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REV. D. ROGERS. 
 
THE CATLING 
 
 WITH AMMUNniON FOR THE TEMPERANCE 
 
 warfarf:. 
 
 BV 
 
 REV. D. ROGERS 
 
 (OJ the (jitdj)h Cou/erciice). 
 
 WITH AN INTRODUCTION 
 
 BY 
 
 REV. JOHN POTTS, D.D. 
 
 TORONTO : 
 
 WH.LIAM BRI(;OS, 
 
 WKSI.KV IlLII DINCiS. 
 
 C. W. COATES, MONTRKAL. S. F. HUESTIS, HALIFAX. 
 
 IS94. 
 
R E F A C E 
 
 T T is now ten years since I published " Shot and Shell 
 for the Temperance Conflict," which met with general 
 approval and an immediate sale. Those years have wit- 
 nessed progress in temperance work and moral reform/and 
 I hope, before this decade closes, we will have upon our 
 Statutes a prohibitory law, and the same in successful 
 operation. 
 
 "The Gatling, with Ammunition for the Temperance 
 
 Warfare," is, what its name implies— facts and arguments 
 
 to be used in our conflict with the drink trafiic. In its 
 
 preparation I have given not only my own best thoughts 
 
 on the points discussed, but likewise such selections as I 
 
 have been able to utilize from others. In most instances 
 
 I have given credit to the persons or papers quoted, 
 
 though I have not been as particular in this regard as a 
 
 member of a certain theological seminary, who was so 
 
 sensitive as to any suspicion of plagiarism, that he never 
 
 allowed himself to make the slightest quotation without 
 
vi 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 giving his authority, and on one occasion he commenced 
 grace at breakfast thus: "Lord, we thank thee that we 
 have awakened from the sleep which a writer in the 
 Edinburgh Review has called ' the image of death.' " 
 
 The volume might easily have been increased in size, 
 but it is designed to be sold at a popular price, that it may 
 have a speedy and general circulation. 
 
 I sincerely trust it may be helpful in the present crisis 
 of the temperance reform. 
 
 D. R. 
 
 DUNOANNON, OnT., 
 
 February Ist, 1894. 
 
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I 
 
 NTRODUCTION. 
 
 1\ T V friend ll<)<,'ers' "(Jatling" is iiitctKled nioi-f tor 
 use than for ornament. It is evidently not foi- 
 lioliday parade exhibition, but for the Prohil>ition cam- 
 paigns upon which the Temperance army is entering. A 
 good deal of what has gone before has been skirmishing, but 
 skirmishing which has done effective execution. However, 
 the fighting of the near future must be in solid ranks of 
 the various regiments of the Temperance army. The time 
 for politicians to play with Temperance, and for the agents 
 of the liquor trattic to despise it, is past forever. The con- 
 flict in the near future will be terrific and, I fear, pro- 
 tracted, but of the outcome there is good ground for hope 
 of victory, which shall bless our country from ocean to 
 ocean. 
 
 This book is characterized by great variety of thought 
 and style, which will make it all the more useful to 'J'em- 
 perance workers. While it bears the intellectual impi-ess 
 of its author, and is a worthy child of his ])raiii, it is 
 
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 INTRODUCTIOSK 
 
 made more valuable to the public by the contributions of 
 such men as the original and vc^rsatile HtaflPord, the classic 
 Withrow, the heroic Carman, the solid McClung, the intel- 
 lectually and morally vigorous Nugent, and the tireless 
 Temperance worker, F. S. Spence. 
 
 The present is a juncture in the history of Prohibition 
 which demands an adapted literature, and that is placed 
 before us in the Rev. D. Rogers' "Gatling." While we 
 insist upon the strong arm of the law in the form of 
 prohibitory legislation, let us not overlook the immense 
 importance of moral suasion in its educational influence 
 upon the community. " The Gatling " should be in all our 
 Sunday School libraries, for the hope of the cause is largely 
 in the hands of the young people of the Church and of the 
 country. 
 
 JOHN POTTS. 
 
 Toronto, March, 1894. 
 
G 
 
 ONTENTS. 
 
 Abstinence, Advantages of 
 A few words to the young 
 Alcohol . . 
 
 Axe at root of the tree, The 
 Britons never shall be slaves 
 Brushing down webs . . 
 Canada's temperance song 
 Compensation . . 
 Dangerous road, A 
 Enthusiasts, fanatics, cranks 
 Figures that sling 
 Funny temperance tale, A 
 Greedy bottle, The . . 
 High-license delusion, The 
 Hold the fort . . 
 How to deal with it 
 Inside or out . . 
 Intemperance . . 
 Johnny Lea 
 Liberty cry, The 
 Liquor traffic, The 
 
 Its destructive work 
 Man-eating tree of Canada, The 
 
 etc 
 
 Rev 
 
 E. A. Stafford, D.D. 
 . Nashville Advocate 
 
 W. H. T. 
 
 • • •• •• •• 
 
 Rev. W. H. Wi throw, D.D. 
 Rev. A. Carman, D.D. 
 
 • • • • • • . . 
 
 . . Rev. J. A. McClung 
 
 PAOB 
 
 84 
 
 113 
 
 126 
 
 04 
 
 45 
 
 66 
 
 37 
 
 78 
 
 134 
 
 102 
 
 72 
 
 140 
 
 133 
 
 39 
 
 63 
 
 32 
 
 130 
 
 30 
 
 139 
 
 59 
 
 27 
 
 28 
 
 40 
 
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 X CONTEXTS. 
 
 
 MnnufHcturod articIuH. . 
 
 I-AOK 
 
 87 
 
 Modumtion, Danger tif 
 
 HI 
 
 ( )ur cause and its ve(|uiivinent8 .. Rev. F. 
 
 E. Nugent la 
 
 Parable, A 
 
 . . las 
 
 Pledge, Take the 
 
 .116 
 
 fi The triple 
 
 . . 130 
 
 Prayer, A 
 
 .141 
 
 Present state and future prospects . . 
 
 . . 70 
 
 Prohibition 
 
 49 
 
 (1 does prohibit 
 
 . . 09 
 
 M After, what then 'i 
 
 08 
 
 Ram's horn, Blasts from the . . 
 
 .108 
 
 Reading, A word about 
 
 . . 121 
 
 Rum, The work of 
 
 . . 30 
 
 Stale trick, A F 
 
 . S. Spence 91 
 
 Strong drink , . 
 
 . . 125 
 
 II n Why do men use 
 
 19 
 
 Temperance and the Church of Christ 
 
 94 
 
 II Gospel 
 
 . . 92 
 
 II Women and 
 
 . . 97 
 
 II shots at random sent . . 
 
 . . 104 
 
 Touch it never . . 
 
 . . 123 
 
 Two-fold object, A . . 
 
 99 
 
 Vote, How do you 
 
 . . 89 
 
 Warfare, The, and our methods 
 
 11 
 
 Warning, Fair . . 
 
 . . 109 
 
 Where he usually begins 
 
 . . 129 
 
 Woodie's temperance speech . . 
 
 ..131 
 
THE CATLING. 
 
 THE WARFARE AND OUR METHODS. 
 
 NO LOVER of his country can look upon the 
 aj^gfressive power of the liquor traffic without 
 apprehension of danger. It is a standing menace to 
 our most sacred rights as citizens, and destructive to 
 everything pure and holy in our Christian civilization 
 — hence the warfare. 
 
 To be successful in a campaign, we require three 
 things : 
 
 1. A Qood Cause. — We claim we have that — the 
 elevation of man, the suppression of evil, the happi- 
 ness of the home and the eternal welfare of the race. 
 
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 THE G A TUNG. 
 
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 2. Ahle Advocacy. — We have in our churches and 
 temperance organizations men and women, good and 
 true, who have never wearied in their efforts to 
 advance the interests of this good cause, at the sacri- 
 fice of both time and means. By far the greater part 
 of our best men, lay and clerical, are advocates of 
 Prohibition, and the Churches as a whole speak 
 strongly and warmly in its favor. 
 
 3. Opposition. — We have that, too. For obvious 
 reasons, men who traffic in drink — from the distiller 
 down to the vendor in the lowest saloon — seek to 
 vigorously oppose us. Though the opposition repre- 
 sents moneyed interests, it can no longer buy up the 
 morality of the people at the polls. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Brethour savs : " We may not have 
 gigantic intellects, but we have gigantic principles, 
 gigantic opposition, and we need gigantic courage." 
 True. Though Prohibition has received the endorsa- 
 tion of two- thirds or more of the people voting on 
 the question, January 1st, 1894, yet before we ulti- 
 mately gain the day many a hard battle must be 
 fought. The conscience of the community needs to 
 be more fully aroused, stirred up and kept stirred up 
 by public temperance meetings, the dissemination of 
 temperance books, papers, etc, and ringing appeals 
 from the pulpits of the Dominion. 
 
 Our methods are : 
 
 1. Moral Suasion. — We have labored on this line 
 for years, and not without success. Many have been 
 induced to abandon drink, commence to lead .sober 
 
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 THE WARFARE AND OUR METHODS. IH 
 
 lives and become respectable citizens, and not a few 
 have been saved from sin and united with the 
 churches. Whatever may be our future success on 
 legal lines, we must never cease our efforts in trying 
 to lift up the fallen, and save our fellowmen from the 
 curse of strong drink. It is just possible that for too 
 many j^ears we were so busy in trying to take the 
 drunkard from the drink that we neglected to 
 demand that the drink should be taken from the 
 drunkard. 
 
 2. Legal Suasion or Prohibition. — As affects the 
 individual, we can only rely on moral suasion. We 
 can show him the certain outcome of dissipation, that 
 strong drink is death, but we do not presume to fix 
 his diet or tell him how he must quench his thirst. 
 We insist, however, that the citizens of every com- 
 munity have an unquestionable right to abate any 
 nuisance or destroy any agency that works against 
 good order and good morals. The fact that law 
 licenses the sale of drink is an acknowledgment that 
 the traffic is amenable to law, hence we demand its 
 abolition by a prohibitory measure. In our statute 
 books the principle of Prohibition is already recog- 
 nized. It is in our code of criminal legislation. It is 
 found to some extent in the system of legalized license 
 which limits the places, days and hours at which 
 strong drink may be sold. And by law it is made a 
 matter of option for municipalities whether they will 
 allow the trafllic in strong drink within their bounds. 
 Can there then be any valid objection to Prohibition 
 
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 THE CATLING. 
 
 on a wider and more effective scale ? Under license 
 we have a prohibitory clause affecting the sale of 
 drink from Saturday night till Monday morning. To 
 a certain extent that law is violated, but no one 
 pleads for its repeal on that account. Out of that 
 grows this logical question : If Prohibition one day in 
 the week is a good thing, even though some violate 
 it, would not Prohibition seven days in the week be 
 a much better thing even though some should still 
 break the law ? Bishop Galloway says : " I am in 
 favor of mental suasion for the man who thinks, 
 moral suasion for the man who drinks, legal suasion 
 for the man who sells, and prison suasion for the man 
 who makes." Do you claim to be a temperance man 
 and yet say, " I don't like the methods proposed bj' 
 temperance men to abate the evils of drunkenness?" 
 If you know a better way, in the name of humanity 
 let us have it. If not, be quiet. 
 
 Yes, this is a warfare. We wage a fiercer one than 
 that of bullet and bayonet, and far more vital to 
 human good. It is a struggle whose echoes reach the 
 stars, and enlist^ the hosts of heaven. Step to the 
 front and give yourselves, your powers and your 
 means to stay the enemy of God and man. Discour- 
 agement has no rightful place in the vocabulary of 
 men who are sure they are right. 
 
 We now turn " The Gatling " on the foe, to give it 
 hot-shot at short range all along the line, and let all 
 the people say, Amen. 
 
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 OUR CAUSE AND ITS REQUIREMENTS. 15 
 OUR CAUSE AND ITS REQUIREMENTS. 
 
 BY REV. F. E. NLMJENT, PALMERSTON, ONT. 
 
 DIPLOMACY, strategy, instruments, implements, 
 are among the means depended upon for suc- 
 cessful conflicts in the world's great battlefields. But 
 no matter how wise the diplomacy, how shrewd the 
 stratagem, how unsurpassed the instruments, or how 
 modern the implements, much will depend upon the 
 braverv — the heroism — that uses and controls the 
 whole. 
 
 Imagination, memory, judgment, will, includes the 
 entirety of mental being, any one of which faculties 
 being absent, or even weak in itself, interferes with 
 and greatly impairs the capabilities of the being, and 
 no man can be, in the highest sense, capable until his 
 will is guided by judgment, and in turn judgment 
 directs his will, and both order and direct imagina- 
 tion and memory in the performance of duties within 
 their sphere. 
 
 What is true of the individual comes to apply to 
 man in the aggregate. 
 
 Judgment, enlightened by reason, guidec by 
 knowledge, aided by a will that is dauntless, is eb n- 
 tial to the accomplishment of many of his duties in 
 life. 
 
 In no sphere of action will this be found to be 
 more applicable than in the battlefield of temperance 
 reform. Here all the capabilities of the imagination 
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 of memory, all the keenness in perception, in judg- 
 ment, and all the indomitableness in will, will find 
 fitting sphere for their action and lasting occupation 
 for their powers. 
 
 We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against 
 spiritual wickedness in high places — wickedness 
 made hoary with age, made reputable by religious 
 association, made honorable by law, and admitted, by 
 some at least, to be essential to all that binds us as 
 individuals into society, and holds us together as a 
 state. 
 
 But a tremendous awakening has taken place. 
 Scientist and philosopher, statesman and moralist, 
 have been at work, and the verdict rendered is : 
 " A licensed rum trajffic is wrong." Hence ways and 
 means are being sought to drive this wrong and 
 wrong-doing from the land. 
 
 The public press, the council chamber, the Legis- 
 lature, the pulpit, the Sunday School, the prayer- 
 meeting room, and last but not least this Province of 
 Ontario, have contributed their quota of eflfort to 
 drive this wrong from our country. One tremendous 
 " Yes " rings through our Province from one end to 
 the other. " Yes, We are in favor of the irnmediate 
 prohibition of the manufacture and sale for beverage 
 purposes of intoxicating liquors." 
 
 Unquestionably we have now reached a place in 
 this conflict where some change of method will be 
 useful if not necessary. 
 
 The work of the statistician is done, and well done. 
 
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 OUR CAUSE A AD ITS REQUIRE MEXTS. 17 
 
 The old-time temperanco jokor, and the platform 
 mountebank will find their usefulness gone. The 
 broken-down demagogue and adventurer will no 
 longer find agreeable employment in this intensely 
 practical confiict. It becomes now a question of 
 " fiorht or die," and the man who is afraid to die will 
 not be of much use in the battle. 
 
 The adventurer, the politician, the preacher, who is 
 afraid to die in forwarding this cause, will be made 
 to die by its triumphant march to victory. 
 
 No more " Queen Ann," or " Queen Bess," or 
 " Enfield " rifies will be used in this warfare, but 
 repeaters — " Gatlinc/ " guns — manned by energy that 
 is tireless, and heroism that is dauntless ; whose 
 watchword is '' No surrender," and whose motto is 
 " Excelsior," until we present our heaven-given heri- 
 tage at the throne of God with a triumphant " Lord, 
 the talents thou gavest us have gained other talents 
 beside them !" 
 
 Hitherto much diversity of opinion concerning 
 instrumentalities and methods of work — in some 
 iuboances amounting almost to antagonism — has char- 
 acterized the temperance host. Now the time has 
 come for unity of action. No more Grit envying 
 Tory, or Tory vexing Grit, but, as in the days of 
 Benjamin against Gibeah, going up against a common 
 foe, " knit together as the heart of one man." 
 
 Leadership is among the great essentials just now 
 to carry our banners to victory. Leadership in 
 Church and State. 
 
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 Many men, aye and women too, we have who are 
 linked on to this forward movement, but not wholly 
 absorbed in it. Men and women are wanted who, 
 like Luther, cry, " God help me, I cannot do anything 
 else." 
 
