I iQotiva power uf labor out of the breaHt of a mau you leave hi in a poor iiiiiierable creaturti upon the highwayfi of the world. Why do you work? Why do I work? ItiubeoauHe we have Home motive which draWH or impelH us on. We have an object in life and we work on iu order to attain that object. You want to build yourself a home, thiityou may have a place m which to Hpend in (juietneBB your later years. Therefore you work. This motive pcver is strong in the human heart and it 18 the great impelling power to labor. Take a man engaged in a course of dissipation Snd in proportion as his motive ien out will be the depth to which he will sink. He cares for nothing but to eat and drink, especially to drink, and he is almost continually to be found in a drunken stupor. When you or T meet with such a man, what is our first endeavor ? Is it not to try and get some spark of self-respect into him — to got his motive power revived ? If we can do that, we may yet do Koiuething towards his rea- oue. But he innst have an incentive to work and to A BETTER LIFE. The dram shop is the enemy of labor be- cause, by the miserable dissipations which it invariably causes, it slays all motive. (Applause.) I think I have said enough to prove that the dram shop is an enemy to labor and trade, and so is an enemy to civic or national greatness or perma- nence. Wbat is the aspect of this liquor traffic with reference to the second con- stituent in civic or national greatness — that is, intelligence ? Does the dram shop promote intelligence among the people ? If it does, throw your arms around it. Put the majesty of the law around it. Don't let it be harmed. But if the treffio is always the enemy of intelligence, pull it out, tear it down. Where is the consis- tency in building up an educational sys- tem and then putting the protection of law around a giant who will tear it down ? IT PRODUCES laNORANOE. In the United States — and 1 take the Btates because we have as yet unfortu- nately not got accurate statistics on the subject in Canada — there are 12,000,000 children of school age who ought all to be at scbeol. About 8,000,000 actually attend the schools. Probably 1,000,000 of the re- mainder are" not at school because they have to work, or are too far from school. But it is calculated, and is not denied, that 3,000,000 children iu the United Btates are not in the schools of the country because of the drunkenness of their parents or their guardians. If the future is to be made out of the present, if the citizen is to be made out of the child, and if the child becomes a good citizen in proportion to his mental, moral and industrial developmeut, what must b« th« outlook of th* oountry which •very year sends out 3,000,000 of h«r children without education, and debits them all to the great mother — drink. What does it mean ? It would not mean so much in Bussia, where the people do not rule. But it means everything under such republican forms of government as exist iu Canada and the United States. The government in these lands rests upon the people, and the liquor traffic by this means breaks up the power and iutelligenoe of the people. It turns out every year 8,000,000 citizens, each male of whom shall go forth and have as good a vote in the conduct of the affairs of tlie state as the president of a college, as the honest farmer, as the well educated mau ; and each one of whom shall have i^ voice as to who shall rule the country and a« to what shall be the tendency of the government. It is a terrible thing to see the driuk business turning out these people uneducated. Did 1 say they are uneducated ? They are educated ; but their education tends down- wards. Did these three women who were found drunk, fighting on your streets the other day, have families ? If po, ask yoi:r- selves. What must be their children ? Who made the drunken mothers? The rum shops. The influence of such mothers must be vicious, degrading. If the mother is 'Irunken and brawling, we cannot ttink of the child as receiving any other educa- tion but that which is vicious, which tends downwards and which sends out the youth into debauched man and womanhood, ready to be made criminals. (Applause.) THE DRAM SHOP IB AN BDDCATOR. The best part of the education of a country, of a people, is not what is got at our schools or colleges. It is the education we get by mingling with each other, and exchanging ideas in every day life. I learned principles in school and in college, but I didn't begin to get my education till I mingled with the people in the world, and received opportunities to apply these prin- ciples. There are 250,000 dram shops in the United Btates of America. Do they have an average of ten visitors in one day ? That is » small number for each. But it makes 2,500,000 persons who every day go into the dram shops of the States. What do you learn there ? High mental endeavor and motive ? Not a bit of it. The education is all downward. It is the same iu Canada. And I shudder to think that iu the 12,000 dram shops we have in this country, there are 120,000 persons going through a course of degradation which is productive of the worst possible evils. Am I not right in saying the saloon is the enemy of thu intelligence of the country ? Put the dram shop alougside the school I oountry which ut 3,000,000 it eduoatiou, .1 to the does it meuu ? ich in JtiuBuu, rule. But it loh republioau ist in Canada e guverumeut be people, and laua breaks up of tiie people. 