorrow sends ; O'er children, wife, and lowly cot, There hangs a sad and threatening lot. Hark, hark, some footsteps hither stray, But joys can't soothe the drunkard's day. Is there hope ? stranger quickly tell : Abstain, repent, believe — All's well. Now listed in the temp'rance band. With drunken sots on every hand. Our watchful guard explores th.e lanes To snatch the slave from Satan's chains. And oft he hears the cheering voice From homes reformed, wbere all rejoice. What cheer? neighbours quickly tell : Abstain'd, believ'd, Christ died— All's well. POETRY, BONGS, AND HTMNS. THERE'S NAB LUCK ABOUT THE HOUSE. •>> ' And are ye sure the news is true. And are ye sure he's signed 7 I can't believe the joyful tale, And leave my fears behind. If John has signed and drinks no more, The happiest wife am I That ever swept a cottage hearth Or snng % loUaby. For there's nae lack abont the honie, There's been nae luck at a'. And gane's the comfort o' the house, Since he to drink did fa'. Whose eye so kind, whose hand so strong, Whose love so true will shine, If he have bent his heart and hand The total pledge to sign. But what puts breaking in my head ? I trust he'll taste no more ; Be still, be still, my beating heart. Hark I hark I he's at the door. For there's nae luck, &c. And blessings on the helping hands ' That send him back to mc. Haste, haste, ye little ones, and run Your father's face to see. And are you sure, my John, you've signed 7 And are you sure 'iU past; Then mine's the happiest, brightest home On England's shores at last ! There's been nae luck abont the house. But now 'tis comfort a' ! And heaven preserve my ain gudeman That he may never fa' t ) » in TISTOTALIR'S HAND-BOOK. SOBRIBTrS PRAISE. A»— " Tho Canadian Boat Song." LoTely B8 beams the cheerful raj Which gilds the distant ocean spray, Our social compan/ appears, Stript of the eaute of sorrow's tears t Then brothers come I the song upraise ; And carol with J07 fair Sobriety's praise. Hark I how the gently pealing chime, With our united songs keeps time 1 To heav'n our blending tones shall tend, For drunkards now have found a friend I Then brothers come I the song upraise ; And f arol with joy fair Sobriety's praise I No more need the inebriate sigh Because no friendly hand is nigh ; 1 Here we defy the syren's wiles, For abstinence disarms her smiles I Then pledg'd ones all, the song upraise, And carol with joy fair Sobriety's praise I ABSTINENCE ROOK. AiB— >" In my Cottage near a Wood.** Rock of abstinence rear'd for me, Let me rest myself on thee, Till this scene of sin ia o'er. Till Tile habits are no more, Till the soul-seducing spell, Scar'd from earth, retreats to hell. Rock of abstinence rear'd for me, Let me rest myself on thee. Mount of temperance, let me rest 'Neath the shadow of thy crest : Lest I still unwary, yield To my enemy the field ; Lest, whilst trembling in despair. Sin beguiles me in its snare. Rock of abstinence, &c. FOITBT, BONO!, AND BTMNi. the mlierj tbat appears, Where lad sorrow sheds her tears ; Where the vinous draught inspires Millions of unhallowed fires ) Where in furious rage they blend To secure a fiend-like end. Rock of abstinence, kc. Sons of virtue now combine, In a sacred phalanx join ; Orush by a determined blow, Intemperance, your mighty foe : Let the world your banner see, 'Tis the fiag of victory. Book of abstinence, &c. 281 TEMPERANOB ANTHEM. Aia— " God save the Queen.*' Since time its course began. Mortals ne'er found a plan Like temperance. Tee-total, now we'll raise. Worthy of highest praise. Protect us all our days. Blest temperance. No brandy will we take. We'll rum and gin forsake, Whiskey despise. No more fermented wine, Nor home-brew'd ale so fine, Or jerry fit for swine, Shall dim our eyes. Drinkers t tee-total try. Lay jugs and glasses by. Reform begin. Tour wives will bless the day, Your children for you pray, When at your home yon stay. Sober and clean. it 282 THl TIITOTALIR'S HAND-BOOK. Join the abstaining band, With them walk hand in hand, At liberty. Intemperance soon shall die, Distress before you fly, Oppression prostrate lie. And all be free. "I LOVE A LITTLE SUP." The temperance cause, I wish it well, It pries, '' to help come up" ; Help, you that choose, but for myself, I love a little tup. > / The noble effort I approve, And ever cry it up; ' But I'll not sign the pledge, because / love a little sup. , The doctor says, " It hastens death, And why not quit the cup ? " And so I would, but — I know why : / love a little tup. The preacher urges next, '' 'Tis sinj And shames the church " ; give up t My secret plea is stronger yet : / love a little sup. All argument I can out-brave That bids '* the pledge take up " ; This one is proof against their force, / love a little sup. Tho' groans, and blood; and death, and hell. All cry, " Forsake the cup I " I know 'twere best, but then — but then — I love a little tup. lOlTBT, 80ira«, Aia> BTMNa. 238 I'M NOT TO BLAMB. Ob, pity me, lady, I'm hvngry and cold ; Should I all my sorrows to you unfold, I'm sure your kind breast with compassion wonid flame : My father's a drunkard ; but I'm not to blame. My mother's consumptive, and soon will depart : Her sorrows and trials have broken her heart ; My poor little sisters are starving I oh shame ! Our father's a drunkard ; but we're not to blame. Time was we were happy, with plenty and peace, And every day saw our pleasures increase ; Oh, then with what kindness we'd lisp forth his name ; But now he's a drunkard ; yet we^re not to blame. Time was when each morning around the fireside, . Our sire in the midst like a saint would preside, And kneel, and for blessings would call on Qod's name ; But now he's a drunkard ; but we're not to blame. Our father then loved us, and all was delight Until he partook of this withering blight, And sunk his poor family in misery and shame : Oh yes, he's a drunkard ; btU wire not to blame. My poor dying mother, must she feel the scorn ? Must she be forsaken to perish forlorn ? Oh grief when we call on that affectionate name ; I might well ask the world, Can that taint be to blame f My sisters, poor orphans I Oh, what have they done 7 Why should you neglect them, or why will you shun 7 Let not foul disgrace be attached to their name : Though their father's a drunkard, th^ are not to blame. THE SOCIAL GLASS. I once was fond of a social glass, So was I, So was I, My days and nights so merrily pass, But next morning's misery. 2di TBI TIBTOtALU'S BAND-BOOS. i*fv»^ ; ^■'.ff^.'lS- Si/;. «;» Mj head would ache, my hand wonld ihake, Mj spirit! quake, I then would take, A Julep to make mj fever break, what a horrid bad mistake. But now I shun my social glass, So do I, So do I, Our days and nights so merrily past, Without the drunkard's misery. 1 oft caught cold by steaming up, So did I, So did I. To cure this cold, the red wine-cup I then would quaff unceasingly. And then the wine, it went so fine When out to dine, no cost of mine. So I take glasses to No. 9, ^^ - The quantity I thought was fine. But now I shun my social glass, So do I, So do I, Our days and nights so merrily pass, Ac. I always drank at others' cost, SadidI, So did I, For I had plenty of friends to boast. So I was often very dry. One night oira spree I happened to be, When a chap told me of a society, Which reformed the worthless debauchee, Such people as we use to be. But now I shun my social glass, So do I, So do i, Our days and nights so memly pass, Ac. We signed and became as you see us here, Temp'rance men, temp'rance men. We drink no brandy, rum, or beer. But a glass of water now and then. We never get' blue, you know 'tis true, All over the town the news it flew. And all we can do to help you through, Shall soon be done I promise you. So now my friends come one and all, And leave your rum before you faU. So now my friends come one and all, Ac. A' rOlT^i, MOMOly AMD BTmit. SPARKUNG AND BR:"=?"'. Sparkling and bright in its liquid light la the water in oar glaues; 'Twill give you health, 'twill gire 70U wealth, Ye lads and rosj lassei. CAoftM— then resign yonr ruby wine, Each amiling eon and daughter ; There's nothing so good for the youthful b!ood, Or sweet as the sparkling water. Better than gold is the water cold. From the crystal fountain flowing ; A calm delight, both day and night. To happy homes bestowing. Sorrow has fled Arom the heart that bled, Of the weeping wife and mother ; They've given up the poisoned cup, Son, husband, daughter, brother. THE MAINB LAW. Hark, hear the people's voices ring, The Maine law is the very thing To put the cruel tyrant down. And temperance, trnth,and virtue crown. Chorut — ^Then shout, shout, your voices ring. The. Maine law is the very tbing To put the cruel tyrant down, And temperance, truth, and virtue crown. The Maine law is the very thing To make the drunkard's wife to sing, Restore her husband to her heart. And bid the cloud of gloom depart. The Maine law is the very thing To make the inebriate's children cling Around their father's noble form, Cbeerfbl, happy, free from harm. m TBI TUTOTALKE's BAND-IBOOK. The Mftine law if the rery thing To rob the serpent st his sting, And bid the angaish'd itcstrt be glad, While veaders sigh, for they are sad. The Maine law is the yery thing To give the Death-bird speedy wing. To fly and dwell where demons reign, And never visit earth again. .v^ «*.»?' ~ THE TEMPERANCE FIREMAN. \ ■uv ■ K When in the night, The slcies grow bright, With the flames of the poor man's dwelling, The fireman springs, As the hall bell rings, The burning district telling, — Hark! theory, Firei Fire! As the flames rise higher. The gallant firemen fly. At the sleep-dispelling cry, Firel Fire! Firet Fi^l And well dash the water on tUi the flames expire. See — ^the last gleam Of the bnrniag beam Dies, and the danger is over; The fireman goes To his sweet repose. Prom his toil and fatigne to recover, ' Till the cry, Fire! Fire J Shall again require , The fireman to fly At the sleep-dispelling cry, Firel Firel Fire! Firei And we'll dash the water on till the flav'^s expire. roiTiT, Miirod, and mtibik m Thus in th« htlght or hit drankea plight, If th« tippler falli in the gvtter, The fireman kind, Who the pledge hM signed, Pliea him with good cold water ; He pats out rum'l fire, ^ Drags him out of the mire. Nor leaves him there to die 'Neath the cold and stormy sky- On rum's dread fire, He pours cold water down till the flames expire. OUR FLAG. Fling abroad its folds to the cooling breese^ Let it float at the mast-head high. And gather around, all hearts resolT* To sustain it there or die. An emblem of peace and hope to the world, - Unstain'd let it ever be. And say to the world where'er it wares, Our flag is the flag of the free. That banner proclaims to the listening earth. That the reign of the tyrant is o'er ; The galling chain Of the monster Bum, Shall enslave mankind no more. An emblem of hope to the poor and lost, place it where all may see, And shout with glad voice as you raise it highj Our flag is the flag of the f^ee. TL<)n on high, on high let that banner wave^ And lead us the foe to meet ; Let it float in triumph o'er our heads^ Or be our Winding sheet. And never, never, be it furled Till.it Wave o'er earth and sea. And all mankind Shall swell the shosti Our flag is the flag of the ttt*. m jna-i'ti j!t*w* TBI TUTOTALBB'g BAND-BOOK. WE'RE A BAND OF FREEMEN. The toetotaleri ate coming, Tb« teetotaler! are coming, The teetotalers are coming, With the Gold Water Pledge I We're a band of freemen, We're a band of fireemen, We're a band of freemen. And we'll aonnd it o'er the world. Harrah for reformation, By all iu everj station. Throughout this wide creation ; ' , Take the Cold Water Pledge. We're a band, fto. . km We wil! save our sisters, brother»— A*«4 our fathers, sons, and mothers'— With our neighbours and all others— By the Cold Water Pledge. We're a band, &c. May no eril e'er betide us, To sever or divide us ,* ^^'^^ But the Ood of Mercy guide us. With the Gold Water Pledge E We're a band, &c. M' TB SONS OF TEMPERANCE. TuMB— " Marseilles Hymn." •>JH» Te Sods of Temp-'rance, wake to glory,.. ;f Hark I hark! what myriads bid yon rise,. iTour children, wives, and grandMres hoary. Behold their tears and hear their cries. Shall alcohol, foul nuschief breeding, With hireling host, a ruffian ban \ Spread tears and mis'ry o'er the land, While peace and liberty lie bleeding^ VOBTBT, §0»QU, AMD HTMMS. Totrmsl toarmsl ftndharl Tb« mom ter from hii throne, March on, march on, all hearts reeolred, On victorj alone, Maroh on, march on, all hearti reiolYed, On Tictory alone, March on, march on, and itrike the blow, For victory alone. Oh temperance, can man reiign thee, Once ha?^ Temperance ways we'll ne'er forsake ; Join our Temperance Band. \ . POETRT, SONGS, AND HTMNi. Chorut — ^Firm and trae be our Band; Trne be oqt Band ; Finn and true be oar' Band, Temperance Band of Hope. Young are we and feeble too : Join our Band, join our Band ; Yet tbere'8 work that we can do; Join our Temperance Band, la the H0I7 Book we read : Join our Band, join our Band; Little hands may lions lead ; Join our Temperance Band. In our Saviour's name we go : Join our Band, join our Band ; Ho will needful aid bestow; Join our Temperance Band. Haste we on, a rescued host : Join our Band, join our Band ; To reclaim the thousands lost, Join our Temperance Band. '»w 243 THE GOOD TIME COMING. there's a good time comhig, boys, A good time coming ; The signs around us show it near— We breathe the very atmosphere Of the good tune coming. Intemperance has felt our blow, It struggles more and stronger ; Dying throes they are, we know— , Wait a little longer. There's a good time coming, boys, A good time coming ; There's a good thne coming, boys, Wait a litUe longer. wW rm WT^4Li»'fl vA^iHioox. Tbm'i a good time eomiog, boji, wH good tinw oonriBg ; The doirclies hare been waked at lait. Temperance fhcts are telling fast Of the good time coming. Hmnan rights dare be discnssed, Fsith in man grows stronger ; And thoogb piqf adioe yet lives, Watt a little longer. There's a good time ooning; bojs, ie. There's a good time coming, bojrs, A good time is coming ; The days of progress now are here, The seeds are sown-4he harrest near— Of the good time comings SlaTeiy— war-r4ntempcntnc»— Cannot now grow stronger ; Lote and Justice shall prerail— Wait a Itttie longer. There's a good time eomhig, ])oy8r8xh WILL YOU COMB TO THE BOWER? TuMfe— " The Spider and the Fly." m-- ^■ Will yon walk into the parioor ? Said a Spider to a Fly; Tis the prettiest littie parlour That ever yoa did spy; Toa've only got to pop yoor head Jost inside of the door ; You'll see so nnny cnrtoas things Yoa nerer saw before. *' Will Jroa, will you, will you, will yoa Walk in, Mr. Fly 7 WDl you, will you, will yo», will yoo Walk hi, Mr. Fly? My house is always open. Said tiifr Spider to the Fly } fm glad to hare the company Of alll see go by. They go in, but don't come out again— I've heard of yon bef<»e} . yes they do ; I always let them Oat by the back door. WUl,yott,wiUyoa, Ac \ « pomiT, soNiM, AMD wtmtm. For Um but tiiiM I win uk yoo, Will yon walk ia, pirt^ S^ ? No; if Ido,F4lWAfool, rm olT, M now goo^ bfei Thep ap he Bpiingl, bat Iwtli hli winga, Are iB the web oao|g^ fiut ; Tb|» Spider Uogh'd— Ha, ha, tfj hoy, I hate yoa safe at lart. Will you, will yoa, &o> Nowyejavesile. I pray yoa to attend Unto the moral of my amg, Which I're brought to an end : The Pablioan's the ^ider, ao^ Beware as yoa paai by, Leet yoa get entangled In i^ nat. Like the foolish littie Fly. „ Itemonber; remen^beir ': The fooliaft pOa F^, tee. WILL TOn 00MB SIGN THB TIXDQK1 Tcm— " Will yon come to tbf iBoir^r ? " > * . Will yon come sign the plctdge W9 now oObr to yon, Todrinkonly^raiUr.aapanMlbe^eir? . Wine may bparkle and glisten as brightly it flows, But brighter the dew-drop that diioes on |he rose. Will yoa, wiU ym, wiliyw, 1^ yoa. Gome ,aign the ^teidge. See the fall from moontalns, as Joyoaa it gleams. Like Jeweld that shine in the bright sunny beams ; 'lis no wonder it dances with Joy on its way, 'Twill sorely find welcome where'er it may stray. Will you, will you, &c, then, who would drink wine when Und nature has givea A beyerage that comes flrom the bounty of Heaven ? Like the lily and rose ttom the fbuntains drink free. Away with your wine, and bright water for toe. Will you, &0. ' O! awake from delusions, poor drunkard, awake, Draw near to the fountain, and with as partake Of its pleasures inviting, so sweet, so dlyine ; O i drink fh>m the foantaiiM, ind peaoa shall be thine^ O* Will you, &o. 9W TBI mTOTAUB'S HAMD-BOOK. WB WILL BB FBBB. Toio— " Auld Lang Sjne.'' hi:. A-- fiOSTt On to the o(«fliot, freemen on ! The oonqoeet ihall be oon ; Tbe yietoiy will yet be won, Thoogh now the btttle loweift. Tbe monstw Boii, nmitnow be aUdn : His mighty hoet shall fly; No longer will we wear his chain ; We'll oonqoer or we'll die. We've served his poipose far too long, We've lonif enough been slaves ; What though his fetten may be strong, ' They shall not be oar graves. Well ralty roond oar Maine Law flag. And swear, " We will be free ; " The monster fh>m his throne we'll drag. And make his minions flee. We will not sell oorsdves for gold, Mach leas will we for drink ; The half of slavery is antold. If still the slave can think. Then, to the conflict, Freemen, on Oar foes— behold ! they flee I The victory will soon be won ; ' We shall, we shall be f^ I .^.t^^fi \ mm^' LOOK NOT UPON THE WINE, ^mn. \i^- Oh, Woman, beaatiftal and fair. With thy soft radiant eye, ' Look not npon the wine Whence wwds ot Love shoald flow. Give not thy sanction, W014 or «ign, To goilt, despair, and woe t -J •4 ,• VOlTBTy tONOf , AND HTMIW. ArttboQAlfottMr! looktramd Upon ibj houMhold pesrli ; Oa the iUr biowi of nolde bOTi, \ad gentle-hearted girls. Mnk what their Cite, if c , ^ ' vjkinoe, ih winning gnMse like th^j, Should pteM to thebr anenllied Ups, The poiaon-dranght of wine. Art thoa a Wife ! oh, Jeakraa gnard The high and lofty troth, Of him thy fondly ohoaen one, The husband of thy yonth ; Ptoce not the bright temptation near, If Peace thoa wonld'st retain : The honsehold hearth by wine defiled, Hope's torch lights not again ! Art thoQ a Maiden I gentle, yoang. With soft, beseeching eye ; Entreat thy heart's elected one " To pass the wine-cop by." With firm and steady ootstretcbed hand. Debar the sparkling bowl ; Keep Reason's impress on his brow, Its light within bis sonl. Oh, Mother, Daughter, Bister, Wife, Oh, Woman, list the call ! Unnsed to Life's stern battle strife. Here let yoor inflaence fall. In pity for the broken heart. For Reason's shattered shrine. Lift ap your gentle, pleading yoice, " Beware the flowing wine 1 " tUft THE THREE TOPERS. Three topers went sailing oat into the night- Oat into the night, when the day was done ; Each made for the place where he loved to get tight, And the news-boys stood chaffing them, oat of their taa, For men most drink, though wommi ahould weep, For men grt tiiirrty, and drink is chei^ Where the lager beer is foaming. TBI TllTOTALn'0 HAffD-BOOK. Three CharUes Mt op on a dooisrtep snog ; And they lighted their pipe* m the moon went down, And they looked at the bottle, and looked at the Jog, Aa the topera came reeling np, ragged and brown, For men will drink, when beer is cheap, And Charliei the topera •!!! morning mart keep, Where no lager beer ia foaming. Three topen lay oat on the station floor, In the morning gleam, when the van came roand ' And the Charlies were grinning, at hearing the snore Of those who would aoon in the Mayor's dock be foond. For men mast drink when lager beer is cheap. And the harder the spree, the sounder the sleep, And good-by to the beer and its foaming. I .-?• ■i-J^ '•**»-««.. ' ^ THE BOWL. Oh I shun the bowl !— the dranght beware Whose smile bat mocks the lips of men ; When foaming high with waters rare ; Oh I never touch the goblet then. With friends we love, though sweet to sip The neotared juice at close of day, Yet trust ye not the syren lip That wins to cheat, and lures to slay. Oh I shun the bowl, and thou shftlt (slow ■ A deeper spell than swims in wide : Though bright its hours of sunset glow, Their crlnuon clouds as briefly shine. A few short days in madness past. And thoa wilt eink unknown to years. Without a hope beyond the blast. Oh ! leave the bowl—if thou art wise To shun the path of guilty fame : The burning road where anguish lies, And peijured honor weeps fqr shame. In after years some cheering ray From virtue's smile will o'er thee spread. And thou wilt bless the better way Thy erring steps were loath to tread. :-:«e '*^,. rOmTtLTy WoSQlBf AlfD BTMlfB. Ob t dnm the bowl— M thwi Wv -at iMtt Tbe poisoned spot where reptilea treed ; Lett iHdowed heerte for thee ehoold grieve ; For thee, nnthnely teen be ihed. Tee t thine maj be the fserftil lot To prore, ere Tbito hath dimmed thy brow, ▲ lire— end yet the wttneaa not Of them who weep his brolun tow. ▲it then ft bride whoee ereiy sigh Bat trembles with the Joy it gives ? Art thoa » ohllA whose deep, mild eye^ Beams in the light its father lives r Then shon the bowl 1 the draoght bew^sre Whose smile bot mocks the lips of men ; ' When foaming high with waters rare ; O never toooh the goblet thea i M ^h' THB DRUNKARD'S DOT. Te who have felt the Joy Of childhood's guiltless life, Pity the dronkard's boy. And the dronkard's wretched wife. For throngh the winter day He leaves them cold and ill ; The night comes on its way, Bot he retoms not stilL The fire is getting knr, And o'er the dreary pUin That bwefoot boy most go. To seek for wood again. He weeps when be is told That he again most go ; It makes his feet ao cold To tread open the snow. Bot Where's the^father, where ? Go to the groggery's cell, And ask the qoestion there :— the mmHNUer conld teiL TBI TUTOTALU'S IIAN1>-B00K. THB OLD, DIRTY BOTTLE. Thw* ii tn old Bottle, • ttntngo Bottto too, For wouderfhl foatt this Bottle can do ; WiM men he makei foolish— nuUne oowtrde feel brare, Changes rich into poor— makes the honest a knaTe. Then take the
-BOOK. High In the dr onr colon bright Are boldly bronght to Tlew ; The Temperanoe erew hell with delight The red, the white, the Mae. With hewte lo bold, they loora for gold ToeellintegrHj; Bo Awajr and mwj our good lUp goee, LetYee treeoheiy on the lee. The cargo that we have on board Was parohaaed ftrom above ; Benevolenoe and iweet concord, Fidelity nd love, With Temperance for its broadeit baae, And fairoat purity ; Thoa away and away onr good ihlp goea, Leavis intemperance on the lee. The ladles fair, both far and near, They wish oar ship saccess ; Aud chemb infanta' voices low, Onr noble crew they bless. While angels bright, with fond delight, Watch er our destiny ; As away and away our good ship goea, Leaves dull care on the lee. May oar noble ship and gallant crew Prevail o'er wind and tide ; Until the white, the red, the blue, - Float o'er the world so wide, And from the thrall of alcohol * The mortal race be free ; Then away and away our good ship goes, Leaves misery on the lee. TEETOTAL FOR EVER ! TcNX—" Hearts of Oak." Hurrah ! all the tents have their banners nnftarl'd, And teetotal rings o'er the whole Scottish world ; But the lips of the drunkard are scomftdly curl'd. And his brain in the vortex of whisky is whiii'd. Teetotal he sings not, by night or by day ; But steady, brain, steady— and always be ready To sound o'er a bumper, " Hurrah and hurrah." fOVTBT, 90t(m% AM9 HTMIffr Thnmgh ih» qrw of Um topw a iplrit looks oat,r- Tit ft moaIm Is tb* bnio, which it ooUi bow ahoat ; Thtra it twiow upon ocmm of Ambb, do not doabi. Which roU thioogh tho sknU on tbtir 4lM(4«t« lootOb Toototia ht tinpnot, Ml filofb to alliif ; Bat itMdijr, bnin, itoftdgr, be qaiot »nd ready ; Anwtohliin'iatbani; now hanah Mid bomh. Tho iw«tp toddSM on 'math hii be don of loot, And hii tongut heopi tbt tlmoto uia nniloal fbot : How b« tonn op hla noM at a wbiikTfled brate, And tottotal ■oonAi through bii red maty i^atOk Teetotal he eingi ae be measares *iis waj ; 'Tie ateadj, awab, ateady, to help 700 I'm rttiify ; Teetotal'a ttie paaaword, borrab and borrah. The babe blitbelj aita on ita grandmother'a knee, WHh a andle on ill Upland the turn In Ha e^e And it kMki hi the face of ita father with glc % And thinka what a bllaa teetotal moat be. Teetotal it liapa throagh the long aommer'a daj ; Be etea^, 1%, ateady ; and ever be rea^jr Teetotal to aing i then taairab and bonah. The youth clape Ua handa ao he eprightly gon by. And whistlaa teetotal alood throagh the ahy; Hia heart hi all joyooa, and bright ia Ua eye, And he caraa not a flg tboagb hia bottle is diy. Teetotal be pipes aa be wenda on hia way; Tia ateady, boys, ateady, be aotive and rea^y, Teetotal'a the aong ; now banab, boys, banahk The bosband, set tm from Uo . ^'wd alarma, Hia partner enfolds with ddlg^i i bis arms ; He clasps now a clnstor of brigbtoidng cbarma. And bis bosom is peace, for JitBtetlon it warms. Teetotal be sings, 01 by night or by day; 'Tis steady, wife, st «dy ; be jocond and merry. Teetotal for ever ; hurrah and barrah. , HAPPY HOME. ^ •-» ikii. Tdnb— " Sweet Home." " 'Mid scenes of confusion," ttom mornhig till ere. With no heart to pity, no band to reliete. The drunkard abandoned was once left to roam, His flunly neglected, deserted hia home. Home, home, sweet, sweet home. Oh, what dronkard's dwdling was crer a home ? tH THl TBITOTALBB'S HAND-BOOK. Oh Bad was the heart of his grief-stricken irife, Whom he voiT'd at the altar to cherish through lifts ; His children, once fondled, 'neath heaven's wide dome, Roamed hungry and naked, unknowing a home. Home, home— sweet, sweet home, 8oc. For drear was their dwelling, unsheltered from cold, There Boreas uncheck'd, nightly revda did hold ; The hearts of its inmates were sadden'd and lone, When hope came once more to brighten their homA. Home, home>— sweet, sweet home — Even hope, fondly cherished, can sweeten our home. A band of true freemen did proudly arise. And scales of delusion quick tore from their eyes ; Now sober'd, to them soon fair Plenty did come. And Virtue and Peace again sWeet made their home* Hom^, home— sweet, sweet home — Peace, plenty, and joy, can make any place, home. No secret, deep hidden, is theirs to reveal, , " Sign the pledge," Washingtoniana cry, in their zeal, " Ye drinkers, from vice and ttom misery come. And renew the delights of your once happy home. Home, home — sweet, sweet home — Oh, r«xew the delights of your once happy home ! ** Come, arouse, Wasbingtonians ! with confidence say, The haunts of inebriates shall vanish away; The day is fast dawning, and surely will come. When thek hearts shall delight in wife, children, and home. Home, home— sweet, sweet home, &c. i-n-.. ^ THE DRUNKARD'S WARNING. TBI SriBiT VoiOBS of.Temfbbanob and Inbbbiatiov. TEiffEBANOB. I come ftx>m the bowers of paradise— Where angelic anthems and songs arise, Commingled with saintly symphonies— On an errand of bve to num. f...-.■ .. TEMPERANCE. I come with my band at eventide To the saint's bright dwelling, and we preidde O'er his blessed devotions, while, side by side, His children kneel down in prayer. INEBRIATION. To the drunkard's hearth, when 'tis night, I hie. Unmoved by the broken'hearted sigh Of his dying wife, while her infant's ciy Is drowned with a father's care. TEKPERANOB. 'TIS the good man's couch I keep vigil by. When, with brow serene and irradiate eye, He welcomes pale death triumphantly, And enters celestial bliss ! INEBBIATIOK. •: if / t Wth ihy poison the drunkard's son! I ply Through his short-lived years of infamy, Till death awakens that flrenzied cry— " Lost, lost in the lowest abyss ! " 2» m THE TXITOTAX fOltBT, IIOlfQS, AND ttTXItS. And DOW papa, if yon are rich, And made all bj this trade, When the great daj of reek'ning eomes, 0, won't yon be afiraid? For if there is a fearful doom, Awaits the drunkards gone. Won't it be worse for lueh at j/ou, Who hdped the traffic on f Whist I stop yonr questionings at once, You're very sancy, Ned ; Pick up your books, 'tis getting late, And find your way to bed. 2S7 'iirat/ OH PLBDQB MB NOT WITH WINK. Oh, pledge me not with wine, dear love I I shrink from its ruddy glow : And white and cold a deathly fear Drops into my hea^rt like snow* Oh, pledge me not with wine, dear love I Through its mist of rosy foam I count the beats of a broken heart— I see a desolate home. Oh, pledge me not with wine, dear love I I shiver with icy dread ; Each drop to me is a tear of blood That sorrowful eyei have shed. I have a picture laid away Under the dust of years. Come look on it, and yonr heart will break, Like a summer cloud in tears. Night, and a storm of autumn slflet— A hearth without fire or light — A woman—an angry man--a door That opens into the night. m THl tutotalie'b hamd-book. l/f Hot hands that cling to the crazy latch, Lips rigid and white with pain — A carse— a hiow — and a wailing babe Borae ont in the wind and rain — A woman dead, with her long loose hair Soaked wet in the weeping storm. And her pallid arms half fallen back ^ From a baby's waxen form. A woman dead in the pitiless rain ; • And, sparkling on the sand, ' ' Dear Ood I—a golden marriage ring ^ Dropped loose flrom her wasted hand. A white moon striving through broken clouds, A hprrified man at prayer — The cry of a passionate heart's remorse, And a passionate heart's despair. This is the picture laid away Under the dust of years. For thus does the red wine look to me. The flowing of bloody tears. Oh, pledge me not, though the wine is bright As the rarest light that flows Through the sunset's cloudy gates of fire. Or the morning's vein of rose. Put down the cup I it is bripmed with blood. Crushed throbbing, from hearts like mine I For hope, for peace, and for love's dear sake, Oh, pledge me not with wine i \ )]■ S WE'LL NEVER DRINK AGAIN. 1. 'Tis good, dear friends, to sign the Pledge, That sets the drunkard free — Come join the happy, happy band, Whoever you may be. POiniT, lOllOf , AMD HTlIMg. SftO 0HOSU8. We're mnrcbing to the field of Btrife, To giye the dying drankard life : Let temp'rance then trinmphant reign, And never let us drink again. One Voice — ^What, never drink again ? AU — ^No, never drink again — One Voice — What, never drink again 7 AU — No, never drink again — Let temp'rance, then, triumphant reign, And never let us drink again i 2. Weep uot, dear children, weep no more, Weep not, thou loving Wife ; The father and the husband lost, Is now restored to life. We're marching, &c. 3. Behold the bright array of men. United in the cause, That millions of the human race Around its standard draws. We're marching, &c. , 4. The temperance banner and the Fledge By us shall be unfurl'd ; And it shall be our joyAil aim - To wave it o'er the world ! We're marching, Ac. r AWAY THE BOWL. 1. Oar youthful hearts with Temp'rance burn ; Away, away the bowl ; From dram-shops all, our steps we turn ; Away, away the bowl ; Farewell to rum and all its harms, Farewell the wine-cup's boasted charms ; Away the bo^l ! away the bowl I Away, away the bowl. 4\ ^litMJmi^Mmit^tta-tmtmali,' -Mimimf. im TBI fflltOVALtt'g BAHS-BOOi:. 2. Sue how the staggeriikg drunkard reels, Awaj, Ac. AIM the miawy he roTeali, Away, ke. His children grieve, hie wife in tears. How sad his once^ bright home appears. Away, kc. Boyt—We drink no more, nor buy, nor sell. Away, &c. CHrlt — ^The drunkard's offers we repel. Away, &c. wl/^United in ft Temp'rance band, We're joined in heftrt, we're joined in hand. ■'. V ■Afl.'MVi «-"iii' Away, &c. I' 'i i'* \ THE GOOD SAMARITAN'S APPEAL. O drunkard, haste and leare your rum, Dark horrors in it lie ; 'Twill sure destruction bring on you— For ever from it fly. Yes, come, it is on you we call, listen to us then — , Fear not, but sign the sacred pledge To never drink again. O who would be a slave to mm, When purer joys Uiere be 7 Many a heart's now beating high. Because from rum they're free. Then hearken yo unto the call, And be it not in vain — Fear not, but sign the sacred pledge To never drink again. O now reflect, ye tipplers too, On what may be your fate ; If you continue at your wine Dire mis'ries on yon wait ; O leave it then, we say to you, Before by it you're slain ; Fear not, but sign the sacred pledge To never drink again. V . ,*^rd. ;■:', i POITET, tOMO«, AMB flmflfd. THB VOIOB OF SINGINQ. 