 Now, among those who have espoused this cause, 
 there seems to be as much ambition as qualification 
 for leadership. Ambition is not so much a desidera- 
 tum as capability. Men who can command the con- 
 fidence of those who know them best; men in the 
 Church whom the Church delights to honor ; men in 
 practical politics who keep principle above partj'', 
 and who would rather be right than lead a party to 
 victory. 
 
 Leadership such as was Knox's, such as was Pitt's, 
 Wilberforce's, W. Lloyd Garrison's, John B. Finch's ; 
 logical, philosophical, courteous, tremendously in 
 earnest. 
 
 Some of our so-called Christian churches are 
 respectaV)le shelters for the manufacture and retail 
 of strong drink. Some of our constituencies are not 
 above sending whiskey men to make our national 
 laws. Some of our governments are not above 
 appointing wine-bibbers to positions of trust, not 
 excepting judicial functionaries; and it will require 
 skill, courage and united action to root out of society 
 and civil government this traffic and its hoard of 
 attendant evils — evils compared with which all others 
 are but trifles. 
 
 Fiscal mismanagement may embarrass, national 
 
PVHV DO A//:.V USE STROiXG DRINK? 
 
 19 
 
 policies may cripple, pedantry may and will breed 
 sycophantism, but this evil brings forth death and 
 death only. 
 
 Some would-be friends of our cause speak and talk 
 about it as though, in some way, the Bible and God 
 Almighty countenanced the traffic. Out on such 
 friendship ! A Bible, a God — I use the term most 
 reverently — who would lend any countenance what- 
 ever to this foe with which we are now dealing, would 
 be unworthy human respect, to say nothing about 
 obedience and worship ! 
 
 Up ! then, my brothers, let no cry of " fanaticism " 
 awaken fears in your soul ; let no pleading in behalf 
 of the monster slacken your speed ; no combined 
 forces of the enemy retard your progress, but, with 
 faith in God, and faith in our cause, and faith in one 
 another, push onward until legislatures, parliaments 
 and governments all, will have done the bidding of a 
 people whose judgment is guided by knowledge, 
 whose will is omnipotent, and whose courage never 
 falters, " a peculiar people, zealous of good works." 
 
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 WHY DO MEN USE STRONG DRINK? 
 HERE are three things about which some people 
 
 X quarrel more easily and quickly than about 
 anything else — entire sanctification, politics and tem- 
 perance. If two men will sit down and argue about 
 any one of these for half an hour and keep their 
 
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 THE CATLING. 
 
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 temper, their photographs ought to be put up some- 
 where on public exhibition. I can't understand why- 
 one man cannot allow another to have his opinion 
 without getting angry with him. If I want to con- 
 vince a man that he is in the wrong, I must aim at 
 his reason, and in an open, charitable spirit give 
 him credit for honesty in standing where he does. 
 No good ever comes froin harshness, and he who can't 
 control himself in an argument is almost sure to lose. 
 I would protest against ransacking the dictionary to 
 find explosive adjectives to hurl at all who honestly 
 differ from us in their views of great moral and politi- 
 cal questions. " Yes," snys one, " that's so, these tem- 
 perance people are all cranks, fanatics, fools." Now, 
 don't you see, my friend, that you are exhibiting the 
 very same spirit that you condemn in others, a spirit 
 that would gag all discussion, and put the thumb- 
 screws on all liberty. If you want to prove to these 
 people that you are right and they are wrong, do it 
 not by calling them fools, but by fair, satisfactory 
 argument. " Well," you say, " I can easily do that." 
 All right, ray friend, ^o ahead. " Well, there's that 
 case of Timothy, didn't Paul tell him to take a little 
 wine for his stomach's sake and for his often infirmi- 
 ties ? " Yes, you are correct ; but you see that is a 
 prescription for a weak stomach, a case of indigestion, 
 possibly, ^r some derangement of that important 
 physical organ. Have you a diseased stomach ? If 
 so, then you go and get some of the same class of 
 wine, not a wine made out of the very same barrel 
 
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/r//F DO MEN USE STRONG DRTNK? 
 
 21 
 
 from which whiskey, brandy and other licjuors are 
 made, and we will talk about the propriety of using 
 it. But you will find it extremely difficult to get 
 wine that has not alcohol put into it, and alcohol is 
 procured by distillation, an art not known for a 
 thousand years after Timothy's day. I would like to 
 know, too, how long Timothy used his wine. I find 
 nowadays this medicine takes a long time to efi'ect a 
 cure. Some have been dosing themselves for years, 
 and yet their stomachs are as bad as ever. If your 
 physican told you to take a dessert-spoonful of liquid 
 quinine three times a day, you would not want to 
 keep that up for years. We fear the friends of drink 
 cannot find much comfort in Paul's advice to Timothy. 
 Such would do well to adopt the sentiment of the 
 man who, when this passage was quoted, replied, 
 " My name is not Timothy, and I do not have often 
 infirmities ; there's nothing the matter with my stom- 
 ach, and I do not need even a little wine." 
 
 Another much-quoted passage is the account of 
 Jesus turning water into wine at the marriage feast 
 in Cana of Galilee. A poor man in England is said 
 to have been strongly pressed with this argument, 
 and his reply was, " I desire always to follow my 
 blessed Master in all things, and I find Him saying, 
 in that record, ' Fill the water-pots with water,' there- 
 fore I fill my glass with water, and if He is pleased 
 to work a miracle and turn it into wine, then I won't 
 refuse to drink it. But, until that is done I will 
 stick to water." 
 
22 
 
 THE CATLING. 
 
 But why do men drink ? Perhaps four correct 
 answers may be j^iven to that question. 
 
 1. Some drink hecause they come into this world 
 with an inherited taste for stimulants. Just as chil- 
 dren sometimes enter upon life dowered with the 
 physical diseases of their parents, so many a poor 
 creature is launched upon life cursed with abnormal 
 tastes and habits and predispo^itions. It mio^ht ahnost 
 be said that some people are born drunkards. Good 
 men have been known who would fi<»;ht aixainst the 
 desire for drink, and keep sober for years, Imt fall at 
 length before the destroyer. A man said to a minister, 
 '* I carry the curse imposed by the law of heredity. My 
 great-grandfather, my grandfather, my father and 
 my four brothers all died drunkards, and, God help 
 me, I often fear for myself." Hercules is said to 
 have wrestled with serpents in his cradle. Some 
 people wrestle with devils, and all their life is one 
 unceasing conflict. 
 
 2. Others drink because of the good fellowship it 
 is supposed to involve. Some go further, and say the 
 dignity it involves. It is that villainous custom of 
 treating that leads so many astray. If you could 
 wipe out that stupid, infernal custom, you would save 
 many a fine young fellow and shut up many a grog- 
 shop. Two or three, or half a dozen, meet, and one 
 says, " Come and have a drink," and the dignity of 
 hospitality must be returned by another, and before 
 the man knows it he has lost a clear brain and a level 
 head. Never offer a man a drink of liquor. " Woe 
 
IV//]' no MEN USE STROXC. DRINK .> 
 
 23 
 
 
 to him that putteth the bottle to h 
 
 rhl. 
 
 li 
 
 putteth the bottle to his neij^hhors lips. 
 Tre ^ting — why it's the devil's own method of leading 
 men astrr,^. If this custom were stamped out, it 
 would go far towards rescuing this land from the 
 hand of the destroyer. 
 
 8. Others drink under the mistaken notion that it is 
 good for their health. I do not say that alcohol has 
 not its medicinal place. I admit that the wise phy- 
 sician may use it in certain stages of disease with 
 advantage, though many discard its use altogether in 
 their practice. I believe no one in a state of health 
 can use it without detriment to his body. I am not 
 prepared to discuss the physiological effects of alcohol, 
 but I stand by the assertion that the most highly and 
 most scientifically educated physicians of the world 
 declare that strong drink is not only not necessary, 
 but positively injurious, even when statedly taken in 
 the strictest moderation. In the harvest field the man 
 who drinks water in which a little oatmeal is mixed, 
 will do more work and endure the heat better than 
 the man who drinks whiskey. Amid the cold of the 
 Arctic Circle, a man, as Dr. Kane proved, will stand 
 the cold better on water than on rum Alcohol is not 
 a food — it has no permanent heating power, it will 
 not assimilate, as bread or water do — it is an unwhole- 
 some irritant poison. Of course, there are physicians 
 w^ho combat the views of Dr. Richardson and others 
 on this matter, but I challenge contradiction when 
 I say that the majority of leading physicians and 
 scientists are as one in the well authenticated belief 
 
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24 
 
 Tlir. C.A TI.IXC. 
 
 that no amount of alcohol is required hy a man in 
 health, and that its most moderate use is opposed to 
 a proper workinj,' of that most complex and beautiful 
 machine, the human body. Dr. Dio Lewis says, " We 
 put a drop of alcohol into a man's eye. It poisons it. 
 We try it upon the lining of a living stomach. Again 
 it poisons it. We study, after death, the stomachs of 
 drinking men, and find alcohol produces, in regular 
 stages, redness, intense congestion, morbid secretions, 
 deeper hurt, destruction of parts, utter ruin. We 
 study its influence upon the health and strength of 
 sailors and soldiers, and find it helps to freeze them 
 in the Arctic Regions and exhaust them in the tropics. 
 We watch two regiments on a long march in India, 
 one with and the other without grog, and are driven 
 to the conclusion that even moderate quantities of 
 alcohol weaken the muscles and break the endurance. 
 We visit the training ground of oarsmen, pedestrians 
 and prize-fighters, and learn everywhere the same 
 lesson — alcohol is a poison to muscle and brain." 
 
 4. Some drink because they like it. It is astonish- 
 ing: to hear the various excuses offered in defence of 
 its use. One says he needs it as an appetizer, another 
 takes it for sleeplessness, and another for nervousness, 
 and so on through the whole round of the often 
 infirmities. They are like the college boys with the 
 smoking. The professor came upon a covey of them 
 suddenly, each one smoking a clay pipe. " What do 
 you smoke for?" said he to one. "I can't sleep at 
 night, and a few whiffs quiet my nerves." Thus he 
 
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 went around them all until he came to tlie last, and 
 the other fellows had exhausted all the diseases he 
 had ever heard of, and so when the professor said, 
 " And what do you smoke for ?" he hesitated a little, 
 then stammered out, " I smoke for corns." 
 
 I have said some drink because they like it. They 
 bef^an, it may be, with a very little, and at the first 
 its taste and etiects were but very slij^htly pleasing. 
 But by and by they learned to desire it — they found 
 a strange proper nty starting up — they heard its 
 voice at certain jours of the day — habit was formed 
 — taste was accpiired — the chain which at first seemed 
 to be a chain of flowers, proved to be a chain of iron ; 
 and for the love of it, how they will brave any dan- 
 ger, trample on all that is sacred in the home, starve 
 wife and child, and resort to every artful method for 
 getting that which is ruining them body and soul. 
 Yet men will tell you that you may use this spirit in 
 moderation, though it will be safer for you not to 
 commence the moderation plan until you are twenty- 
 one years of age. -If there is danger for twenty years 
 eleven months and thirty days, there is danger after 
 twenty-one. If I have to cage up a lion for twenty- 
 one years, I'll swear by the Eternal that I'll keep 
 him caged while I live, and at death will give my son 
 the key, with the prayer that he may kill him, or 
 keep him still in durance vile. Notwithstanding its 
 danger, there are still a few among us who talk about 
 this thing as "a good creature of God," reminding 
 us of the memorable words of the eminent Scotch 
 
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THE LIQVOR TRAFFIC. 
 
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 divine, the late Dr. Guthrie, who said : " I have heard 
 a man with a bottle of whiskey in his hand have the 
 impudence and assurance to say, ' Every creature of 
 God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be re- 
 ceived with thanksgiving ; ' and he would persuade 
 me that what was made in the still-pot was a crea- 
 ture of God. In one sense it is so, but in the same 
 sense so is arsenic, so is oil of vitriol, and so is prussic 
 acid. Think of a fellow tossing off a glass of vitriol, 
 and excusing himself by saying that it is a good 
 creature of God ! He would not use many such crea- 
 tures, that's all 111 say." 
 
 Touch not, taste not, handle not. 
 
 THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. 
 
 A VOICE FROM THE JUDGES.— "If it were 
 not for this drinking, you (tlie jury) and I 
 would have nothing to do." — Fatterson. 
 
 " There is scarcely a crime comes before me that is 
 not, directly or ir.directly, caused by strong drink." — 
 Coleridge. 
 
 " If all men could be dissuaded from the use of 
 intoxicating liquors, the office of a judge would be a 
 sinecure." — Aldevson. 
 
 " I find in every calendar that comes before me one 
 unfailing source, directly or indirectly, of most of the 
 crimes that are committed — intempernnce." — Wight- 
 man. 
 
28 
 
 THE G A TUNG. 
 
 " Experience has proved that almost all crime into 
 which juries have had to inquire may be traced, in 
 one way or another, to drink." — Williams. 
 
 And we select the following as a sample : The gaol 
 statistics of Perth County for the year ending Sep- 
 tember .SOth, 1893, show the number of persons com- 
 mitted in Stratford, Ont., to be 125, and of these 82 
 were of intemperate habits. 
 
 1. Its Destructive Work. 
 
 It spreads irreligion, idleness, poverty and crime 
 among the people. The late Dr. Brooks declared that, 
 " if we could sweep intemperance out of the country, 
 there would hardly be poverty enough left to give 
 healthy exercise to the charitable impulses." And 
 when we are told of the immense amount of mi^ney 
 that goes for drink, all the poetry is taken out of our 
 talk about " hard times." Shall we sit idly by, and 
 allow this work of demoralization to proceed un- 
 checked ? Are the financial interests of the liquor 
 sellers, who fatten on the ruin of others, to outweigh 
 the interests of the people ? 
 
 A wealthy man in St. Louis was asked to aid in a 
 series of temperance meetings, but he haughtily re- 
 fused. Upon being further urged, he coolly dismissed 
 them with the remark, " Gentlemen, it is not my 
 business." A few days later, his wife and two daugh- 
 ters were coming home on the Hghtning express. In 
 his grand carriage, with liveried coachman, he rode to 
 the depot to meet them. As he reached the station. 
 
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. 
 
 29 
 
 he heard the word " accident." It is his " business " 
 now. On which road ? The very road and train by 
 which his family are returninir. Where ? Twenty 
 miles away. He telegraphs the Superintendent, " I 
 will give S500 for an extra engine." The answer 
 comes, " No." Again he telegraphs, " Will give $1,000 
 for an engine." He answers, " A train has already 
 gone forward with surgeons and nurses, and we have 
 no other." With white face and awful anxiety he 
 paced the station to and fro. That is his " business " 
 now. In half an hour, which seemed half a century 
 to him, the train arrived. He hurried toward it, and 
 in the baggage car found the lifeless remains of his 
 wife and one daughter. In the next car lay the 
 crushed form of the other daughter, her life fast 
 ebbing away. A quart of whiskey, drank by a rail- 
 road employee, was the cause of the catastrophe. Who 
 dares say of this tremendous question, "It is not my 
 business ? " 
 
 " There walketh a fiend o'er the glad, green earth, 
 
 By the side of the reaper, Death ; 
 He dazzles alike by the glare of uurth, 
 Or quenches the Hght of the household hearth, 
 
 With his foul and withering breath." 
 
 " It would take a pen plucked from the wing of the 
 destroying angel and dipped in blood " to describe the 
 traffic's deadly work. 
 
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 30 THE CATLING. 
 
 INTEMPERANCE. 
 AN IMPEACHMENT AND AN APPEAL. 
 
 BY REV. W. H. WITHROW, I). 1). 
 
 THERE is a deep si<:;nificance in the old Homeric 
 legend of the sorceress Circe, whose fell 
 enchantments made men forget name and fame and 
 duty, and finally changed them into swine. This 
 ancient myth reads like an allegory, in which are 
 strikingly represented the fatal fascinations of the 
 modern sorceress. Intemperance, whose poisoned cup 
 beguiles men of their manhood, banishes the love of 
 wife and child, makes them forget the claims of God 
 and humanity, and degrading to the likeness of beasts, 
 causes them to wallow like swine in the stye of 
 sensuality. This fearful spell is upon many of our 
 fellow-beings. These fatal enchantments beset them 
 on every side. The innocent and unwary, the young 
 and fair, the strong and brave, are continually falling 
 under their power. 
 