30,000 oitizena, go forth and conduct of the president of a irmer. as the . each one of ze an to who M to what shall ^rument. It i« Iriuk buttiness educated. Did sd? They are on tends down- Jinen who were ar streets the If po, ask yoi r- ohildreu ? Who irs ? The rum such naothers If the mother cannot tbink other educa- as, which tends 3 out the youth womanhood, (Applause.) SDUOATOB. on of a country, is got at our the education ach other, and y day life. I and in college, y education till a the world, and pply these prin- dram shops in America. Do age of ten ? That is each. But who every day of the States. High mental a bit of it. The It is the same to think that ve have in this persons going •adation which possible evils, le saloon is the the country ? side the aohool r house. Does it aid education ? Say what school or oollege there is which has not de- veloped a genius, and graduated him in those principles which are right and true ? But how many of Huch have succumbed to the influences of the dram shop, and have been dragged down by its terrible degradation ? Why should we educate such genuises and skilled artists, and then hand them over as a prey to the dram shops ? If it is right to have schools and colleges, it is wrong to authorize anything which nullifies the influence of these schools and colleges. (Applauso.) The liquor traffic is the enemy of the schools of the country, and neutral- izes the good which is calculated to spring from them. Turning to the third head of my address, I ask, Does the liquor traffic add to, strengthen and buoy up the moral principles of the people ? If so, blessed is the dram shop. But if, on the other hand, it adds nothing to the moral influences and stability of the people, then I say, cursed is the dram shop. (Hear, hear and applause.) A man may be moderately industrious, and he may be only moderately intelligent, and yet may be a very good kind of a citizen. He may be an excellent neighbor, provided he is moral and his principles are correct. And so the last thing we can give up in the individual, the last thing we can give up in the nation, are the honest moral principles which so conduce to happ iiess and prosperity. Young mai, of all thingK, keep your moral purpose— keep your high principles. If you fail in the walks of industry, if you are unsuccessful in intellectual endeavor, you will yet triumph if you have retained your morality and have wrapped your life about with high principles. The last thing a city or a country can afford to do without is its steru. I may say, PUBITANIC MOUALITY. (Applause.) There is nothing which at- tacks this moral power of a city or country, which lowers it, weakens it, which is such an enemy of permanence, as the dram shop. The people should gird on the sword of moral purity and smite down that which is op- posed to their true welfare. In every case the air of the dram shop is against moral purity. Here is a young man who goes out of one of our Christian homes. He has been well brought up, and the safest and best guard which lie has got is his sense of personal purity. Parents, don't be so anxious to give your boy money ; in nine cases out of ten it will be used to get means of questionable enjoy- ment. Don't be so anxious to give him a high position in life or to secure for him an adviinoed place in his trade. But above all be anxious that when your boy passes out from your influence he shall carry in his breast that principle of moral purity aeainBt which vice may throw itself, but wnioh it cannot attach itself to. Oh I young men, t^ot that within yourselves, and if you have gut that and keep it you must succeed. But as the young man comes out from his home with a sense of moral purity, he is met by the temptations of the dram shop. They must blunt that SKNSE OK MORAL I'UHITY before they can make him the victim of their wiles. The boy goes with a com- panion who is used to those places, and association of this sort soon puts a little blunt upon his moral purity. He goes into those respectable places — those gilded palaces — first, and there his purity becomes a little more blunted. He next goes into another place, a little bit less respeotable. He learns jests which he has never heard before, and which he would be ashamed to repeat. He hears that coarse badinage about women which never caught his ear in the home circle, and which he would be ashamed to acknowledge to his mother or his sister that he had listened to. He recoiled from it at first ; but in a little while after you will find him with the same jest on his own lips. A little step further forward, and he is ready for any depth of degradation that continued tempta tions may lead him into. That is the ex- perimental course that the dram shop takes with reference to the youth of the country. I see a young boy standing with- in the dram sliop, and listening to the jests there being uttered ; it is only a question of time, and he will not feel the pricking