'TIs the sw««t voice of singing, That falls on the ear ; All earth is rejoicing That tempVance is near ; For long-parted kindred United once more, Their tale of deliv'rance Recount o'er and o'er. The soul of the mother Is glad in her son, The long absent father Returns to his home. The hearts that were wither'd By sorrow and woe, Rejoice in the downfall Of life's direst foe. Then come now each sad one, With grief sore oppress'd, The pledge will enliven The poor and distress'd. We kindly invite yoa Our pleasures to share, come, and reAise not Enjoyment so rare. ,^l^^l ■tji COLD WATER FOR MB. Cold water Arom the flowing fountaiOf Is the drink that I love best ; As purling, rippling from the mouatain. It ne'er with evil can molest ; In evening late and morning free, Cold water is the drink for me, Cold water, cold water is the drink for mel m nm vmovALii't baas-book. Sore grief it gires to «U tme hearted, To see 70a love and quaff the wine; Tarn firom yottr eups and be coBTerted, Nor etay in miseiy'e path to pide. Drink water from the bill-brooks free; Gold water ie the drink for me— Gold water, eold water is the drink for me I Then who 'gainst tts cold water fireemen His bitter words with envy shews, ITe cannot bokt him as a Christian, Since he Ood's blessing doth refuse. I'd give bim, though for life cried he, Ko drink but ice-cold water froe>— Cold water, cold water is the drink for me t TBB DRINK OF PARADISBL Let others praise the ruby bright, , In the red wine's sparUing glow, But dearer to me is the diamond light Of the fountain's clearer flow I The feet of earthly men have trod The juice firom the bleeding vine, But the stream comet pure from the hand of God, To fill this cup of mine. Cho ru» T hen giro me the cuf^ of et^d water t The dear sweet cup of cold water; For his arm is strong, though bis toil be kmf^ Who drinks but the clear eold water, Who drinks but the clear cold water. The dew drop lies te the flow'ret's cup. How rich i« its perfwiM now, And the fainting earth with joy looks up When Heay'n sheds rain on her brow. The brook goes forth with a pleasant voice, To gladden the vale along, And the bending trees' on her bMilui rejoice To hear her quiet soog. POBTRT, lOMOS, AMD uiuiUL The lark iom-s up with a lighter itraia When the wave has waehed her wing, And the steed flings back his thond'ring mane In sight of the crystal spring. This was the drink of Paradise, Ere blight on her beauty fell, And the buried streams of her gladneM rise In ev'ry moss-grown welL LADIES' SONG. i. wag. Let others raise their giddy songs, And mirthftal notes employ, To us A nobler theme belongs, A higher source of Joy. Beneath a banner fair we stand, And all our influence throw. To banish from our native land. Its foulest, deadliest foe. Ye maidens fair who stand aloof, Gome join your strength with ours, And give the moderate drinkers proof. They are no fk-iends of yours. And Oh I perhaps your influence sweet, May fathers, brothers, save I Restrain it may, their wandering feet, From the foul drunkard's grave. No tippling husbands will we have. But keep our smiles for those Who nobly bear our banner brave Against our deadly foes. Fast by our colours will we stand, Till they in victory dance Gaily o'er every sea and land 'Neath Heaven's blue expanse. 164 THB niTOTALBft's HAND-ltOOK. . It SING, SISTERS, SINQ. Sweetly each tuneful voice we raise, And Jo7f\illy sing our temp'rance lays, And Joyfully sing our temp'rance lays, Unto the cause our aid we give, Then brothers, though small, the gift receive. ' Sing I sisters, sing, the cause speeds fast, Intemp'rance is falling, all danger's past, Intemp'rance is falling, all danger's past, Why should not woman's aid be given. To forward a cause that is blessed by Heaven, To forward a cause tnct is blessed by Heaven ; Angels to aid it well might sing, Then* cheerfully we our songs will bring, Sing, &c. /I Come ye who have not joined our band, Away flrom our side why fearful stand, Away from our side why fearful stand ? Come join to aid the cause we love. And sound forth its praise to realms above. Sing, tc. , THERE IS A bAPPY TIME. TcNK— " The Happy Land." There is a happy tima, not far away. When temp'rance truth shall shine, bright, bright as day : Oh, then, we'll sweetly sing, make the hills and valleys ring ; Earth shall her tribute bring. Not far away. Bright in our happy band, beams every eye : Pledged with our heart and hand, love cannot die ; On, then, to Temperance run, be both health and virtue won ; Bright as the noonday sun shines in the sky. Gome join the temp'rance band, come, come away; Why will ye doubting stand ? Why still delay ? Oh, we shall happy be, when we're from Intemp'rance free. Haste I from the danger flee t Haste, haste away. MITBT, lONOS, AND BTMITi. Would you like drunkards reel ? Hark, bear one rave I Would you their miseries feel, with none to save? Rouse, then, for their relief; soothe their sorrow, calm their grief; Send none, by unbelief, down to the grave. Pledge to this glorious cause, pledge, pledge to-day I Bow no more to fashion's laws, break, break away! Conquer habit while you can, be an inde;;>endent man ; Sign the Teetotal Plan, sign, sign, to-day. Hnste then the happy time, not far away; Whe:> Temperance truth shall shine, bright, bright as day: Oh, then we'll sweetly sing, make the hills and valleys ring : Earth shall her tribute bring, not far away. *rv •.,■■, 7* .f*-n;~- *. '4.^ -i COME, BROTHERS, COME. i't m: vri Come, brothers come, join our noble band, Drive Intemperance flrom the land ; Long under bondage yon have lain, Burst asunder now the chuin. Then haste, come and sign while of hope there's a ray, Remember there's danger each moment you stay; Then sign, and when all danger's gone. How sweet will be your welcome home. Home, home, homo. How sweet your welcome home ; Sweet, oh sweet will be your welcome home. Welcome home, welcome home, welcome home. See how your old companions die. Soon with them you too may lie ; Friendship and love now loudly call, Burst from alcohol's dread thrall ; Then sign, and when all danger's gone, How sweet will be your welcome home, Ac. 266 TUR TIITOTALIr'B HAND-BOOK. NO QUARTER TO ALCOHOL. Tin*^. Go, go, thou that enslav'st me, Now, now, thy power is o'er ; Long, loip, hftve I obeyed thee, Nuw i II not drink any more. No, no, no, no. Now I'll not drink any more. Thou, thon, bringest me ever Deep, deep, sorrow and pain ; Then, then, from thee I'll sever. Now I'll not serve thee again. No, no, no, no, • Now I'll not ierve thee again. "'Uiiri-MTNtWrt^i'*^ tM * i*WL'^ «iM]tKh>tUUM»Aiu w^. f* TBI TIETOTALIB'S HAND-BOOK, Rum, mm, thoa hMt bereft me, Home, friends, pleasures so sweet, Now, now, for ever I've left thee, Thoa and I never shall meet. No, no, no, no, n. Thou and I never shall meet. Joys, joys, bright as the mor . jg, Now, now, on me will pour ; Hope, hope, sweetly is dawning, Now I'll not drink any more. No, no, no, no, Ilow 1*11 not drink any more. ) .* THE MISCHIEFS OF DRINKING. ... TcNB—" Greenville." When we think of chill starvation, When we think of sighs and tears, When we think of pale privation. When we think of doubts and fears ; When we think of raging madness. When we think of reckless beings. When we think of death-like sadness, Nature's most distressing scenes ; When we think of horrid murder. Female virtue lost in crime. When we think of black self-slaughter, Let us ever bear in mind, That the cursed love of drinking Hath produced the greater part. And that thousands now are sinking, Pierc'd by dissipation's dart. POBTRT, BONOS, AND HTMtlB. 269 fTi THE BUCKET WHICH HtJKQ ON THE WELL. How dear to my heart are the days of my childhood, When foad recollection presents to my view The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wild-wood, And ev'ry lov'd spot which my infancy knew ; The wide-spreading pond, and the mill which stood jiear it ; The bridge and the roclc whore the cataract fell ; The cot of my father, the dairy-house nigh it. And e'en the rude bucket that hung on the well — The old oaken bucket. The iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket that hung on the well. That moss-covered bucket I hail as 'a treasure ; For often at noon, when returned from the field,^. I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, i^ The purest and sweetest that nature could yield. How ardent I seized, with hands that were glowing. And quick to the white pebbled bottom it fell ; Then soon, with the emblem of truth overflowing. And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well— . The old oaken bucket, The iron-bouni bi^cket. The moss-covered bucket arose from the well. How sweet from the green mossy rim to receive it, As pois'd on the curb it inclined to my lips ; Not a full flowing goblet could tempt me to leave it, Tho' flU'd with the nectar that Jupiter sips. And now, far removed from that situation. The tear of regret will intrusively swell, As fancy reverts to my father's plantation, And sighs for the bucket which hung on the well- The old oaken bucket, The irou-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket that hung on the well. /jjii «t M Its devastating sway, Seen reason yield its power to guide : I've cast the bowl away I :f>r-r%cC My days of revelry '^' gladly I give up ; Tney're but the masks of misery Which still lurk in the cup ; While indolence and want And poverty display Themselves in every drunkard's haunt, I've cast the bowl away t ,[ ^^./ft, A drunkard's gloomy grave Shall ne'er be made for me ; rather let the rushing wave Engulf me in the sea I And may it be my lot To die 'neath reason's ray ; Remember'd by my friends or not, I've cast the bowl away 1 My path- henceforth is plain— • ' In honestjT to live, To shun intemperance and its train, By industry to thrive ; No duty to forget, ^'' ^* * ^ ^ " And live to bless the day When I was led, without regr«t, To eut the b«wl away I - ' »;* >^ ^'> POETBT, SONaS, AND HTMMS. REFORMER'S SONQ. 271 I Raise your banner Ligb in air, Write Cold Water — write it there, Let its folds be wide unfurl'd. Let it float o'er all the world — Temperance banner— raise it high, Let it wave against the sky ! &'-^ March, Reformers, march ye on, Soor the battle will be won ; Soon the last poor staggering sonl, Will have turned — or found his goal ; Press, Reformers, press ye on — Cease not, till the battle's won I See, yon star is rising high ; ' -' " Hope is bending from the sky ; See, yon rainbow bending o'er "7 * Ireland's lately deluged shore ; See, her star is rising high — .-w- Hope is bending from the sky I Raise your banner, raise it high ; Let it float against the sk; ; ^., |^^ Let the world tidoiiu' ' see. Temperance — Truth — aud Liberty- Temperance banner — raise it higli. Let it float against c^ ; sky I PURE WATER FOR ME ! No love for your old hock — pure water for me, 'Tis the best drink on land, 'tis the best drink at sea; If the pale lily droopeth, will wine brace its stem, Or add but a tint to the withering gem ? Less love for your brandy— pure water forme; .;• It is quaff'd by the wild flowers on mountain and lea ; Does old hock or brandy from mountain streams run, To fr«Bh«a their flower-banka when scorched by the lan ? ^It THE teetotaler's HAND-BOOK. Contempt for your whiaky — pure water for me ; It is sipp'd by the violet and strong forest tree. What is natare's drink ? ask in mountain or glen, Tlie answer is " Water." What is it 'mong men ? Pare water has beauty and brightness for me, As it sparkles, and dances, and runs to the sea ; Regrets of to-morrow, drink causes to come. Ne'er cloudeth the brow of the hater of rum. J. B. GOUGH'S LAMENT. Where are the friends that to me were so dear, Long, long ago ; long, long ago. Where are the hopes that my heart used to cheer, Long, long ago ; long ago. Friends, that I loved, in the grave are laid low — Hopes, that I cherished, are fled from me now — I am degraded, for Rum was my foe. Long, long ago ; long ago. Sadly my wife bowed her beautiful head. Long, &c. Ob how I wept when I knew she was dead — Long, &c. She was my angel, my guardian, ana guide; Vainly to save me from ruin she tried — Poor broken heart — it was well that she died. Long, &c. iS■'-"» >.M" >'i.' We're soldiers of the Water-King, His laws we will obey ; Virtue and health are his reward— We want no better pay. Chorus — Then, let us sing the Water-King, Good soldiers, one and all— Our banners to the breeze we'll fling, And down with alcohol. .■';>W?H!" ".fli. ■■t We boast no sword or glittering spear ; Our? is a bloodless crown — A pur-ij brighter, fairer thing Than conquerors iver won. &c. Our strength is in the living spring— And long as waters run, Or grass growz green, we're pledged to keep Our temperance armour on. &c. ■"■;■? What though the Fire KiQg mocks our hosts, As great Goliath did, :^ We've temperance Davids in our ranks, j^ Who'll bring away L\ig head. 4g. /. POXTBr, 80NCW, AMD HTMNS. . THE GOLD WATER ARMY. With banner and with badge we comei An ABUT true and strong, To fight against the hosts of Rnm, And this shall be oar song : We love the clear Gold Water Springs, Supplied bj gentle showers ; We feel the strength cold water brings,— " The Victory is Ours." " Cold Water Army" is our name, may we faithful be, \ ^' And so in truth and justice claim, The blessings of the free. &c. Though others love their rum and wine, And drink till they are mad, To water we will still incline, To make us strong and glad. kc. I pledge to thee this hand of mine. In faith and friendship strong ; And fellow-soldiers we will join The chorus of our song : We love the clear Gold Water Springs, { Supplied by gentle showers ; We feel the strength cold water brings,— " The Victory is Ours." 275 COLD WATER ARMV. ',y .' United in a peaceful band ^ To drive intemperance from our land. We're joined in heart, and joined in hand — The cold water army. We'll raise our happy voices high f'^'^:. In loudest accents to the sky ; While heaven and earth shall then reply— The cold water army. t P2. 276 THI TnT01^ALEa's HAND-BOOK. We'll make the woods and valleys ring With loudest echoes while we sing, While fill around re-echoes bring, The cold water army. Lord, let now a copious shower Of grace descending on us pour, Nor let one blighting prospect lower The cold water army. ^ O may we meet around thy throne, To praise Thee there, in strains unknown. And flowers of love and peace be strewn, ^„ ^ The cold water army. I 11/ WATER THE DRINK FOR MB. The drink tUat's in the drunkard's bowl Is not the driak for me, It kills his body and his soui, How sad a sight is he. But there's a drink which God hath given, Distilling in the showers of heaven, In measures large and free, 0, that's the drink for me. 0, that's the drink for me, 0, that's the drink for me. The stream that many prize so high, Is not the stream for me ; For he who drinks it still is dry. For ever dry he'll be. But there's a stream, so cool and clear, The thirsty traveller lingers near. Refreshed and glad is he.: 'n j?*«:^ 0, that's the stream for me. ■ 0, that's the stream for me, O, that's the stream for me. POSTRT, 80NCW, AND HTMNS. m The wine-cap that ao manj prize, Ta not the cup for mo, The aching head, the bloated face, In ita aad train I aee. But there'a a cup of water pure, And be who drinlia it may be aare Of health and length of days, 0, that'a the cup for me. 0, that's the cup for me, . . 0, that'a the cap for me. ',%' NEVER FORGET. Can we forget the gloomy time, When Bacchua rul'd the day, When diaaipation, aloth, and crime, Bore undisputed awajr ? The time — the time — the gloomy time — The time has passed away, When dissipation, sloth, and crime, Bore undisputed sway. Can we forget the tender wives. Who found an early tomb. For, ah I the partners of their lives Had met the drunlcard's- doom ? The wives — the wives — the tender wives, May bid adieu to gloom, For now the partners of their lives Abhor the drunkard's doom. r /=_; We'll ne'er forget that noble band Who fear'd no creature's frown. And boldly pledg'd both heart and hand. To put intemperance down. -> 278 'HEX T1BT0TALIB*S HAND-BOOK. The band — the band the noble band — The band of bust renown— Who boldljr pledt 1 both heart and hand To pat intemp'rance down. i\ Nor shall the Pledge bo e'er forgot, That 80 much bliss creates — < "Wb'lL TOUOU not — TASTB NOT — H\NDIK NOT, WhaTB'RR ISTOXIOATISS." The Pledge — the Pledge is not forgot — The Pledge that Satan hates — " TFc'W touch not — taste not — handle not. Whatever inloxicatet." I THE CUP OP DEATH. * ». Fear to tread, Hia slippVy ground, Where narcotic streams abound ; Bacchus fills the deadly cup, Foolish mortals drink it up I . Music, with her harpylaes, Immoral plays among the trees ; And bewitching spells impart Poison alilce to mind and heart. Wanton Beauty, Virtue gone,v Draws her veil to lure you on, And by Music, Wine, and Lust, Lays your honour in the dust. There the blushing.moonbeams play ' On the victims as they lay; Others dance around the shrine, *' Cursing Qod ! " «nd praising wine I .*»" POETRY, BONOS, AMD HTMN8. TUB SOLDIER'S APPEAL. ' Yonder flonU the temp'rance standard ; Boldiers plant j' i' ttdeiM hui* ; Victory's certain ^ou' ateadfiw^;, IfjoutothO' 1" uie breached, A nd yonr g' ' en. . u . « secure. Tear the monster from his stronghold : Long, too lung, you've been hlH slaves ; Haze his piilace, let your war-cry Rouse the drunkards, whom he craves. Do your duty ; Yonder, see, the banner waves I Thonsands, then, shall call yon blessed : Thousands hail you as their friend ; Through the world your fume shall travel, And we soon shall gain our end. Then be steadfast, ' And the temperance cause defend. vt% Why should soldiers be behind-hand In this good and glorious cause ; ^ Buckle on your armour quickly ; Miike the foe, intemperance, pause. Shake his kingdom. For he hosts to ruin draws. (1,1 Come then, comrades, one and all, come, Do not any longer stay ; Show the world yon are in earnest. Sign the pledge without delay : And our country \ They will bless ns day by day. »■? v^ IMAGi EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 1.1 11.25 itt|2i |M ^ Bi 122 S HA ^ !g Lfi 12.0 U 11.6 6" I^olDgraiJiic ^Sciences Carporation 23 WSST MAIN STMIT WIUTIR,N.Y. 14910 (716) •72-4903 Vp ^ THa niTOTALI&'g HAin^BOOK. SYMPATHY FOR THE DRUNKARD. Poor drnnkaid I believe me, thy paaiioiu deceive thee. Thy false' edacaticm haa led thee aatray ; I will not upbraid thee, I wiah to peraoade thee To ahnn the bright goblet, and 111 lead the way. I heed not its sparkles, I know therein darkles A spirit of evil that blights ev'iy charm ; Take my safe example— its first temptin|f8 trample ; My heart yearns to serve thee and gni^ thee fh)m harm. I Join not the jeering, or cold-hearted sneering. Of those who reproach the poor sot in his iall ; Ah no ! I wonld rather reclaim some lost father ; One hearth-stone made happy repays me for all. Thy fortune is flying, thy honour is dying, The home of thy musings of comfort is scant : The wife thou selected, and should have protected, And babes of thy bosom, will suffer firom w&nt. I do not despise thee, I labour to raise thee, And not make thy follies the theme of my sport ; The world has degraded, and though thus unaided. My hand, heart, and favour, shall give thee support. Dear Mend ! take this warning, the wine cup hence spuming, Oh ! wipe the hot tears ftrom thy darling wife's eyes ; And angels above thee, and good men shall love thee, And Joy to behold thee resolve to be wise. CLOSING ODE. Good night, good night to every one, Be each heart Aree fh>m care. May every one now seek their home, And find contentment there : May Joy beam with to-morrow's sun, And every proepect shine — While wife and friends laugh merrily, Without the aid of wine. ONLY THIS 0NC1B. t m I " Only this once ; "—the Vfinensap glovred, AU sparkling with its raby ray ; , The bacchanalian irdcome flowed, And folly made the revel gay. Tlien he, so long, so deeply warned, The sway of conscience rashly spumed ; His promise of repentance scorned, And, coward-like, to vice returned. " Only this onoi ; "—the tale is told : He wildly qoafTd the pois'noos tide : With more than Esan's madness, sold The bhrthright of his soul, and died. I do not say that breath forsook The cky, and left its palaes dead ; But reason in her empire shook, And all the lifb of life was fled. ' Yes ! angel hearts with pity wept, When he whom Tbrtae fain wonld save, His vow to her so falsely kept, And madly sought a dronki^'s grave. " Only this onoi ; "—beware, beware ! Gaie not upon the blosUng wine ; Oh ! fly temptation's syren snare, And, praywfhl, seek for strength divine. THE SAILOR'S SONG. Speed, speed the Temperance ship I Ye winds, fill er'ry sail ; ^ Behold her sailing on the deep. Outriding ev'ty gale ; The tempest's ftary she ootbiaves. And hosts of deathless drankards saves. Wl' Tm niTOTALIE'S SAIIB4P0K. • Speed, ■paeil the T w ap en u M t ■hip! Who joins OS in the crj? Hothen and ohOdren, cease to weep, Oar ship ]■ pMBiag hf ; . WewiditotallejroaalloBboMd— ▲ fkjtfgtt of mwcy to the Lord. Speed, speed the Temperance ship I For her we'll ever pray : Tis Inad's God alone can keep, In safety, night and day ; On Him weHl eTermore depend. Who is the contrite drunkard's flriendt l^ieed, speed the Tenqieraace diip I Ye young and aged, shoot. Behold her saUiag o'er the deq^ 3 I With all her streamers out, Bound for the true teetotal shore, Where streams of death are drank no more. TBMPERAMCB STAB. tcKB— " Greenrille.*' Watchman I tell us *';'' TBI TllTOTALl&'S HAND-BOOK. i>\ O QcA I M Temp'imnoe riiliM, Upheld by powsr divine, TiU time alutU ceaae ; Let da and miaery From euth be made to tee, Tliat all may look to tbee. The Prinoe of Peace. O'er tbia once happy hind, Let love and Temperance stand, We look to thee ; No more the orphans' cries Shall pierce the vaulted sides, Nor widows' sighs arise, O'er hmd and sea. Children no more shall roam. Naked, without a home, But be well fed ; Fathers wOl fathers be ; Mothers n]}oioe to see ' Love, home, and liberty ; Life fh>m the dead. BIBLE TEETOTALERS. * _____ Doth Scripture speak read a rich pertame abroad* Her barren wilderneta beoomo like Eden's garden ; /or the Lord Will comfort 2Slon! she shall raise Her Toioe in songs of grateftd praisel l8A.0.UiLT.1.3. ISA. 0. U. T. S. Then wOl her watchmen join thdr Toioe, In sweetest strains together sing—, , Beholding eye to eye, ntfoioe When God again shall Zion bring, And to the ends of all the earth Doth send his great Sabation forth! bi. o. UlL r. 8-10. Arise, God I thy caoae maintain ; Onr eflbrts bless ; oar work sacceed, TUl ereiy tribe of man abstain. And earth fhnn all btr^ drink is fkeed : This corse remove, God ! we pray, And bring the blest MiUeninm day. THE SPARKIilNG BOWL. Thoa spoiUing boni ! IImni q^kUng bowl I Though lips of bards thy brim may press, And ^yes of beaaty o*er thee roU, And sMg and dance thy power confess, I will not tooch thee, fwtlMW dings A sooqfden to thy side that sUngi I W FOITIT, tOVQUf AND BTmfl. Thoa eryital glMi i liln Bdra't tNf Tby BMltod nibj tMDpU tlM aye, And, M ftom that, tlwra ca m u flrna the* TIN Toioe, " Thoa riMU not MNly dISi" I dMt not UA thj liquid gwi, A huJm ii twiitad round Utj itom. Tboa Uqnid llrol Uln tlwt whkh glowfd On Molltn'o iaif>bMt«n ihora, Thoa'tt boon npon mj goeitf tteitowed, Bat thoa dialt wann mj hooie no moM, For wberaioe'er thy ntdlanoe hUa, Forth flrom thy heat a riper orawhk What though of gold the goblet be, Emboaaed with branchca of the rine, Beneath whose bomlahed learea we aee Bach daateia aa poared oat the wine. Among thoae leayes an adder hanga I I fear him I for I've felt hia fanga. The Hebrew who the desert tiod, And felt the fieiy serpent's bite, Looked ap to that ordained of God, And foond that life Was In the sight ; Bo the WOBM-Utten'a fleiy Tefaia Cool, when he drinks whai God ordafaia. Te gradoos cloads ! ye deep oool wells I Te gems fh>m mossy rocks that drip 1 Bprings that ttom Earth's oool cells Goah o'er yoar granite baidn'a llp» To yon I look I yoar hugeat give. And I will drink of yoa« and live. THB DRUNKARD'S CHILDRBN. Kind Utdy I aa thoa haat a heart To bid the poor and wretched live, 1 fhnn thy plenty, one small part For oar aad, starring mother give. We left her sick, alone, and weak, With none to hold her aching head ; Hanger and stckness on her dieek» Hare left their pale hue for the red. V 1190 TBI inntotALiiL*8 KAim-iodt. Oar fktlMr Ii aol irlut h» wm, In Jojrooi d«yi that ]«▼• goM lij ! Ladyl IT thoo woold'it know the onm, Aak of yon haughty trader, why? We begged of hhn to glf* oalMad— Ho gafo a erael etne and Mowt "Off! oiri yo beggar bnia/' ho add, « Back to your filthy hoTol go." I knew that we were beggar boyi, Doomed to a life of want and wo By the fool poison that deetroyi AU peace— bat hi hatb madi its to. \ Ladyl til hard to beg oar bread, Aa we do now, from door to door ; Bat gi?»--«nd bienlngi on thy head May boontoooi Hea?en In plenty poor. FEMALES UnriTBD. . TD]ii^<«Defiiea." OoiM, gentle dangfaten of oar land I A miarion waita yoor eare ; Come join the fUtUtal Temp'raiioe band, Thdr tolla and triompha ahare. Come, His a work of &ith and love. And blessingB on it rest ; Oh come 1 and by example prove. That pity warms yoar breatft. Think of the many wretched Wives, Steep'd in the Utt'rest woe ; Think of the many valn'd lives, Intemperance has Uud low. . Think of the inflmt lips that pine. And for deliveiranod crave ; Tftlnk of the grey hairs that decline In iom>w to the gmve. IHMmit, toii«9, 4ln» IVIiiMl Think! whm yo« ilMia amU Um boil, Befoiv Jchovah'i throM, For MMta bf jrov ettmiMe hMl, ToaH Mfirwwtth jMor own I ThMolii Mwt<9,fk|Hl,tailov«, OOMlnll fM to MilMM* Thot OMoo, wUok likoan to NrnofM Intttip'iMMt Ikoa oar not. TURN, TURN 1 HaUelqlohl holMi4»h1 T6 tho Qod who reigM on Ugti, Ho h*th MM to wratehod dnmkordo, TOrt, O ton, ft Mod not Mo, But nay with MO Live in bUw abovo the sky. Fleo, Am, ye thoogbtleM rinnefo. From the eon'd, the nuddening bowl, Penitently hoate to Jeooi, BoTO thy blood-boogbt preoiooo oool. In the fountain Plunge yo mow and bo made wholOi While in dnnlnniieH yoa'M living. Oh, how wretchedly you dwell. How ttd, how awftal yonr condition, - Yon are on the road to hdt; Oh,wh8tfoUy, Will yon thm yoor Mithrlght Mil ? Now obey your great Creator^ Now for endless glory start, Haste, repent, beUere tiie gospel. Seek the new, the contrite heart ; Gh, bo sober. And tmok ways of death deput Then, then what Joy and gloty. Shall yoor ranaom'd sod teeetre. Then the dnudcard'i bitter itoty. As yoar oWtt, no more dntt griero X obr bleit ipMlf Bin m cuiuuri yon aoHi iiv& ,2Mr THl TUTOTALIB'S HAND-BOOK. .*•; GO NOT BACK. xt. Hj brother, go not back— The pledge ii taken now ; ' ! ,« jo'f- 1 aee it by the healthftd ■mil* That phiyi open thy brow ; I aee it in the sparkling eye, So doll and dim before ; Then go not back again, my friend, To sore deatmction's door. My brother, go not back ; Preaa on in virtae'a way ; ' Be steadfast in thy sacred pledge, . And tmth shall be thy stay. V .• Hope, bright as mcHming's dawn, shall spring . ,^ i - Where'er thy feet may tread ; Then go not back again, my M4> o^ !$i«>>8tli, W|i97ill.I^j^,j«itfit9; N«w, fWto JWP? Wfl? !^ ^^«»». ?»^5h ^ -,.■.'.'■■« .fllr-S' ■^i:?;- .Hi:- ODB. Tmo— "MiMionaiy." ;;xf» ■ ;ptri^e,,rtrike the.Ij^ in jMMf. Let mnrio fill tte air r Oh give the tHng to' (Mnen, And heii[r^h'odiia|^ci^ For joy, with foldea|iiifiii^, Sits in omr presence noi^,' And 'neath her bright IScAnlnion, Let heart and spirit bow. No mby wine is needed, To buoy our spirits op, For it would flaUi nnhMded, Thoagh brimming every cop. The vows ttu^t we have spok^, Like Becliab's sons of oU, .filfall stand like Uidrs nninpken» l^e IwigbtneK di|^ to q4i And Gk)d's own lasting blessbig, Promised to Bechab'S banfT,' Each heart is tow dOBSaiUng Is showered o'er onir lafitf '; For thoagh no bow is bending its signet from'the d^, " Yet tbbtisand heaiis kH blending InooWnaiit-^T.-f»{>^5ftt^ «»Jfci-. 294 TBI TIXTOTALSB'S BAND-^OK. (.» i^M-- >» . m ■V! . Aa Jonadftb conmuuided His sona in days of yore, Bo we in love tiare banded, And made oa tenta once more— Baiaing onr aignal-bannera. By Trath'a own breezea fanned. Till thonaand of hoaannaa Have echoed throngh onr land. For many a poor heart, weary Of earth's conflicting cares, And of a lot aa dreary As desolation wears, Have sought us in their sadness. And like the wearied dove Have found a home of gladness Within oar ark of love. ^ Tis thns we stem each billow U^n life's stormy mahi, >^ And " harps hung on the willow "^ Are toned to joy again. Then let each chosen brother '" Join in the choms now— " We're trae onto each other. And trae nnto our vow." , o , THE FAHTLT PLEDGE. However others choose to act Towards the Temperance Canse, We'll hail its blessings to our home. And strictly keep its laws. We will not touch the drnnkard's drink, But dose oar lips to all ; R^ect the foe in every form, Lest we should tastb and fall, We will not oiTB the drankaid's drink Onr Mends to entertain ; Bat act the more oonaiatent part. And teach them to abstain. ■*^ POITBT, BOMQS, AMD BTMMB. 296f We will not bvt the dmnlnrd'i drink, Nor KKBP it where we dwell, 'Tis dear— 'tis dangerons— Mid 'tis death- It harries crowds to hell. O, that oor Christian friends would make One simaltaneoas stand, To execrate the dronkard's drink, And drive it fh>m oor land. SUPPLICATION. Spare, Lord, the thoaghtlees, guide th(> blind, Till man no more shall deem it Jnst To live, by forging chains to bind His welder brother in the dost Still give OS grace, Almighty King I Unwavering at oar posts to stand, Till gratefal at thy shrine we bring The tribate of a ransomed land. WE WILL PRAISE THEE i Parent of the great creation, Thon hast open'd wide thine hand ; Thanks we give and adoration, Now that we before thee stand. • T;. *■■ May all dmnkards now enslaved . Taste those pleasures we esjoy— They and as through grace be saved, And for thee oar lives employ. Safely by thy Spirit galded, Till tiie scenes of life are o'er. May we taste the bliss provided, Hanger then and thirst no more. Then oor sweetest voices raising, With the bright angelic host. Thy great name for evea- praising, Father, Son, and Holy Ohoit 99 TWt 1«OOK. TBMPBBUHOB KATI01rJi^ ANTHEIC. \ Tuira— " Ameriea," or " God Mve the Qacen." God MTe oar graeioai Qoeen, lUke h«r*t • hmpvj rrigii, ^ God tMT« tb« Qaeen ; , : May dl her satjects be Blest with Bobriety, Justice and pietgc, God sare the Qaeen. Lord oar God arise, Make all poor drankardt wiee, On thee me call:; ^ May thegr be broagbt to hate Drinks that Intoxicate, ' And tl^7 word venerate, , ' 0. save them alL Thy choicest fifts in. stor^, On all most richly poor Who tlo abstain; ' Obeying reason's laws, Faithfhl to our great canse, . * We'll tdng with sober voice, God save the Queen. .^z'!"* THANKSGIVING. , Toiw— " Woodstock." Let Temp'rance and her sons rejoice, And be their praises load and long; Let every heart and every voice Conspire to raise a joyful song. His children's prayer he deigns to4^nt. He stays the progress of the foe ; And temp'rance, like a cherish'd plant, Beneaft hie IbBtf ring eare ehall j[row. ■' ,:ft^(^.,.\^-.:.:-,f.-jfa'^„: I AK ▲ POOR nrSBBUfl. Tuin— " Dune Btnct." I am a poor inebriate, I coipe to seek relief of fov I saTe me from mj Ion ei^to, 111 sign yonr ple^ige, an At Bacchus' shrine no more 141 meet, ; My 4ri& is dead, my children gone, And now I hare no friende to great We never pause, when at our door, A wretched, trembling dmnkacd stands, -3?o ask the MHM0 that made ^im poor. Or why he now should help demand. Ooipe to the waters flowing wide As crystal fountains soft and clearer Come, take the pledge ; n,ought ;ihall betide ; You've tomp'rance frienjls— you^tii^d not fear. ^XAMPLB. TqkSt->' Baleqa^" Help-OS tofteLfor drwdken xnw. In all his sinifMidwQe ; f 4(vi^, ,Aad hiMkiluB C^alfUMB. r:t i8t TBI tUTOXALUl'S HAMS^BOOK. 