 In the name of God and humanity we impeach this 
 giant evil of Intemperance, as the cause of more of sin 
 and sorrow, of blight and desolation in our world 
 than all other forms of vice together. In proof of 
 this terrible indictment we appeal to the mighty 
 cloud of witnesses, who, wrecked and ruined in mind, 
 body and estate, with tattered garb and tottering gait, 
 with blood-shot eye and palsied frame, bear evidence 
 to its brutifying and demoralizing influence. Once 
 they were happy, honored and respected, now spurned, 
 
INTEMPERA NCE. 
 
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 contemned and fallen, none are so poor as to do thevn 
 reverence. From the dark profound of hell itself, 
 livid forms of horror and atiVij^ht seem to arise, and in 
 a hollow wail of woe to execrate the accursed vice that 
 brought them to such deep and endless misery. 
 
 We appeal to you, young men, if you would not 
 bring down a father's grey hairs with sorrow to the 
 grave, ii / plant a dagger in a mother's heart, that 
 you at once and forever forswear the use of intoxi- 
 cating drinks and give your influence to the cause of 
 temperance and of God. 
 
 To you, young ladies, we especially appeal. A 
 potent influence is yours. You are the true regents 
 of society. To you is committed a fairy wand of 
 magic influence whereby you may bless or ban man- 
 kind, and affect for weal or woe their eternal destiny. 
 Oh, then by the love you bear your fathers, your 
 brothers, or it may be 
 
 A nearer 
 One still and a dearer 
 One yet than all others, 
 
 we pray you give no countenance to the drinking 
 usages of society. Throw not, we conjure you, the 
 witchery of your smiles around the cup, nor beguile 
 by the blandishment of your beauty, immortal souls 
 to endless ruin. Become not, we beseech you, the fair 
 temptresses, it may be to perdition, of those you love 
 dearest and best. Be rather the jjuardian anjxels of 
 their lives, to counter-work the evil charm of tempta- 
 tion. Thus shall you shine forever, beautiful and 
 
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 THE GA TLING. 
 
 star-like in their souls, an«] your memory, enshrined 
 within their heart of hearts, shall be as a talisman in 
 life's trial hour — a potent spell to keep their souls 
 from sin. 
 
 Finally, to every good patriot would we appeal, if 
 you truly love your country, this fair and goodly land, 
 this freest land on earth, this land o'ershadowed by 
 the broad, free banner of England — long may it wave ! 
 — if you desire its prosperity, if you wish its welfare^ 
 if you would see 
 
 " This nation, young and strong, and fair, 
 To the full stature of its greatness grow," 
 
 and take its place as peer among the foremost 
 nations of the earth, cast in your influence on 
 the side of God and of humanity, in the conflict 
 now waging with the direst foe by which our country 
 is cursed, and soon this great national sin, and shame, 
 and bane, shall be banished from our land forever. 
 
 HOW TO DEAL WITH IT. 
 
 THERE are three ways proposed of dealing with 
 the liquor traffic. One is to throw no restric- 
 tions whatever around it, making it free, and putting 
 it on the same basis as any legitimate or respectable 
 business. Another is the license system ; in other 
 '. ords, saying, " It matters not how much destruction 
 ou send broadcast, if you will only pay us for it. 
 You nay stimulate the worst passions of the worst 
 
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 NO IV TO DEAL WITH IT. 
 
 33 
 
 man. We will provide police and judges to take care 
 of your manufactured articles, but for decency sake 
 you must submit to a few restrictions." This is a 
 double wrong : (1) It permits and sanctions what is 
 an admitted evil. (2) It accepts a fee for this unjusti- 
 fiable indulgence. Connivance at crime is rightly 
 recognized by law as criminal, acceptance of a con- 
 sideration for such connivance adds the guilt of cor- 
 ruption to the guilt of participation. ^ 
 
 " We boast of education, 
 Of laws to punish ill, 
 Yet license desolation — 
 Yes I license men to kill." 
 
 At a recent temperance meeting in Toronto, a man 
 asked the speaker what was the origin of the license 
 system. The reply was : " It originated with the 
 devil. He made the first proposition of license to the 
 Son of God on the mountain. He offered Him hi^h- 
 license — he would give Him the whole world if He 
 would fall down and worship him. The Son of God 
 refused, and stood on the ground of total prohibition 
 of wrong. It originated with the devil because God 
 does not license any evils, but prohibits them ; and 
 all Christians should stand on that side." License 
 proposes to regulate whiskey in men, but Prohibition 
 proposes to keep whiskey out of men. Which is lae 
 more practical ? Geo. W. Bain, of Kentucky, says : 
 " Noah and the devil went, long ago, into the liquor 
 industry. Noah has quit the business, but the devil 
 has enlarged the firm and taken in the Government." 
 3 
 
 
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34 
 
 THE GATLJAG. 
 
 Christian men everywhere are seeing more clearly 
 the sin of making legal that which God has stamped 
 with His own word of condemnation ; and worldly 
 men are being led by this agitation to (juestion seri- 
 ously the wisdom of licensing the cause of crime and 
 punishing the effect. The following declarations are 
 worthy of thoughtful consideration : 
 
 " Luxury, my lords, is to be taxed, but vice 'pro- 
 hibited. Let the difficulty be what it may, would 
 you levy a tax upon a breach of the Ten Command- 
 ments ? Government should not, for revenue, mort- 
 gage the morals and health of the people." — Lord 
 Chesterjield. 
 
 " If a loss of revenue should accrue to the United 
 States from a diminished consumption of ardent 
 spirits, she will be a gainer of a thousand fold in the 
 health, wealth and happiness of the people." — Justice 
 Grier. 
 
 The heathen shames us, — hear him : " It is true I 
 cannot prevent the introduction of the glowing poison. 
 Gain-seeking and corrupt men will, for profit and 
 sensuality, defeat my wishes, but nothing will induce 
 me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of 
 my people." — Emperor of China. 
 
 " If the liquor traffic is wrong, then revenue derived 
 from it is repugnant to every principle of justice." — 
 Hon. John O'Donnell. 
 
 " I cannot consent, as your queen, to take a revenue 
 from that which destroys the souls and bodies of my 
 subjects." — Queen of Madagascar. 
 
ffOW TO DEAL WITH IT. 
 
 35 
 
 " Gentlemen, you need not give yourselves any 
 trouble about the revenue. The question of revenue 
 must never stand in the way of needful reforms. 
 Besides, with a sober population, not wasting their 
 earnings, I shall know where to obtain the revenue." 
 — W. E. Gladstone. 
 
 " The government does not want the money raised 
 by whiskey taxation for any of its legitimate pur- 
 poses, and it has been proven a fallacy to claim that 
 the taxation helps the suppression of the drink traffic. 
 The whole thing is unsavory, unwise and unprofit- 
 able, and had better be cleaned out, in the interest of 
 healthy civilization." — Hon. Henry B. Metcalf. 
 
 Scripture : " It is not lawful for to put them into 
 the treasury, because it is the price of blood." — 
 Matt, xxvii. 0. 
 
 We do not favor either license, toleration, taxation 
 or regulation for the traffic. We are in favor of its 
 everlasting banishment, extinction, extirpation, ter- 
 mination, destruction, annihilation, expulsion, aboli- 
 tion, condemnation, and its sentence to endless 
 non-existence. 
 
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 ived 
 
 Oh I happy, happy tidings, 
 
 That reach our ears to-day, 
 The temperance flags are flying, 
 
 Along the great highway ; 
 The trumpet hhist has sounded 
 
 O'er mountain, hill and lea, 
 The tyrant, Rum, is tottering, 
 
 Our land shall yet be free. 
 
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 THE CATLING. 
 
 THE 
 
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 THE WORK OF RUM. 
 
 APART of its work may be stated in a few 
 words. It impoverishes families, creates ani- 
 mosity between husbands and wives, retards the Gospel 
 chariot wheels, peoples madhouses, pleases the devil, 
 replenishes the grave, plants the dying pillow with 
 thorns, condemns at the judgment day, and shuts the 
 drunkard up in hell. 
 
 The quantity of liquor drank, adulterated and dis- 
 guised in the shape of medicine, gives the rum-fiend 
 much help in his murderous work of drunkard mak- 
 ing. He does not refuse help even from Christian 
 people. The greatest obstacles encountered by the 
 missionaries proceed from the drunkenness and vice 
 introduced by nominally Christian nations. John 
 Williams, the martyr missionary of the Pacific 
 Islands, said : " I dread the arrival of an American 
 ship, for though she may have more missionaries in 
 her cabin, she brings in her hold the death-water of 
 damnation." A similar and striking statement has 
 been recently made by Bishop Wm. Taylor, of Africa, 
 who says that rum and Christianity are so associated 
 
CANADA'S TEMPERANCE SONG, 
 
 37 
 
 . !. 
 
 in the iiiirids of the natives tliat tliey liuve called a 
 distillery there " Bon Jesus," meaning Good Jesus. 
 When shall the work of rum cease to be legalized by 
 this Christian Canada of ours { 
 
 An impressive scene is presented to the view as 
 you approach a certain city. Just beyond you in the 
 valley are huge distilleries, with a capacity for hun- 
 dreds of barrels of whiskey per day. Farther out to 
 the left, on an elevation, is the city infirmary, where 
 the victims of this business are cared for at public 
 expense. A little farther still, and in full view, is 
 the cemetery, where lie the bones of thousands of 
 victims of the rum traffic. 
 
 " Widowed hearts and homes deserted, 
 Helpless children orphans made ; 
 What a picture ! God of mercy, 
 Let the cruel tide be stayed." 
 
 CANADA'S TEMPERANCE SONG. 
 
 WE'VE had enough of license laws, enough of liquor's 
 taxes ; 
 We've turned the grindstone long enough, 'tis time to swing 
 
 our axes ; 
 This deadly Upas-tree must fall — let strokes be strong and 
 
 steady ; 
 Pull up the stumps ! grub out the roots ! oh, brothers, are you 
 
 ready ? 
 No longer will we shield this foe to manhood, love and beauty ; 
 We've had enough of compromise — the right alone is duty ; 
 
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 38 
 
 THE CATLING. 
 
 Enough of weak men and cliHtrimt the burden grows by 
 
 shifting ; 
 Let's put our shoulder to the wheel, and do our share of lifting. 
 
 VVo'vo had enough of forging chains this demon drink to fetter; 
 frood bullets from tins ballot-box, well sped, will fix him better! 
 Will ye not hunt him to the death? speak out, speak out, oh, 
 
 brothers ! 
 Will ye not sound the bugle-call, oh, sisters, wives and mothers ? 
 CiioRis— Fc»r re;^'ulation laws, " No, no !" 
 For Prohibition, " Yes." 
 
 — Annn. 
 
THE Hldll Lie h:\SE DELI'S /OX. 
 
 39 
 
 THE HIGH LICENSE PELl^SION. 
 
 "1 T 7' E oppose hif]jh license, and other .similar devices, 
 VV because they are a delusion and a snare. If 
 it is wron(» to license evil ok' any kind, the case is not 
 bettered by takin^^ a lar^e fee to allow a few to 
 carry on the monopoly of ruin, 'j'he hinrlier the fee 
 and the more it is sought to make the place antl busi- 
 ness " respectable," the greater the danger. Many of 
 the elegant club-houses in our large cities are really 
 the dens of wolves, where, amid the fascinations of 
 glittering lights, rich upholsteries, card-tables and 
 champagne, many a youth is " led to the slaughter." 
 Are the widow and children of the drunkard any 
 better off because the husband and father was ruined 
 in a high-licensed saloon ? What difference does it 
 make to me whether my boy is seduced to drink in a 
 place where the proprietor pays SI, 000 or SoO for his 
 license ? The results are much the same, and the 
 agitation for high license was simply a dodge, invented 
 in the States, by which the days of the traffic might 
 be prolonged. Some temperance people were led to 
 favor it, under the impression that it might be a step 
 in advance, but they soon saw the folly of "regulating," 
 and learned that if law can suppress low drinking 
 shops it can also close down the " tony " high-licensed 
 saloons. Never allow the high-license delusion and 
 cheat to divide or enfeeble our forces. 
 
 It is related of a certain hard drinker that he 
 wanted to sign the pledge, on condition that he be 
 
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 THE CATLING. 
 
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 allowed one glass a day. He wanted to let himself 
 down easy. So he wrote his name. " Now," said his 
 friend, " you must remember, Patrick, that you are 
 only to drink one glass a day." Patrick remembered 
 it, and bought himself a tumbler that held a pint. 
 That is high license. If it breaks the little tumblers, 
 it turns the liquor into larger ones. Patrick will get 
 his usual amount all the same. 
 
 *THE MAN-EATING TREE OF CANADA. 
 
 BY REV. J. A. m'cLUNG, TREHERNE, MAN. 
 
 NOT long ago a friend of mine told me he had 
 been reading of a singular production of nature 
 (so-called at least), named the Man-eating Tree of 
 Madagascar. My informant said that it was custom- 
 ary for the natives, on certain occasions, to select one 
 of their own number, whom they would unite in com- 
 pelling to climb to the centre of the great sensitive 
 plant, when its enormous cactus-like leaves would 
 begin gradually to close upon him, in pressing closer 
 and closer with an irresistible force, till the blood ran 
 from every pore of his body and mingled with a kind 
 of liquid which exuded from the plant, and, trickling 
 down, is caught and drank with a kind of infernal 
 glee for its intoxicating properties. 
 
 Now, I have searched the Encyclopaedias, from the 
 
 * This article and Dr. Stafford's poem were specially contri- 
 buted to " Shot and Shell," but as they arc so timely and 
 appropriate they deserve to be reproduced in " The Gatling." 
 
THE MAN-EATING TREE OF CANADA. 41 
 
 u 
 
 " Britannica " down, for anything answering to this 
 description, but in vain. After searching among the 
 books till \;'eary, I had a dream ; and in my dream I 
 saw right here, in our beautiful, Christian Ontario, 
 vv^hat I had sought in vain as a product of a foreign 
 clime and heathen practice. It was so large that its 
 long, sinuous arms covered the whole of our fair Pro- 
 vince, and was in danger of covering the Dominion. 
 They don't call it by the harsh name of the " Man- 
 eating Tree." It would be too frightful to call it by 
 a name that would describe it. So they call it the 
 " Liquor Traffic " or " Licensed Victuallers' Associa- 
 tion." This tree puts forth limbs far-reaching and 
 powerful, but they called them Distilleries, Breweries, 
 Saloons, Taverns. And I saw in my dream, and be- 
 hold men climbed its sinuous branches by hundreds, 
 and put themselves in its deadly grasp. I saw men, 
 apparently sensible men in other matters, take pro- 
 perty and life and all, and cast themselves into the 
 capacious maw of this vegetable devil-fish, for it 
 seemed to live and grow strome tr? whatever robbed 
 poor humanity of home and happiness. Worse than 
 all, I saw men drag hel^>ieMS women and children — 
 their mothers, their wives, their children — and witl. 
 hellish shriek, mingled with blasphemy, fling them in, 
 and their blood ran down ti livid stream. 
 
 Wondering what was the power of this tree which 
 seemed to have such fatal influence in drt?,wipf' men 
 with irresis*^^ible force to their ruin, I thought t!iat 
 Shakespeare appeared to me, and l apVod hiTi what 
 
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 THE G A TUNG. 
 
 was the secret of this fatal power. " The * invisible 
 spirit of wine ' which I call ' devil,' " was his reply. 
 
