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