'i ■ M THB DYING DRUNKARD. Str«tch'd on a heap of straw— ^his bed— The dying drunkard lies ; His joyless wife supports his head, And to console him, tries : His weeping children's loye would ease His spirit, but in vain ; Their ill-paid love destroys his peace. He'll never smile again. His boon companions— where are they 7— They sboVd his heart and bowl, Tet come not nigh to charm away « The horrors from his souL Whal have tueh fHends to do with those Who press the couch of pain 7 Ah I A« is racked with mortal throes — He'll never rise again I And where is mercy in that hour «••.'' Of let thy aol7 Spirit dweU Where Tice too long ba^ reignfd ; j^or Fhere thy mercy brea||i^ ti^e fg^U, . ^Tbe Tic^y is gi^ined. BLESSING IMPLORED.' TuNB—" Cleft of the Eock." Father of everlasting love, Thoa art the source of bonndlesa grace, Then let ns now thy goodness prove, While here assembled in this place ; Oar work regard, our labours bless, And crown our efforts with success. Grant, Lord, to j>roffp(|r ^nd advMii^e, . The measures by tiiy pt^t^n^ used To spread the cause of T9inp<^i(ce, Until tl^oughput tiie world ^used, Its happy, fruits mejTu^y knoFPi And fkH yn|i^i|nd \tB influenojs ,01m. Send forth.thy light, 4l|yti:nth, tl^r grace, Dispel the shadowing Jtlopm of night. Bring in the reign of rignteousnf j^s. And fill the world with mo^ light ; Illume the nations by thy word, And reig^ tbe onlvenal Lord. |r POBTRT, 80NGMI| AND HTM1I8. m DRUNKARD'S HOPE. TuMii-" Old Hundred." " Thongh ION beset with gailt Mid fear, I cannot, dare not, quite despair. If I must perish, would the Lord Have taught my heart to lore his word 7 Would he hare given me eyes to see Hy danger and my remedy ? Revealed hij name, and bid me pray. Had he resolved to say me nay. No : though cast down, I am not slain ; I'm fidlen, but shall rise again. The present, Satan, i» thy hour. But Jesus shall control thy power. His love will plead for my relief; He hears my groans, he seef my grief; Nor will he suffer thee to boast A soul that sought his help was lost. I'll cast myself before his feet ; I see him on his mercy-seat : ('Tis sprinlded with atoning blood :) There sinners find access to Ood. Te buirdened souls, approach with me. And make the Saviour's name your plea ; Jesus will pardon all who come, And strike our fierce accuser dumb." ,:• \' STOP AND THINK. Stop, ye drinkers, stop and think, Before you farther go ; Will yon sport upon the brink Of everlasting woe 7 On the verge of ruin stop ; Now the friendly warning take: Stay your footsteps— ere yon drop Into the burning lake. ,/ 804 TBI mrOTALlB't HAlfD-BOOK. Gbnatly death will qoieklj come, And drag yoa to bit bar ; >,^g Tben to bear your awful doom Will fill yott with despair I .;; All your line will round you crowd, You ihall mark their crimion dye, Each for Tengeance crying loud, And what can you reply 7 Tbo' your heart were made of steel, Your forehead lined with brass, Ood at length will make you feel He will not let you pass : I Drunkards tben in vain will call, Those who now despise his grace, " Rouks and mountains on us fall, A&d bide us from his face." ''^ TEMPERANCE TRUMPET. ^,,. Tune—" Grace." The Temp'rance Trumpet blow. That all may hear the sound, ' I And shun the drunkard's wretched way For paths where bliss is found. The Temp'rance Trumpet blow, And bid the young come near : Youth is the time to serve the Lord ' With zeal and humble fear. The Temp'rance Trumpet blow. That all with hoary hairs The cup of death may now renounce. And 'scape its countless snares. The Temp'rance Trumpet blow, ft ' That all may hear and flee The drunkard's path of woe and shame, And endless misery. TBI TBITOTALBft'8 HAND-BOOK. THB WIDOW'S APPBAL. BUj, lUy thy hand — Oh I tempt him not, For h« is all that'i Itfk to m«, Tho innthtne of mj lonely lot, The partner of mj mieery— My youngest horn, His Ikther's pride— I Oh I tempt him not. Take all beside. Take all beside, hot leave my boy, t' Nor tempt him with the accursed bowl ; He is the widow's only joy, The solace of her troubled soul. Father and Mend , Thy victim fell — Oh I spare the boy I love so well. .. ^ ^mHii Thrice have I seen the cold grave yawn, And swallow, in its darksome gloom. The forms I've loved from earliest dawn— • And thou, alas, didst seal their doom. The tempting bowl Thy hand didst hold, , And all was done For paltry gold. Those painful scenes I can forget. This bruised heart can heal again. And burning tears shall no more wet These pallid cheeks, so sunk with pain. All is forgiven. If thoult but swear. By hope of heaven, Thou wilt forbear. And tempt no more my darling boy To taste those bitter dregs of woe, No more the mother's peace destroy ; Bat onward let thy footsteps go 7 r ' I - i 906 ?), t'l ^»^ T91 T«XTQTA|«SB'a BAin^OOi;. To seek th« lost From virtac's ways, fa«s. And joj ihi'U croir^ 7 t<^.'Ji .^'' Thy fatare dayi. sl^i.' •*»'* • 1 ■ • . '*^'- THE TEMPTER. * i!| TcKB— >' DevizM." $ v;f.2^, I hate the Tempter and his charms, I hate his flattering brwth ; ^ V The serpent takes a thousand fprms To lead our souls to death. He feeds our hopes with ftiry dreams, Or kills with slavish fear ; " And holds us still in wide extremes, , . Presumption or despair. '^ Now he persuades, How easy 'tis To walk the road to heaven ; Anon he swells our sins, and cries, f • They cannot be forgiveu. Almighty Ood I cut short his power, , 'i Let him in darkness dwell ; And, that he vex the earth no moroi Confine him down to hell. -,||;l7»-MtS -^t^m-' yVOKm FROM HEAVEN. Turn— " Peckhsm." ^ I heard a Toice from heaven Address the thoughtless throng, Who hasten downward to the tomb With reveh;^ and aQp^. \;' "<.: '•x^:t •mp TWS- 6*¥ It warned them not to q««nch The holy light within, And madly dare the iuafal doom Of ttnrepei»ted sin. ^ » *, It warned them of the shame That haunts the drunkard's grave, And of that leprosy of soul ' ^'' From which no skill can save. I looked, and thousands fled The tempter's fatal snare ; But some were number'd with the dead — Who shall their doom declare ? f ,--T.fA ti-i THE FUNERAL. TcNB— " Balerma." Mournful and sad upon my ear . The death-bell echoes stole ; And painftil memories opened all The feelings of my soul. Tha knell — the knell — it told of woe That words cannot reveal — '^ Of desolate and broken hearts, ' * ° ^** Where grief had set his seal. X i Again it pealed — and on the air It swelled and died along ; And to the dwelling of the dead There came a weeping thrcmg. ^ v. .. ,. In tattered weeds, with trembling stepe, The widow led the train ; And her poor orphans followed on, ^^ Sad sharera of her paiii^ 308 POBTBT, BONOS, AND HTHN8. Ashes to afehes, dast to dust, Olay to its kindred claj — They left the de&d — and wailed and wept, And slowlj moTed away. But ah I there hung a heavy cloud Upon that husband's name ; And deep disgrace had settled down Upon that father's fame. _.^j There was a keenness in their grief- A death-shade in their gloom- As, desolate and fatherless, * They left the Drunkard's Tomb. *v ■%t COLD WATER. •A By Mrs. Siooobmbt. V The thirsty flowerets droop ; the parching grass Doth crisp beneath the feet, and the wan trees Perish for lack of moisture. By the side Of the dried rills, the herds despairing stand. With tongues protruded. Summer's fiery heat, Exhaling, checks the thousand springs of life. Mark ye yon cloud glide forth on angel wing? Heard ye the herald drops, with gentle force, Stir the broad leaves ? and the protracted rain, Waking the streams to run their tuneful way? Saw ye the flocks rejoice, and did ye fail To thank the God of fountains ? POETBT, BONOS, AND HTMNS. 309 See, — the hart Pant for the water-brooks. The fervid sua Of Asiajglitters on his leafy lair, As, fearful of the lion's wrath, he hastes. With timid footsteps, through the whispering reeds, Quiclc leaping to the renovating stream ; The copious draught his bounding veins inspires With joyous vigor. Patient o'er the sand, The burden-bearer of the desert clime. The camel toileth. Faint with deadly thirst, His writhing neck of bitter anguish speaks. Lo 1 an oasis, and a tree-girt well 1 — And, moved by powerful instinct, on he speeds, With agonizing haste, to drink, or die. On his swift courser, o'er the burning wild, The i Tab cometh. From his eager eye FlAsbes desire. Seeks he the sparkling wine. Giving its golden color to the cup ? No I to the gushing stream he flies, and deep Buries his scorching lip, and laves his brow. And blesses Allah. Christian pilgrim, come I - Thy brother of the Koran's broken creed Shall teach th*e wisdom, and, with courteous hand. Nature, thy mother, holds the crystal cup. And bids thee pledge her in the element Of temperance and health. Drink and be whole, And purge the fever poison from thy veins. And pass, in purity and peace, to taste ■„^- The river flowing from the throne of God. , . -v DASH IT DOWN! To earth the cup be harled, • That holds an adder's sting; And let us pledge the world ^ . With nectar from the spring. That hence, like Rechab's ancient line. Though prophets urge, we drink no wine I R m THE TEITOTALIR'9 HANI»-II0QK. THE YOUNG WIFE'b LAST APPEAL. By J. L. Cbksteb. " Oh, hnsband, husband,, go not out Again, this stormy night ; For snowy clouds have hid the earth Within a robe of white. Hark to the whistling winds, that scream Lilce fiends amid their glee, And now, subdued, they seem to moan A dirge-like melody. '■' " Oh, husband, hnsband, do not leave Our fire, so bright and warm, * To braye the darkness of the night, '' And danger of the storm.. > The fire, it burneth pleasantly Upon our tidy hearth — We may be happy here to-night, And join in peaceful mirth. " Think of the many joyous hours We have together spent, * When to my grief your gentle voice A charm of music lent. Think of the holy book we read, ^ Ere we in prayert.did bow ; And here it is — thd same good book- Gome, read it to me now. " Look in the cradle, husband, look ! There sleeps our baby boy ; Be wakes — he wakes — to look on thee, And curl his lip in joy. Oh, husband, go not out to-night — Thy wife, thy child entreat ; Our eve shall be a pleasant one; And our eojoyment sweet l'^ ■V, POBTRT, 80N(}8, AND HTHN8. Be heeded not the fond appeal, But thrust his wife aside — That gentle being who had been But one short year a bride. He braved the snoi)*— he faced the storm, And journeyed o'er the plain, But never to his wife and child The drunkard came again. I 311 THE WIFE'S APPEAL. By W. C. Bennett. Winter— A Street outeide an Alehouse— A Working Man, hit Wife, and Child. Oh, don't go in to-night, John,— Now, husband, don't go in I To spend our only shilling, John, •' . Would be a cruel sin. There's not a loaf at home, John— There's not a coal, you know — Though with hunger I am faint, John, And cold comes down the snow. Then don't go in to-night I Ah, John, you must remember — And, John, I can't forget, — When never foot of yours, John, Was in the alehouse set. Ah, those were happy times, John, No quarrels tlien we knew, And none were happier in our lane Than I, dear John, and you. Then don't go in to-night t 312 THE TEETUTALEB'S HANI>-B00K. You 'will not go I — John, John, I mind When we were courting, few Had arm as strong, or step as firm, Or clieek as red as you ; But drink has stolen your strength, John, And paled your cheek to white, Hiis tottering made your young firm tread, And bowed your manly height. You'll not go in to-night 7 < '\ :lv ,\ \i ■5;-: •f-.'( You'll not go in.? — Think on the day That made me, John, your wife ; Whnt pleasant talk that day we had ' Of all our future life I Of how your steady earnings, John, No wasting should consume, But weekly some new comfort bring , To deck our happy room. Then don't go in to-night I To see us, John, as then we dressed, So tidy, clean, and neat, - Brought out all eyes to follow us As we went down the street. Ah, little thought our neighbors thea, And we as little thought. That ever, John, to rngs like these, By drink we shcu'd be brought. ' ^,, ^,; You won't go in to-night ! And will you go ? If not for mc, Yet for your baby stay ; — You know, John, not a taste of food Has passed my lips to-day ; And tell your father, little one, 'Tis mine your life hangs on. You will not spend the shilling, John 7 You'll give it him ? Come, John, Come home with us to-night t [(?lace as ad- all removed ration, was chased for- nfidence in ks from the s supposed his opinion )n to a vast lion in one and if in a ess and iu- luch by any In a work n, London, umberland, were pretty rof/reas, the ily eclipsed od of com- FAOTS AND ANECDOTES. 315 pounding, or making np, as it is technically called, Irandy lor retail : — Oath, " To ten puncheons of brandy 1081 Add flavored raisin spirit 118 Tincture of grains of paradise. 4 Cherry laurel water 2 Spirit of almond cake 2 ■i — _ t^fvV ,.- ,: . 1207 Add also ten handfuls of oak saw-dust, and give it complexion with burned sugar." Gin. — The same author, speaking of this article says: "To prepare and sweeten gin, &c., oil of vitrol, oil of almonds, oil of turpentine, oil of juniper berries, lime water, alum, salt of tartar and sub-acetate of lead are used. Sulphate of lead is poisonous. I have reason to believe the use of it is frequent, because its action is more rapid, and it imparts to the liquor a fine complexion ; hence some vestiges of lead may often be detected in malt liquor." Rum — As with brandy and gin, so with rum. If whisky will sell for more money under the name of mm than under the name of whiski/, it is as easy to turn whisky into rum as into brandy gin, or wine. Wine. — Here the fabricators make their greatest profits, exer- cise their greatest skill and probably do the greatest amount of injury. Unadulterated wine, according to its name and quality, muHt command a certain price to make it worth dealing in. The fabricator's ingenuity is put to the greatest trial to produce an article resembling the pure, so as to obtain as near as possible, the price of the pure ; and as it is impossible to distinguish the pure from impure, and as the impure can be made at one-tenth to one- quarter of the value of the pure, the impure, as a natural conse- quence, takes the place of the pure ; the same as the bogus dollar would take the place of the pure silver dollar, provided it was 31G THB TIITOTALXR's BAND-BOOK. Bettled by common consent a dollar was a dollar, whether ]bogus or not. Says Dr. Nott : " I had a friend who had been once a wine dealer, and having read the startling stntements made public in relation to the brewing of wines, and the adulterations of other liquors, generally, I enquired of that friend of the verity of those statements. His reply was, ' God forgive what ha» passed in MY OWN cellar^ hut the statements made are TRUE, and ALL TRUJB, I assure you.* " . The process of adulteration is carried on in wine countvio.'?, ns well as in this country, with regard to Madeira, sherry, claret, find all other kinds of wine. The Hcv. Dr. Buird has stated that " little or no wine is drank in France in a pure state, except it may be at the wine-press. The dealers purchase it at the vineyards in a pure state, but in their hands it is entirely changed, by adding orngsor distilled spirits." ' ' Horatio Greenough, the eminent sculptor, says, " that although wine can be had in Florence at one cent a bottle, the dealers do not hesitate to add drugs and water, to gain a fraction more of profit." Champagne. — Some cider or whisky, some water, some fixed air, some sugar of lead, &c., form the compound. When this fabricated mixture circulates in the country, it is generally sold as pure, aud our young men often (^uaff it at two dollars the bottle, and an advance on the original cost of only eleven hundred percent! ■ ■' ■'■-, . -u .,v- • .-f ■-■-'■: .- A physician in New-York purchased a bottle of what was called genuine champagne of the importers, and had it subjected to chemical tests : it was found to contain a quarter of an ounce of sugar of lead. Who would like to drink a mixture of sugar of lead and water ? A gentleman in New-York, who made champagne, purchased some of the regular importer, wishing to give his friends some of the genuine article. At a convivial party he produced his pur« aa 4i FACTS AND ANIODOTIS. 317 : ]bogus a wine ublio in >f other of those I in MY TRUE, trios, ,18 ret, f.nd 8 drank e-press. but in istilled Ithough Uers do nore of i.-^ri'vi e fixed m this ly sold bottle, undred i i called :t cted to * ince of agar of y chased ome of mre as imported. When the corks began to flj, one dropped near him; on examining it, he found it was liis own fabrication. The supposed importer had purchased it, and, by his French tinsel and French labels, sold it back, as pure, to the original fabricator — biting the biter. But enough of champagne. Port. — An Episcopal clergyman, recently returned from the continent of Europe, visited an immense manufactory of all kinds of wine. Logwood came in as a great ingredient ; so great that the proprietors kept a vessel in their employ for its importation. The dy^rs in Manchester (England) say, " The wine brewers are running away with all the best logwood;" and the London people say, " If you wish to get genuine Port, you must go your- self to Oporto, mn/ce your own wine, and ride outside of the barrel all the way home.'* * "We end our statements as to the brandy, gin, rum, whisky, and wine fabrications, and close with the last, the most filthy, and most disgusting of the whole tribe of intoxicating drinks. Beer. — The very name of it creates a loathing in the stomach of the writer, a kind of upheaving of disgust, not unlike that of seasickness : the celebrated Beer Trial between John Taylor and Edward G. Delavan sheds some light on the filthy materials used in its manufacture. We give, for the benefit of beer drinkers, some of the testimony : — Hon. John Savage, late Chief Justice of the State, testified thus: "The water was always dirty; never saw it otherwise. My home refuaedto drinJc it. I have seen dead an mala there; and I believe I have seen dogs, cats, and hogs. The jilth from the slaughter-house yard was then running and oozing into the creek; the snow was going off; at any rate the slaughter-house was wet, and I cduld see Jilth and toater mixedj running into the stream.^^ Thomas Coulson (class-leader in the Methodist Church) testis fies : " The water in the pond was always bad — in a putrid state in the fall of the year. What was in the water — anything to R* <4'!tiimM 318 THE TKETOTALEB'8 UAND-BOOK. make it bad ? Different kinds of animals floating in the water. In the warmth of the weather the water wan green. Dogs, and oats, and hogs I've seen. Did you ever try to make glue of that watei ? It would not do for that. Why not ? It was what I coll rotten water." Worthy op their Founder. — At the Conference of Wes- leyan Methodists, recently held at Massachusetts, reports of com- mittees on t'^mperanoe and tract distribution, were presented and adopted. Tue report ou temperance was short and to the point. It declared that the use of intoxicating li((uors as a beverage was an immorality, and that it ought to bo so regarded by the chris- tian church ; that the making and soiling of them, to bo used ns a beverage, was) a crime of the highest order, and should be so con- sidered by the civil and ecclesiastical law ; and that to secure the complete triumph of temperance, its friends should unite their efforts in their social and political capacities, and in no case to consider themselves at liberty to support in business or promote to office, men who are opposed to the temperance enterprise. It con- cluded with the following : — ' Whereas true temperance implies a total abstinence from all things injurious to health, and only a moderate use of those things which tend to promote it, resolved : r That while we advocate and practice total abstinence from all in- toxicating liquors, we will also, everywhere by example, and on all proper occasions by precept, discountenance the vulgar use of tobacco.^ "• Opinions op Medical Men, Missionaries, and others, as to the destruotion of life caused by Alcoholic Liquors. — " There are upwards of 600,000 drunkards in Great Britain, 60,000 of whom die every year." — Farliamentary Report on Drunkenness. " The art of preparing liquors is the greatest curse ever inflicted on humanity." — Dr. Paris. . * " Intoxicating liquors, in all their forms, and however disguised, are the most productive cause of disease with which I am acquaint- ed."— /)r. Trotter. . _ . . ^ . . ■'%.-^ FACTS AND ANKCLOTCS. 319 he water. )og8, and e of that iB what I of Wes- 8 of com- inted and the point, orage was the chris- uj"»d as a 36 80 con- eoure the lite their no ease to tromote to . It con- implies a id only a resolved : )m all in- ?, and on ;ar use of niERC, AS LiQUOBS. t Britain, Report on T inflicted disguised, acquaint- .,:i iji. , ■ ■ " I repeat it again and again, that alcohol, in all its forms and combinations, whether in the carefully homo-brewed, or in the wine that sparkles, is never converted into nourishment."-—^, Conrtnej/, Surgeon, Royal Navy, " Under the name of rum, brandy, gin, whisky, wine, cider, beer, and porter, alcohol is become the bane of the Christian world." — Dr. Darwin. » < " If a man beginning at twenty, were to take one large glassful of spirits regularly every day, he would thereby affect the duration of his life, probably ubridijinij it by at least ten years." — Dr. Cheyne. " The use of spirits, even in the gi'catest moderation, tends to shorten life." — l'ro/,s:or IHtvhcork. " Whilst hundreds and thousands have committed suicide by the agency of hemp and steel, tens of thousands have Jfntroyed themselves by intuxioating drinks." — J. Beaumont^ Surgeon. " The frequent consumption of a small quantity of spirits, grad- ually increased, is as surely destructive of life as more habitual intoxication ; and, therefore, the publicans are spreading disease and death to a degree that is frightful." — Dr. Gordon. ''Unnatural excitement, by moans of strong liquors, occasions a proportionate exhaustion of the vitj»l powers, a diminished capa- city for subsequent exertion, a premature old age, a life of suffer- ing, and an early grave." — Dr. Carrick. " Two-thirds of the diseases and deaths of Europeans in India are in consequence of their indulging in the use of spirituous liquors, and exposing themselves unnecessarily to the sun during the heat of the day." — W. Burlce^ Inspector- General of II. M. Ilompitals. Dr. Gordon of the London Hospital, in his evidence before the parliamentary committee, stated, from accounts he had kept of the thousands of sick cases coming under his observation during the year, that there were sixty-five out of every hundred clearly aris- ing from strong drink. In Edinburgh, though we cannot state positively that the sud- V: ? Vi 320 THK TEBTOTALXR's HAND-BOOK. den deaths, and deaths from apoplexy, in the following list, were caused by drunkenness, yet the general experience of medical men is, that the greatest proportion of such are. The following list of deaths for 1846, is taken from Dr. Stark's tables of mortality : — Sudden deaths 14 i '^"' Apoplexy 81 rlip^' Intemperance 7 ■k. Violent deaths and suicides 125 -A . V':'.'"^""': ' "■' '' 227 Dr. Tait states that nearly one-half of the accidents, and sev- enty-three out of every hundred suicides, or attempted suicides, were caused byt strong drink. From investigations we have made we are persuaded that instead of seven deaths by intemperance, there is upwards of four hundred deaths from drink in Edinburgh every year. Bead over these facts and opinions of men who have no interest in stating untruths, and add the following testimony of the Rev. J . Williams^ Missionary to the South Sea Islands : — " The de- population of the South Sea Islands has been most fearful ; but I am not aware that it is traceable to the operation of the cruelty of Europeans. It is traceable, in a great measure, to the demoral- izing effects of intercourse with the Europeans — the introduction of ardent spirits and fire arms." Also from- the parliamentary report on aboriginal tribes: — " The copper Indians, through ill-management, intemperance^ and vice, are said to have decreased, within the last five years, to one-half the number of what they were." Thus, you see, wherever the natives of our land go, they carry the pestilence along with them ; while we who live in the midst of thousands of dying drunkards have become so accustomed to the sight, that it excites no wonder, no effort, to save sixty thousand drunkards from their grave. Strong Drink and Insanity. — The healthy operations of tba brain are materially hindered by drinking intoxicating liquors. ^izlJ^ki^ ;U-i.;^y-. '^Jx.'iLi. ■^4 FACTS AND ANECDOTES. 321 ist, Vere ioal men Qg list of ility : — 'i^%:^ and sev- guicides, i\e made iperance, dinburgh interest the Rev. ' The de- ful; but le cruelty demoral- roduction :— " The and vice, ) one-half hey carry t midst of led to the thousand 'ations of g liquors. Inflammation and engorgement are frequent consequences of the use of alcoholic drinks, and may take place at the time of a de- bauch, or arise some time afterwards, during the stage of debility, from a loss of the healthy balance of action in the system. In- flammation of the organ, when it is acute, is usually attended with furious delirium and other indications of liigh cerebral excitement. In support of these observations we would direct attention to the following testimonies : — , .p_^„.,^^^.j,. The use of fermented liquors, and particularly of spirits, is very conducive to the bringing on of insanity ; they first act on the stomach, then on the nervous system ; they bring on diseased ac- tion ; disorganization of the brain is the consequence, and all the dreadful results of insanity follow. Out of twenty-eight cases ad- mitted at the Middlesex Lunatic Asylum last year, that were re- ported to us as having been recent cases, nineteen of the twenty- eight were drunkards." — Dr. Ellis. " Among four hundred and ninety-five patients admitted, in four years, into a Lunatic Asylum, at Liverpool, two hundred and fifty-seven were known to have lost their reason by drunkenness." '' Dr. Hallaran ascertained, that at the Cork Lunatic Asylum, out of three hundred and eighty- three male patients, one hundred and three had become deranged through the excessive drinking of whisky." " In Scotland, where they drink about three times the quantity of spirits that is consumed in England, the number of insane per- sons is about three to one, as compared with the number in Eng- land." — Parliamentary Report. " The intellectual faculties are impaired by alcohol. Every ex- cess is a voluntary insanity, and if often repeated, and carried be- yond a certain dcgi'ee, it often produces the horrible disease called delirium tremens^ in which, while the animal powers are pros- trated, the mind is tortured with the most distressing and fearful imagination." — Forty Physicians of the State of New York. ^■f "No man," says an eminent physician, " who has taken only a 322 THE teetotaler's HAND-BOOK. single glass, has all his faculties in as perfect a state as the man who takes none." The Earl of Shaftsbury, after having been a commissioner of Lunacy for twenty years, made the following statement at a meet- ing held at Manchester u — " I state that having had the whole of the Commijsion under my personal observation and care, having made enquiries into the matter, and having fortified them by in- quiries in America which have confirmed the inquiries made in ,this country, the result is, that fully six-tenths of all the cases of insanity to be found in these realms and in America, arise from no other cause than the habits of intemperance in which the people have indulged." • Look at th^s, Sailors ! — Captain Ross, in the Arctic regions, induced all his men to discontinue the use of the accustomed grog ; the result was they acknowledged themselves better, and more capable of enduring cold, and discharging their duty, than when they indulged the use of it. Dr. Hooker says, " The use of spirits in cold weather is generally prejudicial. It is pleasant and entic- ing, but does no good. The extremities are not warmed by it ; and you are colder and more fatigued a quarter or half-hour after, than you would have been without it." He adds, *' Several men on board our ship, and amongst them some of the best, never touched grog during the ant-arctic cruises. They used coffee in- stead. They were not a whit the *worso for their abstinence, but enjoyed perfect health throughout the four years' voyage." " All hands on board the Hawberry brig Julia, a south-sea whaler, shipped under the condition that whosoever should be seen intoxi- cated, whether on board or ashore, should lose his wages. No spirit rations were given out ; but, instead, coffee twice, and tea once a day. In cold weather the crew received at night giiiger- J«a, prepared for every watch twice. The captain remarked that he had never seen a stronger or healthier crew on board any ves- sel of her size." " The brig Canada, Capt. Hardie, ran 63,560 miles in 586 da^s, and crossed almost all habitable latitudes. This was mor« than twice the distance round the world. She had FACTS AND ANECDOTES. np". 323 man sixteen hands on board, who never, during the whole time, used any intoxicating liquors, and who all returned hence without a day's sickness." " The brig Globe has lately returned from a voyage to the Pacific Ocean. She had on board a crew of ten persons, and was absent nearly eighteen months. During the voy- age she was in nearly all climates of the world. She had not one sick on board, and brought back all the crew orderly and obedient. All these advantages Captain Moore attributes in a great measure to the absence of spirituous liquors. There was not a drop on board the vessel." " Captain Pearce, of the ship Camhridge, of Bristol, stated that he left Hull with a crew of twenty-four men, and that he never used a drop of ardent spirits, nor did he suflFer it to be ou board. He returned to Liverpool, and his men's health was improved ; his pilot said he had never seen a ship in such order." " The Rev. William Scoresby, of Exeter, who was engaged in the Arctic whale fishery twenty-one years, has stated he did not use ardent spirits, and he believes he was better far without them." " Mr. Mimpriss states, when he was purser on board a convict ship, they took out to Botany-Bay nearly three hundred females in one vessel. These convicts were not allowed any other beverage than water, while the crew had their regular allowance of grog. All the convicts were in health during the 8e\en months' voyage. Several of the crew died on the passage; and of the remainder, several were reported sick on landing." " In the year 1619, an English crew of twenty-two men, entered Hud- son's Bay without ardent spirits — exposed to the cold — and only two of them died. Other Englishmen have done the same since with spirits, and have not returned to their native land." " Sir John Kichardson, the great Arctic traveller, says, " I am quite satisfied that spirituous liquors diminish the power of resisting cold." " Dr. Trotter, late physician to Lord Howe's fleet says, " Human blood and healthful chyle do not acknowledge alcohol to be an ingredient in its composition." Strange but True. — King Alcohol's advocates fall when he attempts to support them. 324 THE TEETOTALER S HAND-BOOK. The Price op Blood. — The coin of the dealer in strong drink should be inscribed, " This certifies that the bearer has made a man beat his wife." " This half-crown is a memorial of four nights of wretchedness, which were given to a whole family in ex- change for it." " This bag of money certifies, that the possessor has sent two of his neighbors to the jail, and their wives and chil- dren to the poor-house." What money for a man to hold in his cofiers ! It is " the price of blood .'" Father Mathew's Conversion to Teetotalism. — For some time previous to the year 1838, William Martin, of Cork, now well known as the " father of Father Mathew," had repeated- ly urged Mr. Mathew to give his influence to the temperance society which had been formed in Cork, and of which G. W. Carr, Esq., and others were members. To these solicitations Mr. Mathew listened with his usual candour and politeness ; but it was not until April of the year just mentioned that the time ap- peared to have arrived for the commencement of his gbrious ca- reer. One Sunday evening, as Mr. Martin was seated with his family in the parlour in Patrick Street, a messenger came from Mr. Mathew, requesting Mr. Martin's company. On the arrival of the latter, Father Mathew said, — " Mr. Martin, I have sent for you to help me in forming a society." " With all my heart," said Mr. Martin; "when shs^U we begin?" "To-morrow." The place and time of meeting wa.s at oiice appointed, and the meeting was held accordingly. Father Mathew presided. After he had explained the object of the meeting, and various addresses had been delivered, he signed the pledge, and about sixty others fol- lowed his example. During the meeting an interesting incident occurred, illustrative of the catholic spirit which has ever distin- guished the labors of the great Irish reformer. Hearing some whispers at the table, he observed to Mr. Martin, who sat next to him, " What do you think they are saying ?" " They say — * Here is a Catholic Priest sitting between a Presbyterian minister and a member of the Society of Friends.' " " Well," said Mr. Martin, " is it not pleasant that there is one place where we can FACTS AND ANECDOTES. 