 Around this tree I saw many of its worshippers who 
 were loud in its praises. I saw statesmen there, and 
 as they held up the loathsome mixture they said it is 
 worth S5,000,000, and the country could not do with- 
 out it. Political parties danced around it in high glee, 
 for it casts its protecting shadow over the throne of 
 our Sublime Chief. And so I saw once in four years 
 — sometimes oftener — the supporters of Her Majesty's 
 Government, or the supporters of Her Majesty's Oppo- 
 sition, as the case may be, gathered to water it care- 
 fully with a funny kind of pail they called a " ballot 
 box." And I saw in my dream that, however they 
 ditlered on other things of minor importance, they 
 seemed mostly to agree in shouting, " Great are the 
 benefits of the mighty Man-eater, for he brings much 
 gain to our party, and our Chief sits under its shadow 
 and eats its fruit with much delight." And they ap- 
 pointed sedate men, men of broad views, to fence it 
 and care for it. And behold, I saw it surrounded by 
 a fence, great and high, built of that beautiful picket 
 that they call " lie-sins " (license). Beyond this fence 
 they said it must not grow ; but it did grow. And 
 men were drawn by its long arms, and they were 
 crushed, and they cursed the day they were born ; 
 and others drank of their blood and cried, " Great is 
 the Man-eater." 
 
 And I saw doctors there who said it must live, for 
 great were its healing virtues, and our patients grow 
 
 
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THE MAN-EA TING TREE OF CANADA. 
 
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 vigorous under its shadow. And yet 1 saw a thousand 
 die by its tortures for one that was benefited by its 
 virtues. 
 
 Stranger than all, I heard learned divines wcx elo- 
 quent in its praises, because they say Jesus planted a 
 root of it by His first miracle in Cana of Galilee, and 
 presented it to a young couple as a wedding gift ! 
 This so shocked me that I woke out of my dream ; 
 and lo ! it was not a dream. 
 
 Who is so stupid as to need an interpretation of 
 ^his ? Who is so blind as not to see, in his readings 
 of the daily press, a reality of which this is only a very 
 faint picture ? It's to-day a stabbing affair in the 
 streets of Kingston, and to-morrow a shooting aflfair 
 in Toronto, and the next day a mother burns herself 
 and children to death because she is drunk, and the 
 next day a noble young man felled like an ox ; and 
 then it's a suicide ; and then for a change it's all of 
 these and m\ t -^ in a day, and the one only cause is — 
 Drink ! ou(-f.:id-body-de.stroying drink ! But what 
 of thai)! Ti ^re aie a lot of harpies who say they 
 must live , iLo-igh no one but themselves can see any 
 good reason why they should live on the blood of 
 better men. And the Government says that the 
 country will go to ruin if it does not grant license to 
 spend $jO,000,000, and murder hundreds of its 
 citizens, to get a paltry $5,000,000 of a revenue. 
 
 Now, all this and a thousand-fold worse can be 
 proven .gainsn this monster of crime and blood, and 
 yet the license will be issued, the fence will be built, 
 
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 the tree will be watered instead of uprooted. But if 
 only one this year should perish, and that one out of 
 your home, would you, dear reader, say, " Issue the 
 license ? " Remember then, when you are giving your 
 vote for license, that you are giving your vote for 
 that which will slay somebody's loved one. 
 
 Here is a case in point which happened in this land 
 not many years ago, and ith most of the parties the 
 writer was acquainted. . ,. .,. le young man, son of 
 respectable Christian parents, oes out on business a 
 few miles from home, and passes the licensed corner 
 tavern. The landlord, either in pretence or reality 
 (the judgment-day will reveal), wants to attend a 
 neighbor's funeral, borrows the young man's horse and 
 cutter, and tells him to stay till he returns. The 
 young man thoughtlessly consents. A quarrel in some 
 way arose in the bar between him and a butcher. 
 The butcher struck the young man one blow, and he 
 was laid a lifeless corpse on the floor. The poor father 
 and mother are at home wondering " where is my boy 
 to-night ? " The wretch who kept that place drove 
 past that home once and again, but never let the 
 lonely watchers know until he brought the coroner, 
 held the inquest, and secured the verdict he wanted. 
 The first they knew was a request to bring a cofliin 
 for the lifeless remains of that much-loved son. Who 
 will wonder when I tell them that that poor, broken- 
 hearted mother and two daughters .were shortly after 
 laid on beds of death, from which they were carried, 
 after a lingering illness — one on one Sabbath and two 
 
BR/TONS NEVER SHALL BE SLAVES. 
 
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 on the next — to the silent resting-place of the dead, 
 and the father and remaining son left the lonely sur- 
 vivors in the home of the once-happy family. This 
 is the fruit of the " Man-eating Tree of Canada." 
 " How long, Lord ! how long " shall this monster of 
 iniquity be permitted to crush and destroy human 
 hopes and human hearts ? 
 
 "BRITONS NEVER SHALL BE SLAVES." 
 
 BY THE LATE REV, DR. STAFFORD. 
 
 WHEN mighty kings, with iron hand, 
 Enslaved the unsuspecting land, 
 And Freedom's name but newly born 
 The heritage of man, was torn 
 From sons of toil, to serfdom led, 
 And rank in fealty bowed its head, 
 And heirs of noble sires were driven 
 From rights to all by nature given ; 
 Uprose the stalwart barons then 
 To claim their heritage as men. 
 And stood before their cowering lord, 
 While gleaming steel enforced their word. 
 And craven John perforce began 
 An age of liberty for man ; 
 He signed the charter of the free — 
 The shield of ages yet to be. 
 Thus saved from servitude and woe, 
 In common vow joined high and low. 
 And swore while England yet had graves 
 That Britons never should be slaves I 
 
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 When lengthening ages sjjed along, 
 
 And kings, unwatched, again grew strong, 
 
 Girding by stealth their arm with power 
 
 That robbed each man of Nature's dower ; 
 
 And Tudors into Stuarts' hand 
 
 Of iron, passed their stern command, 
 
 Who closer drew enslaving chains. 
 
 And higher heaped extortion's gains, 
 
 While guardian angels seemed to weep 
 
 O'er Liberty's fair form asleep : 
 
 Then Nature moved in laboring throes ; 
 
 Great Hampden T*ym and Eliot rose 
 
 To claim for u»ii\ ersal man 
 
 The tights that with their race began : 
 
 Then England . -"te ' ot history's page 
 
 In tears, and bled for every age ; 
 
 Her flaming banner high unfurled 
 
 Meant liberty for all the world ; 
 
 And heroes sought untimely graves 
 
 That Britons never might be slaves ! 
 
 Such sires as these begat us all ; 
 
 Here at our feet their shadows fall ; 
 
 So brave they strove, so near they stand, 
 
 Their names are worthy to command ! 
 
 Yet, where they fought and died to save 
 
 Their latest child from doom of slave, 
 
 Such guilty bondage is begun 
 
 As never yet defied the sun ! 
 
 In passion's chains enslaved, and sold 
 
 In pleasure's mart — more base than gold — 
 
 Men drink to curse, and curse to die ; 
 
 They rush to ills that toward them lly r 
 
 They court the avenging doom of sin. 
 
 And here their hell of woe begin ; 
 
BRITONS NEVER SHALL BE SLAVES. 
 
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 They scorn the happiness of earth ; 
 
 They shame the diadem of worth ; 
 
 Their honored name — their high degree — 
 
 Their manhood's crown — their heaven to be — 
 
 They barter all, like base-born knaves, 
 
 And Britain's sons are worse than slaves ! 
 
 O morn of hope, from darkness rise ! 
 O pitying light from angel eyes. 
 Shine forth where manhood pities* not ! 
 Where kind affections are forgot ; 
 Where starving children hopeless pray 
 And vice seeks out a darker way ; 
 On shadowed homes where womanhood. 
 With blighted faith, ctmtinues good ! 
 Where filth and rags their signal raise 
 Of sin and shame ; where want dismays 
 The hand that gives, the eye that weeps, 
 And demons guard while vileness sleeps ! 
 Let brighter light illume our day ! 
 This bondage break, drive shame away ! 
 Let nobler inspirations glow 
 In hearts benumbed from self-sought woe ! 
 Let Law with voice of power speak. 
 And stretch its shield above the weak ! 
 Let those who bear the Christian name. 
 Denying self, Christ's way proclaim 
 In burning word and holy deed. 
 That all who err His help may heed ! 
 Where growing wealth its pride displays ; 
 Where voice of power the rabble sways ; 
 Where learning's radiant mantle falls ; 
 Where statesmen walk the nation's halls — 
 Wherever drink the soul depraves, 
 May Britons born no more be slaves ! 
 
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 PROHIBITION. 
 
 IT should not be forgotten that in the great debate 
 on the Marter Bill, in March, 1S93, there was 
 not one member of the Ontario Assembly who had 
 anything good to say of a licensed traffic. We take 
 that as an indication of progress. Every reform 
 passes three stages — ridicule, argument and adoption. 
 Our cause has well passed the first. Prohibition is 
 out of sight of ridicule, and runs well the last heat in 
 argument. Final, and we hope, universal adoption 
 is just ahead. Under the legal maxim, " The greatest 
 good to the greatest number," the advocates of this 
 cause hold all th;j ground for argument, and proof 
 and truth. We are told, however, that the suppres- 
 sion of the licjuor traffic would ruin the country 
 financially, for the revenue would then be cut off. 
 Sir Leonard Tilley, who has filled the important office 
 of Finance Minister, said in 1888 : " No Finance 
 Minister would remain long in office who would in 
 this day propose a S'.:heme for raising a revenue that 
 would take four times its amount to collect it. Yet 
 it costs the people of Canada more than ii^20,000,000 
 to collect the liquor revenue from the Government." 
 The present Finance Minister says : " Personally I 
 have no doubt, and never have had any, that if the 
 waste, expense and ruin entailed by drink were done 
 away with, the country could well attbrd to pay three 
 times the taxes in a different way." Hon. G. W. Ross 
 
 sensibly reasons thus : " If the temperate and indus- 
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 trious portion of the community can pay for their own 
 support and that of the intemperate and shiftless por- 
 tion, how much l)etter able would the community be to 
 hear taxes if the li(juor traffic was wiped out, and every 
 one was industrious, and bore a proportionate share of 
 the burden." The whole revenue from the traffic is 
 said to be about Jii^o, 000,000, which represents $1.20 
 per head; but accordinf^ to an unchallenged statement 
 laid before the House of Commons, the drink traffic 
 costs the country over $7.00 per head. It is believed 
 that the increased consumption of dutiable goods 
 following the discontinuance of intoxicating drinks 
 wouVl very soon pay the Government nearly all the 
 revenue from that source. And the facts, as given 
 out by States where Prohibition has been in force, 
 prove that the value of personal property has in- 
 creased, taxation has been lightened, and the morals 
 of the people improved. The expense in connection 
 with our gaols, penitentiaries, etc., will be greatly 
 lessened. Under license, a liquor seller sold a pint of 
 liquor, and made a few cents profit. The drinker, 
 under its influence, shot his son-in-law, and his arrest, 
 imprisonment, trial and execution cost the country 
 more than $1,000. Who pays that ? The tax-payers. 
 And yet men will say, " We can't do without the 
 revenue." The moral aspect of this question, how- 
 ever, is quite overlooked by the friends of the traffic. 
 The Emperor of China refused to increase his reve- 
 nue by the vices of his subjects, and no country can 
 prosper in the long run whose Government lives on 
 the revenues of iniquity. 
 
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 2. It is properly the duty of Governments to take 
 the lead in temperance work, by makinpr good laws. 
 It is said in answer to this, "Yon can't make men 
 virtuous by Act of Parliament." Certainly not, any 
 more than you can make men healthy by Act of Par- 
 liament; but "by Act of Parliament you quarantine the 
 cholera and small-pox, disinfect the ship and burn the 
 clothinj:^ ; cannot give life by Act of Parliament, but 
 can take the pistol from the murderer and keep 
 poison from the suicide." Just in proportion as liquor 
 laws are stringent or loose is the amount of drunken- 
 ness, as a rule ; therefore, any law that would shut up 
 saloons would curtail the consumption of liquor, for it 
 is here that many learn their first lessons in drinking. 
 If Prohibition would not " make men good," it would 
 remove one of the most fruitful sources of crime, and 
 so enhance the cause of virtue. It would close open 
 bars, remove temptations out of the way, and make 
 it easier for men to do right, and more difficult for 
 them to do wrong. 
 
 That old experienced veteran, Rev. Dr. Cuyler, who 
 has never grown weary in the fight, says : " It re- 
 quires two wheels to propel a ferry-boat. If one is 
 clogged, the boat simply revolves in the water with- 
 out progress. Every cart needs two wheels, and if 
 one is cut off, the cart capsizes. Our temperance 
 reform depends for its success on both legal suppres- 
 sion of dram-shops and on moral and religious efforts 
 to dissuade people from drinking liquor. If either 
 wheel is off, the cart capsizes. . . . Push on the 
 
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 temperance meetinf?. Push on the temperance litera- 
 ture in every shape. Push on the pledcjes of entire 
 abstinence. Push on the fight for prohibition at the 
 same time. IM the uteara on both whe('ln ! We want 
 law and love also — persna.sion not to drink liquor, as 
 well as prohibition of sellin<^ li(|Uor. Shuttinj^ saloons 
 is not all, we must smash the juj,rs also." 
 
 3, " Prohibition doesn't prohibit," says the advocate 
 of license. " It is more than half suspected that 
 those who are so afraid that a prohibitory law can- 
 not be enforced are identical with those who do not 
 wish to see it enforced." A State like Maine, where 
 this law has been in force since 1851, .should know 
 its own interests. With all these years of experience, 
 and in face of a most determined and orsfanized hos- 
 tility, Prohibition was incorporated into the constitu- 
 tion of the State in 1884, by a majority of 47,075 in 
 a total vote of a little more than 64,000. This ounfht 
 to .settle the State of Maine argument, and tho.se who 
 use it should give their hearers credit for the pos- 
 session of a sufficient degree of intelligence to appre- 
 ciate the importan(!e of facts. Very likely the law is 
 violated to some extent, but that proves nothing but 
 what may be proved against all law. The traffic is 
 delegalized there, all respectability taken from it, and 
 driven into holes. A man enquired of an Irishman in 
 a Prohibition town if he could get a drink of whiskey 
 or beer, and his reply was, " You might ; but it would 
 be where a gentleman like yourself would not want 
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 be captured." It is not expected by the wannest 
 advocates of Prohibition tliat it will inunediately 
 extinguish secret licjuor selling, any more than laws 
 prohibiting larceny have extinguished theFt ; but 
 where it is enforced it has actually driven the open 
 grog-shops from the country, and foroed the traffic 
 into hi(]d('n <lens, whose stock-in-trade has consisted 
 of a few concealed bottles, whose temptations are not 
 exposed to those who are not seckiiii/ tlwDi; and 
 though the devil nuay be busy in these secret places 
 and back alleys, it is no small victory to make him 
 skulk an<i hide. " Hov/ many fathers ther ■ are who 
 tremble with fear as the son leaves his (juiet rural 
 home to enter into busine3s in some of our large 
 towns or cities, as he thinks of the terrible oomptation 
 that awaits that boy. Follow that old man into his 
 place of communion ami prayer with God, listen to 
 him as he enquires day by day of Him to whom he 
 has entrusted the body and soul of that loved one : 
 ' Is the young man Absalom safe ^ ' And now see 
 that parent again, when after years of absence that 
 boy returns, with his intellect shattered, his hopes 
 blasted, his prospects ruined, his health gone, and the 
 religion his mother taught him in childhood disgraced 
 and dishonored ; and now hearken to that old man, as 
 he looks with bleeding heart upon the remnant of his 
 bright and promising son, and exclaims, ' It is my 
 son's coat, a wild beast hath devoured him.' " Yes, it 
 blasts all that is great, and blights all that is good in 
 humanity. The man of honor it betrays into infamy. 
 
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 and the man of weakness into sin. It destroys the 
 tenderest ties of social life, exiles the sweet endear- 
 Tnents of home, and robs earth of its loveliness. In 
 its power, in its influence, and in its fascination, it 
 stands like Goliath among the Philistines, more than 
 any other foe a terror to the host of the Lord ; like 
 Saul, it is head and shoulders above its fellows in 
 degradincy, debasing ami demoralizing effects. " O, 
 thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to 
 be known by, let us call thee devil." 
 