of conscience that at first tells him he is doing wrong. A dram shop's whole tendency is to UBINO A MAN LOWh •l> LOWKK DOWN ir. hif., moral standing. Unhke nature, whose influence is over of an elevating character, the dram sho^i always drags down. (Applause.) In the city of Chicago, on one night m October, 1878, six saloons were watchei by a committee of citizens. Into these six saloons in that one evening 12,()l!) f irsons entered, at least 1,000 of whom 'ere women and girls. A large pro- portion of the males were bo>s from 14 to "1 years of age. The police said there was not a woman or girl who entered these places who had any character to lose. Put 12,000 of such persons into these six places with low aingmg. low music and all the degrading influences which they carry with them and what must be the terrible results of the existence of such places ? A pro- prietor of one of these places had to hire six special constables to keep the abandoned people from tearing one another to pieces ; and in one of the saloons a ring was actually formed, and half a dozen drunken women engaged in a fight, to which thoy were urged on by their abandoned companions. These are the elevating influences, these are the results m.'*n- \ 8 which oome from the dram-shop. Tou would not do that, would you ? Go, get the drunkards' influeuceu to surround you, and it is morally certain that within a limited number of years you will have become just as bad as thoy are. (Applause.) The liquor traffic eats out the morality of the people, and brings them nothing but degradation, and so is the enemy of the national and civic progress. You, the people of Hamil- ton, are asked to vote, in October or No- vember next, as to whether you will longer licence this traffic. This is a personal matter. You can wo longer shift it on to the Council, or thv^ Gevernment, or the Gomraissioners. It is you who will give life to this traffic for three years, or condemn it for three years. If you call it into life, what do you do ? You say, ' Industry is an essential element of prosperity in life, yet I call into existence an enginery which will be at work for three years to DISTURB AND DKBTROY that industry, which I nay must be pro- tected.' You sav, ' I believe that iutel- ligeuce is one of the essentialH of civic aud national welfare, and yet I am to vote to bring into life an enginery which for three years will militate against pro- gress m intelligence.' You say, ' I believe m moral purity, in supporting the Church, in Htandilig by the school, and yet I am to vote to bring into the city an enginery wliich levels all its powers against moral purity, against the Church, against the school, day after day, night after night, week after week, year after year.' Can you take such a stand as that and license this drink traffic ? (Voices, ' No, no.') Be- fore God and my conscience, I cannot do it. W« ha^fl been told the act can't be worked. Dare you take the responsibility to vote against it, because of that allegation ? God forbid I I say I don't care whether it works or not. Licensing such a gigantic evil is simply mouutrouH and unmoral. Let God take care of the future. As for me aud you, let us not license this enormous evil which tends tu BO much ruin. I make this chal- lenge to-night for any person to dispute. There never has been an iustauce in history where prohibition has been tried, and has had a fair chance, whore it has not promoted the industry, the intelligence, the morality, the purity of the people. (Applause.) Aud I am willing to let that challenge ^o world- wide, and I defy any one to dispute it. (Loud applause.) You may take instances of prohibition put upon a city, under no kind of regulation, and therefore upset by them. You may find the law not work- ing in oitier, where sheriffs and con stables aud other officers owe their positions to the very people who are op- posed to prohibition and who are doing all they can to make it a failure. I say you may find places like that where prohibition has not been succesaful, out that is not prohibition. It is the name without the substai.ce ; it is the shadow only and not the reality. But go where the conditions are fair, where its provisions are respected aud It is a success, and it has done for the people that which we submit it will do for the city of Hamilton. (Applause.) I think I have spoken long enough to-night. (Cries of ' Go on ! ') I wish to keep my word with you that I would not tire you, but if you come to-morrow uigiit we will have that discussiou. (Loud applause.) V': i 1 told the (M3t Dare you taka vo<-,e agaiuHt it, n? God forbid! r it works or uot. io evil is uimply Let Ood take r me aud you, let nous evil which make this ohal- erBou to dispute, stance in history m tried, and has has not promoted ice, the morality, Applause.) Aud illeiige ^o world- e to dispute it. y take iustancea i city, under no erefore upset by 9 law not work- eriffs and con ers owe their pie who are op- vho are doing all Jre. I Hay you here prohibition L)ut that is not me without the w only and not the conditions 18 are respected las done for the it it will do for ilause.) I think ;o-night. (Cries 3 my word with you, but if you will have that