325 meet without distinction of creed, and unite in the one object of doing good?" " It is, indeed," rejoined Father Mathew; "and there is another place, too, where I hope wo shall all unite in like manner." Such was the origin of the " Cork Total Abstinence Society," from which such wonderful results have flowed. Death ov Alexander. — ^When Alexander was at Babylon, after having spent a whole night in carousing, a second feast was proposed to him. He went accordingly, and there were twenty guests at the table. He drank the health of every person in the company, and then pledged them severally. After this, calling for Hercules' cup, (which held an incredible quantity,) it was filled, when he poured it all down, drinking to a Macedonian of the company, Proteas by name ; and afterwards pledged him in the same extravagant bumper. He had no sooner swallowed it than he fell upon the floor. " Here, then," cried Seneca, describing the fatal effects of drunlcenness, " the hero unconquered by the toils of prodigious marches, exposed to the dangers of sieges and combats, to the most violent extremes of heat and cold, here he lies, subdued by his intemperance, struck to the earth by the fatal cup of Hercules." In this condition he was seized with a fever, which, in a few days terminated in death. No one^ says Plutarch Arria, then suspected that Alexander was poisoned ; the true poison which brought him to his end was wine, which has killed many thousands besides Alexander. The Tendency op the Traffic. — A gentleman in Cincin- nati is in possession of the names of all the liquor dealers in two streets of that city for the last fifteen years. There were sixty- seven in all, of which number fifty-three are dead — and forty-six of them died drunk! One hundred and fifty of the convicts in the Ohio State Prison, and seventy-six in the Connecticut Peni- tentiary, have occupied the unenviable position of standing behind the bar. The proportion of rumsellers destroyed by their own business is fearfully great, and should warn those who regard their happiness from entering upon so unhallowed an enterprise. r 826 THE teetotaler's HAND-BOOK. Bber-Hovs£s. — At the Bomney Agricultural Meeting, uqder the presidency of Lord Palmerston, the Rev. A. Moore, in return- ing thanks to the bishop and clergy of the diocese, said he oould not help adverting to a movement that was now going on in the parish of Romnsy. They might laugh at the Temperance move- ment, but he had known many whose persons and habitations for- merly exhibited the greatest degradation, poverty, and misery. Since these persons had joined the Temperance movement he had gone into cottage after cottage, and had found husbands and wives who used to live like dogs and cats, but who now abstained from the habit of drinking, living in domestic happiness, comfort and cheerfulness — (hear.) In Romney, with a population of 6,660 persons, there w^sre 1,235 houses, 52 of which were public houses and beer-houses. There was, therefore, a public house or beer- house to every 112 persons, and one to every 23 houses'^ He once thought that his parish was one of the worst in the kingdom, but he had seen some reason to modify this opinion. The beer-, houses next required attention. Some of his Rev. brethren wished them to be put under the control of the magistrates. For him- self he should rejoice to see every beer-house put down. Without a more efficient control over them the labors of the clergy were in vain — (hear.) 1859. YotJNG Men Ruined. — The young men of our land are being ruined by thousands. It is astoffishing what inroads intemper- ance is now making into the very best classes of our youth, And how imperceptibly the baneful vice of drinking is creeping into what is called good society. We do not mean that whisky or brandy is drank, but we do mean that the course of beer drinking is rapidly working the ruin of those young men, whom all have so long loved for their intellectual and moral worth. Never, in the history of the fell destroyer, has there been so much cause to mourn over the fallen youth of our land, as at present. Here, in the streets of Chicago young men, scarcely thirty years of age, wear upon their faces the rum blossom of three ^, FACTS AND ANIODOTSS. 887 tcore years of olden time ; and the carbuncled nose teHs a tale that only the toper of fifty could have blazoned forth a few years since. At the same time there are hundreds in our midst who are imbib- ing the slops of the brewery, who can see no deleterious effects re- sulting from the use of such mild and fashionable drinkn and are scarcely conscious of their ruinous course. "We have ho time to waste upon the question as to whether Inger beer will intoxicate ; for common sense will teach any man that it is impossible to brew it without some per-centage of alcohol. If such a view is not satisfactory, the aspect which the guzxlers present when they are filled, is enough to satisfy any one of the votaries of the beverj^ just imbibed. The fact is, this lager is not only intoxicating but is so dru^^d, as to add to its baneful effects, and is the means of under-mining the health of thousands on thousands, implanting the insatiable appetite for stronger drinks, palsying the noblest resolve of noble hearts, and ruining the bodies and souls of the choicest youth of our city and country. Must we give up these young men ? Shall they crowd the road to ruin, as now, uncared for, save by a few whose means are pow- erless to save ? Or will the church arouse, will tem^rance men awake, will every good citizen bestir himself, and all work for the salvation of our youth ? The time has come for thought and for action. — North- Western Some Journal, March, 1859. How TO Rise in Life. — About eight years ago, there was a drunken hatter in great disgrace and misery. He signed the Temperance pledge, and then went to work to raise himself in society. Having got employment he toiled hard to save a few pounds, with which he opened a shop in London. His business increased, and he employed a man to help him. More business and more men followed, until he had opened three shops. He has now a prosperous business, a beautiful home, a happy mind, and (to use his own language) " can pay twenty shillings to the pound." He is a clever lecturer on Temperance, and likely to prove a rieh, wise, and very useful man. 328 THE TXKTOTALBR'S HAND-BOOK. Asylum for Inebriates.— An exchange remarks: — v"The State of New York has get her sister States a gocd example in the <^tahli8hment of an Asylum for Inebriates." We hope the good example will be improved until every state, every county, pvery city and every village where the demon's drink is tolerated, has its asylum for inebriates. Strict justice between man and man, however, seems to require that the rumsellers, who alone have all the benefit of reducing a fellow-creature to poverty and shame, should take care of him afterward. But as they do not choose to do this, and as those who allow the rumsellers to thus destroy members of the social compact are hardly less culpable than the rumsellers themselves, it is clearly their duty to.provideaplace where the wreqk of humanity, when no longer profitable to the rumsellers, shall be taken care of. To-be-sure, a better plan than building asylums for rum-drinkers might be devised as, for ex- ample, penitentiaries for rumsellers. And it has been suggested, occasionally, by some " temperance fanatic," who don't know enough even to drink moderately, jind then leave off altogether the very moment he finds that he can't govern himself, that if there was no rum trade there would be no need for asylums ibr drunkards. But isn't rum property ? Haven't millions of dollars been in- vested in it ? If the merchant invests his dollars in rum, is not rum the representative of his dollars ? Who is to meddle with the sacred . rights of property ? Humanity before property ? Fudge ! As society is now constituted, every man has a right to sell whatever he pleases, especially if it is rum. Suppose there are half a million of drunkards in the United States. It only wants six thousand inebriate asylums to sober them in ; and then, when they have got cured, and have become industrious citizens, with a little change in their pockets, the rumsellers will very econ relieve them of their newly acquired cash and character, and send them back to the asylum again. So build asylums, good, benevo- lent, shortsighted mortals, but don't meddle with the grog-sl.ops. — Life Illustrated, FAOTS k..^ ANKOOOTIS. 829 History of a Bistillebt.— What if the ' '^«>t7 of a d&itO- lery oould be written out — so much rap for medicine of real Tfllue ; 80 much for the parts of real value. That would be one drop, I suppose, taken out and shaken from the distillery. Then BO much ram sold to the Indians, to excite them to soalp one an- other ; so much sent to the Africans to be changed into slaves to rot in Cuba and Brazil ; so much sent to the heathens in Asii^ and to the Islands of the ocean ; and so much used at home. Then if the tale of every drop could be written out — so much pain, so much redness of eyes, so much diminution of productive power in man ; so many houses burnt, ships foundered, and railway trains dashed to pieces; so many lives lost; so many widows made, doubly widows because their husbands still live ; so many orphans — their fathers yet living, long dying on the earth — ^what a tale it would be ! Imagine that all the persons who had suffered from torments engendered on that plague-spot came together and sat on the ridge-pole and roo^ and filled up the large hall of that distillery, and occupied the streets and lanes about it, and told their tales of drankenness, robbery, unchastity, and murder, writ- ten on their faces and foreheads. What a story it would be, the fact stranger than fiction I Legal Suppression Fifty-Seven Years Since. — "A few years ago," writes Dr. Trotter in 18G3, " the crops of grain were so deficient over this island that the distillery of spirits from malt was prohibited ; and thus scarcity, bordering on famine, became a blessing to the human race. But no sooner had> fraitful seasons and the bounty of providence covered the earth with plenty, than the first gift of heaven — abundance of corn — ^was again, for the sake of taxation, converted into poisonous spirits, by opening the distilleries. Might not other taxes be devised that woulv be equally productive? and. would it not be a virtuous act of the legislature to abolish the practice forever f" On page 49 Dr. Trotter states, — " During my residence at Plymouth Dock, to- wards the conclusion of the late war, I had the satisfaction of get- 330 THE TUVOTALSB'S BilIII>-BOOK. ting 200 gin-shqM shvt np. They were destroying the rery vvitalfl of our naval service. In the year 1800 not !«es than £1,400,000 prise money was paid at that port to the seamen ; and every trick was practised to entrap those credulous and unthinking people. An overgrown brewer who had monopolised a number of these houses com{Jaiued heavily of my representations to the Admiralty, and said that he had lost £5,000 by the business." '^ Female Intemperance. — " To those of the other sex who happen to be addicted to the bottle, the hysteric affection is very apt to occur during the paroxysm of inebriety. There are few female drunkards that do not experience this; for as pure spirits are easiest to inflame, so slight irritations that m£Ele the temper, and excite an^er. are seldom quieted without some degree of hys- teric passion. In several cases, the frequent appearance of this affection has first led me to detect the unhappy propensity. That modesty which is innate in the female constitution, jnreserves them from indulgence in company (in respectable circles) and they are commonly solitary drinkers. This delicacy of feeling sometimes carries them great lengths in concealing their situation, and in making them feign comjJaints to ward off suspicion. I have known a medical attendant acquire much credit from the adminis- tration of his catholican, when a gentle nap had performed the cure of an indisposition of (the cause of) which he farmed no conjecture." — Dr. Trotter. * A Fine Old Man. — There is now living at Tetford (says the Stamford Mercury^ a man, ninety years <4d, who worked for many years as a journeyman fellmonger in Mr. Alienby's yard at Horncastle -, he can carry twenty stone weight at the present time, can walk four miles in an hour, and he has drank nothing stronger than water for the last forty years. 1853. Longevity of Quakers. — The Times and Meisenger remarks that it has been ascertained, from authentic statistics that one half of the human race die before reaching the age of twenty-one years ; and the bills of mortality published in laxge cities, show ^^lat one FACTS AHD ANIOBOTFB. 331 half die before attaining the ago of five yean. With these ntidis* puted facts before us, it vrill seem strange that the average age of Quakers in Great Britain is fifty-one years, two months and twenty-one days. This is, no doubt, attributed to the restraints and moderation which the principles of that sect impose upon ita members — the restraint they are under in mbgling in many of the dissipations and pernicious indulgences that hurry thousands to premature graves. What an excellent example for the instruo- tion of the world I Startling Truths. — Lucian Minor says: — Accurate statis- tics leave hardly a doubt, that in Virginia, the liquor traffic, through its oflfspring and agent, strong drink oooasion^— 1. Fifteen hundred deaths in every year 1 2. Tht; direct annual expenditure of five million dollars. 3. The loss of at* much more by bad bargains, mismanagement, time wasted, and unnumbered nameless forms of ill thHft. 4. More than two thousand declared paupers. 5. The cost of above 100,000 dollars in taxes annually to supr port these paupers. 6. A countless multitude of impoverished men, women and chil- dren, who are not avowed paupers. • 7. At least four-fifths of all the murders, thefts, robberies, breaches of the peace, and other crimes and misdemeanors that engage your courts !" Awful Fact ! — Dr. Hiram Oox, official Inspector of Liquors in Cincinnati, in a lucent report on the adulteration of liquors re- lates the following : — "I called at a grocery store one day, where liquor also was kept. A couple of Irishmen came in -while I was there and called for some whisky, and the first drank, and the moment he drank the tears flowed freely, while he at the same time (»iught his breath like one suffocated or strangling. When he could speak, he says to his companion — ' Och, Michael, but this is warmin' to the stomach I' Michael drank and went through like contortions, with 333 THl TUTOTALXE'S UAND-BOOK. the remark. ' Would'nt it be foino in s oowld Arotthy morning ?*' After they had drank I asked the landlord to pour me out a little in a tumbler, in whiuh I dipped a tilip of litmus paper, which was no sooner wet than it put on a scarlet hue. I went to my office, got my instruments and examined it. I found it had 17 per cent alcoholic spirits by weight, when it should have had 40 per cent to be proof, and tho difference in per centage made up by Sul- phuric Acid, Red Pepper, Pelitory, Caustic, Potassa and Brucinei one of the salts of Nucis YomicaD, commonly called Nux Vomica* One pint of such liquor would kill the strongest man. DiMENBS Waste. — There are in England 1,093,741 acres of land cultivated for growing barley for malting, besides 66,000 acres growing*hops, making a total of 1,149,741 acres, the produce of which, notwithstanding the pressure of the population upon the moans of subsistonce, produces no bread. An acre of good land produces about 40 bushels of barley, or, on a, moderate calculation, 28 bushels of wheat, equal to three and a half quarters. How desirable that this large extent of land should be made available for the good of society at large. The produce being 3^ quarters per acre, 4,024,093^ quarters of wheat would be reaped from the land now growing malt and hops. A quarter of wheat yields about 360 lbs of flour, therefore from 1,149,741 flcres, no less than 1,408,432,726 lbs of flour would be obtained ; and it is supposed to increase one-third in being made into bread ; consequently this land, producing wheat, would sup- ply 1,877,910,300 lbs of bread. According to the census of 1841 we find the population of England and Wales to be 16,911,767, of whom 2,099,152 are under five years old. But allowing this number of young children as well as the adult population one pound of bread each per day, it would more than serve the whole population of England and Wales for 118 days, or nearly one- third of the year. The total amount levied for poor's rate in England and Wales FAOM AMD AIIBOBOTM. ning?" a Utile ioh w«i y office, peroeat per cent bySul- Sruoine, Vomica. acres of 56,000 ) produce upon the arley, or, to three be made being 3^ }e reaped ■ore from would bo ling made ould sup- 8 of 1841 ,911,757, wing this ation one the whole early one- ,nd Wales for the fnt Ending Lady-daj, 1841, was £6,351,825. For ito Mke of eluetdating the tabjeot still farther, the oommittie eitinlilt the talne of bread at l^d. per ponnd, which for 1,877,910,300 Um^ will be £11,736,939 7s 6d, a sum more than suffioieni to pegr tlM poor's rate for England and Wales for one year and ten motttlM. The total amount of money expended annually upon intoilMi' ing liquors in the United Kingdom gives an average of about £2 per head for every man, woman and child ; and presuming tint the 30,000 inhabitants of York consume a fair portion of thoM liquors, it will appear that not less than £60,000 are eipeadod every year by them in the purchase of these destructive thiidi. And again taking the price of bread at three half-pence per povnd^ we ascertain that, with the money spent yearly in York, on aloo- holio drinks, 9,000,000 lbs. of bread might be purchased; and al* lowing each man, woman, and child, one pound per day, would serve the whole of the inhabitants 820 days. Nearly as much money expended upon these, body and soul-destooying poisons^ m would purchase the " staff of life" for the iHiole popuktion of the city I shame, where is thy blush I After a serious and careful oonsideration of the preceding statements, who would oavH al efforts to prevent such a deplorable mis-appropriatioB of the gifl^ of providence, or at efforts made to put an end to the prodigal ex- penditure of a nation's resources ? GoNVEMiON OF A DRUNKARD. — Hss <^ reader ever read (he 'following authentic s|»tement of his own experience by an B«g- lish drunkard ? Similar has been the experience of many thfta* sands of men who in youth gave promise of a good and oseftd life : " Of my condition there is no hope that it should ever dmnge ; the waters have gone over me ; but out of the black depths could I be heard, I would cry out to all those wfa» have but set a feot in the perilous food. " Could the youth to whom the flavor of his first wine is delioi- oua as the opening seenes of life, or the entering upon some ne^^y dissevered ptitadise, look into my desolation «tid be amide i» tti^ d^ TSB TSBTOTALKa 8 HAND-BOOK. derstaioid what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will : to see hir destruction and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself; to perceive all goodness emptied out of him, and yet not be able to forget a time when it was other- wise ; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own self-ruin ; eould he see my fevered eye, feverish with last night's debatich, and feverish for this night's repetition of the folly : could he feel the body of the death out of which I cry hourly, with feebler and feebler cry to be delivered, it wwe enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation." ''feP^^Mr«sf>4^;l%ft$s4^?c;?^!««,■iti#.'^^ TeBTOTAl'iSM eminently favorable to RELieiON. — 1. " It has excited enquiry and concern about religion. What we mean is this — ^that hundreds of persons who, before they became Tee- totalers, never thought about religion — about their souls — about God — eternity — ^heaven or hell : as soon as they became Teeto- talers, they began to think seriously on all these subjects — were greatly humbled on account of their past neglect — sought eagerly for information — and evinced deep concern for the salvation of their souls, and a preparation for the everlasting bliss of heaven. 2. It has led to a diligent use of the means of obtaining religion. 3. It has brought men into the enjoyment of religion. 83*mtf y 4. It has assisted to maintaii^a consistent profession t>f religion. 5. It has brought many who had gone astray, back into the path' of religion. 6. It has greatly eiilarged religious congregations and churches. 7. It has promoted revivals of genuine religion. 8. It has augmented the resources of religious institutions." Not Neoessart. — It is a mistaken idea that alcoholic liquors are necessary in order to enable a person to undergo fatigue and exposure. Professor Hitchcock says, " I was called a few years ago to make a geological survey of the State of Massachusetts, which required about five thousand miles travel in an open wagon. FACTS AND ANECCOXER. 335 : to see «! it all emptied 8 other- ilf-ruin ; lebatioh, I he feel bier and iash the uantling -1. "It vre mean me Tee- 1 — about e Teeto- ts — ^^ere ; eagerly vation of heaven; * ; religion. ■ religion. : into the churches. ions." lie liquors tigue and few years achusetts, en wagon, at a rate not greater than from twenty to thirty miles a day,, and very severe bodily exertion in climbing mountaips and in breaking, trimming and transporting more than five thousand specimens of rocks and minerals. I was usually employed from sunrise until ten o'clock at night with little interruption ; and I think it was the severest protracted labor that I ever under-yent. Yet, during all my wanderings, I drank not one drop of alcohol, nor indeed any kind of stimulating drink, except perhaps from twelve to twenty cups of weak tea, and I found myself more capable of ex- ertion and fatigue than in fornv^r yeant, when I was in the habit of using stimulating drinks." . ^jj^^^. Absinthe. — A French paper thus discourses on this liquor which is so favorite an appetite provoHler among Europeans. China has her opium, the East her buchish, England her gin. In France we have a poison that is imbued with the qualities of all these poisons, and a powerful stimulant that galvanizes the nerves and feverishly surcharges the brain : we have Absinthe. The effects of the poison are terrible, crushing. A feverish ecstacy, full of delirious dreams, of wild inspirations, is followed by an overwhelm- ing debility, a continual state of somnolency. The eyes become dull, and the hands tremble. No work can be done unless pre- ceded by a dram of absinthe. Beneath these ceaseless attacks reason reels, and a fatal day comes when the drinker finds drunk- enness, and never again finds inspiration. Then he is lost beyond the hope of recovery. W hat was a necessary prelude to his labours becomes a degrading passion, a daily indulgence, which he has not the courage to abandon. The poet is dead within him, and the drunkard alone remains. Wat^r. — SmoUet thus writes of the French Wines, fifty years ago, the intoxicating strength of which is no more in proportion to the dry wines used in England, than the strength of an infant compared with that of a giant, are but poor and meagre drinks at best. All the peasants who take wine for their ordinary drinks are of diminutive size, in "comparison with those who use milk and 3ie TH£ TEBTOTALtB^S HAMD-BOOK. Watet ; attd it is oomtnonly observed that when there is a Scarcity of Wine the people are more healthy than in those seasons when it is abundant. The longer I live the more I am convinced that wine and all fermented liquors are pernicious to the human con- stitution ; and that for the preservation of health, and proper ex- hilaration of the spirits, there is no beverage that can compare with simple water," Inoontrovertiblb Facts. — Dr. Cartwright of New Orleans, communicates the following to the Boston Medical Journal. He was one of the three physicians who located in Natchez thirty years ago. They were temperance men, and there was one other who abstained from alcoholic drinks. Within 15 miles of Natchez there were three more. All the others used liquor. Besides these practicing physicians, there were ten others of the same class, who had retired from practice, 17 in all. ' Of these, five had died ; one 75, one 70, two others 60, and one 49. In 1823 the average ajes of the 17 was about 24. According to English tables of mor- tality seven instead of five should have died. Every physician, practicing or retired, in Natchez and vicinity, who was in the habit of using intoxicating drinks, has long been numbered with the dead. Only two of them who were comparatively temperate, lived to be gray. Their average term of life did not exceed 35 years, and those who drank did not live as long. Between the years 1824 and 1835, sixty-two medical men settled there to supply the places of those who have died or had retired from practice. Of these 37 were temperate, and 25 used liquor, although seldom to intoxication. Of the 37 nine have died, and 28 are living. Of the 25 all but three are dead. Here are facts whicl^, speak for themselves — they require no comment, and every man capable of reasoning cannot fail of seeing their bearing, and appreciating the^r importance. And in view of them, who are the Mends of their fellow-men, the real philanthropists, those who promote in any way the use of liquor, or those who would use moral and legal means to prevent it ? . ., m >. FACTS AND ANIOOOTES. 337 loarcity IS when led that lan oon- oper ex- Orleans, 0,1. He z thirty ne other Natchez Besides me class, ad died ; ) average s of mor- hysician, the hahit with the ate, lived 35 years, he years apply the tice. Of seldom to ring. Of speak for japable of )reciating friends of romote in and legal Sad Testimony. — Young men, read the warning which cokiies frbm a poor fellow-mortal just about to atone for the crime of mur- der upon the gallows. A young man, named Pate, at Bsterville Ya., sends a letter to the editor of the Virginian, which contains words of awful meaning. Beware of the intoxicating bowl, is the import of the warning. Bead it one and all. He says : '' And now, young men, old men, and middle-aged men, take warning by me, and shun the dungeon's gloom, the clanking chain, and the yet more dreadful execution, by hanging, which I am doomed to experience in a few days. I hope you will think me honest and in good truth when I tell you that the use of liquor was the cause of n.y t Vingthe life which I could not give back again. 'Twas liquor u inflaenced my brain to perpetrate those evil deeds with \vuica my past history is marked. Yes, it 'twas liquor! I that inflamed my blood to cause all this calamity that has befallen me ; nor need I say upon me only, but also upon my relations, and the relations of the man whose life I took. My poor old father has heard the fate of his unhappy son, and the sad intelli- gence was almost too much for him to bear. Little did he think, when I was an infant — ^when I was a little boy prattling and play- ing to amuse him — that I would die a death so disgraceful, as that to which I am doomed. 'Tis said he sleeps but little, and eats scarcely anything. Father, should this communication reach your ears, let me say to you, that I am heartily sorry that I have thus caused you pain. Warn all my relations never to use in- toxicating liquors — tell them that if it had not been for liquor I should now be free, and no doubt a respectable and useful citizen." ■ The Sabbath. — " During the malting season, forty thousand working malsters, and three thousand Excise officers are compelled to attend on the business on the Sabbath as well as on week days." In reference to the above we have the pleasure to quote the fol- lowing interesting fact from that excellent pamphlet, entitled Com,' man Sense : — " We remember, when reading the memoirs of the wife of that good man, the Bev. John Fletcher, that, on ^ing to 338 THE TEITOTALEB'S HAND-BOOK. church one Sabhath morning, Mrs. F. met a man in his smock frock, who told her he could not go to church, having the malt- kiln to attend, and, on Mrs. Fletcher learning that malt could Qot be made without a desecration of that day, she immediately de- clared her determination never again to touch the drink, thus practically shewing her jealousy for her God, and the honor of His day." Expensive:. — Three-fourths of the crime, misery, and pauper- ism of the land, and a large proportion of the expenses of jails, of hulks, of transports, of country rates for police and for prosecu-, tions, of union houses, of poor rates, and of lunatic asylums may be tracei to sif ong drink. Of 495 in an asylui^ in Liverpool 256 were there from intemperance ; in Dublin, Dr. Crawford states of 286 lunatics in one asylum, 115 were there from whisky. A Judge lately stated that he never had a criminal brought before htm whose prime might not be traced directly or indirectly to strong drink. Edward Chadwick, secretary to the Poor Law Commissioners, has stated that education and teetotalism will do more to diminish pauperism than all the laws that can be made. It is supposed there are 600,000 drunkards in the United King- dom — that 60,000 die every year — 160 every day — 7 every hour ! The places of these drunkards are filled up from the ranks of mod- erate drinkers. It is calculated that 20,000 members of the Chris- tian churches are annually expelled for drunkenness. What says the Scripture of the man who dies a drunkard? Porter and Alk. — Temperance people will find an argument to enforce their doctrines, in the fact that 41,071,636 bushels of grain, paying $25,000,000 duty are annually converted into malt in Great Britain, for ale and porter. From this, some idea may be formed of the vast quantity of the most important staples of life wasted in the production of these beverages there. Franklin was not far from the truth when he ascribed much of the poverty and misery of the people of Great Britain to their habit of drinking their bread instead of eating it. FACTS AND ANCODOTM. 339 g smock malt- ould QOt tely de- k, thus lonor of pauper- jails, of prosecu- ims may pool 256 states of isky. A it before irectly to oor Law n will do be made. ;ed King- Bry hour ! :s of mod- the Chris- Vhat says argument bushels of into malt idea may pies of life nklin was iverty and [" drinking A Noble Dauohter. — The following illustration of how Uie Maine Law is worked at home, is from the Maine Temperance Journal : — A young lady in Falmouth determined to bring the rumsellen to justice, who were selling her father liquor. She got another young lady, a friend of hers, to accompany her, and they walked into Portland, seven miles, two days in succession, and accom- panied her father to the shops visited by him, to ascertain who sold it to him. Having accomplished her purpose, she entered a complaint bsfore the Municipal Court against the o£fender, who appears to have been one S. McC . The case was tried before a jury ; only one witness was exam- ined for the defence. The Judge charged the jury, who soon brought in a verdict of guilty, and he was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and costs, and in default of payment, to be imprisoned three months. Alcohol a Poison in 1584. — In an address to the Mayor and Corporation of the town of Galway, in 1584, Sir John Perrot, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, " among other articles touching reforma- tion in the commonwealth," advised, " That a more straighter or- der be taken to bar the making of aqua vitee of corn than hitherto hath been used, for that the same is a consumation of all the pro^ vision of corn in the commonwealthie : " and he said, " That the aqua vitse that is sold in the towne out rather to be called aqua mortis to poyson the people, than comfort them in any gpod store, and in officers in reformyng the same have nede to be moie vigilant and inquisitive than they be," . A Sunday School Fact. — " I thai^k God," said a young man lately, " on looking back on my past life, that ever I wan led, when attending the Sunday School to join the Temperance Society, and abjure the use of tobacco. By God's mercy, it has been like a tower of strength to me, and I have thereby been saved from many snares. Several of my school-fellows who laughed at me then, now fill the drunkard's grave.