 4. Some say of Prohibition, let us not seek to save 
 men froiin temptation, but to save men in spite 
 of it. Temptation resisted makes character, and it 
 does not appear that character can be developed 
 otherwise, they say. Fine talk this, and so it comes 
 to pass that God cannot make a good man without 
 the devil to help Him, and must call in a saloon- 
 keeper to help Him make a man sober after a Gospel 
 pattern. 
 
 5. We are told we have " no right to interfere ivith 
 a man's personal liberty, and his right to eat and 
 drink luhat he pleases." John Stuart Mill laid it 
 down as an axiom that one man's liberty must end at 
 the point where it begins to involve the possibility of 
 another man's ruin. If a man's definition of "per- 
 sonal liberty " is that he must have liberty to tempt 
 and ruin his neighbor's sons by keeping an open 
 whiskey and beer shop every day in the week, he 
 needs either a new dictionary or a new heart. The 
 loiua Prohibitionist says: "The right of a man to 
 
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 drink liquor under his roof mny be undisputed ; at 
 any rate, Prohibition does not touch that right. Pro- 
 hibition only says : When you throw open that door 
 and invite the passer-by to drink, and when two hun- 
 dred years of experience have proved that, by so 
 doing, you double my taxes, and make it dangerous 
 for mv child to tread on those streets, I have a riijht 
 to say whether you shall open the door or not. I don't 
 care whether you sell poison or food ; I don't care 
 whether you sell alcohol or roast beef — it does not 
 matter ; all I know is, that if you undertake to sell 
 something that doubles my taxes, and that makes my 
 passage through the street more dangerous, you at 
 once invest me with the right to interfere; and if any 
 grog-seller can stand here and show, in the face of an 
 intelligent people, that he is right, under any idea of 
 democratic government, to tilch from my pocket and 
 make my passage through the street unsafe, in order 
 that he may coin other men's sins into his gold, le^ 
 him try it." The object of the law we want, then, is 
 not the regulation of anyone's diet, or an infringe- 
 ment of his liberty as to what he shall drink, but the 
 prohibition of an unsound, soul-and-body-destroying 
 traftic. Is not that plain enough ? A paper published 
 in the interests of the traffic said, not long since, 
 " Having carefully weighed hoik sides of this question, 
 we are forced to the conclusion that Prohibition is an 
 unjust and tyrannical invasion of the liberties of the 
 people." To which the Chathtin Tribune replied as 
 follov7s : " Just think of it ! The Antis iveiyhiiKj both 
 
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 sides ! We see them in imagination putting the tears 
 of the widow and orphan in one measure with the 
 cost to the nation in crime and the destruction of 
 property by the victims of the traffic ; the waste of 
 food material ; the expenses of gaols, lunatics and 
 police. On the other side, they dump in the selfish- 
 ness of a few moderate drinkers, clothed in a few 
 well-worn sophistries stolen from a popular clothing 
 store, called the ' Liberties of the people.' But that 
 is not enough, so they pop in their own enormous 
 profits, and the fact that numbers of them would 
 have to turn to and work for their daily bread. 
 Down goes the scale on their side, and up goes the 
 other. Thus have they weighed both ;sides of this 
 question. How could an impartial vordict be obtained 
 when the jury and the criminal are one ? " Rev. Dr. 
 Carman, in his appeal to the Church for an over- 
 whelming "Yes" for the plebiscite, thus repels the 
 " liberty " cry : " Here is a strange state of affairs ; 
 you can make drunkards and criminals by Act of 
 Parliament, but you may not, by Act of Parliament, 
 prohibit the work of the criminal breeder and the 
 drunkard maker. And men will stand even in God's 
 holy place and proclaim such apostasy from good 
 government and such heresy on sound and righteous 
 legislation. It is high time the conscientious and 
 intelligent voters rebuked these appalling assump- 
 tions, and set down the prohibition of the liquor 
 traffic firm amid the prohibitions that guard our 
 sacred soil, our inestimable rights and privileges, our 
 
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 persons, property and character, our liberties and 
 beloved homes." 
 
 6. It would seem only reasonable that a govern- 
 ment should seek the protection of the people. If 
 they fail or come short in this, in the hiorhest and 
 best sense, just so far they fail of the purpose for 
 which they are established. And we can see no rea- 
 son why intoxicating drinks should be claimed as an 
 exception to the subjects over which governments 
 exercise authority. If dangerous animals expose 
 human life or property to peril, magistrates adopt 
 measures for public safety by destroying or confining 
 them within their proper limits. In seasons of pre- 
 vailing epidemics, the authorities of any town or city 
 exercise the right of removing any cause which has a 
 tendency to increase or perpetuate the malady, even 
 at the risk of interferinjr with the lawful interests of 
 individuals. And yet the traffic in strong drink is in 
 perpetual operation, withering, cursing and destroying 
 some of the fairest portions of society, spreading its 
 devastations in every direction, and, when compre- 
 hensive measures are proposed tp^ remove the evils 
 inflicted, the patriots of appetite and avarice raise the 
 alarm that an act of unpardonable tyranny is about 
 to be perpetrated. The liberation of thousands from 
 a worse than African bondage is nothing in the 
 estimation of such benevolent souls (!) when compared 
 with the gratification of sense, or the gains arising 
 from administering to the demands of an imperious 
 and depraved appetite. We ask the people to vote 
 
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 " No License " for weighty and substantial reasons. 
 The (so-called) arguments of our opponents are mostly 
 sweeping assertions, unsustained by facts, and mis- 
 representations respecting the actual working of Pro- 
 hibition where it has been, and is, law. The interests 
 of the sober and law-abiding should far outweigh those 
 of the other party, who wish to force upon the country 
 a deu'cralizing and ruinous traffic, that the majority 
 of voters believe to be, not only unnecessary, but posi- 
 tively injurious. You are asked to "stamp out with 
 an iron hand this uncalled-for agitation," but we 
 believe the duty of every intelligent and right-think- 
 ing citizen will be to stamp out this nefarious traffic, 
 with its din and clatter, that the fiery breath of the 
 whiskey-devil may no longer scorch and blast the 
 lives and happiness of the people. 
 
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THE LIBERTY CRY. 
 
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 THE LIBERTY CRY. 
 
 BY KKV. A. CARMAN, 1>.|). , BELLEVILLE, ONT. 
 
 THE cry is raised that it is an interference with 
 private rights and personal liberty to prohibit 
 in any or all of its branches the traffic in intoxicating 
 liquors. Let us look at this. I have no right to 
 injure another; and ought not to be at liberty to 
 increase my wealth by inflicting upon many the 
 utmost poverty and wretchedness. The law of the 
 land should deal with me promptly and decisively in 
 such a case. If I invade certain property rights I 
 am arrested. If I assault the person I am brought to 
 judgment. If I utter false money I am put upon my 
 trial under law. If I utter libellous or treasonable 
 speeches, there are enactments for the sacredness of 
 character and the security of the crown. If I import 
 contagious disease I am quarantined and likely pun- 
 ished. If I build magazines or slaughter-houses that 
 annoy or imperil the people, I find out there is rule 
 in the land. If I endanger other buildings with my 
 combustible fabrics, or put the health and life of 
 fellow-citizens in jeopardy by vile accumulations and 
 faulty drainage, I bring down upon my head a whole 
 Board of Health, or the police of the Fire Depart- 
 ment. There is prohibitory law in the land. But if 
 I sell liquor over the bar, take the wife's clothes, 
 comforts and the love of her husband away from her, 
 and the bread and raiment from the children, and 
 
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 send them all to a hovel and a heap of straw in dis- 
 grace, ignorance and unutterable distress, there seems 
 to be no law against me. Indeed, the law protects 
 me. I can go on with my vile ard heartless work, 
 and take other people's money to the desolation of a 
 multitude of homes. Have those wives and children 
 no right to the protection of the law ? Who made 
 them outlaws ? Who robbed them against their cries 
 and tears ? Who denied them education and respecta- 
 bility ? In this country, as matters stand, that 
 responsibility and guilt are on the heads of Christian 
 voters ; for they could bid the whole terrific'wrong to 
 cease within a twelve-month, if they would. 
 
 What is this thing they call liberty — this thing 
 they call right ? Liberty to sell arsenic, right to sell 
 arsenic ; liberty to sell prussic acid, right to sell 
 prussic acid ; liberty to sell strychnine, right to sell 
 strychnine : liberty to sell whiskey, right to sell 
 whiskey ? There have been places and times when 
 and where there were both' liberties and rights to sell 
 and buy men, women and children. Did all the 
 liberty of custom, and all the right of such legislation 
 and practice, make the slave trade acceptable to God 
 or endurable to the better law of a higher civilization ? 
 The ages have nurtured monstrosities in the name of 
 religion, and some of the greatest enormities of this 
 hour are claiming the shelter of liberties and rights. 
 And men that ousrht to know the meaning of these 
 words and the nature of these sacred things, are 
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 oharity, this criminal delusion. Liberties and rights 
 mean moral nature and obligation in man, and moral 
 government in politics and legislation. My liberty is 
 bounded by your right, and your right and liberty 
 are bounded by my liberty and right. And the com- 
 mon liberty and right of us all are enlarged, ennobled 
 and secured by the highest exercise of the powers, 
 liberties and rights of each individual in the State ; 
 and the State with us is a political organization on a 
 moral basis. Just as true is it that the highest, 
 grandest liberty of each man is secured and enjoyed 
 by the noblest liberty of the commonwealth. Invasion 
 of natural liberty ! they say, to prohibit the sale of 
 intoxitiating drinks — drinks no more a necessity to 
 man than arsenic for food. What do they mean by 
 natural liberty ? There is a natural liberty, and man 
 enjoys it when he is naked and alone in an African 
 jungle, or solitary on an ice-float in the Arctic Sea. 
 There he has this glorious natural liberty, can do 
 about as he pleases, and sell this precious whiskey to 
 serpents and seals. He and they are the population ; 
 he is lord of the domain, and should use his natural 
 liberty. But natural liberty is not personal liberty, 
 or domestic liberty, or social liberty, or civil or politi- 
 cal liberty. Whiskey is a product of civilization, 
 and civil liberty must take care of it. Whiskey 
 invades politics, and wounds and weakens govern- 
 ment, and government and politics must stand, at 
 least, in self-defence. I am a citizen and a British 
 subject, ai?d whiskey robs me of my property, inter- 
 
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 feres with my business contracts, impoverishes vtv^ 
 country, be^fcfars my fellow-subjects, induces disease, 
 incites to crime, taxes me out of measure for police- 
 men, prisons and asylums, outraj^es my home and 
 ruins, it may be, even my own boy, or, if not mine, 
 another as good and as valuable to the country ; so 
 that I am in duty bound — I dare not refuse — I can- 
 not escape it — to the utmost of my ability, to strike 
 down this infamous traffic with the strong arm of 
 British law, sinewed, strengthened, nerved and 
 knuckled with conscience, intelligence, duty, liberty, 
 right. This is true civil and political liberty, the 
 highest function of the immortal right. 
 
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 HOLD THE FORT. 
 
 T_T O I my comrades, see our banner 
 -I- -^ Waving 'n\ the sky, 
 Hear our rallying hosanna 
 Echoing on high. 
 
 Chorus— Hold the fort for Prohibition, 
 Freedom signals still ; 
 Answer back to the petition, 
 By our votes we will. 
 
 All our land the foe engages. 
 
 Let no freeman lag, 
 For the battle fiercely wages — 
 
 Rally round the flag. 
 
 Hear the groans of thousands dying 
 
 On the slaughter field ; 
 By the ensign o'er us flying 
 
 We will never yield. 
 
 Hark ! what shrieks of woe appalling 
 
 Pierce through all the air ; 
 Hear the wretched veterans calling, 
 
 "Save us from despair." 
 
 By the land our fathers bought us 
 
 With their precious blood, 
 . By the birthrights they have brought us, 
 
 Stem the battle flood. 
 
 ^y the right which freedom gave us 
 
 With immortal souls, 
 Crush the foe who dare enslave us ; 
 
 Forward to the polls ! 
 
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 THE AXE LAID AT THE ROOT OF 
 THE TREE. 
 
 1WILL not at this time discuss the relation be- 
 tween stronj^ drink and criirif^, nor dwell upon 
 the innumerable and immeasurable evils that flow 
 from the intemperate use of intoxicants. Informed 
 people understand these matters now. The questions 
 now up are not about the evils of li(|uor-drinking and 
 liquor-selling. We are now discussing remedies. 
 
 There are some things concerning this whole subject 
 that are settled beyond dispute — some things that we 
 know absolutely. Among them these : 
 
 1. The license system is a failure. It does not do 
 what it promised. It does not secure social order. 
 The licensed saloons, like the unlicensed, are every- 
 ^..here centres of disturbance and evil — evil of every 
 sort. Such parts of the license law as were meant to 
 be good are futile ; they are nowhere enforced with 
 vigor or persistence. The saloons sell liquors that 
 are poisonous ; they sell on Sundays and on election 
 days ; they sell to drunken men and to minors. So 
 far as the license system is related to law and its 
 
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 enforcement it has utterly broken down. There is no 
 prospect or hope that these laws will ever anywhere 
 be adequately enforced. The dealers will go on 
 violating these laws to the end, and with practical 
 impunity. And it must needs be so. The failure is 
 in the thing itself. When the State gives authority 
 for doing a thing in itself evil, there is no possibility 
 of so regulating it as to prevent evil. 
 
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 2. Granting that the license system is in itself good, 
 society is robbed by it, as the laws stand. For where 
 the State gets one dollar for license it spends two — 
 perhaps ten — in protecting itself inadequately against 
 the evils that flow out of the business. Very foolish 
 are those law-makers who talk about " revenue " from 
 a business that costs the State many times what it 
 pays the State. If we must have license, the tax 
 should be high enough to cover " consecjuential 
 damages." Such a tax would absorb all profits and 
 stop the business. Hence " high license " is not the 
 remedy. This business, with all its opportunities for 
 making money, cannot pay enough to reimburse 
 society for its losses in tolerating it. 
 
 3. In the minds of men who respect the rights and 
 wrongs of things it is settled that society cannot 
 make evil good by any laws or for any price whatso- 
 ever. What Moses taught is still true: "The price 
 of a dog and the hire of an whore are an abomination 
 to the Lord." And yet some men plead for license. 
 
 4 The right of society to prohibit what is essen- 
 tially evil is settled. And it is aLso settled that society 
 must be the judge of what is evil to itself. It is the 
 right of self -protection, and it is perfect. Every 
 abridgment of individual liberty rests in this right. 
 If there were only two men in the world, one could 
 have no right to injure the other. If he did it with- 
 out right the other would have perfect right to protect 
 himself. Society has the same right to close a bar- 
 room that it has to quarantine a ship suspected of 
 
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 infectious disease ; that it has to establish any sort of 
 police regulation for the sake of social order. Indeed, 
 it is involved in the right to orgpri/e any government 
 at all. 
 
 0. Prohibition is the only remedy. That principle 
 is already admitted in the numerous restrictions 
 imposed upon the traffic. We ask for an extension 
 of the principle so as to entirely prohibit, an<l if the 
 vounof Samson of Prohibition will not allow his 
 locks to be shorn by the Delilah of high license, local 
 option, or other deliit^ive conipromises, his victory is 
 near. 
 
 BRUSHING DOWN WEBS AND DISTURBING 
 
 THE SPIDERS. 
 
 BRUSHING down cobwebs is not just the most 
 delightful work in the world, but it is often 
 necessary. It seems cruel to the poor insect that 
 spins them, but if spiders will not be discreet about 
 the choice of points upon which to hang their fabrics, 
 they must not complain if they suffer loss. The 
 opponents of Prohibition have turned to spirming 
 some very fine theories to support their business of 
 catching human flies. We propose to make one brush 
 at some little webs which they have been holding up 
 to the sun lately with evident delight. 
 
 They have been saying that it is a confession of 
 weakness upon the part of Christianity when it 
 admits that it cannot make men sober without the 
 
BRUSHING DOWN IVEBS. 
 
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 aid of State law. These gentlemen — for they are all 
 nrentlemen — profess fjreat unwillinj^ness that Christian 
 men should take a position so discreditable to the 
 strenjjth of their religion as that which Prohibition 
 implies. 
 
 We shall relieve them of their anxiety by reminding 
 them that, after all, a religion which can so control 
 public opinion as to secure a majority for Prohibition 
 is not as weak as one might suppose. It is strong 
 enough to make men sober and close the saloons 
 besides. 
 
 Another fine-spun theory is that temptation is 
 necessary to develop character, and that the noble-jt 
 character is not that which is removed from tempta- 
 tion, but that which overcomes it; therefore let us 
 have open saloons, that we may attain to the noblest 
 types of sobriety. Just so. All of which implies 
 that temptation is a means of grace, and the tempter 
 is a minister of salvation. It is a new view of 
 education which proposes that God shall have the 
 children of the kingdom developed in a gymnasium 
 run by the devil. Perhaps it will yet be found 
 needful for every church to own and run a saloon in 
 .jrder to test and temper the power of the bibulous- 
 inclined brethren to resist solicitations to drink. Of 
 <. jurse these sanctified temptation-shops will be opened 
 every morning with prayer, and we suggest in advance 
 that they be supplied with some sort of device to 
 measure die force of the temptation administered, 
 lest some feeble saint be overcome by the exercise 
 
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 designed to invigorate his moral resolution — a sort of 
 religiometer, as it were. 
 
 Havinjx finished the task we set ourselves to accom- 
 plish, before we hang up our brush we desire to say, 
 for the benefit of the bystanders, that there are many 
 men who cannot tell the diflf'erence between a pretext 
 and a principle. — Nashville Advocate. 
 
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 AFTER PROHIBITION : WHAT THEN ? 
 
 WHEN we have secured the requisite legislation 
 to dry up these fountains of sin and woe — 
 what next ? We still have a duty. When good laws 
 are passed the battle is only half fought. One of the 
 surest ways to retard our cause is to fail to enl'orce the 
 law. A healthy public sentiment is necessary, and in 
 order to retain this, we must "agitate, agitate, keep the 
 ball a-rolling" by pulpit, platform and press. Eternal 
 vigilance is the price of our liberty. Agitate unceas- 
 ingly ; show your faith in the cause by spending 
 time, and money if need be, to see the law executed, 
 and by your constant effort to keep the whole truth 
 as to the abominable traffic and its effects before the 
 people. In some cases we have been satisfied with 
 getting the law passed, as if it would execute itself. 
 Of course we claim that the Government, giving us 
 the law, must furnish us with adequate machinery 
 for its enforcement. This secured, v/e may reasonably 
 expect, in a short time, as good results as those 
 
PROHIBITION DOES PROHIBIT. 
 
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 realized from prohibitory laws as they relate to 
 murder and theft. 
 
 "But," says a timid brother, " you will stir up bad 
 blood and create disturbance in enforcinn^ it." You 
 may expect a commotion when men, determined on 
 wrong-doing, are checked, but let us not be afraid of 
 a little friction when righting things. A jolt is 
 always felt in getting a derailed car-wheel back on 
 the track. 
 
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 PROHIBITION DOES PROHIBIT. 
 
 THERE are a number of States where Prohibition 
 has been in force from five to twenty-five 
 years, and in Maine it has been law since LSol. It 
 would not seem that public opinion in those places is 
 in advance of that found in Canada, yet we often 
 hear it said " We are not yet ripe for Prohibition." 
 1 have no sympathy with those timid warnings 
 against " legislating in advance of public opinion." 
 The idea that we are not to proclaim a truth or enact 
 a law until everybody is prepared for it, and the bulk 
 of men think alike about it, is contrary to the whole 
 philosophy of reform and improvement, as well as to 
 the teachings of history. That the law would bo 
 violated is no argument against its enactment. What 
 species of crime can be mentioned which prohibitions 
 and penalties have entirely driven from among men ? 
 Not one. The laws against murder, profanity, 
 robbery, outrage, perjury, are disregarded by many. 
 
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 yet those violations do not prove the propriety of 
 their being abrogated. 
 
 Those who say Prohibition is a failure wherever it 
 has been tried, and yet fight it fiercely wherever it is 
 proposed to try it, are transparently illogical, and do 
 not deceive themselves or anybody else. We have 
 testimonies recently furnished by men in responsible 
 positions as to the efficiency of this righteous measure. 
 Neal Dr v, over his signature of November, 1893, 
 gives Seven strong reasons to justify the statement 
 that " Prohibition is a great success in Maine," and 
 concludes by saying that the blessings and prosperity 
 coming to Maine from it are so great that they 
 cannot be numbered or estimated by any mode of 
 computation now known to us. 
 
 The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Edwards County, 
 Illinois, lately submitted the following facts : " There 
 has not been a licensed saloon in this county for over 
 thirty-five years. During that time our jail has not 
 averaged an occupant. This county never sent but 
 one person to the penitentiary, and that man was 
 sent up for killing his wife while drunk on 
 whiskey obtained from a licensed saloon in an 
 adjoining county. And Pullman, of the same State, 
 with a population of 7,500, prohibits the liquor traffic, 
 has no lock-up and only one policeman, no paupers 
 and no crime. 
 
 A Kansas judge says that Prohibition kills the 
 goose which lays the golden eggs for police courts. 
 The mayor and two ex-mayors of Ottawa, Kansas, 
 
PROHTBTTTON DOES PROHIBIT. 
 
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 were made converts to Prohibition by the good results 
 of the law. 
 
 Topeka, with a population of 40,000, has no saloons. 
 The sale is absolutely stopped in all the rural parts. 
 Judge Benson, of Kansas, has had but two liquor 
 cases in a month. Kansas has but one penitentiary. 
 Ottawa, Kansas, with a population of 8,000, has but 
 one day and one night watchman. Prohibition was 
 carried in Kansas in 1881, by a majority of 8,000. 
 In ten years the number of convicts was reduced sixty 
 per cent. Prohibition has almost .stamped out crime. 
 
 In Iowa the prohibitory law has resulted in much 
 good. In country places the law is as well enforced 
 as any other. The sentiment in its favour is strong 
 and growing. In Council Bluff^i, Iowa, the breweries 
 have been closed. Governor-elect Jackson says, "We 
 have had Prohibition in Iowa for eleven years, and 
 my hand shall never rekindle the tires under the old 
 breweries and distilleries of this State." 
 
 Prohibition in Dakota has almost wiped out 
 drunkenness. No one has been made poorer by it, 
 but .saloon-keepers, brewers, and distillers. Three 
 years of Prohibition have started a host of young 
 men on a sober and industrious career. 
 
 The foregoing facts give the lie to the statements 
 which the liquor interest persistently send forth, that 
 Prohibition is a failure. It has made liquor-selling a 
 failure, except where they defy both God and man, 
 and are willinsf to sell their souls to the devil for a 
 
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 glass of rum. 
 
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 The evidence which comes to us from various 
 sources must satisfy the calm, impartial mind that 
 a prohibitory liquor law, even under many disadvan- 
 tages, can be enforced, and has been enforced ; and 
 we believe no reason cari any longer exist why we 
 should not have such a measure upon our statute 
 books. There is force and logic in the following : 
 " Let the question be removed outside of party poli- 
 tics, like the murder laws or theft laws ; let the lines 
 of jurisdiction be clearly drawn determining the 
 rights and duties of the Dominion and provinces; 
 let the Parliament and Legislatures receive the deci- 
 sive command of the people, and enact it clearly in 
 statute ; let the judges, magistrates and other officers 
 of the law do their duty in the case, and statutory 
 prohibition of the liquor traffic will be found at least 
 as practicable and effective as the prohibition of rob- 
 bery, slander or profanity." 
 
 
 FIGURES THAT STING. 
 
 THE eloquence of figures is irresistible. They 
 furnish an argument which cannot be refuted. 
 When they are for us, we are exultant and triumph- 
 ant. When they are against us, we are discomfited 
 and humiliated. It must be confessed that all figur- 
 ing is not exhilarating. The summary of some sta- 
 tistical tables will suppress the hasty shout and con- 
 strain to shamed silence. 
 
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 FIGURES THAT STING. 
 
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 It is difficult to accurately set forth Canada's drink 
 bill. There is a basis, however, from which calcula- 
 tions may be made with a tolerable degree of correct- 
 ness. Our national outlay in 1892 is said to be 
 $31,774,804. The actual loss to the country, through 
 the traffic in drink, is far in excess of the amount 
 directly paid for liquor by the consumer. The tax- 
 payers should pause and consider lest they be in- 
 fluenced by the clap-trap statement of whiskey-deal- 
 ers, that " If you vote for Prohibition you will lose 
 $5,000,000 of revenue." We expend nearly $32,000,- 
 000 to receive $5,000,000. 
 
 Any country that will persist in pursuing such an 
 irrational political economy will sooner or later sink 
 into decay and leave a mass of mouldering ruins as 
 a monument of the gigantic folly of licensing a 
 traffic that always impoverishes a people and pro- 
 duces crime, disease and death. 
 
 Some little time since, it was stated, as a result of 
 a careful study of the whole question, that we spent 
 $5,000,000 more for liquor than for meat ; $6,000,- 
 000 more for liquor than for bread or woollen goods ; 
 one-third more on the stuft' that puts " snakes in their 
 boots" than on the boots themselves. It was also 
 computed that a single year of this baneful expendi- 
 ture costs as much as would buy out the farms and 
 stock of either of the wealthy counties of Hastings 
 or Elgin. Liquor costs the Dominion as much as a 
 war and kills more than a war generally does. 
 
 T. DeWitt Talmage writes : " Gather up the money 
 
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 that the working-classes have spent for rum during 
 the last thirty years and I will build for every work- 
 ingman a house, and lay out for him a j^arden, and 
 clothe his sons in broadcloth and his daughters in 
 silks, and stand at his front door a prancing span of 
 sorrels or bays, and secure him a policy of life insur- 
 ance, so that the present home may be well main- 
 tained after he is dead. The most persistent, most 
 overpowering enemy of the working-classes is intoxi- 
 cating liquor. It is the Anarchist of the centuries, 
 and has boycotted and is now boycotting the body, 
 and mind, and soul of American labor. It is to it a 
 worse foe than monopoly, and worse than associated 
 capital. It annually swindles industry out of a large 
 percentage of its earnings. It holds out its blasting 
 solicitations to the mechanic or operative on his way 
 to work, and at the noon-spell, and on his way home 
 at eventide ; on Saturday, when the wages are paid, 
 it snatches a large part of the money that might 
 come to the family and sacrifices it among the saloon- 
 keepers." 
 
 To lokat purpose is this enormous tvaste ? And 
 the financial loss, after all, is the smallest evil of 
 the whole business. There is a bill that cannot be 
 measured by dollars. For everyone who becomes 
 a drunkard, there are hearts wrung with grief, and 
 homes made sad and desolate where love and joy 
 might have cheered the passing hours. And the 
 greatest loss is involved in the sentence, " No drunk- 
 ard can enter the kingdom of heaven." 
 
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 PRESENT STATE AND FUTURE PROSPECTS. 
 
 *' "^ I ^HE importance of the temperance movement is 
 -I. becoming more and more manifest, and has 
 now reached a point at which it is ignored by none. 
 With the increase of light that has dawned upon the 
 question, there has also arisen a very pronounced 
 public opinion, and with it, a deeply sensitized con- 
 science has been created, and that in all grades of 
 society. These active forces have, of late years 
 especially, given greatly accelerated momentum to 
 this mightiest of modern moral and social revolutions, 
 which at length appears to be marching grandly 
 onward to its inevitable consummation." 
 
 The Churches, in their General Conferences, Assem- 
 blies, Conventions and Associations have voiced the 
 judgment of the Christian world against this unholy 
 traffic. In all parts of the country, organizations 
 have sprung up whose avowed object is to put down 
 this evil. A distinctively anti-liquor literature has 
 been developed which, in connection with the teach- 
 ings of the Christian home, the pulpit, the Sunday 
 School, and in these last days, the Public School, has 
 imbued a large proportion of the younger voters with 
 a righteous abhorrence of the evil that will never 
 abate until it is overthrown. 
 
 The overwhelming majorities secured in the Scott 
 Act contests were sufficient to convince our legislators 
 that the people were in favor of Prohibition. The 
 partial inefficiency of that law, owing chiefly to the 
 
PRESENT STATE AND FUTURE PROSPECTS. 77 
 
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 lack of proper machinery for its enforcement, was 
 seized upon by them as reason why our cause should 
 be further hindered when its claims were pressed 
 upon them in March, 1893. Again and again our 
 cause has reached a powerful position, but for some 
 reason we have been delayed. Our interests have 
 clashed with the apparent interests of some political 
 party, but it is now high time for the politicians to 
 know that the temperance people are not in any 
 humor to be fooled any longer. 
 
 In spite of these hindrances, the movement has 
 continued to gather increasing momentum, until it 
 has culminated in the hand-to-hand struggle now 
 going on. This contest can end only in one way. 
 The battle against the enemy of God and the 
 destroyer of men will go on until his power is 
 broken. The triumph of our cause is only a question 
 of time. We trust it is near at hand. With faith in 
 God, we can move forward with the calmness of un- 
 doubted conviction. 
 
 " Never was a cause more just ; 
 Fully, then, in God we'll trust, 
 And prevail, our cause it must. 
 If Christians do the right." 
 
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 COMPENSATION. 
 
 ''r^HE fact that those engaged in the traffic have 
 
 X manifested an interest in this question of com- 
 pensation is significant. It would seem to indicate 
 that they have awakened to the fact that the craft 
 by which they get their wealth is in imminent danger 
 from the adoption of prohibitory measures, which 
 they formerly affected to despise. 
 
 The main argument for compensation is that the 
 business has been carried on under the sanction of 
 law. That is true. But those licenses have been 
 issued for only one year. The fact that they had to 
 be renewed implies that they were liable to be dis- 
 continued by the authorities. As a matter of fact, 
 such licenses have been discontinued without any 
 cause other than the desire to lessen the number of 
 places where liquor could be sold. No one has ever 
 thought of demanding compensation because his 
 license was not renewed, although the loss may have 
 been relatively as heavy in such cases as in the case 
 of Prohibition. 
 
 Hon. G. W. Ross has expressed it as his thorough 
 conviction that Prohibition is the only effective 
 remedy for the evils of intemperance, and does not 
 accept the principle of compensation for brewers and 
 distillers at all, but affirms that if there was no 
 other way to dispose of the traffic, it would pay us 
 one hundred per cent, to resort to that plan. 
 
 As to the legality of their claim, it may be remem- 
 
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 bered that the liquor .sellers in England engaged an 
 eminent lawyer, who was a friend of the traffic, to 
 look up the matter, and give them his opinion on 
 compensation. That gentleman says : " There cannot 
 be the smallest doubt that, in the strict sense, no 
 such thing as a vested interest exists, and that, sub- 
 ject to appeal, the magistrates can refuse to renew 
 the license of the largest, most useful and best con- 
 ducted hotel in England." And the Law Journal 
 itself declares that " it cannot be argued that licensed 
 persons of any kind have a legal vested interest in 
 their license.s." 
 
 Even if it be allowed that they have a just claim, 
 would it not be greatly to the advantage of the 
 country to buy out every establishment in the Do- 
 minion, destroy the whole stock, and allow no impor- 
 tation, except what shall be placed under the same 
 restrictions as other dangerous articles on the 
 apothecary's shelf, rather than permit matters to go 
 on as they are now ? But if we begin the work of 
 compensation, of course tho.se who have profited by 
 the trade must be required to remunerate those who 
 have been ruined by it. Thousands of our population 
 are groaning under injuries and miseries which money 
 cannot repair or alleviate ; how are they to be com- 
 pensated ? If the Legislature refuse a prohibitory 
 law, will they agree to indemnify those who will 
 .suffer by the present license system in the future ? 
 If they do, they will .soon have no trouble in dis- 
 tributing a surplus revenue. The idea of remunerat- 
 
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 ing those who have been fattening on the degrada- 
 tion and cahiuiities of othei's is a gross absurdity and 
 outrage. Let them turn to some useful calling as a 
 means of support, thankful that they get off so easily 
 as to be allowed to do so. 
 