^* 340 THl TUTOTALEB'S HAND-BOOK. L0N0021 diTT Mission. — Tlie lecturer, J. B. Philiiw, travel- ling agent, then dwelt on the fearful extent to which drunkenneas and profligacy were carried on in the metropolis, and founded an i^peal to the ladies of his audience on the fact of 10,000 of their sex having been taken into custody in a state of intoxication in one year. 30,000 children were, until the establishment of ragged schools, sent out to beg or steal every day, though now that num- ber was greatly reduced. 36,000 individuals pass every year through the London gaols." As to the shops of London, Chambers' Journal states that ac- cording to the Post Office Directory, London contained in 1848, 2,500 bakers, ) 900 butiermen & cheesemongers, 1,700 butchers, 3,000 grocers and tea dealers, 900 dairy keepers, 400 fishmongers, 1,300 green-grocers and fruiterers, Total, 10,700 and 11,000 public houses. With respect to the crimes of London, Dr. Forbes Winslow made the following statement to the Medical Society of London, in order to show the depressing, demoralizing, criminal and vicious influences at work in the metropolis. The subjoined estimate, we «re told, has been drawn from official documents by persons whose veriSity njay be relied upon : — 16,000 children trained to crime, 5,000 receivers of stolen goods, 15,000 gamblers by profession, * . 25,000 beggars, 30,000 drunkards, n 180,000 habitual gin drinkers, 150,000 persons subsisting on profligacy, 50,000 thieves. Thus, we have the tremendous total of 471,000 individuals FAOrS AND ARKCDOTIS. 5 341 steeped in crime, demoralization and vice, out of a popuktion of 2,350,000 souls. The result of this appalling calculation is that one out of every five is a worthless member of society I We leave these statements for the consideration of the reader, with this one question, — ^What must br the understanding, the sympathy,- the patriotism, or the .^a. -f the man who ca I ^* ut this over- whelming ruin without a biugle attempt to stem i-,BOOK, Johnny's Plsdob. — The following is a very good Temperance Pledge, giyen in rhyme — which, by the way, does not make it any worse — and we would advise parent:^ to attach it to a strip of letter paper, and give the children an opportunity to declare their hos- tility " to all that can intoxicate," by signing it before the evil day comes. "Just as 'the twig is bent, the tree's inclined," is a homely and ofb-repeated adage, but a very true one. Here, then, is the ^ PLEDGE. This little band Do with our band The Pledge now sign To drink no Wins ; Nor Bramot red, To turn our hond ; Nor Whisky hot, That maker the sot ; Nor fiery Rum, ^ . To turn our home Into a hell, Where none can dwell- Whence peace would flj— Where hope would die, And luve expire, 'Mid such a fire; So hero we pledge perpetual hate To all that can intoxicate. Origin op Wine. — The Persians relate the following anecdote in reference to the inve ntion of wine. It is extracted from Moul lah Ackber's manuscript ; and is quoted by Sir John Malcolm, in his history of Persia : — " Jem Sheed, the founder of Persepolis, was very fond of grapes, and, with the view to preserve some, placed them in vessels which were lodged in vaults for future use. When the vessels were opened it was found that the grapes (or rather the liquor which had issued from them) had fermented. The juice in this state was so acid that the king believed it to be poisonous. A label, with the word ^^ poison," was accordin^y placed upon each of the vessels. One of the favourite ladies of the court was afflicted with most distressing attacks of nervous headache in a paroxysm of which she resolved to put an end to her existence. By accident she found one of the vessels with the word ' poison' written on it, and, intent on her purpose, swallowed its contents. Stupefaction, as might be expected, followed this act, and strange to say, unlike similar indulgence in modern times, her headache was gone. Charmed with the remedy, the lady was induced often to repeat the experiment, until the monarch's poison FAOTS AND ANKODOTU. 8 94/1 eranoe it any f letter ir hoa- the evil ," is a B, then, ly- tnal hate ate. anecdote )m Moul Icolm, in jreepolis, re some, ture use. rapes (or rmented. lit tobe jordingly ladies of nervous m end to I with the swallowed )wed this em times, lady was h's poison was all drank. The theft was soon dtaooverel, and the fair oul- prit confessed the deed. A quantity of wine was again made, and Jem Sheed and all his court partook of the newly discovered be- verage. This circumstance gave rise to a name by which inebri- ating wine is known in Persia in the. present day — Zaher-e-Kooa- hon — ' ' The delightful jumon,*' Homer and Pope. — It may be almost presumed that Homer was a water-drinker, and his great translator too, — from the fol- lowing passage in the cixth book of the Iliad with the note sub- joined. Hecuba, it will be remembered, offers wine to Hector in the in- terview with her son which immediately precedes the scene of h*^ parting with Andromache, " Far hence be Bacchus' gifls (the chief rejoined)— Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind. Unnerves the limbs, and dulls the noble mind." To which very sober text, Pope has thought proper to append his own opinion as follows : — " This maxim of Hector's concerning wine, has a great deal of truth in it. It is a vulgar mistake to imagine the use of wine either raises the spirits or increases strength. The best physicians agree with Homer on this point, whatever our modern soldiers may object to this old heroic regimen. One may take notice that Samson, as well as Hector, was a water-df *kr .', to which Milton alludes in the " Samson Agonistes " — iit».-»a:jip =: " Wherever fountain or fresh current flow'd, k?**^Mt' I drank. Nor envied them the grape Whose heads that turbwkat liquor fills with fumes " Communion Wine. — In August, 1858, Mr. R. D. Wadsworth published the following Recipes for making Communion Wine : Grape Jelli/. — The Grapes to be washed and gently pressed. To each pound of fruit add one pound of loaf sugar, which has been clarified previously. The whole to be boiled till it becomes a jelly, which will be ascertained by taking a portion of the juice 348 THE teetotaler's HAND-BOOK. from time to time and cooling it. To be strained through a mns- lin bag and put into jars properly coated with paper smeared with white of egg, or patent jars, now easily obtained for preserving fruit. To be diluted with water to suit. Grape Wine. — The Grapes to be washed and weighed, then gently pressed so as to break the skin. To be tied up in a cotton bag. To every 1 J pound of grapes put three pints of water, and boil down to a pint. Be careful not to squeeze the bag, but let the liquid strain oflF. Have ready some clarified sugar and to every pint of juice add a quarter or a half a pint of the sugar, as the same may be required more or less sweet. Bottle and seal carefully with bees wax and rosin. Keep in a cool place, the tem- perature not to exceed 60° F. When used, to be diluted with water to suit. The number of Christians who conceive it to be their duty to use unfermented wine in the Holy Eucharist being rapidly on the increase throughout Canada, Mr. Wadsworth is confident the above reliable recipes will be acceptable. • Liquor Made Easy. — There has lately appeared in this city, a neat and compact little manual called " The Bordeau Wine-and- Liquor-Dealer's Guide," published at one and a half dollars — ^from the preface to which we learn a statistical fact or two, that may be of interest to somebody. (We don't drink ourselves — we "take a pie.") The guide professes to give instructions, clear and simple, for the imitation of all kinds of» wines and liquors, from Teneriffe, or Cape, to prime Champagne and pure Cognac. A pleasant book it is for the bibulously inclined, and well calculated to strengthen their faith in — cold water. In justice to the practical author of thi^ " Treatise on the Manufacture and Adulteration of Liquors," we should say that he claims to present /ormu/a entirely free from all poisonous or deleterious ingredients — always exc ^ ving, we pre- sume, the complete compound when duly concocted. Now for a general fact, first : r ■ a .- r; '. " " The city of New York alone sells three times as many ' pure a mus- ed with serving i, then I cotton ber, and but let and to agar, as and seal the tem- ted with duty to y on the he above his city, ine-and- •8 — from "take a i simple, ^eneriffe, ant book rengthen luthor of iquors," free from , we pre- ly 'pure VAOTB AND ANXCDOTU. 349 imported brandies,' and four times as many * pure Imported wines,' annually, as all the wine-producing countries export." After that statistical */ snifter" has Been duly imbibed, try the following /or- mula, which we give for the benefit of whom it may concern. Of course we have forsworn brandy particularly ; so here goes for a Cognac, utterly " impossible to detect by any test, chemical or otherwise": Formula No. 1. — Cognac Brandy. — " To 40 gallons pure spirits (alcohol), 12 to 18 over proof, add 2 to 3 ounces oil cognac (dis- solved in 90 per cent alcohol), 1^ pounds loaf sugar, or its equiv- alent in white syrup, 2 ounces oenanthic acid, 2 ounces acetic acid, or acetic ether, and 2 ounces tincture of kino. To this body add from 5 to 10 gallons of the brandy to be imitated. Let it stand for eight or ten days. Color as desired." We shall only add, that we find in the book a formuJa for- bear it, oh Newark ! — thy champagne sins are visited upon thee ! —a formula for imitation cider ! There's always a " lower deep" we are told. We shall, no doubt, soon have an imitation Lager Beer. The Cable.-^Iu the September number of the Journal of the American Temperance Union; is a very excellent article on that great enterprize of the age the laying of the Atlantic Cable, in which Dr. Marsh undertakes to show how much it is indebted to teetotalism. He says : — And here let us say, to Temperance is the world not a little in- debted for this mighty achievement. Who brought the lightning from the skies ? Franklin, the tee- totaller. Who made it the ready communicator of thought? Morse the teetotaler. Who sunk it in the ocean deeps, and made one of distant peo- ples ? Field, the teetotaller. And who stood at the helm of the noble Niagara which bore the ■M. 360 THB TEBTOTALBB S HAND-BOOK. cable to our shores ? It was Capt. William Hudson, one 'of our oldest and firmest teetotallers, a Vice President of the American Temperance Union : one who is ever inculcating the great princi- ples of our reform ; one who fears God and honors his law. To Wesley ANS. — " You see the wine when it sparkles in the cup, add are going to drink it. I say there is poison in it I and therefore beg you to throw it away. You answer, * The wine is harmless in itself.' I reply, perhaps it is so ; but still, if it be mixed with what is not harmless, no one in his senses, if he knows it at least, unless he could separate the good from the bad, will once think of drinking it. If you add, ' It is not poison to me, though it be to others,' then I say, Throw it away for thy brother's sake, lest thou embolden him to drink also. Why should thy strength occasion thy weak brother to perish, for whom Christ died ? " — John Wesley. '''It is expected of all who continue in these Societies that they should continue to evidence their desire for salvation — " First : by doing no harm, by avoiding evil of every kind, especially that which is most generally practised, such as buying or selling spirituous liquors, or drinking them, unless in cases of extreme necessity." — Wesleyan Societies' Rules. ^ " We verily believe that the single sin of intemperance is destroying more souls than all the ministers in Britain are instru- mental in saving' The man who trifles with strong drink may be overcome ; whereas he who abstains cannot. It cannot be unwise to throw the guard of abstinence round our moral character and our spiritual interest." — Wesleyan Magazine for 1836, p. 905. Hales of Health. — Mr. Wesley recommends the following : — " Water is the wholcsomest of all drinks ; quickens the appetite, and strengthens the digestion most. " Strong, and more especially spirituous liquors, are a certain, though slow, poison. " Experience shews there is seldom any danger in leaving them off all at once. ..,. „,...„.„, ^-,^„ ,, . „^ >•»»-•» r.p,^- FACTS AND ANE0DOTK8. 351 5 ^of our juerican t princi- • • !3 in the itl and ) wine ia if it be le knows bad, will n to me, brother's m Duld thy n Christ hat they sry kind, IS buying 1 cases of trance is re instru- k may be )e unwise icter and X 905. appetite, a certain, ring them " Strong liquors do not prevent the mischief arising firom ea(ting to excess, nor carry it oflF so safely as water." Wesley on the Traj^t\ &c. — " Neither may we gain by hurting our neighbor in his body. Therefore we may not sell anything which tends to impair health. Such is eminently all that liquid fire, commonly called drams, or spirituous liquors. It is true these may have place in medicines ; they may be of use in some bodily disorder (although there would rarely be occasion for them were it not for the unskilfulness of the practitioner). Therefore such as prepare and sell them only for this end, may keep their conscience clear. "But who are they ? Who prepare them only for this end ? Do you know ten such distilleries in England ? Then excuse these. But all who sell them in the common way, to any that will buy, are poisoners-general. They murdor his Majesty's subjects by wholesale, neither do they ever pity or spare. They drive them to hell like sheep ; and what is their gain ? Is it not the blood of these men ? Who, then, would envy their large estates and sumptuous palaces ? A curse is in the midst of them ; the curse of God cleaves to the stones, the timber, the fur- niture of them. The curse of God is in their gardens, their walks, their groves — a fire that burns to the nethermost hell. Blood, blood is there : the foundation, the floor, the walls, the roof, are stained with blood ! And canst thou hope, thou man of blood though thou art "clothed in scarlet and fine linen, and farest sumptuously every day" — canst thou hope to deliver down the fields of blood to the third generation ? Not so ; for there is a God in heaven, therefore thy name shall be rooted out. Like as those whom thou hast destroyed, body and soul, ' thy memorial shall perish with thee.' "********** " This is dear-bought gain. And so is whatever is procured by hurting our neighbour in his soul — by ministering, suppose, either directly or indirectly, to his unchastity or intemperance, which certainly none can do who has any fear of God, or any real desire of pleasing hinl. It nearly concerns all those to consider this, 362 THE TUTOTiLliSa'g HAND-BOOK. who have anything to do with taverns, viotualling-houseg, 'opera- houses, play-houses, or any other places of public, fashionable diversion. If these profit the souls of men, you are clear ; your employment is good, and your gain innocent. But if they are either sinful in themselves, or natural inlets to sin of various kinds, then it is to be feared you have a sad account to make. beware, lest God say in that day^ ' These have perished in their iniquity, but their blood do I require at thy hands ! ' " A Calculation. — Here is a calculation made by Judge Capron of New York : — " In New York city there are 15,000 dram shops ; 300,000 drinkers, each drinking 2 gills of liquor, being 600,000 gills, or 806 barrels, per day — 300,000 barrels a-year. This quantity would fill a reservoir 900 feat long, 50 feet wide, and 63 feet deep, and could float four large ships in full sail. At $30 per barrel, it amounts to $900,000. Out of 6000 cases tried before the Court of Special Sessions during the last year, «ot more than 94 were sober when arrested. Paupers in the city cost $3,000,000 aryear." Tobacco. — The name " tobacco " is curious. It is not, as is ge- nerally said in books treating of the origin of things, the indigenouti native name. Petun in the South American dialects — hohiha in the Caribbean language— is the name of the plant. Tobaco is the Indian name of the pipe. It follows, therefore, that tobacco was not, as the. books say, connecte(l with the island of Tobago, to which it gave, or from which it derived, its designation. On the contrary, the name of the island is modern, and was given by the Spanish discoverer from a fancied resemblance to the Indian pipe or smoking instrument. Death is the Snuff-Box. — Death was once found in the pot, and now he has been detected in the snuff-box. Long ago^ the destroyer was found in the snuff, but he has since been disco- vered lingering in the box itself. In boxes lined with very thin lead, but especially in cases where the leaden lining is thicker, and which are much used by the Paris retailers, a chemical action PACTS AND AMCODOTIS. m to in the takc« pla6e, iht result of Which is to ohai^ thd snnff with suK acetate of lead. The result was suspected by Chevalier, and has been confirmed by Boudet of Paris, and Mayor of Berlin, by long and careful experiments. The latter learned chemist traced seve. ral deaths and cases of " saturnine paralysis " to the patients having taken snuff from pockets, the inner envelope of which was tMn sheet lead, in constant contact with the powdered weed. ' Warvino to Smokers. — A singular case of asphyxia is related in one of the French journals. A youth of the name of Lemoine paid a visit to an uncle, who is a farm labourer in the neighbour, hood of Havre. This man occupied a small and ill-ventilated apartment. The nephew, at eight o'clock in the evening, went to bed in the room. Soon after, the uncle and some companions entered the room, and all fell to smoking. The youth was asleep. At midnight, the visitors withdrew, and the uncle went to bed. Laying his hand upon his nephew, he found him unnaturally cold, and endeavoured to awake him without effect. Help was called, some faint indications of life appeared, and a physician directed operations for the recovery of the patient. All proved vain ; the next day he expired. A post mortem examination was made, and the physician pronounced that he died of congestion of the brain, caused by the respiration of tobacco smoke during sleep. Tobacco in France. — The Genie Industriel says, that it is difficult to account for the tremendous increase, during the last few years, of the consumption of tobacco in France : but that it has increased, and that enormously, the/oUowing figures will show : In 1830, the value of tobacco consumed was about $13,000,000. In 1840, it had increased to $19,000,000. In 1850, it had in- creased to $24,000,000, and in 1857 the sum of nearly $35,000,- 000 was puffed away in smoke. Tobacco. — " If teetotalers continue the use of tobacco in any form, they must not expect the full share of health they otherwbe would hftve by abstaining from intoxicating drinks, as afifeetions S64 THE TXIT0TALER8 HAND-BOOK. of the head, chest, and stomach, mth low spirits in their train, are continued and aggravated by the use of that narcotic weed. Medical experience has fully proved this fact." — John Hijgin. botham, Surgeon, Warning to Students. — The Dublin Medical Press asserts that the pupils of the Polytechnic School in Paris have recently furnished some curious statistics bearing on tobacco. Dividing the young gentlemen of that college into two groups— the Emokers and non-smokers — it shows that the smokers have proved them- selves in the various competitive examinations far inferior to the others. Not only in the examinations on entering the schools are the smokers in a lower rank, but in the various ordeals that they have to pass through in a year the average rank of the smokers had constantly fallen, and not inconsiderably, while the men who did not smoke enjoyed a cerebral atmosphere of the clearest kind. There is another reason for this. One bad habit begets another. It is commonly observed that young men of the description referred to above, fall into idle, lounging ways, and waste many an hour which might have been instructively and usefully employed. Time is a treasure of priceless value. Why should we spend it on trash? Effects of Tobacco upon the Nerves. — As it seems to be a matter of question among some as to the effects of Tobacco upon the. system, allow me, if you please, to give you a history oi that part of my life made miserable by its use. As is generally the case of those that are my age, I was first induced to take To- bacco from seeing others do the same, being unfortunately at the age of sixteen, surrounded by those that used it without regard to quantity or quality. Unl ike some who go for years without ex periencing any perceptible injury from it, I used it comparatively but a short time, when I was brought to feel its effects in no slight form. I was told by my parents and others, that it was injurious. Still I had a desire to ferret out its mysteries, and, if possible, to know how bad it was. It was not my intention, when I commenc- FACTS AND ANECDOTES. 355 ir train, io weed. Hijgin. « asserts recently Dividing \ Emokers ed them- )r to the lioois are liat they smokers men who at kind. \ another. 1 referred an hour imployed. end it on seems to Tobacco istory of erally th« take To- ly at the regard to rithout ex paratively I no slight injurious, tssible, to commenc- ed, to follow the practice long, for I yery naturally supposed that I could stop at any time. In fact, I hardly knew what it was to form a habit, and much less to recede from it when formed* When I first commenced Tobacco, it did not go so well with me, causing, not unfrequently, a sickness of the stomach and dizziness of the head. It took about four weeks for the poison to bring the stomach to that deranged state to allow of the inhalement of its fumes without offering resistance. But by a little preseverance on my part, the weed triumphed ; the intestines and brain becoming at the same time perfectly subdued by its powerful and subduing effects. This accomplished, all went smoothly along for about six months, during which time I used it more or less, daily. An in- stance now occurred in which I had cause for alarm. Being ac- castomed to spend a part of my leisure hours in gunning, in com- pany with a friend, who, by the way, was a good shot, and a) much taken with the sport as myself, we would when game was scarce, ;'>ace the ground and try our dexterity at target shooting (our target being a knot on a tree or something of the kind. This is an exercise that tries the strength of the nerves, and al- though at first too much for my comrade in the shooting line, I now began to experience frequent tremblings and unsteadiness of the hand, which was of course accompanied by bad shots. The result was, my friend would not unfrequently come off master of the field. He did not use Tobacco, and therefore I did not hint to him the cause of my late failure. My friend was a good natur- ed fellow, and we passed it by merely as bad luck. I always left him with the hope of being more successful at our next meeting, but alas ! my hand grew more and more unsteady, and as often as I brought my piece to bear upon its prize, so often did my nervous system prove treacherous, until at last I was obliged to hang up my rifle and seek amusement elsewhere. As is generally the case with those who are addictedto the habit, I now considered that I could not do without it, in consequence of every thing's going wrong, unless accompanied with the stimulating effe(^ of the ar- ticle in question. For instance, if I attempted to roll a log over> 3S8 THE TKlTOTALEE'fl HAMO-BOOK. I mast, in order do it scientifically, roll at the same timc^ a qtrid over in my mouth. It was impossible for me to keep my mind upon any subject long at a time, unless of the most interesting na- ture. Such was my case when I left home in the fall of '45, for the city of New York. I used no tea or coffee, and was wel) aware that Tobacco was destined to "use me up" unless a d^ided stand was taken. People may rail at my inability to rid myself of the monster, but to such I will only say, that you are not oapa. ble of judging of the matter until you yourselves have gone through the task. On arriving at New York I confined myself to one pa- der of Tobacco per week, but this did not do the work — it was only adding fuel to the flame, and I was obliged to resort to other means ; a chknge of diet, exercise, and keeping the mind at worL This, with the change of life from the dull country to that of a lively city, had the desired effect. Stimulating with the hope of recovering my strength of nerve, I was soon enabled to lay it aside altogether. By keeping something in my mouth as a sul)stitute, I soon had the satisfaction of overcoming the habit, but not wholly the desire for it ; for although I have not tasted it for months, my hand will, at times, involuntarily cteal into my pccket in search of the filthy weed. By the aid of a cold bath, mornings, a non-stimulating diet, daily exercise, &c., my hand has regained its wonted steadiness, and as far as my knowledge of* physiology goes, it must ever re- main so. ' t , If I should chance to meet my friend again I shall not hesitate to challenge him for a shot. — La More. Statistics of Tobacco. — The present annual production of tobacco has been estimated by an English writer at 4,000,000,000 pounds ! This is smoked, chewed, and snuffed. Suppose it all made into cigars, one hundred to the pound, it would produce 400,000,000,000. Four hundred billions of cigars. Allowing this toboccOf unmanufactured, to cost on the average, ten cents a pound, and we have $400,000,000 expended every year, in pro- PACTS AND ANIODOTBS. 367 a quid y mind ting na- '46, for ras well decided I myself lot capa- througli t one pa- was only to other at work, hat of a hope of f it aside ibstitute, )t wholly months, in search ing diet, «adines8, ever re- b hesitate action of 1,000,000 )ose it all prodnce Allowing in cents a ir, in pro- ducing a noxious, deleterious weed. At least one and a half t!mM as much more is required to manufacture it into a marketable form, and dispose of it to the consumer. If this be so, then the human family expend, every year, one thousand millions of dol- lars in the gratification of an acquired habit, or one dollar for every man, woman, and child upon the earth I This sum would build two railroads around the earth, at a cost of twenty thousand dol- lars per mile, or sixteen railroads from the Atlantic to the Pacific ! It would build one hundred thousand churches, costing $10,000 each ; or half a million of school-houses, costing $2,000 each ; or one million of dwellings, costing $1,000 each! It would employ one million of preachers and one million of teachers, giving each a salary of $500 1 It would support three and one-third millions of young men at college giving eacli $300 per annum for expenses ! Friendly reader, consider the above basis of this calculation in some measure imaginary, call it conjecture, extravagance, just what you please 1 Cut these down one half— cut [them down to suit your own notions. Even then, if you are a Christian, or a patriot, a friend of God or man, you will not trifle with this stu- pendous iniquity ; but in some manly way, do your part to arrest its destructive power around you. Bovs. — Tobacco has spoiled and utterly ruined thousands of boys, inducing a dangerous precocity, developing the passions,, softening and weakening the bones and greatly injuring the spinal marrow, the brain, and the whole nervous fluid. A boy who early and freely smokes, or otherwise uses tobacco, never is known to make a man of much energy of character, and generally lacks physical and muscular as well as mental energy. — 1000 M. 2>'«. *A Want Stronger than Hunger. — An old man, who had borne an irreproachable character up to the age of seventy-two, was lately brought before one of the tribunals of Paris for stealing a pi'ec3 of lead worth eight cents. He admitted that he was whol- ly without means, and for the first time in his life knew not where to find a single sous ; but it was not hunger that drove him to T 858 TBI tutotalbr'b handbook. ■teal. After considerable questioning on the part of the judge, as to what ooold be stronger ihan hunger, he confessed it was tobtieco /or hUpipe. " Tobacco, monsieur judge !" said he, growing vio- kmt : " I haye the misery to be a hopeless smoker ! I smoke at waking ; I smoke while eating ; I cannot sleep without smoking till the pipe falls from my mouth. Tobacco costs me six cents a day. When I have none I am frantic. I cannot work, nor eat, nor sleep. I go from place to place, raging like a mad dog. The day I stole the lead, I had been without tobacco for twelve hours I I searched the day through for an acquaintance of whom I could beg a pipe full. I could not, auJ resorted to crime as a less evil than I was enduring. The need was stronger than II" The eloquence ahd pathos of the old man's plea mollified the judge, and he condemned him only to eight days' imprisonment. How Much it Costs. — In this city there are at least 2,400 adult males. Of this number 2,000 use tobacco. For cigars they pay not not less than four cents a day, making for each $15 60 a year, and a total for the 2,000 of $31,200. For tobacco six cents per week, making $3 12 per year. Total for cigars and tobacco, per year, 337,420-^for the citizens of Cleveland. The cigars and tobacco cost almost, if not quite, as much as the flour consumed in the city. There are several individuals who pay not less than $100 a year for cigars ; at $5 per barrel this would purchase 20 barrels of flour, equal to the supply of four families, or 20 persons with the staple of life. Aud all of this $37,000 is paid for an article injurious to the human ^stem, and entirely unproductive of any good. The amount paid in the city of Cleveland for cigars and to- bacco is fully equal to the amount of state, county, township and oity taxes. And if we include the amount paid for strong drink it amounts to more than the state, county, township and city taxes of the whole county, levied on the duplicate for the year 1848. There is no wisdom in these expenditures. There is folly rather. But men will have their own way, and do just as they please, and ajte_ VA0T8 AND AN10DOT18. .^ tdge, as tohs and to- Dship and 7 drink it city taxes ear 1848. Uy rather, •lease, and say that it is nobody's business. Well, agreed t NevertlieleM the amount paid for two years in Cleveland for cigars and tobacco and strong drinks, would pay the subscription of the city to the Cleveland and Columbus Railroad, which is only. 62,000,0001 But who cares, smoke and chew away — if ^ ou don't some one elf* will. Never mind the expense as. long as it is pa|d for. Peopltf must live I — Cleveland True Democrat . Was the Quaker Right ? — " At a temperance meeting in Western New York, some one alluded to the plea so often urged bjr the Society of Friends, that it is not well to aid in the refor- matory movements of the day, because it leads to ' mixing with the world.' The speaker was followed by Henry Coleman, of agri- cultural celebrity. In the midst of his remarks he stopped sud- denly, pointed out of the window, and looking at a Friend oppo- site to him, exclaimed in a toQC of alarm, ' Dr. Robinson I is that your house that's on fire ?' Instantly the whole audience were on their feet. 'Stop, stop! — nobody must go but the Quakers — don't mix with the world ! — nobody must go but the Quakers.' The fire was of course, a hoax ; but we trust a serious use will be made of its witty application." Be sure the Fox is Dead. — The following anecdote, instruc- tive on many other subjects besides that of the Maine Liquor Law, was related by a venerable speaker at the late anniversary meetings of the Free Will Baptists : — " Father Phiuney wished to relate an anecdote. While hearing Bro. Peck telliug how whist these rumsellers have become, I was reminded of one John SkiUinSj an old bachelor who lived in Gorham, my native town. Old John was a fox hunter. At one time an old fox came to his trap, eat off the bait and went off. John went to his trap, looked and said, (for he was always talking to himself,) " What, does that /ox think to outwit John Skillim ? " So he fixed the bed and set his trap the other side up, to outwit the fox. But it was one of the cun- ning old foxes and he managed to getroff the bait, spoil the bed, and get off again without being caught. John went to hia trap tBO THl TIITOTAIilE'l HAMIVBOOK. and Io6ked astonished : bat was not to be outwitted by a ibz ; ho would show them that he knew more than the whole tribe of foxes. 80 he borrowed another trap and set two, so that while the fox was in one, he got his hind leg in the other. When John- came to his trap he said, " Good morning, Mr. Fox. Bid I not tell you that it was no use to attempt to outwit John Skillips ?" He then took up a pitch knot and whaled him on the head, till the fox laid down just as Bro. Peck says those rumsellers do (applause). Ho then turned to fix his traps, and as he happened to look round, ho saw the fox's tail just going out of sight among the bushes. — (Boars of applause.) — Now, said Phinney, what I want is, that we should not be deceived, but be sure and kill the fox dead." Tit for ITat. — A reformed character said, " When I was a drunkard, the publican liked my money better than me, and I can see no good reason, now that I have become a sober man, why I ahould not like my money better than the publican." . TO A PIMPLE ON TOM'S NOSE. Thrice red that blossom is, alas I And thrice red has it been: Red in the grape — red in the glass- Red on thy nose 'tis seen. Ah, Tom ! at that red, red, red blot Thy well-wishers bewail ; They say the rednets pf that spot 'Tis makes thy poor wife pale. Wh. Jbboam. A LEVELLiMa Drink. — A remarkably acute friend of mine formerly at the bar — the Judges having retired for a few minutes, in the midst of his argument ; in which, from their interruptions, and objections, he did not seem likely to be successful — went out of court too, and on his return stated that he had been drinking a pot of porter. Being asked whether he was not afraid that his beverage might not dull his intellect? " That is exactly my ob- ject," said he, " to bring me down if, possible, to the level of their lordships." f ACTS AJXD ANIODOTIS. 861 A Wife's Vibit. — A short time since, a poor inebriate' wbo had just been fVeed fVom the House of Correction, went into a mm shop in Lowell, to relapse into his old courses. His wife, hearing where he was, put on her bonnet and hastened to the shop and took her seat by the side of her husband, requesting him to go home with her — telling the rumseller at the same time not to sell her husband any more rum. Said ho, "I shall — I get my living in that way — and yon look pretty running around in this way." " I shall make no fuss, Mr. P ," said the wife ; " my hus- band is here, you harbor him, and as long as I behave myself well, I intend to stay here with him, and you may help yourself if you can." The rumseller finding the wife so resolute, nesisted in persuad- ing the poor man to go home with his wife. Thus her persever" anoe prevailed. If ever the blush of shame mantle the cheek of any man, it ought one, who would assist in returning to his old courses a man who is trying to save himself from intemperance. Out on sucl| selfishness." A Teetotaler. — Jack was the name of a very bright monkey. One day seeing his master and his associates drinking, and very fond of doing what he saw others do, he took up half a glass of whisky and drank it off. He soon began to hop, skip, jump, and tumble as he had never done before. Poor Jack was drunk. The men around thought it was fine fun ; but Jack did not, for the next day when they wanted the fun repeated, he lay in one corner of the box, and would not come out. " Come out," cried his master. Afraid to disobey, he came walking on three legs, one paw pressed against his forehead, as if he had a violent headache* After he had got well, his master again brought him to the table. As soon as he sdw the glasses, he skulked behind a chair ; and on his master ordering him to drink, he bolted out of the window, and was on the housetop in a minute. They called him down, but he 862 THE TEETOTALER'S HAND-BOOK. would not, not he. Jack did not mean to get into a drunken scrape a second time. His master shook a whip at him. Jack did not care for that. A gun was then pointed at him. Jack was afraid of a gun. With one bound he leaped upon the chim- ney, and getting down the flue, held on by his fore paws. He would rather be singed than drink. Jack triumphed, and though his master kept him for twelve years, he coulo ever be induced to touch another drop of spirits. , , ^ Water or Beer. — A devoted minister of the Gospel, whose efforts for the cause of temperance have been much blessed by God, was once dining wit' a family, when the lady who presided at the table said " Ah I I do not like your doctrine : you go too far in refusing the good creoturvs o/GoD." No notice was taken of the remark by the minister at the time. At length he said, " Pray madam, can you tell me who made this !" holding up a glass of water. The lady replied, ''Why, God, I suppose." "Then," said the min- . ister, " I think you do us an injustice, when you accuse us of re- fusing the good creatures of God." t— Silence again reigned. By-and-by, the minister said, " Madam, pray can you tell me who made fhat?" pointing to a glass oiheer which the lady had at her side. " Why, no sir, I cannot exactly say : I suppose the brewer and malster.". " Then," replied he, "allow me to say there is some apparent inconsistency in your first remark. You prefer taking a thing that man has made, to that which God has so very bountifully provided ; and yet you accuse me of rejecting God's good creatures, because I prefer water to beer 1 Let me leave the matter to your more serious consideration." ^ :.»,,. Temperance Fable. — The rats once assembled in a large cellar, to devise some method of safely getting the bait from a steel trap, which lay near, having seen numbers of their friends and relatives snatched from them by its merciless jaws. After FACTS AND ANEOOOTES. 363 many long speeches, and proposals of many elaborate but fruitleBB plans, a happy wit standing erect, said : — " It is my opinioii that if with one paw we keep down the spring, we can safely take the food from the trap with the other." All the rats present, loudly squeaked assent, and snapped their tails in applause. The meet- ing adjourned, and the rats retired to their homes : but the devas- tations of the trap being by no means diminished, the rats were forced to call another " convention." The elders had just assem- bled and had commenced the deliberations, when all were startled by a faint voice, and a poor rat with only three legs, limping into the room stood up to speak. All were instantly silent, when stretching out the bleeding remains of his leg, he said: "My friends, I have tried the method you proposed, and f/ou see the res lit ! Now let mc suggest a plan to escape the trap, — * Do not touch itV' Cost op Paint. — Some years ago there lived in Berkshire County, Mass., two Physicians of considerable skill and eminence. One of them used no spirituous liquors — the other drank freely ; and while the first had acquired considerable property, the other remained poor. Meeting each other one day, when the former was returning from a distant town, with a richly painted and well — , how do made carriage, the latter accosted him : '' Doctor — you manage to ride in a carriage painted in so costly a manner? I have been in practice as long and extensively as you, and charge as much ; but I can hardly live and drive the old one." " The paint on my carriage," he replied, "did'nt cost half as much as {ha paint on your face. ''^ A Lesson in Parsing. — " What case is Mr. Maddle?" said a country school-master, addressing one of his grammar pupils. " He's a hard case, thir," was the answer. "Wrong — the next." '" " He's an objective case, thir." */■ -i'- ■■ v . • "How so?" r .^ " 'Cause he objected to sign the pledge," -" - >**'*^" 3d4 THE TESTOTALEB's HAITD-BOOK. The 'Teetotal' Apprentice. — Not long ago in a sn\all town in Lincolnshire, a wretched victim of habit thus accosted a lad standing at a shop door : ' I say, boy, can you tell me where there's a dram-shop V * No ! ' replied the youth, ' I never tell anybody where to find such places/ How much more truly noble was this, than the conduct of those fashionable ' abstainers ' who, refusing the evil drink themselves, will yet furnish it to others ! Sign op a Tavern. — A little boy, seeing a drunken man prostrate before the door of a groggery, opened the door, and put- ting in his head, said to the proprietor, " See here, master, your sign has fallen down." Dreadful Uncomfortable. — The Rev. Mr. Thompson, at a meeting in Fftneuil Hall, illustrated the effects of the Washing- tonian movement upon the rum sellers, by the following story : An old lady found a frog in her tea-kettle, and politely requested him to come out, which he politely refused to do. " Well," said she, " as you please, I shall not use force to compel you to leave your quarters, but I shall make you dreadful uncomfortahle." She then put the kettle over the fire, and the frog was soon glad to hop out. Do NOT TOUCH IT ! — Mr. Van Wagner, the reformed black- smith, from Poughkeepsie, illustrates the deceptive influence of alcohol by the following fable : — A rattlesnake had got into the fire, so that it was in a fair way of being burnt up. " Please take me out," said the snake to a man who chanced to pass by. " Ah, no," was the reply ; " if I take you out you'll bite me." " No I won't," said the snake. The man, after some difficulty, got hold of it and placed it out of danger. " Now look out !" continued the snake, putting itself in a position to spring; " I'ani going to bite you." " Yes," said the man, in surprise, " bui you promised you would'nt." '*' But don't you know it's my nature to bite ?" quoth his snakeship. And BO with alcohol. He will make fair promises, but it is his nature to bite, and ten to one but all who touch him find it out to their Rorrow. FACTS AND IMXODOTES. 365 A Distiller's Conscience. — A certain diBtiller employed a very industrious man to work in his still-house. The man had a small house, a garden, a cow and a pig. At the end of three years, the distiller had a mortgage on the house and had taken the cow, and still the man owed him sixteen dollars. How can this be, thought the distiller to himself, that this man has done no better. At the end of three years, his house, and garden, and cow are all gone and still he owes me sixteen dollars. Is it that he drinks, and this has made him so shiftless and inefficient ? Is this the fruit of my employment ? He resolved to forgive him the debt, and give him up the cow. But a thorn had found a way in+o his bosom. He had no rest. Reflection frowned upon his heart and his conscience, till he broke up his distillery and abandoned his business. What condemnation is there on the whole business of making and selling intoxicating drinks, that an enlightened conscience never can stand it ? The Value of a Tract. — Do you see that respectable Fish- monger, said a friend to us not long ago, pointing to a small shop not five miles from St. Paul's. For many years he was a confirm- ed drunkard, and his family were in wretchedness. About sixteen months ago some one sent him a tract which indncad him to sign the temperance pledge. He has sought divine help and has faith- fully kept his promise, and he is now a respectable and industriouF, thriving man; his family live in comicit, and. to my knowledge, he has saved against "a rainy day," since he became an abstainer, upwards of one hundred 2)ounds. Tract distributors ! let this fact encourage you. Puss Breaking her Pledge. — Mr. Gougb tells an amusing story of a little boy who had a favorite cat. He one day was carry^ ing her around the house looking for something, '' what do you want, Tommy ?" said his mother, " I want," said he, " a pen, ink and paper, to make puss sign the pledge." The pen was obtained, and with the help of the boy, the word Puss was put to the pledge. The next day, the boy was seen whipping the cat, " what are you 366 THE TSETOTALSR'S HANIVBOOK. '..< 'if whipping tlie oat far ?'^ said his mother, " Because' shie has broken her pledge. I saw her coming out of Barney's grocery store licking her chops." It is a pretty certain sign said Mr. G. if tem- perance boys are seen coming out of a tavern or grocery store wiping their mouth, that they have broken their pledge. What one " Drunk " Costs. — A man of intemperate habits told his employer, at the close of a day, that he could not work for him the next day, as he was calculating to have a drunk. His employer endeavored to dissuade him from his purpose, but with- out effect. He accordingly on the next day took his wagon, went to the neighboring village of W , where rum is plenty, got his keg filled, stimulating himself well at the same time ; — rode home in high glee ; ) but instead of stopping at his own dwelling, pushed forward to the little village, where he had been at work — was there thrown from his wagon, and injured in the most shocking manner. His drunk therefore cost him, — 1. The price of his rum. 2. The shame and disgrace of getting drunk. 3. A season of the most excruciating agony — for the leg was so badly mangled that the ends of the bones protruded through the integuments. ^ •"'-" ''■ - ' ^*- ■•-•' -■■' ^■-.•i:-%ff-^ 4. The loss of several months' time. " ■''' Eight about Face. — Mr. Delavan, of Albany, who has devot- ed money and talent for the promotion of temperance, and who has done as much as any one individual in America, in giving dignity and importance to this noble entcrpriae. was, in his youth, one of a club of fifty, who were in the liabit of meeting at a room in a public house, to enjoy themselves in " the feast of reason and the flow of soul." It was not long howei^r, before Mr. Delavan was led to serious reflection upon the folly and danger of the prac- tice, till on a certain evening, while on his way to the club, he suddenly stopped and exclaimed aloud, '^ Right about Face /" And he did right about face : and, said he, to the {gentleman to whom he related the circumstance, 'the first block of buildings which I PAOrS AND ANSODOTSa. 367 ever erected in Albany, wis erected on the corner directly in the front of where I formed the resolution." We have copied the above from the Boston Temperance Journal; which also says, in refer- ance to those fifty young men, — " Forty-three of them became drunkards, and most of them found a drunkard's death." Eating the Fruit.— -The following anecdote is beautifully illustrative of the beneficial influences of the temperance cause, in restoring confidence and augmenting domestic happiness : — A blacksmith in one of our villages, had in his possession, but under mortgage, a house and a piece of land. Like many others, he was fond of the social glass. But he joined the temperance society ; about three months after, he observed one morning his wife busily employed in planting rose bushes and fruit trees. "My dear," said he, " I have owned this lot for five years, and yet I have never known you before to manifest any desire to im- prove and ornament it in this manner." " Indeed," replied the smiling wile, " I had no heart to do it until you joined the temperance society ; I had often thought of it before, but I was persuaded that should I do it, some stranger would pluck the rose and eat the fruit. Now I know that by the blessing of Providence, this lot will be ours; and that we and our children shall enjoy the products. Wn shall pluck the rose and eat the fruit." A Good Reply. — A gentleman, responding after his health had been drunk, spoke as follows : — " Gentlemen, you have been pleased to drink my health with wine ; to the latter you are welcome. Your drinking me will do me no harm ; your drinking it will do you no good. I do not take wine, because I am determined wine shall not take me. You are most daring ; but I am most secure. You have courage to tamper with and flatter a dangerous enemy ; I have courage to let him alone. We are both brave — but our valour hath opposite qualities. I do not drink ) our healths. My doing so would be no more than giving change for a sovereign. I would rather drink your disease, — would rather root out from you 368 THB TSETOTALIB'8 HAND-BOOK. whatever is prejudicial to your happiness. Suppose, when lifting my bread, or my water, to my lips, I exclaim, " Here's luclc to you!" All the luck attending the action would come to me — in the mouthful of meat or drink I shonld take. But if, in the par- tial adoption of society's customs, I take opportunity of scattering a few good ideas which may govern your lives hereafter, then there is luck to you and to all of us. In that way I thank you for your cordiality." A Good Exchange. — I shall never forget, says the Bishop of Norwich, visiting the cottage of a man who, had been all his life a drunkard, and which was the abode of misery and wretchedness. He became a teetotaler, and in six months afterwards I found his abode the scene of comfort and domestic happiness. This man, with tears in his eyes, placing his hand on a quarto family bible, said, " This is the first thing I purchased with the money saved by giving up drunkenness ; it was an alien to my house before, but it has been my daily comfort and companion ever since." Aneodote. — A respectable looking woman called recently at a spirit-dealer's shop in Gatashiels, for half a gill of the strongest spirits to sponge a silk gown with. After the quantity requested was drawn from the cask, she was asked for a bottle to hold the same, when she cooly replied, "I haven't far to gang, and I'll just carry it hame in my mouth I" ■ v ^i ;. How TO Keep Poor.- -Buy two glasses of ale every day, at five cents each, amo sating in a year to thirty-six- dollars and forty cents; smoke three ^-gars, one aftev.' .uch meal, counting up in the course of a year to iifty-four dollars and seventy-five cents ; keep a big dog which will consume, in a year at least fifteen dollars worth of provisions, a cat five more — altogether, this amounts to the snug little sum of one hundred and ten dollars and twenty-five cents, sufficient to buy several barrels of flour, one hundred bushel 3 of coals, one barrel of sugar, one sack of coffee, a good coat, a res- pectable dress, besides a frock for the baby, and half a dozen pairs of shoes rAOTS AND AMK0DOTX8. 369 A Temper ANOx Fablz. — The Nantucket Idander w^ the * following story was told by a reformed- inebriate, as an apology for much of the folly of drunkards : — '^ A mouse ranging about a brew- ery, happening to fall into one of the vats of beer, was in eminent danger of drowning, and appealed to a cat to help him out. The cat replied, " it is a foolish request, for as soon as I get you out I shall eat you.'' The mouse piteously replied, " that that fate would be better than to be drowned in beer. The cat lifted him out, but the fumes of beer caused puss to sneeze, and mousy took refuge in bis hole. The cat called upon the mouse to come out — " You rascal, did you not promise that I should eat you ? " Ah," replied the mouse, " but you know 1 was in liquor at the time I" CoLLOCiUY. — We cut the following short but piquant colloquy between an inebriate and a rumseller, from an exchange : Landlord. — " If you had avoided rum*, your early habits of in- dustry and intellectual abilities would have placed you in a situa- • tion, and you would now ride in your own carriage." Inehriale. — " And if you had never sold rum for me to buy, you would have been my driver." 'An Epitaph. — Thetford Churchyard rejoices in the following matter-of-fact memorial to departed worth : " My grandfather was buried here, ^■'- w-r o My cousin Jane, and two uncles dear ; .,, ,_ , My father perished with an inflainvtioa in the thighs, - ; ,, And my sister dropped down dead in the Minories ; •: ■ ■ But the reason why I'm here interred, according to my thinking* f ' i^f Is owing to my good living and hard drinlcing. ";V, . If therefore, good christians, you wish to Ixve long; Don't drink too much wine, brandy, gin, or anything strong. A Bad Mark.—" I've got a boy for you, sir." " Glad of it ; who is he?" asked the master-workman of a large establishment. The man told the boy's name and where he lived. " Don't want him," said the master-workman, " he's got a bad mark." " A bad mark, sir; what?" " I meet him every day with a cigar in his mouth. I don't want ' smokers.' " ^V''i'2S.i''„I« 370 THE TIITOTALBR'b HAND-BOOK. Thi Drunkard not the Worst Man. — A gentleman stepped into a hotel, and saw a filthy drankard, onoe a respectable man, waiting for his liquor. lie thus accosted him, " G , why do you make yourself the vilest of men ? " "I ain't the vilest of men," said the drunkard." " Yes, you are," said the gentleman. " See how you look ; drink that glass and you will in a very short time be in the gutter." " I deny your poz-zi-tion," stammered the drunkard. " Who is the vi-lest, the tempter or- -the tempted ? Who — who was the worst, Satan or Eve ?" " Why, ^atan," said he. "Well — well, behold the tempter," said the diunkard, point- ing to the bar. The argument was irresistible. The bar-keeper flew into a passion, and turned the poor fellow out of his house without his dram. Death and the Wine Bibber. — "Bring me* wine," said the man to his servants ; " bring me wine, that I may drink and be mtrry." " Here it is," said Death, who answered to the summons, " drink and be merry." As soon as the man saw who brought the wintj he turned pale, and trembled exceedingly, and said, " Who art thou, with a grinning and a derisive vis{»ge, that bringesc wine, and puttest it on my table?" " I am Death!" replied the other; " thou calledst for wine, and here it is ; why dost thou not drink ?" Death waited, but the man delayed to drink ; and after a little consideration, called his servants, and said, '• Take away the wine, and never place it upon my table again ; for I see it is accom- panied by Death !" The grim spectre was then obliged to retire, disappointed of his prey ; and the man rejoiced at his escape. Happy are they who have made their escape from thp drinking customs of the world, and enroll their names among the friends of temperance ; for, by so doing, they have most probably escaped from an early death — death, not only of the body, but of the soul : for the habit of intoxication is calculated to destroy both. Self-Inflictions. — Ask any man if he wants a racking head, burning veins, and a diseased stomach, dud he will think you mad. And yet hundreds will pay for them, - ;? -. ~(i- FACTS AND ANK0D0TI8. 371 Who Marks the DRuyKARDs ? — " Behold the fruits of drank- enneSs," said a landlord to an only daughter, whom he almost idolized, as he kicked a poor inebriate into the street. " Poor fellow I I see," replied the daughter. *' Let me caution you to beware, and not to get a drunkeu hus- band 1" " Who makes the drunkards, father ?" The landlord sloped. The last question was a poser. The Drunkard and the Two Monkeys. — A rich drunkard kept two monkeys for his sport. One day he looked into his din- ing-room, where he and his guests had left some wine, and the two Jacko's had mounted the table, and were helping themselves gener- ously to the wine — jabbering and gesturing, as they had seen their master and his guests. In a little time they exhibited all the ap- pearances of drunken men. First they were^ merry and jumped . about ; but soon they got to fighting on the floor, and tearing out one another's hair. The drunkard stood in amazement. "Whatl" said he, '' is this a picture of myself I Do the brutes rebuke me ?" It so affected his mind, that he resolved he would never drink another drop. And from that day he was never known to be any other than a sober and a happy man. Soap-Suds. — A lady had a daughter about eight years of age, who had never tasted intoxicating drinks. She was asked if she had ever seen any. " Yes," was the reply. " What did it look like ?" inquired an elder sister. ** Like dirty water with soap-suds at the top," was the reply. , , _ ^^ . . ^ Scripture well Applied. — The Ohio Organ gives the fol- lowing instance of the right application of Scripture in a time of temptation : It is stated that Bishop Doane, of New Jersey, is strongly opposed to temperance', and his sideboard and tables are loaded with wines, brandy, gin, &c. A short time since, the Rev. Mr. Perkins, of the same denomination, and a member of the " Sons," dined with the Bishop, who, pouring out a glass of wine, 872 THE TSITOTALIR'S HAND-BOOK. desired the Eov. gentleman to drink wi^i him, whereupon he re- plied, " Can't do it, Bishop, ' wine is a mocker.' " ** Take a ^lasa of brandy then, " said the distinguiel d ccclesiastio. " Can't do it, Bishoi) 'strong drink is raging.' " By this time the Bishop becauiino; somewhat restive and excited, remarked to Mr. Perkins, " You li pa; tho decanter to the gentleman next to you." " No, Bishop, L cau't do that, ' woe unto lum that putteth the bottle to his neighbor'?' lips.' " What was tho peculiar mental condition or moral state ol tho Bishop at this stage of the proceedings, our in- formant did not state. ' "' A True Story. — A village schoolmaster said to one of his pupils, a very small boy, who had just gone ahead of his class for spelling best, — " Well done, my little fellow, you shall have a feather in your cap." Tho boy burst into tears. " What is the matter ?" said the master. " I don't want a feather in my cap," replied tbo lad. "Why not?" "Because when father has a ft uibcr in his cap he always comes home drunk, and scolds mother aud whips her. " A Good JCeference. — " Do you know Mr. ?" asked one friend of anotLnr, referring to an old gentleman who was famous for his fondness of the extract of hops. " Yes, sir, I know him very well." , =, , " What kind of a man :« he ?" > ' j .: ■' ■■ ;i ^ ; >..•> " Why, in the morning when he gets up he is a beer barrel, and in the evening when he goes to bed he is a barrel of beer 1" Mother's Nonsense. — "Pa, doeswine make a beast of a man ?" "Pshaw I child: perhaps once in a while." ^r ■ , " Is that the reason why 3Ir. Goggins, the tavern keeper, has on his sign, ' entertainment for man and beast ?' " ,^.jj " Nonsense, child, what makes you a.sk ?" " Because, ma' says that last night you went to Goggin's a man, and came home a beast ; and that he entertained you 1' " " That's mother's nonsense, dear. Run out and play — papa's head aohes I" FACTS AND ANCODOTia. J 373 Timing It. — A minister in the Highlands of Scotland found ono of his pariHliionci'S Intoxicated. The next day he called to reprove hiin for it. " It is very wronj]^ to get drunk," ftnid the parson. " I ken that," said the guilty pn " but then I dinna drink as mucklo as you do !" "What, 8-r? How is that?" "Why, gin it please ye, diuu y. .uko • glass o' whisky and water after dinner?" " Why, yea, Jemmy, surely I take a little whisky after dinner, merely to aid digestion." • ' . ' . "And dinna you take a glass of whisky toddy every night when you gang to bed ?" " Yes, to be sure, I just take n little toddy at night to help me to sleep." " Well," continued the parishioner, " that is just fourteen glasses every week, and about sixty every month. I only get paid once a month, and then if I'd take sixty glasses, it would make me dead drunk for a week. Now, you see the only difference is, ye time it better than I do." The Pesky Keq. — When the. temperance reformation came, the old folks did not so easily fall into it. Their habits were fix- ed. It was the young people it took, and they carried it forward as young people only can. There was an old farmer whose boys all joined the teetotal army. He was glad of it, he said; but for him, he wasn't so clear. Well enough for young folks. A keg of rum used to be kept in the cellar. But the boys found out there was no room for it there. It was moved to a store- chamber. The flax and the spring wheat left no room for it there. It was put into the bedroom. 0, nobody could bear the smell of it there. It got into the corn-house. The corn ousted it forthwith. " Sir," as the old farmer was called, did not know what to do with his " pesky keg." It wasn't catching, as he knew of," he ^ .1J^ ^ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) // O Afif 1.0 ^Kl 1^ ■ii 12.0 1.1 U I u WMU L25 ■ 1.4 Mis 1.6 Hi0lDgFa(M] Somes CorpOTation 23 WIST MAIN STRflT \MltSTIR,N.Y. 14SM (716) t72-4S03 v'\ 874 THE TUTOTALEB'B HANO-BQOK. Bud, "yet people were 'fraid of it as they were of smallpox." Get it out of sight and smell as far as possible he felt he mast. One day he called Bob to help him hoist it up into the straw-mow. " Let the boys have their way," he grumbled ; " but for hu part, he wasn't so clear about himself." Bob helped him hoist it up and stow it away. " The pesky thing," muttered the old man. Bob Said nothing. Whenever "sir" wanted a glass, he had to go to the barn, mount the ladder, and fumble in the straw for it; the boys could not do it for him, because they had pledged, " touch not, taste not, handle not^^ and he was sure he would not ask them — no, not one of them — not he. I do not know how often he made a visit to the mow, for he took the time when nobody was around ; but one day, hearing somebody comipg, his foot slipped, he fell, and broke his ankle. He never said he fell from the ladder, and the boys were careful not to pry too closely into the case, especially as they were sure the " pesky keg" was not likely to be visited again soon. For two months'the old farmer was laid up in the house, with all the kind attention which his sons could bestow. The first time he hobbled out to the barn, " Well, Bob," he said, " it is clear to my mind now— ^and my mind is clearer than it's been these forty years — that if I can live two months without my grog, I can live two years — and the rest of my life." The keg was stove up and burned, for the smell could not be rinsed out; it burned blue flames, and the boys sung a temperance song around the bonfire. Doing right in one thing makes the way for doing right in others. The old ftirmer began to go to meeting with his boys, and before one year they all joined the church, and became one of the most Christian families in the neighborhood. An Innkeepers Regret. — Joseph II., Emperor of Germany, travelling incognito, stopped at an inu in the Netherlands, where, it being " Fair Day," and the houses crowded, he readily slept in an out-house, after a slender repast of bacon and eggs, ^or which he paid three shillings and six pence. A few hours after some of his FACTS AND ANIOSOTES. 