 " But roward thoin not with money 
 
 For the ruin thuy luivt; wrouifht ; 
 All tho forms of outrivyud feulinj; 
 
 Stjirt and shudder at the thou<^ht. 
 What ! wlien taxes have been doubled 
 
 Life held cheap and bread made dear ; 
 When the workhouse, gaols, asylums 
 
 Have been crowded year by year ; 
 When our country has been groaning 
 
 'Neath the ruin drink has made — 
 Shall we j)ay the men who sold it, 
 
 Who the gilded mantraps laid ? 
 Ilather compensate the widow 
 
 O'er the drunkard's grave who bends ; 
 Rather compensate the orphan — 
 
 Robbed by drink of earthly friends ; 
 But expect us not to pay them, 
 
 Whose dark doings we deplore ; 
 'Tis enough if we forgive them. 
 
 Bid them 'go and sin no more.'" 
 
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 DANGER IN THE MODKRATE USE OF 
 STRONG DRINK. 
 
 DO you ever suppose the younij uian becomes a 
 drunkard all at once ? Never ! No younj^ man 
 ever took a f^lass of wine or liquor, and said, " I know 
 what this will do. I know it will make every nerve 
 in my body dance with pleasure; it will thicken my 
 blood and weaken my nerves until I tremble with 
 palsy ; that it will rob me of virtue, fill my heart 
 with woe, and fit my heart for hell below." This is 
 never done, and never will be. The start is made 
 without thought, and, strangest of all, without fear 
 of the danger. Everything is pleasing and beautiful 
 — green fields and waving corn, and the whole world 
 filled with sunshine. That is the experience, at start- 
 ing, of the man who drinks. He sees before him this 
 phantom, this delusion, which is beckoning him on. 
 At every step he sees dancing before his eyes this 
 inscription: "This is the way to social, jovial com- 
 panionship ; this is the way to innocent amusement ; 
 this is the way to freedom from care ; " and thus with 
 singing and dancing he has hardly crossed the fatal 
 boundary when the flimsy drapery is dropped, the 
 tinsel and the mask are removed, and the hideous 
 monster stands revealed. 
 
 An instructive story is told of a moderate drinker 
 
 who was once very angry with a friend who claimed 
 
 that safety was alone in abstaining from the use of 
 
 ardent spirits, and who allowed his fanatical notions 
 
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 to insinuate that the moderate drinker himself mi^^ht 
 tlicn be beyond control. "To make plain the question 
 who is in the wrong," said the temperaace man, " will 
 you jnst quit one month, not to touch a drop during 
 that time ?" Said the o;;ner, "To satisfy your mind, 
 sir, I will; with pleasure, though I know myself; I 
 will do as you ask, to cure your overwrought ideas." 
 He kept the promise, but at the end of the month he 
 came to his friend with tears in his eyes and thanked 
 him for savinij him from a drunkard's ofrave. Said 
 he, " T never knew before that I was in any sense a 
 slave to drink, but the last month has been the fierc- 
 est battle of my life. I see now I was almost beyond 
 hope, and, had the test come many months later, it 
 would have been too late for me. But I have kept 
 the pledge, and, by God's help, I will keep it for 
 life." 
 
 This incident illustrates the truth that strong drink 
 is a "deceiver^' and that many know not the danger 
 until too late. 
 
 Dr. A. T. Pierson, being asked why he declined to 
 drink wine on a certain occasion, related the following 
 impressive incident: "In Paris, during the Reign of 
 Terror, there was a magazine where an immense 
 a>nount of gunpowder was stored, with other kinds 
 of explosives. There was a man there who took out 
 his pipe, filled it with tobacco, and lit it with a taper. 
 His companion said, ' You should not smoke in this 
 magazine ; if you are going to smoke, go out there.' 
 He replied, ' I am not going to have my liberty inter- 
 
MODERATE USE OE STRONG PR INK. 
 
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 fered with." Liberty ! Has any man a right to exer- 
 cise liberty when his indulgence is endangering 
 millions of other people ? It is quite a mistaken 
 notion of liberty if you claim the right to smoke in a 
 magazine of gunnowder. But the drinkinjj: habit is 
 worse than a match lit in such a mag« :!iie. There 
 is not only peril in drink, but there is absoKite 
 and consumii7ute destruction in it, and I do not know 
 how I could take any other position, knowing che 
 effects of the drink traffic, than to set myself against it, 
 tooth and nail, with pen and tongue, with principle 
 and practice, and I ask God to help you all to look at 
 it in the same liijht." 
 
 Dr. Riciiardson styles moderate drinking " the 
 moral mainspring of the whole organization of drunk- 
 enness, and of all the crimes that result fron it." 
 
 The following lines from Longfellow conlM hi practi- 
 cal advice : 
 
 "Touch tli'j sj;<.Met no more ! 
 It will niiiko tuy heart sore 
 To i'- V 'ry core ! 
 Its perfume is the breath 
 Of the anuft!! (jf death, 
 Ami the light that within it lies 
 is the flash of hi.s evil eyes. 
 Beware, oh I bewfire, 
 For .sickness, sorrow, and care 
 All are there." 
 
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 ADVANTAGES OF ABSTINENCE. 
 
 IT is a financial gain. Without controversy, drink- 
 in<,^ is one of the fruitful causes of the poverty 
 witnes.sed in many places. A drinkinjr man once said 
 (holding in his hand a dollar bill), " This is the last 
 of one thousand, and this too must go for run)." 
 While a few are enriched by this vast outlay, the 
 many are impoverished. No wonder it is sometimes 
 said " money is tyjlit" when so much of it goes inside 
 the hotel bar. It is a lamentable fact that when trade 
 becomes depressed, many laboring men, whose wages 
 in good times are not small, find themselves under the 
 necessity of pawning their possessions and seeking 
 charity from their more frugal and temperate neigh- 
 bours. 
 
 Dr. Franklin said : " Abstinence puts wood on the 
 fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the 
 purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, 
 clothes on the back and vigor in the body." 
 
 " Why haven't I a 600-acre farm as well p.s that 
 man riding by in his carriage ? " yelled a red-nosed 
 Anarchist orator as he glanced at the crowd. " Be- 
 cause he saved S600 and bought his farm when it cost 
 him $1 an acre, and you poured your $600 down your 
 throat," responded a man on the back seat, and the 
 orator asked no more conundrums. 
 
 2. It is conducive to health. Dr. B. W. Richardson, 
 than whom there is no better authority, says : " A 
 man or woman who abstains is healthy and safe. A 
 
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 man or woman who indulges at all is unsafe. A man 
 or woman who relies on alcohol for support is lost." 
 Another eminent physician says that six hundred of 
 the ablest physicians of the land testify that since they 
 have ceased to give alcohol as a medicine they have 
 had much better success with the patients than before. 
 
 When Joseph Cook was in England some time ago, 
 he took much pains to ascertain facts as to the ex- 
 perience of insurance companies, and he found that 
 for many years past the best companies have insured 
 moderate drinkers and total abstainers in separate 
 sections, and that a bonus has been paid to the sec- 
 tioii.s iiiade up of total abstainers of seven, thirteen, 
 seventeen, and in Home Q.a,He^ tiveut ^tj -three percent, over 
 that paid to the sections of moderate drinkers. 
 
 These companies are not fanatical organizations ; 
 they are not governed by this or that pet theory as 
 to temperance reform. Here is cool, stern business 
 sagacity applied to one of the most complicated com- 
 mercial matters ; and the outcome we have in this 
 great proposition, sustained by the most exact applica- 
 tion of the law of averages, that nearly 2.5 per cent, 
 bonus must be paid to total abstainers above what is 
 paid to moderate drinkers. 
 
 The best mental and physical work is done by 
 abstainers. While drink stimulates it does not im- 
 part strength — indeed it draws on the strength stored 
 up by nature in our system —which strength should 
 be carefully husbanded for seasons of extremity. 
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 told her he was, she said, " May I inquire whether it 
 was home influence that made you so ( " and he replied, 
 " No, I think it was because I always i'elt that I had 
 a better use for my head." Who can measure the 
 loss to the world if that wonderful instrument of 
 thought that has given us so much of light and lead- 
 ing in the practical mechanism of life had become 
 sodden with drink instead of electric with original 
 ideas ? 
 
 3. It is a positive guarantee from the evils of in- 
 temperance. " The man who never drinks the first 
 glass can never become a drunkard." Thousands die 
 every year through drink, and the long procession is 
 being constantly recruited from the ranks of moder- 
 ate drinkers. " But there is no danger of me " — says 
 one. That is true if you are an abstainer, but not 
 otherwise. " [set him that thinketh he standeth take 
 heed lest he fall." Abstinence is a guarantee, an 
 insurance against intemperance, with this advantage — 
 that the premium goes not into the coffers of a 
 wealthy company, but comes back to yourself in the 
 shape of pecuniary saving, physical health and 
 domestic comfort. 
 
 In all intelligent circles total al)stinence is a closed 
 issue. No one who values his reputation for a know- 
 ledge of the latest results of science defends moderate 
 drinking. This attitude of cultured sentiment has 
 been brought about chiefly by four causes : (1) The 
 progress of science as represented by the latest and 
 
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 most approved text-books of physiology and hygiene. 
 (^) The life insurance societies atlirni that a man in 
 middle life has a third better chance of long life as a 
 total abstainer than a moderate drinker. (3) The 
 [)rogress of scientific temperance instruction in the 
 public schools. (4) Most of the Protestant churches 
 preach and practise it. 
 
 It is only fair to claim that the individual and the 
 State should rise to the temperance level of approved 
 scientific text-books, of tlie life insurance companies 
 and of the public schools. 
 
 Will you not practise it for your own sake, as well 
 as for an example worthy of the imitation of others { 
 If it gives you pain to forego your habit of taking 
 li(luor, then you have reached a point where it is 
 time, for your own sake, to abstain from it. 
 
 iMANUFACTURED ARTICLES. 
 
 A TEMPERANCE paper speaks of licpior sellers 
 as perir-'ons " engaged in inctkliuj paupers and 
 beggars!' As this part of the community is a heavy 
 burden to society, the men wlio are allowed to make 
 them ought to be compelled to care for rhem. But if 
 we remonstrate with those menengaged. in this traffic 
 of physical and moral destruction, they detiantly hurl 
 in our face their license from the higliest authority, 
 authorizing them to carry on their infernal mission. 
 There is indeed a strange incompleteness in a system 
 
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 of }:]fovernment which authorizes men to make paupers 
 and beggars, and then turn them over to the care 
 of the people found in our churches and temperance 
 or<Tjanizations. Then they tell us we are to " go on 
 with moral suasion, preach the Gospel, and try to save 
 men, etc." But some of us are tired of playing 
 scavenger for the liquor traffic. 
 
 Will you, my reader, vote that this business of 
 making paupers is legitimate and ought to be fostered 
 by ihis Dominion at an enormous expense ? I hope 
 not. \V"e will meet with opposition, fallacious, illogi- 
 cal reasoning, and exhibitions of selfishness because 
 the " crajLt by which they get their wealth is in 
 danger," but we must not weary in our efforts. It 
 will not do to sit down in supine inactivity, and 
 mourn over the havoc wrought, for while we are 
 doing so, the business of the drunkard-maker will go 
 on — for the most conclusive of reasons— i^ iKiys. There 
 is money in it, and these men will brave all shame 
 and all dangers for big money. Dr. Withrow says : 
 
 " The Rev. Dr. Lucas told us the other day the story 
 of a rum-seller who, when confronted with the results 
 of his traffic, said, ' Yes, it's a damnable business ; 
 but there's money in it ! ' The worst of it is, that 
 every voter in Ontario and in the Dominion, who 
 does not do his utmost to abolish this traffic in the 
 bodies and souls of men, is a farinev in the crivie. 
 Let us, as a Province, roll away this reproach. Let 
 us insist that there shall no longer come into the 
 municipal and provincial treasury tliis ill-gotten 
 
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 money, every coin of which is stained with blood, 
 often of the innocent victims of this guilty traffic." 
 
 I hold that society has a right to protect itself 
 against the business that makes paupers and drunk- 
 ards, and against the paupers and drunkards that 
 make the business. 
 
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 That is the question. 
 
 We .-isk not your puixy or creed, 
 We ask not your race or complexion, 
 
 Or how you have voted before 
 
 But how will you vote next election ': 
 
 You say you're a temperance man, 
 
 '1 hat drink never tickles your palate ; 
 
 We're glad, but we measure, you know, 
 Our friends by their acts at the ballot. 
 
 Friend James is a " temperance man," 
 And so is our good neighbor Weller ; 
 
 Both talk of strong drink as a curse, 
 But keep it themselves in the cellar. 
 
 Friend Jones represents well the men 
 Who pity the drunkard's condition ; 
 
 But none of the three over vote 
 
 For strict, unreserved l*rohibition. — M. 
 
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 Rev. D. Rogers, a veteran temperance worker, and 
 author of " Shot and Shell for the Temperance 
 Conflict," sends us the following facts, with the 
 request that we expose them in the columns of 
 Tlte Citizen. A hotel-keeper in Western Ontario has 
 issued a number of business cards, on which are 
 printed his name and place of business, also, " Dealer 
 in choice wines and liquors," etc.. and on the reverse 
 of the card the foUowinir : 
 
 " Old Testament.— Give strong drink unto him 
 that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be 
 of heavy hearts. 
 
 " Let him drink, and forget his poverty and remem- 
 ber his misery no more. — Froverhs xxxi. G, 7. 
 
 "New Testament. —Drink no longer water, but 
 use a little wine for thy stomach's .sake and thine 
 often infirmities. — 1 Thn. v. '?3," 
 
 The above is a profane and contemptible attempt to 
 make weak-minded people believe that his business 
 has Scriptural sanction. 
 
 The passage from which the first extract is taken 
 is one of the strongest denunciations of even the 
 moderate use of strong drink, and the second is a 
 most convincing piece of evidence that total abstin- 
 ence, from even the mildest form of intoxicatin"- 
 liquor as a beverage, was the practice of at least one 
 of the best and noblest preachers in the early Chris- 
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 No one need be surprised at such stratagems on 
 the part of those who are interested in sustaining the 
 power of evil ; they have been practised in the same 
 interest ever since the arch-fiend began them, nearly 
 six thousand years aijo, when he tried to seduce the 
 woman in Eden by similar slanderous lies about 
 what the Almighty had said. And just as our race 
 was cursed on that sad day by giving credence to 
 the father of deception, so our race is cursed to-day 
 by believing the falsehoods circulated in the interests 
 of the liquor-selling business. — F. S. Speuce. 
 
 GOSPEL TEMPERANCE. 
 
 THE Bible declares that " no drunkard shall in- 
 herit the kingdom of heaven," and that 
 declaration makes it plain that temperance work is 
 essentially a Gospel work. Rev. Dr. Dewart says : 
 " The first moral command of God to man was, 
 ' Thou shalt not,' and that plan of Prohibition is 
 engrafted upon every page of the divine law. It is 
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 therefore a misnomer to any ettbrt that falls short of 
 Prohibition. But, in violation of God's teachin*^, we 
 have heen forhidden to deal with wronp;-doers, and 
 been taufrht to contine our efforts to the reformation 
 of their victims. Fori^ettini^ the example of ( Mirist 
 — .who applied the scouriije with well-<lirected blows, 
 and made no effort to heal the sick until the money- 
 chanj^ers were banished from the temple, and their 
 tables liad been overturned — we are commanded to 
 embrace the rum-seller with affection ; to make no 
 effort to banish his unholy traffic ; but leaving these 
 cesspools of pollution to spread disease, seek the cure 
 of the contagion thus engendered ; giving license to 
 these schools of vice, seek to reform the graduates 
 who have obtained diplomas of crime, and leave the 
 professors to continue instruction to the next class, 
 selected from the risinor <jeneration. 
 