375 majesty's suite coming up, the landlord appeared^ yery nneaj^ at not having known the rank of his gaest. << Pshaw, man," said one of his attendants, " Joseph is accustomed to such adventures, and will think nothing of it." " Very likely," replied mine host, "but I shall; I can never forgive myself for having an Emperor in my house and letting him oflFfor three and six pence." A Boyish Idea. — ** George Smith, do you recollect the storjr of David and Goliah?' " Yes, sir — David was a tavern keeper, and Goliah was an in- temperate man." "Who told you that?" "Nobody. I read it ; and it said that David fixed a sling for Goliah, and Goliah got slewed with it." " Wasn't Goliah a giant, a stpng man ?" " Yes, he was a giant, but he had a weak head." . "How so?" " Why he got so easily slewed." GooB Advice. — Rev. Mr. Pike of Newberry Port, in a pamph- let, published some time since, gives the following advice which should be heeded : — " Mothers, where are your daughters ? Whose addresses are they favouring ? As you would wish not to plant thorns in your own dying pillow, be entreated to look after this matter; for it is here that your power and influence may have a salutary effect ; by frowning on this evil in the bud and checking its first advances, you may, perhaps, protect the pride of your family from the deadly contagion. Teach your daughters the only safe doctrine, namely. Teetotal or no Husband. Let this be their motto, and in nine cases out of ten they will avoid the rock and quicksands on which so many have been destroyeSl forever. But BtiU in order to make it doubly sure, it might be well to adopt the rule practised by some churches, which is to make the candidate stand six months on trial; you might by this rule discover the mask and avoid destruction. I I are 'I THE TUTOTALBR'S HAND-BOOK. y- ' The Five Crajdlss. — A. man who had recently became a votary to Blilcchus, returned home one night in an intermediate state of booziaesa. That is to say, he was comfortably drank, but perfectly conscious of his unfortunate situation. Knowing that his wife was asleepj he decided to attempt gaining bis bed without disturbing her, and by sleeping off his inebriation jonceal the fact from her altogether. He reached the door of his room without disturbing her, and after ruminating a few moments on the matter, he thought if he could reach the bedpost, and hold on to it while he sliped off his apparel the feat would be easily accomplished. Un- fortunately for his scheme, a cradle stood in a direct line with the bedpost, about the middle of the floor. Of course when his shins came in contact with the aforesaid piece of furniture, he pitched over it with a |)erfect looseness ; and upon gaining an erect posi- tion, ere an equilibrium was established, he went over it back- wards, in an equally summary manner. Again he struggled to his feet, and went foremost over the bower of infant happiness. At length, with the fifth fall, his patience became exhausted, and the obstacle was yet to be overcome. In desperation he cried out to his sleeping partner, " Wife, wife I how many cradles have you got in the house ? I've fallen over five, and here's another before me 1" Anaoreon's Plea and the Lady's Retort. — This Bac- chanalian poet, in his 19th Ode, makes the following apology for his winebibbing propensities : — * e the bliick earth drinks, and ths trees drink her; : dea drinks the winds, and the sun drinks her; And the moon drinks him ; so good friends I think, You shouldn't oppose me wishing; to drink." To this ingenious but sophistical sally, a poetess " of our own '* has favoured us with a rejoinder, more solid and not less sprightly : Yes, heathen bard I yet wisdom says The lesson this has taught her, Is that the earth, the trees, and sun, Drink — but 'tis only water I ^ FAOTB AMD ANE0D0TE8. 377 Both One — " Is a man and 'his wife both ofee?" asked the wife of a certain gentleman, in a state of sttipefaetion, as she was holding his aching head in both hands. " Yes, I suppose so,'' was the reply. " Well, then," said she, " I came home drunk last night, and ought to be ashamed of myself." This back-handed rebuke from a longHSuffering and loving wife effectually cured him of his drinking propensities. Judge Shaw's Decision — The papers say that five young women of a company of fourteen, who sacked a groggery in Bris- tol, Ohio, last June, were tried by three justices for riotj and ac- quitted, the Court deciding that the groggery was a nuisance, and the girls had a right to abate it. A HEfioio Woman. — A Mrs. Brandon, of Union City, de- molished the contents of a groggery some ten days ago, in the con- stitutional style. Her husband had been reclaimed from drunk- enness by the Good Templars, but bad repeatedly been induced to drink again, by the heartless murderer who ^ould kill a man for five cents. After enduring the return vf her sorrows as long as endurance was a virtue, she went to the groggery, walked into a back room where her husband was playing cardt:, too drunk to walk. She took him by the arm, and was leading him out through the groggery, supporting him as well as she could, when her eye rested upon the decanters which contained the ruiner of her happi- ness. She left her husband to take care of himself, and deliberate- ly took the bottles and dashed every one of them upon the floor, even the candy bottle, the craven groggery keeper standing by, and trembling like a leaf in the presence of insulted innocence. Let nil such outraged women assert their rights and defend themselves. God and good men are for them, though the Supreme Court and the liqaor interest which elected it, are against them. Who Would ? — ^Who would trust his life in the hands of a drunken physician ? Not even the drunkard himself. 378 THB TIIXOTALIB'S HANIlt-BOOK. A Dashawat.— « Well, Jack, I'm afVaid all thia wiQ go for grog," said a man about paying one of his ship's crew. "Never fear, sir, never fear; I'm a Datihaway now. Half this goes to my old grandmother, and the other half to get me in good rig for the next voyage." " A Dashaway ! What, you dash away your cups, Jack ?" '' Yes, sir. Our brig was boarded by the land sharks at San Francisco, and they took me to their hells, robbed me, and turned me into the street drunk. A man came along. He didn't kick me off the paving. No, sir, he picked me up, and took me to his lodgings, and he kept me there till I was sober. Sir, he was a Dashaway, and he said I must be one. And he said, ' Take the pledge, brother, tUl you can take something better.' And says I, < What is better than the pledge ?' ' Brother,' says he, * the pledge dashes away your cups, but it leaves you your appetite. That will gnaw away and gnaw away at you ; but the grace of God can dash that away. " Well, sir, I didn't leave him till I took the pledge, total ab- stinence ; and he asked me to go to prayer meeting with him ; and blessed be God, it was just like the old meeting at home, and I thought I heard my father pray, and Deacon Eastman. Oh, sir, I thought I'd got among the saints again ; and, sir," said the poor sailor, with the tears streaming down his cheecks, " I felt 1 was too had to be there, and I told 'em so. But said they, ' Jesus Ohrist is here, the poor sinner's friend,' and He says, ' Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow,' and ' him that Cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out.' Ah, sir, Ihad been cast out. Well, sir, I knew he was my father and my mother's Saviour, and I felt he'd be mine, and I set a-praying till he came to me, or I got to him, or both, for I believe we met half- way ; and, sir, I dashed away my appetite then. I don't want grog. I am a Dashaway, sir, blessed be God. You must dash away your bosom sins before the grace of God can get in, and that'll *eep 'em out.'^" , FACTS AND ANIODOTIS, 879 Thx Result of a Whipping. — "There was one man I heard of who had a daughter, who went home and told her father that she had signed the pledge, and her father whipped her severe- ly ; but aflterwards the father's conscience was pricked at seeing his little daughter's back black and blue, and he went and signed. I think I should not fear being whipped for that act if my father was a " beer seller." Perhaps it may be that he would give up selling the nasty stuff, sign the pledge, as the little girl's father did, and thus be a step towards saving him from the wicked place after death." Not Quite Reapt. — A young gentleman at a temperance meeting, on being asked to sign the pledge, excused himself by saying, " I am not quite ready." At the close of the meeting he proposed to one of the young ladies present to see her home. " I am not quite ready," was the laconic reply. "I can't give up my besetting Sin!" — Another reason which keeps men away from their Saviour, is their love of some besetting sin which they are not prepared to give up. Doot. Spencer tells us in his "Pastor's Sketches'' of a man, between fifty and sixty, belonging to his congregation ; serious in spirit, honest and industrious in life, who often manifested much concern for his spiritual state ; with whom he often conversed ; who seemed very near the kingdom of heuven, and who for months and months remained just there. His pastor could not imagine what kept him from the Saviour. One day he met this parishioner riding towards the village, and as he stopped for a moment's salu- tation, he noticed a brown jug in his wagon. Although the far- mer was a man of irreproachable habits, it flashed upon the pastor's brain that that brown jug had something to do 'with the peculiar position of mind in which the farmer had so long stood. Upon that hint he spake : " Mr. , where are you going ?" « To the village store." " What are going to do with that jug ?" iii i> iiiiiii i,.i *#— iiwwui Bm THl TXBTOTALSB'g HAKD-BOOK. t " Thd farmer oast his eye down upon it a little confuted, but with accustomed honesty replied, '' I un going to get some rum in it." «'Do you drink it?" " Never to do any hurt." " You never drink any to do you any good ?" " I have thought it did sometimes." " Do you drink it every day ?'* " No-— only when I have extra hard work, or when I am not well, or feel badly." " You take a little when ever you feel troubled ?" " Yes, I feel the need of it then." " Mr. ', when you have been troubled by the claims of reli- gion, and have felt depressed in view of your spiritual state, have you not then taken a drink, because you have felt thus troubled ?" " Yes, sir. I believe I have." The pastor saw at once the solution of the problem that had worried him in reference to the farmer's condition — saw the danger in which he stood. He determined to be faithful, and there by that roadside he proceeded to plead with him to give up that habit at once and forever, as the besetting sin that was ruining his soul. He spoke to him of its inherent folly, of its obvious consequences upon himself — its dangers to his children ; accumulating affection- ately argument upon argument. The old man answered never a word. He glanced restlessly round, as if he was cornered, and would be glad when the lecture would be over. Then his eye fell upon the brown jug. As the pastor's appeal grew warmer, he watched it more closely. He stooped and touched it. With a very solemn countenance, and still without a word, he lifted the brown jug upon his knee. The pastor kept on beseeching. There was a large rock by the way-side, just where they were. The old man's eyes fell upon the rock. Suddenly rising to his full height, he dashed the jug into a thousand fragments against it, and gather- ing up the reins, turned his horse and started in a^allop for home. FACTS AMD AMlODinW. 861 They neyer ezohaaged a word in refbrenoe to thif nnezpeoted nv ■alt, bnt in less than thirty days thereafter, the old fanner's heart was full of the joy of salvation. The besetting sin was shattered — the brown jug no longer stood between him and the Gross, and he found all his difficulties gone. The Beoqar Bot. — " Why don't you come after cold yictoals as usual ?" said a lady to a boy who for a long time had been a daily visitor for that species of charity. " Father has joined the Temperance Society, and we have warm victuals now," was the reply. A whole temperance lecture,'iii tk {&w worda. Led Astrat. — A good story was recently told at a temperance meeting in New Hampshire. A stranger came up to a Washing- tonian, with the enquiry — " Can you tell me where I can get anything to drink?" " Oh, yes," said the other, " follow me." The man followed him through two or three streets, till he b^an to be discouraged. " How much farther must I go ?" said he. " Only a few steps farther," said the Waahingt(mianj " there m the pump /" The man turned about a ^ ' moved his boots." The Teetotal Spoo]$^. — In the year 1759, Capt Andrew Ward, of Guilford, commanded a oompany of provincial soldiers in the service of G^rge II, at the taking of Louisburg, in the Island of Cape Breton. While in the service he drew money in lieu of his rations of spirit, with which he purchased four sQver spoons, one for each of his children. The word " Louisburg" was marked on each spoon, that his children might remember how he made use of his rum. These spoons were made by Mr. Ward, father of Ool. James Ward of this city. Of all his descendants (and there have been more than one hundred,) but one has been intemperate. George A. Foote, Bsq., of Guilford, one of Oapt. Ward's descendants, has politely deposited one of these spoons with the Gonneotioat Historicd So<»etyi-> JSTor^orc? CanranU u 1 1 388 TBI TUTOTALU'f HA!II»*BOOK. 80NO or TBI PlOAMTlB. There was an old decanter, •nd ita mouth was gaping wide ; the rosy wine .i had ebbed away, and left its crystal side ; and the wind went hum- niing, humming, up and down; the wind it blew, and through ' the reed like hollow neck the wildest notes it Mew. I placed it in the window, where the blast was blowing free, and fancied that its pale mouth sang the queerest strains to me, "They tell me, puny conquerors 1 the Plague has slain his ten, and War his hundred thousands of the very best of men ! but I ('twas thus the Bot- tle spake) but I have conquered more than all your ftmous conquerors, so feared and famed oi yore. Then come, ye youths and maidens all, come drink from out my cup, the beverage that dulls the brain and 'bums the spurits up, — that puts to shame your conquerors that slay their scores below; for' tlu8 has ddv^zed mimons with the lava tide (tf woe. Though in the path of battle the darkest streams of blood may roll ; yet while I kill the body, I destroy the very soul ! The Cfholera, the Plague, the sword such ruin • * never wrought as I, in mirth or malice, on the innocent HAVE BROUGHT." >« r AOn AND AMBaDOTM. 888 Thi Tsu or BissiPATioii. The sin of Drunlcennesfl expels reason, drowns memory, distempers the body, defaces beauty, dimin- ishes strength, corrupts the blood, inflames the liver, weakens the brain, turns men into walking hospitals; — causes internal, external, and incurable wounds ; — b a witch to the senses, a devil to the soul, a thief to the pocket, the beggar's companion, a wife's woe, and children's sorrow; — ^makes man become a beast and a self-murderer, who drinks to others' good health, and robs himself of his own I Nor is this all; it exposes to the Divine ».o THE Root of all ia DRUNKENNESS. flfti TBI TUTOTALia'f HANX^BOOK. Yaluabli T18TIMONR8. — "Who hath woe? whohat^ior* row ? who hath contentiona ? who hath wounds without cause ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine ; at the last it hiteth like » ■erpent, it stingeth like an adder." — Prov. zxiii, 29, 32. "The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; un- cleanness, murders, drunkenneM, revellings, and such like ; of -the which I tell you, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."— Gal. v, 19, 21. * " If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die ; hut if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the hody, ye shall live." — Rom. viii, 13. " Let us walk honestly, as in the day ; not in rioting and drunk- ennean, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envy- ing. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not pro- vision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof" — Bom. xiii, 13, 14. " Be not deceived ; God is not mocked ; for whatsoever a man Boweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of tiio flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." — Gal. vi, 7, 8. " Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink ; that continue until night, till wine in- flame them. Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink." — Isaiah v, 11, 22. Commodore Joseph Smith states — " So far as my experience goes, I have found the abandonment of the use of spirits by sear men to be beneficial in all respects, lessening both crime and pun- ishment. On my last cruise, the ship in which my flag was worn, the frigate Cumberland, with near five hundred persons on board sailed in November, 1843, and returned in November, 1845 The first part of the cruise the men generally drank their grog ; by a course of reasoning and discipline they gradually (and volun- tarily of course) stopped their liquor, and received the small pit- tance of two cents per day therefor. At the end of the year, all but two had relinquished the spirit part of their ration, and HIO V I ■ VAOTS AND AMKODOTn. 385 those two roquosted to be transferred to another ship of the squad- ron. I gratified them. No person remaining who desired to draw grog, it was pumped off and landed) and the casks filled with good pare watSr. To the end of the cruise no more spirits were issued. The crew were, so far as I observed, at all .times con- tented and happy. I never heard of a complaint that liquor was in the slightost degree necessary to enable seamen to better endure the hardships and privations of a sailor's life. On the contrary, the men were satisfied they were better off in all respects with out it. The Rev. William Jay, of Bath, says— << I am thankful that all through life I have been a very temperate man, and for more than twenty-five years, generally a teetotaler, but for the last six years I have been one constantly and entirely. To this (now !>. am past 70) I ascribe, under God, the glow of health, evenness of spirits, freshness of feeling, ease of application, and comparative inexhaustion by public labours, I now enjoy. The subject of tee- totalism I have examined physically, morally, and Ghristianly, and after all my reading, reflection, observation, and experience, I have reached a very firm and powerful conviction. I believe that next to the glorious gospel, God could not bless the human race 80 much as by the abolition of all intoxicating spirits. As every man has some influence, and as we ought to employ usefully all our talents, and as I have now been for nearly half a century en- deavouring to serve my generation in this city, according to the will of God, I have no objection to your using this testimony in any way you please. I am willing that, both as a pledger and a subscriber, you should put down my name." We, the undersigned Physicians of Canada, are of opiniom— > I. That a very large portion of human misery, including pov- erty, disease, and crime, is induced by the use of alcoholic or fer- mented liquors, as beverages. II. That the most perfect health is compatible with Total Ab- stinence from all such intoxicating beverages, whether in the form of arder<; spirits, or as wine, beer, ale, porter, older, &o, &o. 38^ THE teetotaler's HAND-BOOK. III. Thalt persons accustomed to sucli drinks, may, with per- fect safety, discontinue them entirely, either at once, or gradually, after a short time. ^ IV. That total and universal abstinence from alcoholic liquors and intoxicating beverages of all sorts, would greatly contribute to the health, the prosperity, the morality, and the happiness of the human race. A. F. Holmes, M. D., L. R. C. S. E. ; Wolfred Nelson; P. E- Picault, M. D. ; Geo. W. Campbell, M. D. ; M. McCulloch, M. D. ' Francis Badgley, M. P. ; A. Hall, M. D., L. B. G. S. E. ; Arthur Fisher, M. D., M. R. C. S. E. ; P. A. C. Munro, M. D. ; Louis F. Tavernier; A. Rowaud, M. D. ; John Barber, M. R. C. S. L.; J. B. Lebourdids; John Minshall, M. D. ; J. G. Bibaud, M. D. ; T, Stearns, M. D.; E. H. TrudeU, M. D.; A. G. Regnier; Silas Gregory; J. Emery Coderre; J. L. Leprohon, M. D. ; C. H. Keefer; W. Fraser, M. D.; T. Black, M. D. ; W. P. Smith; Hy. Mount, M. R. C. S. L.; A. H. David, M. D.; Js. Crawford, M. D. ; S. C. Sewell, M. D. ; Wm. Sutherland, M. D. ; E. Q. Sewell, M. D. ; C. A. Regnault, M. D. P. ; Samuel Waller, Phy- sician ; Duncan McCallum ; F. A. Cadwell, M. D. ; Louis Boyer, M. D. ; 0. T. Bruneau, M. D. ; P. D. Brousseau ; Robert God- frey, M. D. ; Hector Peltier, M. D. ; P. Ix. L. Richelieu. The foregoing important medical testimony has recently been circulated in Great Britain by Mr. Dunlop of Scotland, and re- ceived signatures, as follows : — London, 184 ; Dublin, 14 ; Edin- burgh, 26 ; Glasgow, 46 ; Leeds, 53 ; Liverpool, 184 ; Manches- ter, 75; Nottingham, 32; Sheffield, 23; Provincial Towns, 400; in British India, 29— total, 1066. At the request, of Mr. Wads- worthy the above named medical gentlemen of Montreal and other places, kindly and promptly gave their names. The toung Man on Fire. — He was about twenty-five years of age. I saw him about nine o'clock in the evening ; he was then, not drunk, but full of liquor ; about eleven o'clock the same eveniDg, I was called to see him. I found him literally roasted FA0T8 AND ANEOOOTXS. 387 from tbe orown of his head to the soles of his feet: he was found in a hlacksmith's shop. The owner diseovered a light in his shop, as though the whole building was in one general flame. He ran, and on throwing open the door discovered a man standing erect in the midst of a widely extended silver-colored flame, bearing, as he described it, exactly the appearance of the wick of a bttming can- dle, in the midst of its own flame. He seiced him by the shoul- der and jerked him to the door, upon which the flame was instant- ly extinguished. There was no fire in the shop, neither was there any possibility of fire having been communicated to him from any external source. It was purely a case of spontaneous ignition. A general sloughing soon came on, and his flesh was consumed, or removed in the dressing, leaving the bones and a few of the largenr blood vessels ; the blood nevertheless rallied round the heart, and maintained the vital spark until the thirteenth day, when he died, not only the most loathsome, ill-featured and dreadful picture that was ever presented to human view, but his shrieks, his cries, and his lamentations also, were enough to rend a heart of adamant. He complained of no pain of body ; his flesh was gone — ^he said he was su£fering the torments of hell ; that he was just upon the threshold, and should soon enter its dismal caverns, and in this frame of mind he gave up the ghost. how dreadful is the death of a drunkard ! Defining a Low Position. — A Minister of high standing and somewhat lofty bearing, happened, while riding into a certain city on a Saturday afbernoon, in a public omnibus coach, to express him- self somewhat strongly against the signing of the pledge by persons of his character and circumstances. It was well enough for persons in danger of drunkenness, but unnecessary, and indeed improper for him. A poor ra^ed drunkard in the coach looked up and said, " Parson, where do you preach, I must go and hear you, you are a man after my own heart." The minister saw his position defin- ed for him at once, by an individual whom he perhaps despised as the miserable slave of rum, an outcast from all that is lovely and of good report. Its truth was not to be denied. ^ THl TIITOTALIB'8 HAND-BOOK. Ah Ancient Pledge. — On the blank leaf of an old ]EingUsh Bible lAie^ bai been handed down ttom parent to child through •oooeirive generations, and appears at the time to ^have been the Ifrqwrty of Robert Bolton, Bachelor of Divinity, and preacher of Qod's word, at Bronghton, in Northamptonshire, is written the following pledge : — " Froni this daye forward to the ende of my lif&, I will nlBver pledge anye healdi, nor drink a whole carouse in a glass, oupp, bowle, or other drinking instnunent whatever, wheresoever it be, horn, whomsoever it come, except the necessity of nature doe re- quire it. Not my own gracious kinge, nor anye the greatest mon •roK or ^^rant on earth, not my dearest friende, ncir all the goulde- in the worlde, shall ever enforce me or allnre me. Not an angel from heaven, ^ho I know will not attempt it,) shall persuade me. Not Satan, with all his old subtleties, not all the powers of hell it" selfe, shall ever betraye me. By this very sinne, (for a sinne it is, and not a little one,) I do plainly finde that I have more offended and dishonored my great and glorious Maker, and most meroiftil Saviour, thui by all other sinnes I am subject untoe ; and for this very sinne it is, that my Gtod has often been strange unto me, and for that cause, and no other respect, I have thus vowed ; and heartily b^ my good Father in heaven, of his gracious goodn^w and infinite mercy in Jesus Christ, to assist me in the same, and to be &vourable unto me ffor what is past. Amen. Egbert Bolton. — Broughton^ April 10, 1639." OosT OF Intemperance. — The Hon. E. Everett, minister to Great Britain and President of Harvard College, has computed that the use of alcoholic beverages costs the United States directly, in ten years, 12,000,000 dollars ; had burned or otherwise des- troyed 6,000,000 dollars more of property; had destroyed 200,000 lives, sent 150,000 persoAs to our priscms, and 100,000 children to the poor-house; and made 1,000 widows, had caused 1,500 murders and 2,000 suicid^, and had bequeathed to the country 1,000,000 orphan children. T ^di::i^r,^:M^iii^jiiaj^iSiLmij^!lii3!iM.''iS^S^^ TAOTS AND ANIODOTIB. 889 In England there are sappoaed to be 600,000 dmnkardsl Amount annually paid for intoxicating liquors, £50,000,000 Perversion of land to the growth of barley and hops, 20,000,000 Misapplication of labor and capital, 15,000,000 Loss of time and labor by drinking, 40,000,000 Cost of pauperism caused by drunkenness, 3,000,000 ^ Griminal expenses' attributable to do., 2,000,000 £130,000,000 About equal to , $670,000,000 This large finount of money would in six years wipe away the enormous national debt of England, and so take off t}BO third$ of the taxes. The last census of Great Britain ^yes the number in connetv tion with the traffic in intoxicating drinks, 90,870 ; while the nunh ber of bakers, com agents, com merehants, and millers, is 70,632, or 20,248 less than those engaged in the traffic of intoxicatmg drinks. In 1831, Judge Cranoh, of Washington, made the following computation of the cost from ardent spirits to the United States : lst~72,000,000 gallons of ardent spirits at 66f cts, $48,000,000 2d— 100 days' labor, of 375,000 drankards, lost, at 40 cts, 15,000,000 3d— 10 years* labor, of 37,500 men killed by ar- dent spirits, at $50 per ann. for each man,... 18,750,000 4th— I of the cost of the crime to the U. States, . . . 6,525,000 5th— I of the cost of pauperism to the U, States, . . . 2,850,000 6th — I of the amount of private charities, » . . 2,850,000 7th — I of one year's labor of 1,200 prisoners lost, at $50, 460,000 4 !'■ Annual loss to the country from ardent spirits,.... $94,425,000 The amount annually lost to the United States by the use of 390 TBI TUTOTALIK'B HAMD-BOOK. ardent Bj^nta, would be more than Buffioient to bay np the lloiues lands and slaves onoe in every, twenty years. Judge Granch did not include the cost of wine, beer and cider, in his estimate. The Indian and ths Distiller. — ^An Indian who had a wife and young child, took all their winter food, namely, five bushels of corn and ten bushels of wheat to be ground, at the mill ; but he had to pass a distillery. The distiller ran out, as a spider would upon a fly, and asked the Indian to sell his grain. The In- dian refused, saying that it was all the provision laid up for his &mily. The distiller insisted upon getting the com, saying he would ^ve]Piim so mtich whisky for it, and added that the wheat would be quite enough for his family. The Indian consented : and after he Aad drank some of the whisky, agreed to sell the wheat too. All that he got for his load, besides what he drank, . was ajar containing about a gallon and a half of whisky, and a dollar in silver. With this treasure, the Indian returned home ; but, not being very steady, he fell, and fortunately broke a hole in the bottom of his jar. He also lost his dollar ; so that whei^ he returned home, a broken jar was all he had to show for his load of grain; and he with lus family, were reduced to beggary for the winter. When the distiller was remonstrated with upon the sub- ject, he replied with a grin, — " If I had not got the grain, some other person would." It may be a laughing matter now ; but will this man laugh when he stands with his victims before the judgment seat of Him who has said, " As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise," and who has re- quired fj^ men to " do justly, and to love mercy ?" The Scotch Washwoman.-t'A respectable gentleman at Edinburgh rdated, a few years ago, a most affecting fact : — A re. li^ous lady at Edinbui^h was sent to visit a woman who was dy- ing, in consequence of disease brought on by habits of intemper- ance. The woman had formerly been in the habit of washing in this lady's family, and when she came to the dying woman, she remonstrated with her on the My and wickedness of her conduct. PACTS AHD ANIODOTIB. 891 she in giving way to so dreadful a sin as that <^ intemperancei The dying wuman said, " you have been the author of my intemperL ance." ''What did you say?" with pious horroi' exclaimed the lady; " I the author of your intemperanoe I" "Yes ma'am, I never drank whisky till I oame to wash in your femily; you gave me some, and ^aid it would do me good. I felt invigor^ ated, and you gave it me again. When I was at other houses not so hospitable as yours, I purchased a little, and by and by I found my way to the spirit shop, and thought it was necessary to carry me through my hard work, and by little and little; I became what you now see me." Conceive what this lady felt. How TO BE Safe. — " Doctor," said Squire , about five years ago, after reading over the prescription of a distinguished friend of Temperance, whom ill health had obliged him to con- sult, — " Doctor, do you think that a very little spirits, now and then, would hurt me very much?" " Why, no eir, answered the Doctor, very deliberately ; " I do not know that a little — now and then — ^would hurt you very muck; but, sir, if you don't take any^ it won't hurt you AT ALL." A Bad Name. — Mr. Gough tells a story of a tavern keeper by the name of A. S. Camp. The painter in painting the sign, left out the points, so that it read — Tavern kept by A scamp. Even the drunkard would not go near him. Indian Since aiTY.^ — Three Indians in the vicinity of Green Bay, became converts to the temperance cause, although previously given to " putting the enemy into their mouths that stole away their brains." The white men formed the charitable resolution * to try their sincerity. Placing a canteen of whisky in their path, they hid themselves in the bushes to observe the different motions of the red men. The first one recognized his old acquaintance with an " Ugh I" and making a high step he passed on. The second laughed, saying "Me know you!" and walked round. The last one drew his tomahawk, and dashing it to pieces, said, " Ugh I you conquer me, now I conquer you." 8d^ THE TinOTALZB'S HAMD-BOOK. Jack ANfi Hakrt. — AlItbiB, Harry, don't oonvinee me/ I do not like the principh of total abstinenoe. I think ardent spirits a creature of €h)d; and that we should therefore nse it as a blessing. Harry. I admit Jack that corn and fruit are creatures of God ; but gold and silver, too, are creatures of God, and yet yon don't think Aaron's calf and the silver shrines that wei^ made to the goddess Diana, were creatures of God, do you. Jack ? If not, then you see that the creature of God may by man be converted to a bad use. The com is a blessing while a creature of God, but so soon as it is converted into man's creature^ whisky, it becomes a curse instead of a blessing. The same may be said of the peach or apple. While it remains the simple fruit, it is tnily delightful and pleasant if the taste ; but when man murders it by beating, bruising, and boiling, and thus chbages its nature, as a creature of God, it may then become poisonous, and prove ruinous to the spuls and bodies of men. A Noble Boy. — A little fellow, who had become a teetotaler, was sent on one occasion with a note to a friend's house ; and while waiting for an answer, was pressed to take a glass of wine, by a young man who was resolved to overcome his scruples ; the boy refused, but was the more importunately urged to take it. His rejection became the more decided as the foolish young man more resolutely persevered, until he seized the little fellow by the collar, drew back his head, and forced the wine into his lips. In this emergency, the boy set his teeth so firmly that scarcely a drop of the wine passed them, and the contents of the glass ran down upon a new waistcoat, upon which he set a great value. He said nothing, b\^t buttoned his coat, and returned with the letter. On his return, \lq told what had passed ; showed the stains on his waistcoat, i^id with an exulting smile said, " The waistcoat is spoiled, btft God was not angry with him. God had made his teeth, dnd no one could get the wine through them." Watsb. — Dr. Gullen says, that " simple water, without any addition, is the proper drink of mankind." f A0T8 A50 AHIODOTM. 398 Thb Murdrreb and the Ladt. — At a meeting at Pdlgany, Ireland, a gentleman said he was asked to dine with a lady, and after dinner wine was introduced ; he stood up to go ; but the lady asked him to remain, and he said to her^ " Madam, I am very much obliged to you for your kindness, and would remain, but that I cannot sit in the san>p room with a murderer." The lady looked frightened, and asked where the murderer was ? He said, " was not your husband killed by a fall from a horse, while drunk?" She said "yes." "Then it is that bottle there that killed him, and I am determined never to sit in the room with a murderer." She took away the decanten? and never used winp after. QuoTiNa Scripture. — The Rev. Thomas P. Hunt, in his " Wedding Days of Former Times," relates an anecdote of a young couple about to be married. The bride insisted upon having a teetotal wedding. The bridegroom said he should have wine, for he had scripture authority for it as a good thing. David said that God had given wine to cheer the heart of man, and if man sdiould ever be cheerful it should be at his wedding. Very well, she said, and if she could find scripture for anything she was pleased to do, she supposed she might do it. To be sure, said he. The day of the wedding came. The bridegroom was introduced to the cham- ber of the bride, whom he found in full dress, but her face all be- smeared with blubber oil. What 1 he exclaimed, lifting his /hands in surprise — what is this ? nothing, only oil to make the face to shine, which God has given equally with wine to cheer man's heart. for heaven's sake, said he, wash it off, and we will have no wine. A Bright Girl. — " What are you doing there, Jane ?" "Why, pa, I'm going to dye my doll's pinafbre red^ " But what have you got to dye it with ?" " Beer, pa, beer." " Who on earth told you that beer would dye red ?" Why, ma said yesterday that it' was beer that made your nose so red, and I thought ." " Here, Susan, take this child." 394 THl TBSTOSALBB'S HAND-BOOK. BuMSBLLim's Dkeam. — " Well, ivife, this is too horriblel I cannot continue this business any longer." " Why, dear, what's the matter now ?" '' Oh, such a dream I Oh, I oonnot endure it I Oh, if ever I sell rum again 1" " My dear, are you frightened ?" Yes, indeed, am I ; another such a night will I not pass, for worlds." " My dear, perhaps — " " Oh 1 don't talk to me. I am determined to have nothing more to do with rum, any how. Do you think, Tom Wilson came to me with his throat cut from ear to ear, and such a horrid gash, and it was so hard for him to speak, and so much blood, and said he, ' sec here, Joe, the result of your rumselling.' Bfy blood chilled at the sight, and just then the house seemed to be turned bottom up, the earth opened and a little imp took me by the hand, sayipg, ' follow me.' As I went, grim devils held out to me cups of liquid fire, saying, ' drink this.' I dared not refuse. Every draught set me in a rage. Serpents hissed on each side, and ftom above reached down their heads and whispered, ' rumseller I' On and on, the imp led me through a narrow pass. All at once he paused and said, ' are you dry ?' ' Yes,' I replied. Then he struck a trap door with his foot, and down, down we went, and legions of fiery serpents rushed after us, whispering, ' rumseUer I rumseller !' At length we stopped again, and the imp asked me as before, ' are you dry ?' ' Yes,' I replied He then touched a spring — a door flew open. What a sight I There were thousands, aye, millions of old, worn-out rum-drinkers, crying most piteously, * ruTHj rum, give me some rum /' When they saw me, they stopped a moment to see who I was — then the imp cried out, so as to make all shake again, ' rumseller /' and hurling me in, shut the door. For a moment they fixed their ferocious eyes upon me, and then uttered a united yell, which filled me with such terror, I awoke. There, wife, dream or no dream, I will never sell another drop." FAOTS AND AHIOSOTM. Thi Grocmblivb TAKiN IN.— A quiok-witted toper w«»t into s bar-room and called lur eomething to drink. "We don't iell liqnore/' said the law-abiding landlord; "we will give you a glass, and then if you want to buy a cracker, we'll sell it to you for three cents." "Very well," said our Yankee customer, "hand down your decanter." The " good creature" was handed down, and our hero took a stiff horn, when, turning round to depart, the unsuspecting land- lord handed him the dish of crackers, with the remark — "You'll buy a cracker?" "Well no, I guess not; you sell 'em so dear; I can get lots on 'em, five or six for a cent, anywhere else." The Minister and the Demijohn. — ^A clergyman in one of the towns in the State of New York, at the time when the pro- tests against the use of liquors became somewhat earnest from the pulpits— on one Sabbath delivered to his congr^ation a thorough discourse on the subject. On their way home, some of his hearers inquired of each other, " what does all this mean ?" One gentle^ man who professed some shrewd: less at guessing, said, " I will tell you, gentlemen, what is the difficulty ; we have none of us sent Mr. anything to replenish his decanter lately ; and my ad- vice is that we attend to this matter." Accordingly, on Monday a full-sized demijohn of " old spirits," or " cognac," was sent to the Bev. Mr. , accompanied with a very polite note, request- ing his acceptance of it, firom a few friends, as a testimony of their regard. Our worthy clergyman felt himself at first in somewhat of a dilemma. But wise invention, and a good conscience, are some- times found in close companionship ; and they met in the pre»> ent instance to help our good minister to " back out" of the di£i> ouliy. He took the demijohn to the watering-trough of his stable, and poured some of the liquor in and brought his horse to it. Pony expanded his nostrils, and snorted and blowed at it, aa 39fli THB TIITOTALIR'S HANIVBOOK. though he thbught it rather too hot, and seemed to say " What's this ?" Next he drove his oow to the trough, to see if she liked it any hotter. The oow snuffed at it and phook her horns, and went her way, with no fondness for such a " villanous potation." Mr. then called his pig out of his hedroom, to taste. Piggy grunt- ed and snuffed, dipped his nose in and coughed, and went hack again to finish his nap in his straw. Mr. then returned to his study, and penned, in substance the following note to the pre- sent-makers, with which h( returned the demijohn and its contents : " Gentlemen, — ^With due acknowledgments for your present^ received this morning, permit me to say, that I have offered some of it to my horse, my cow, and my swine, and neither of them will drink it. Tha^ which neither horses, cattle, nor hogs will drink, I cannot think to be either useful or safe for man to drink. I beg you to excuse me therefore for returning the demijohn and its contents ; and believe me, gentlemen, your most obedient, &o. " The Two Pedlars. — A pedlar overtook another of his tribe on the road, and thus accosted him ; " Halloo, friend, what do you carry?" "Rum and Whisky," was the prompt reply. " Good," said the other, " you m^ go ahead, I carry Grave- stones 1" The Mouth and the Goqoles. — ^A landlord, who gave to every customer an example of his moderate drinking, complained of the badness of his eyes, and askeQ a Quaker what he should do fbr them, removing his goggles and submitting his swollen, inflamed eyes to the examination of his customer. " My advice, friend," replied the Quaker, " is that thou shouldest put thy brandy on thy eyes, and tie thy goggles over thy mouth I" The Grocer's Wife. — A man in the town of M , N. H., who had, while from home, earned about $6, returned one day to his family with the cash. His wife told him that during his ab- sence the fjmily had suffered for food. He replied — " I will go to the store and buy what is wanted, and then we shall have enough." He had refrained from drink for some time ; but on 7A0T8 AND AHIODOTIS. 397 arriving at the grocery, it was found that he had money, and be was invited to drink a little beer — then something stronger — tiU he got drunk and spent all his money for rum, and returned to his half-starved family at two o'clock in the morning, penniless. The poor wife was greatly distressed, and on the next evening ventured to go to the wife of the rumseller, told the story of her suffering family, and the manner in which her husband had been made a pauper, &c. ; whereupon the good lady fiUed a large basket with pork, bread, coffee, sugar, &o., and then called her husband into the entry, and in presence of the drunkard's wife, said — " Last night you took from this poor woman's husband all hiiA money for rum ; I hate now filled a basket full of articles of food, and so long as you continue to sell liquor, get men drunk, and take fVom them their money, thereby making their families poor and misersr ble, I will deal out to them from the house all they want to sup- port them." This was more than the husband could stand ; the next morning he went to his store and emptied every cask, decan- ter and bottle of liquor into the road, saying he would no longer sell liquid fire, but would keep a temperance store. Drunkenness in a Menagerie. — A drunkard made his way into a menagerie some time since, and the keeper, fearful that he would get hurt, told him to leave the place. An Irishman who was looking on, said to the keeper, " Why don't you let him alone, sure this is the right place for him, don't you see he has been making a baste of himself." A Death Scene. — His abused constitution soon gave way, and the death-scene followed. But, oh, what a death-scene 1 As if quickened by the presence of the King of Terrors, and the prox- imity of the world of spirits, his reason suddenly lighted up, and all his suspended faculties returned in their strength. " There," said he, pointing to his bottle and his glass, which he had caused to be placed beside his death-bed, " there is the cause of all my misery : that cup is the cup of wretchedness ; and yet — fool that I have been 1 — I have drank it; drank it voluntarily, even to its 8^8 TBI T11T0TAL1B*8 RAND-BOOK. drexs. Oh, 'tell those mlierable men, onoe my eompanioai, who dream of finding in inebriation, oblivion to their miaeriei, m I have dreamed of thb ; tell them — ^bnt it were vain to tell them — oh I that they wore present, that they might see, in me, the dreadfUl ■equel, and witness, in anticipation, the unutterable horrors of a drunkard's death." Here his voice faltered — his eye fell upon the abhorred cup, — and, as his spirit fled, a curse, half articulated, died away upon his quivering lip I Kbxpino Taybrn. — Some twenty years ago, a carpenter, who was tired of making an honest living, came to a friend of mine in Philadelphia, with a petition for a tavern license, which he re- quested him to sign. My friend looked at him, and asked why he did not stick Do his plane and bench ? The answer was, " Tavern keeping is a more lucrative trade — I want to get richer." " Well, but do you not think you will bo affording additional facilities to drunkards to destroy themselves ?" « Perhaps I shall." " Do you not believe that at least five men every year will die drunkards if you succeed in getting a license ?" " Why, I never thought of that before ; but I suppose it would be so." " Then if the Lord let's you keep tavern ten years, fifty men will have died through your agency — now what becomes of the drunkard ? Does he go to heaven ?" " I suppose not." , " I am sure he does not, for no drunkard shall inherit the king- dom of Heaven ; what becomes of him then ?" " Why, he must go to hell." " Well, do you not think it will be just if the Lord, at the end often years, sends you down to hell too, to look after those fifty drunkards ?" The man threw down his petition, went back to his honest oc- cupation, and was never tempted to desire a license again. fAOTC AMD ANCODOm. 319 : Skambn'b WAOU.—Who puts geamen'i wages down ? L«l me tell yoa who," said Bob Durant, at the Bethel one Taeaday evening. "It's the chape who drink ram, not the ones who drink water; no, not by a long shot. It's them who run np a bill for board and sundries ; who do as I used to do, drink np, or get charged with drinking (it's all the same, shipmates,) the ftw shin- ers thej earned the last voyage, and the landknrd wants to advance on another immediately, and he goes and gets a ship, and shoref Jack aboard with a skin full and a few duds, not oaring wheiher he receives a fair equivalent for his toil or not. But look at a sailor who, like me, has been a o6ld water man long enough to get a nest egg in the Seaman's Saving Bank, and has no one to lord it over him and say when he b^all go to sea ; why, he need not out the wages down — no, he can stay ashore till the wages are some- thing like fair, end then choose his voyage, ship and officers. Think of that, you that patronize the rum-holes and then growl about low wages. The Irishman and his Soul. — A few days since an Irish- man, (one of Father Mathew's people) landed at the wharf in this city, when he was accosted by an old friend. " Arrah, Pat, I am glad to see you in this free country ; come up here a bit, and take a drink, for ould acquaintance and ould Ireland's sake." " No," pays Pat : " I've signed Father Mathew's pledge." "But," says his friend, "this is not Ireland — it's a free country." " Ah !" replied Pat, " do you think I've brought my body here and left my soul in Ireland ?" The Liquor Seller's Exouse. — One day a Quaker woman kindly asked a rum-seller some questions about his whisky busi- ness, which disturbing his conscience a little, he eased himself with the oft-repeated salvo, that he " sold to sober peiions only." " Ah," said she, " and does that better the case ? Is it better to make drunkards out of sober men, than to kill the poor old broken down drunkards ?" This came upon him like a thunder-bolt ; it overset his best excuse, and he stopped the business of making drunkards. 4P0 THE TmSOTAliVB^S H^ND-BOOK. 'V---'^ Shingling a House. — James A , a reformed m^n, had fallen almost asleep, it being nearly midnight, when he heard the landlord's wife say, " I wish that man would go home, if he's got any one to go to." "Hush, hush!" says the landlord, "he'll call for something else directly." " I wish he would make haste about it, then, for its time every honest person was in bed," said the wife. : > " He's taking the shingles o£f his house and putting them on ours," said the landlord. At this time James began to come to his right senses, and com- menced rubbing his eyes and stretching himself, as if just awoke, saying, " I believe I'll go." , ,, " Don't be in a hurry, James," said the landlord. " Oh yes, I must go," says James, " good night," and off he started. After an absence of some time the landlord met and accosted him. " Hallo, Jim, why ain't you been down to see us ?" " Why," says James, " 1 had begun to take the shingles off my house, and it began to leak / so I thought it was time to stop the leak, and I have done it." The tavern keeper was astonished, went home to tell his wife all about it, and James ever since has left rum alone, and attended to his own business. He is now^a happy man, and his wife and children happier than ever. ,. Bad Wives. — There are no individuals so apt to be afflicted with bad wives, as those men who lead a dissipated life. " I have frequently been," says a reformed inebriate, " with more than a dozen fellow-drunkards, and when we wore talking about our wives, it was invariably found that we all had bad wives. But since I have become a sober man, I find I have as good a wife as a man can have." Says another, — " I have labored many years to dress that rascally rumseller's wife, but she is nothing but a squaw com- pared to my wife." .vJii, Vii VAOTS AND ANXODOTES. 461 I Trttb Use of the Vine, by De. Duff. — The Rev. Dr. Duff gives the following excellent observations on the true use of the Vine, while journeying through France to India by way of Alex- andria : — " In these countries mantled with vineyards, one cannot help learning the true intent and use of the vine in the scheme of providence. In our land, wine has become so exclusively a mere ^ luxury, or what is worse— by a species of manufacture — an intoxi- cating beverage, so that we may have wondered how the Bible speaks of wine in conjunction with com, and other such staple comforts of animal life. Now, in passing through the region of vineyards, in the east of France, we must at once perceive that the vine flourishes on slopes and heights, where the soil is too poor and gravelly to maintain either corn or pasturage for cattle. But what is the providential design in rendering this soil, favoured by a genial atmosphere, so productive of the vine, if its fruit become solely either an article of luxury or an instrument of vice ? The answer is. That Providence has no such design. Look at the peasant at his meal in vine-bearing districts : instead of milk, he has before hiin a basin of the pure unadulterated blood of the grape. In this its native original state, it is a plain, simple, and wholesome liquid, which, at every repast, becomes to the husband- man what milk is to the shepherd — not a luxury, but a neces- sary — not an intoxicating, but a nutritive beverage. Hence to the vine-dressing peasant of Auxerre, for example, an abundant vintage, as connected with his own immediate sustenance, is as important as an overflowing dairy to the pastoral peasant of Ayr- shire ; and hence, by such a view of the subject, are the language and sense of Scripture vindicated from the very appearance of favouring what is merely luxurious, or positively noxious, when it constantly manifests a well-replenished wine-press, in a rocky mountainous country like that of Palestine, as one of the richest bounties of a generous Providence." Diseases. — Lord Bacon says : "Most diseases have their rise from intemperance." 4012 THl TSSTOTALIB'S HAND-BOOK. The Vai^ue op PEATBR.--Ilev. J. Hume related the follow- ing interesting anecdote, which shows us what prayer can do when employed by a little boy : — " A little boy had a very drunken father, given, like all other drunkards, to swear and lie, and do many other bad things. One day, when his father was drunk and clearing as he was won't to do on such occasions, he felt very innoh at the thought of his father's wickedness. He remembtred that the Lord of heaven had declared that no drunkard should ever inherit His kingdom. When he thought of this, he ran to his aunt and exclaimed, " Aunt, if we pray for another person, will God hear us ?" " Yes," replied his aunt. Immediately- upon knowing this he ran up stairs — went to his own room — shut his door behind him, and prayed to God that he Tould give his father a new heart — that He would lead him to hate all sin and make him holy — " for without holiness no man can see God and live." Well, what was the result ? In a few days his father gave every symptom of being a changed man. He was no longer to be seen coming home drunk. No, verily I he was now enabled, by God's grace, to live "soberly, righteously, ard godly," and consequently he was daily becoming more and more meet for glory I Happy boy 1 — ^honoured boy ! — to be the means of your father's conver- sion ! — to be the means of turning your father from the worship of Bacchus to worship the living God ! How TO Adorn a Parsonage. — (The following reply has recently been sent by Lord Harrington to a Eev. Gentleman who requested' his lordship's aid in adorning his parsonage.) My Dear Sir, — You ask me to give you trees for the proposed parsonage of St. Paul's, Derby, so that the expense of purchasing them may be saved. Of course you are aware that trees, like com and cheese, are one of the sources of my income. But to the point. You want my trees to adorn the parsonage of St. Paul's ; and I want the advocacy of its incumbent to adorn the sublime profession to which he belongs, by promoting with all his soul and all his strength in the pulpit and on the hustings, the ii fi rAOTS AND AHlODOXKg. 403 Maine-law ; just as Luther would have done had he lived ||i our days. The clergy well know that drunkenness is the great source of sickness, pauperism, and crime, and it is their sacred duty to stand boldly forward, as the clergy of all denominations in America have done, to put down this curse of earth. If the incumbent of St. Paul's will act in the true spirit of the Maine-law, the high taste of Mr. Barron and my trees are at your disposal. I remain most truly yours, — Harrington, Elvaston Castle. To the Bev. J. D. Mossingham. March 13, 1856. Excitants and Temperature. — Let those who fancy that they can evert the deadening effects of wet and cold by taking a glass of spirits, read what Dr. MacouUoch, of Dumfries, says in a letter he recently addressed to the Sianchester Guardian, He suggests the following experiments : — Take a delicate differential thermometer, place the bulb under the tongue, and shut the mouth ; the mercury will rise to about 98 ; take it out, drink one or two glasses of port or sherry, or an equivalent quantity of any other alcoholic drink ; or to make the experiment still more obvious, take a glass of spirits neat, or diluted with either cold or hot water ; wash out the mouth and throat or not, just as you please ; ibur minutes after, replace the thermome- ter as before, and you will find that the mercury has fallen and that it continues falling for four consecutive hours ! This fact, first ascertained by Davy, has been repeated and stated so often that you surely must have, at least, heard of it. The same fact, namely, the lowering of the temperature of the blood and, of necessity, the temperature of the whole body, for the difiiision of the animal heat through which the blood is the sole medium ; I say the same fact is proved by another but more difficult experi- ment ; — measure the amount of carbonic acid expired before taking the liquor, and four minutes aflerwards measure it again, and do so for four consecutive hours, you will find that its amount is dis- tinctly and very appreciably diminished ; now the amount of car- bonic acid expired is an exact guage and equivalent of the erema- St THITISTOTALI&'S HANDBOOK. K' oausis Of odilnbiuitioii which produces the animal heat within the body, and hence beautifully corroborates the thermometrio ezperi- inent. But you may tell me, that you and others feel yourselves warmed by these drinks. No doubt you feel so, but I need scarce* ly tell an acute and trained logician like yourself, that that feeling is subjective and deceptive, that the forcing experiments are positive objective facts, and that all the subjective feelings that ever were, are, or can be, do not weigh a feather in the balance against even one demonstrable objective fact. And what says your sole referee, common experience, on this point? Why, the whole of our Artie voyagers are dead against you, and the proofs adduced in this and other countries are so indisputable, numerous and overwheli|iing, that I am surprised that you should have ad- vanced this vulgar and long^xploded fallacy. I trust you now begin to see, that common experienca, like c6mm0n fame, is not to be trusted. r c±i APPENDIX. THE VISIT or THE PRINCE OF WALES TO BRITISH AHEBIOA. Just as the last sheet of this volume was ready for the press, the ezoitement ojisiilg firom the visit of Royalty to these Provinoes was at its height. Indeed the book was delayed by reason of tiie bostle and business oooasioned by the Prince's sojourn in this tity. It was to be expected that foreign visitors and newspaper oorres* pendents would oritioize our country and pass judgment leftpeot* mg our public morals. It would not however be fair to suppose tiiat the people are, under ordinary circumstances, what thejr ftp* peared to be at the time when each city seemed to vie with die other in decided effort to become the most gay — the most livdy, and the most loyal, and when, perhaps few seriously thought how they could appear the most moral, it will, however, we think, be fireely admitted that considering the circumstances, there was in every place far less intemperance than could have been expected, and far less than there would have been if our country had not possessed the J)les8ing of a temperance history. We who have been engaged for many years past in endeavouring to suppress the vice of intemperance, have every reason to congratulate ourselves that we have not laboured in vain. We do not see all we could wish for, but we may rejoice that some good has been done* The correspondent of the London Timet has thought proper to give his opinion respecting the comparative sobriety of certain places. Writing concerning Montreal ha says: — " On this evening there were firemens' processions all av&e the town, each man carrying torches and Ron^m candles, and ringing bells, so that a lively night was the result. I must add, however, that I have seen less symptoms of general inebriety at Montreal than in any of the towns the Prince has yet visited. Tliis can hardly be due to the presence of a large French population, as there are at least as many, if not more French at Quebec than in this city. Yet, on the whole, Quebec mana^;ed to maintain as high an average of intoxication as any place of its size I have ever seen, always saving and excepting Gharlottetown, the capital of Prince Edward Island. Sailors, as a class, possess a secret of in- toxication peculiar to themselves, and somehow- numage to get drunk when no one else can get any liquor ; so that it has been said, if you looked twenty of them in an empty room, and visited them an hour or so after, you would find them all intoxicated. >^ APPENDIX The Prinee Edward lalanden appear also to enjoy thii attribute of m jsteriouB inebriety, for thooA nearly all their hotels ^miserar ble baok-wood shanties) are conduoted on temperance pnneiples, and sell neither wine nor spirits, yet, somehow, during the Prinoe's visit, intozioation seemed to be the normal condition of half th^ inhabitants." This is a sad picture of the Islanders of Prince Edward, and we fear there is some truth in it. However it is but Ikir to say that the statement has been contradicted. The oorrespondmit of the Montreal Herald quoting the above has considered it his duty to append the following note in refutation of the report. He says: "We were not in Quebeo during the Prince's visit to that ' An- cient Capital,' and cannot, of course, either confirm or contradict what is above said as to the < high average of intoxication,' which then prevailed there. We were, however, in Gharlottetown while the Jrrinoe was there, and we have no hesitation in saying that the ' Special' owes his facts, in reference to the all^d in- ebriety of the peojde of Prince Edward's Island, to his imaginar tion, as he does to his memory, r^arding the ' mysterious atr tribute' of sailors and islanders." We were not in a position to judge between the parties, but we feooUeot too well the opposition which was given to the prohibitory movement by certain persons in the L^islature of Prince Edward^ Idand, and we should be surprised if they did not reap the bitter firuit of their shameless course. In Canada the prohibitory move- ment was not successful, but here at least the agitation was not without good fruit. We have pleasure in giving a place of permanent record to a document of importance, emanating from the temperance bodies of Upper Canada, and the Temperance Reformation Society of Toronto. It was thought advisable to present an address to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. It was graciously re- ceived and replied so, and we give both as we find them in the daily papers of this city: — «hJ< , " At the levee on Saturday, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales received a deputnlio< from the Temperance Societies, con- sisting of Hon, Robert Specce, President T. R. S. of Toronto ; Hon. Malcolm Cameron, Rev. Dr. Richardson, Rev. Dr. Thorn- ton, Rev. J. H. Robinson, Rev. Wm. Scott, Mr. Kasmith, Mr. Qeo. Railton, Mr. N. C. Gowan, Rev. J. Scott, Dr. Yannorman, and Mr. McAlpine, who presented the following address : APPSNDIX. 467 ** 2b hit Royal Hufhn€t$ Albert EdwarJ, I^imse o/ Walei, ^. " May it Please Your Rotal Hiorness, — " On behalf of the various Temperance oi^anizations of Uppdr Canada, numbering some tens of thousands of loyal hearts, we desire to welcome Your Royal Highness with feelings of ardent attachment to our Sovereign the Queen, whose condescension in having permitted the Heir Apparent of the British Throne to visit this portion of her vast dominions, we gratefully acknowledge. " We rejoice that our allegiance is due to a Sovereign whose dorious reign has never been tarnished by the excesses of former Courts, but that the truly Christian example of your Royal Mother has called forth universal commendation. Emulating the Christian graces of our Queen, many thousands of our youth are banded together to check the current of intem- perance ; and we look forward to a brilliant future for Canada, be- cause in the youth of the present day the principles and practice of total abstinence are growing with their growth, and strengthen- ing with their strength. " We sincerely trust that the visit of Your Royal Highness may be in every respect agreeable, and that when you have retumea home, your Royal Highness may be enabled to assure Her Majesty that amongst the glorious institutions of the Province, enj^ed by a free and happy people, none seem to be more blessed of Heaven than those established to discourage intemperance. " As it has pleased the Almighty long to spare the Queen to wear unspotted the brightest crown of modern nations, so may she hereafter wear an everlasting crown of life, and when it shall I oase the King of Kings to call her hence, may it be the fondest desire of your heart to wear unsullied that crown which has so long adorned the brow of our beloved Queen, whose goodness and whose virtues will fofin the choicest page of England's history. " Robert Spencb." « Toronto, Sept. 8, 1860." In answer, Mr. Spence received the following reply : " Toronto, September 8, 1860. " Sir, — I have the honour to convey to you the thanks of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, for the address presented to him by you on behalf of the various Temperance organizations of Upper Canada. "I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Newcastle. 4Q8 APPENDIX. The reply is brief and ordinary, avoiding all refeienoe to the principle of .total abstinence, although but few associations have been more useful in the realm of England, than those which£are identical with the bodies who thus approached His Royal High- ness. The Duke and his Secretary may not be of our opinion, but it is nevertheless true that England is deeply indebted to the Temperance Societies for her present moral status, and would be speedily injured if they were to withdraw their influence. " The excesses of former Courts" are contrasted with the " Christian ex- ample" of our beloved Sovereign, and very properly too, but how much of the difference is owing to the retbrmation of the masses by the means employed in modern times, who can tell? Let us thank Gtod for the change, and cherish the hope, that no evil ex- ample will destroy the beneficial effects of the good example of millions beside that of the good Queen of England, upon the mind and habits of him who enjoys the anticipation of sitting upon the throne of England. We consid<*r it no derogation from the dignity of Royalty to give distinction in this connection to the names of the Hon. Robert Spence and the Hon. Malcolm Cameron, the former as presenting the temperance address to the Prince of Wales, and forever firm to his principles, amidst the temptations and allurements of oflElcial and pnvate life. Long may he live to enjoy his well-earned repu- tation, and propagate his sound temperance opinions. To the latter, all honor is due for his unflinching advocacy of temperance and prohibition at all times and places, but mo^'> especially in the Halls of Legislation, often amidst the jeers of the profane, and the mockery of the inebriate. Recently elected without opposition to the Upper House, we are gratified to know that in the L^islative Council, as in the House of Assembly, the Hon. Malcolm Cameron will raise his voice against prevailing intemperance and the traffic in strong drinks. Let him have the hearty co-operation of all the temperance people of Canada, and let us cheerfully persevere in har- monious effort until the pestilential traffic is swept from our land I Toronto, Oct. 4th, 1860. W. S. li U 'i i