 Forever banish any such theory of Gospel temper- 
 ance. It is the plan taught not by God, but devised 
 by devils to prevent the overthrow of vice. Gospel 
 temperance teaches the sin of drinking, and does not 
 confine that sin to the effects of drunkenness. It 
 teaches the sin of putting the bottle to a neighbor's 
 lips, and claims the right to prohibit all sin, and 
 enforce its prohibitions, not only by divine but by 
 human law, whose officers are commanded " not to 
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 ture. Slavery was buttressed for years with the 
 plea that the Bible sanctioned it. But it has long 
 since been wiped out, and no one can now find any 
 Scripture to favor such a monstrosity. 
 
 And we believe that in a few years the licensing of 
 the liquor traflSc will appear as absurd and cruel as 
 does slavery to-day. We will wonder that we ever 
 consented to have any part in such a vile business. 
 
 •' Smote by truth, fall ancient error, 
 
 Reared by power, and propped by wrong ; 
 And earth wonders, when they perish, 
 That they stood the test so long." 
 
 TEMPERANCE AND THE CHURCH OF 
 
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 '^r'^HE Ch'irch, by divine appointment, is the leader 
 X in moral reforms. She is able to detect, far in 
 advance of the rest of mankind, the right side of a 
 moral question. She cannot contemplate with indif- 
 ference any movement for the moral and social 
 improvement of the race. She cannot remain an idle 
 spectator of the conflict between virtue and vice, 
 rij^ht and wrong. Her voice must be heard, clear 
 and clarion-like, upon all questions in which moral 
 principles are involved. She seeks to bring about 
 the golden age, pictured by heathen philosophers, in 
 which all men shall dwell in harmony, and brother- 
 hood become the universal law. 
 
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 It is therefore the right — nay, the duty — of the. 
 Church to speak out boldly, through her authorized 
 councils, upon moral issues. Hence we find Con- 
 ferences, Assemblies, Synods, etc., unsparingly 
 denounce the vicious principles underlying the license 
 system, and advocate the total legal suppression of 
 the traffic. 
 
 While we gratefully acknowledge these facts, we 
 regret there are still members in all our churches, 
 who, if not patrons of the traffic, are careless and 
 indifferent in opposing it. In this connection I take 
 pleasure in quoting the recent utterances of two 
 grand men, Rev. T. L. Cuyler and Joseph Cook. Dr. 
 Cuyler calls the Church to action after this fashion : 
 " It seems to me that Christ's Church is as clearly 
 bound to fight drunkenness, and the customs which 
 lead to drunkenness, as it is to fight paganism, or 
 infidelity, or Sabbath-breaking, or any other soul- 
 destroying evil. It is not merely a bodily disease, 
 but a soul-damning sin that we are to contend 
 against. And in this warfare against the bottle there 
 is a safe ground, and a broad common ground, on 
 which all ministers and Churches ought to be able 
 to stand together. The Church of Christ should 
 antagonize not only the dram shop, but the dram ; 
 not only the saloon, but the social glass. The enemy 
 is at our doors, brethren and sisters. It lies in wait 
 for your sons and daughters. It is destroying more 
 souls than any other single evil in the land. ' An 
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 sin and sorrow. The remedy, too, is an old remedy ; 
 but no better has been discovered. The Church of 
 God has got to take God's weapons — gospel truth, 
 solid argument, loving personal effort, and the power 
 of a clean example — and use them fearlessly and 
 faithfully. In every prayer-meeting this enterprise 
 ought to be remembered as earnestly as the sacred 
 cause of missions. If Christians skulk away before 
 this gigantic sin and curse, they brand themselves as 
 cowards." 
 
 Joseph Cook says : " Four of your great Protestant 
 denominations now refuse to admit rum -sellers to 
 Church membership. Now I say two things — first, 
 that when a traffic is so notoriously injurious that a 
 man who practises it is excluded from Church mem- 
 bership by the common consent of the great body of 
 Protestant denominations, then Church members in 
 those denominations ought not to legalize that traffic 
 by their votes. It is a flat contradiction for the Church 
 with one hand to excommunicate rum-sellers, and 
 with the other hand to legalize rum-selling. The second 
 thing I say is, if the Church members would stand 
 together and vote as they pray, the liquor traffic 
 might be made an outlaw to-morrow." A few years 
 ago, Hon. G. E. Foster, after enumerating the evils 
 flowing from a licensed traffic, said : " And all this 
 while the Christian Church prays and preaches and 
 sings, collects money and sends out missionaries to 
 the heathen, and allows the 10,000 drink shops to kill 
 and destroy free white men and women for whom 
 Christ died." 
 
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 It has been affirmed again and again that the 
 traffic in drink would be abolished and drink-shops 
 could not exist if all the members of the Churches 
 were a unit on this question. May God speed the 
 day whea it shall be so. 
 
 WOMEN AND TEMPERANCE. 
 
 AN American orator, speaking on the temperance 
 question in Canada, some time ago, stated that 
 " the struggle in this country is, and always has been, 
 between license and 'prohibition. That was the case 
 in the garden of Eden, and it is so still. The devil 
 said 'Eat'; God said 'Thou shalt not.' Adam and 
 Eve both obeyed the former. Man and woman both 
 went in for license, but things are better now. Soine 
 of the men and all of the women are for Prohibition." 
 And why should not women be active in this cause ? 
 
 ' ' They talk about a woman's sphere 
 
 As though it had a limit : 
 There's not a place in earth or heaven, 
 There's not a task to mankind given, 
 There's not a blessing or a woe. 
 There's not a whisper, yes or no, 
 There's not a life, or death, or birth 
 That has a feather's weight of worth 
 
 Without a woman in it." • 
 
 They have all along taken a lively interest in this 
 cause and have nobly done their share in promoting 
 its advancement. 
 
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 " This good Teetotal Wagon was running rather slow, 
 
 Until the ladies lent a hand, and then it had to go ; 
 
 For, when they fight for God and Right, it isn't worth denying 
 
 They'll have their way and win the day, or else they'll die 
 a-trying." 
 
 Their persistency in this cause led a saloon-keeper 
 to say that W.C.T.U. meant " women constantly tor- 
 ment us." They have done a good work and their 
 influence in nearly every philanthropic and Christian 
 movement is recognized and felt as n^ver before. 
 Give them the franchise and they will make short 
 work of a legalized liquor traffic. " In a better day 
 than ours," says Joseph Cook, " woman's temperance 
 vote will be to the whiskey rings what lightning is to 
 the oak." In the meantime, they work and pray, 
 and, as appears from the following, would seek to 
 persuade men to vote in favor of this righteous 
 measure : 
 
 " J6siah, put your slippers on, 
 
 And cease your needless chatter ; 
 I want to have a word with you 
 About a little matter. 
 
 * * Josiah, look me in the face ; 
 
 You know this world's condition. 
 Yet you have never cast a vote 
 Right out for Prohibition. 
 
 " I heard you on your knees last night 
 Ask help to keep from strayin' ; 
 And now I want to know if you 
 Will vote as you've been prayin ' ? 
 
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 " You've prayed as loud as any man, 
 While with the tide a-floatin' ; 
 Josiah, you must stop sich work, 
 And do some better votin' ! 
 
 " We women pray for better times, 
 And work right hard to make 'em ; 
 You men vote liquor with its crimes, 
 And we just have to take 'em. 
 
 " How long, Josiah, must this be ? 
 We work and pray 'gainst evil ; 
 You pray all right, for what I see. 
 But vote just for the devil ! 
 
 " There now ! I've said my say, and you 
 Just save your ammunition, 
 And vote the way you've always prayed- 
 For total Prohibition ! " 
 
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 A TWO-FOLD OBJECT. 
 
 nnHE earnest raen of the churches and temperance 
 A organizations have a two-fold object in view. 
 First, to persuade every man to pass a prohibitory 
 liquor law upon himself. 
 
 " There is a little liquor shop 
 Everyone may close ; 
 It is that little liquor shop 
 Just beneath his nose." • 
 
 That is one constituency, certainly, over which he has 
 control, and though there may be difficulty in some 
 cases in enforcing the law, yet he has to aid him th^ 
 
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 omnipotent hand of God. Our appeal is based upon 
 the ground of self-sacrifice for the good of others. 
 Underlying this appeal is the example of the great 
 apostle "who counted not his life dear unto him," 
 that it might be employed for the benefit of others, 
 and who declares : "It is good neither to eat flesh, nor 
 to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother 
 stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak." The 
 principal ground of our appeal, however, is love to 
 Christ, and to the souls purchased by His blood. Oh ! 
 that we could all rise to the dignity of our calling, 
 and identify ourselves with Him whose entire life 
 was one of self-sacrifice for the world's good ; who 
 taught that sacred principle in all His actions, and 
 heightene^ji the majesty of it when, on the cross. He 
 died in our room and in our stead. 
 
 The other object in view is the education of the 
 public sentiment with a view of securing " legislative 
 enactmenrt, pronouncing illegal the manufacture and 
 sale of intoxicating liquors." 
 
 The duty of the hour is unquestionably to enlighten 
 the public mind, and educate the opinion of the people. 
 This is being done, the signs of the times are most 
 encouraging, and there are clearly describable good 
 omens which cheer us in the conflict, and indicate the 
 triumphant issue of the struggle in which we are 
 engaged. Espousing the cause of Prohibition to-day 
 are leading men an all the walks of life. The 
 merchantman is now convinced that the commercial 
 interests of this country are not wrapped up in the 
 
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 liquor traffic, and repudiates the notion that was a 
 few years aj^o unanimously accepted as a fact, that 
 the destruction of the traffic would be the ruin of the 
 country's trade. Politicians, too, are being aroused 
 from the slumber of ages. Some of them have, for 
 some years past, been fondly dreaming of their duty 
 to the land. But the people have recently been 
 knocking so distinctly at the halls of legislq^tion that 
 the honorable gentlemen are getting up, some of them 
 persisting that they were not asleep, and it is evident 
 the day is not far distant when the subject of Prohibi- 
 tion will be the main question agitating the country 
 from one end to the other. 
 
 Every year our cause moves on apace, and the 
 ultimate triumph of the work is guaranteed, not only 
 by recent successes, but by the infallible Word of 
 God. 
 
 " In the distance, shining softly 
 
 Like a beacon light from home, 
 I see the star of Prohibition 
 
 Beckoning to us through the gloom. 
 We will neither faint nor falter, 
 
 God is just, and right is right ; 
 We will conquer, we must conquer, 
 
 In this glorious temperance fight." — Sel. 
 
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 ENTHUSIASTS, FANATICS, CRANKS, ETC. 
 
 IT has been often said that temperance people are 
 enthusiasts and fanatics, as if it were a virtue to 
 stand cold, unmoved, and even unconcerned while the 
 licensed whiskey business is tossing its victims by 
 thousands to eternal ruin. Let it be remembered 
 that among the most earnest advocates of the 
 measures for the suppression of drunkenness are 
 many men who were once under its terrible power. 
 They have felt its sting, and they strike it with arms 
 nerved by the bitter memory of what they have 
 suffered and lost. The strength of freedom is in 
 their emancipated souls. 
 
 A temperance paper has spoken recently on this 
 subject, from which we select the following : 
 
 " It was Sir Andrew Clarke, the great scientist, 
 who paused in the midst of his busy life to declare 
 the truth that seven out of ten of the diseases he 
 came in contact with owed their origin to alcohol. 
 And then the cautious, scholarly, philosophical 
 scientist, said : ' It is when I think of this that I am 
 disposed to rush to the opposite extreme, and to give 
 up my profession, to give up everything else, and to 
 go forth on a holy crusade, preaching to all men, 
 beware of the enemy of our race.* Sir Andrew has 
 gone to the other world and the press teems with 
 complimentary articles upon his wonderful life, his 
 astounding scientific achievements, and the honors he 
 won; but we never see a reference to this most notable 
 
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 utterance, which is a powerful defence for the njreatest 
 enthusiast in the ranks of tlie temperance army. It 
 was another j^reat doctor and scientist, still spared to 
 the world. Sir Benj. Ward Richardson, who said: 'In 
 the meantime, it is our duty, whether it be called 
 fanatical or philosophical, practical or impractical, 
 advantageous to class interests or opposed to them, to 
 suppress this evil at its root, and endeavor to make 
 this earth something nearer heaven, by pulling down 
 from its high place the demon drink, who still reigns 
 so triumphantly in the land in which we live.' " 
 
 On the occasion of his preaching a temperance 
 sermon, the Venerable Archdeacon Farrar, D.D., said : 
 
 " Those who plead for temperance reform are daily 
 charged with exaggeration. Exaggeration is never 
 right, never wise, even when moral indignation 
 renders it excusable ; but before you repeat that 
 hackneyed and irrelevant charge, remember that 
 there never was a prophet or reformer yet, since time 
 began, against whom the same charge has not been 
 made. We have no need to exaggerate ; our cau.se is 
 overwhelmingly strong in its moral appeal to unvar- 
 nished realities, and we have nothing to do but set 
 forth things as they are, till not only the serious and 
 the earnest, but even the comfor*;able, the callous — yes, 
 even the careful and selfish, unless they are content 
 to forego altogether the name of patriot and the 
 name of Christ — shall be compelled to note them for 
 very shame." 
 
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 progressing. It is but a tax which everyone has in 
 one way or other to pay, whose opinions are somewhat 
 in advance of his neighbor's. Such a change, how- 
 ever, has taken place in public opinion that the 
 opponents of the liquor traffic have got fairly out of 
 the slough of contempt, while those on the other side 
 feel that instead of being assailants they are rather 
 put on the defensive, and have to cudgel their brains 
 for so-called arguments in excuse of their theory and 
 their practice. 
 
 TEMPERANCE SHOTS AT RANDOM SENT. 
 
 1. T3EFORE you advocate license, look up the 
 
 J3 answer to the old question : 
 
 "Is it right to do evil that good may come?" 
 That which is morally wrong can never be made 
 legally right. 
 
 2. " You cannot make people moral by law." No, 
 but you can make them immoral by licensing im- 
 moral institutions among them. And you can re- 
 move immoral institutions by law, and then the 
 people will become more moral as a consequence. 
 
 3. When some one tried to rebuke Mark Guy 
 Pearse for preaching temperance sermons by remind- 
 ing him that his duty as pastor consisted in taking 
 care of his flock, he replied : " The sheep are all right 
 just now ; I am looking after the wolf." One way of 
 caring for the sheep is to put an end to the wolf. 
 
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 4. A Scotch woman once wanted to have the devil 
 buried with his face downward, so that the more he 
 scratched, the deeper he would go. So it should be 
 with the liquor traffic — its face down, and no resur- 
 rection written on its back. 
 
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 and taking root. Our thoughts are crystalizing into 
 ballots and that is the only power the traflit i'oars. A 
 Western poet "has put it thus : 
 
 *' We can stand the preacher's preach ^^, 
 
 We can stand the deacon's prayer, 
 V\ e can stand the ' mural suasion ' plan 
 
 Because they never ' get there. ' 
 But when the cranks begin to vote 
 
 On the line they used to pray. 
 We liquor men begin to shake, 
 
 For we fear they'll win the day." 
 
 6. High license for the privilege of whiskey-selling 
 means that the whiskey-devil will strike higher game. 
 It tends also to make an aristocracy of evil. The 
 man who can afford to pay a thousand dollars for the 
 privilege of helping the devil in his murderous work, 
 ought to have a seat in his front parlor. 
 
 7. Statistics show that 10,000 people are killed 
 by whiskey, where only one is killed by a mad dog. 
 What of it ? Shoot the mad dog, and license the sale 
 of the whiskey. 
 
 8. Congressman Price, of Wisconsin, says "I am 
 neither a crank nor a saint. I simply want the man 
 who vAll sell liquor put in State's prison for it, and 
 the fellow who will drink it shut up in an insane 
 
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 106 
 
 THE CATLING. 
 
 asylum, but I wouldn't for the world have you think 
 I am at all radical on this question." 
 
 9. Dr. Talmage recently said "the temperance 
 question overshadows all other public questions in 
 importance." He thinks the bitter hostility to this 
 movement and the misrepresentation "so far from 
 retarding this heaven-descended cause will only help 
 it, since no reform ever has succeeded, or ever will 
 succeed, until it has had a baptism of fire — and 
 literary caricature and political hate are only mile- 
 stones on the way to victory." 
 
 10. A Quaker was once advising a drunkard to 
 leave off his habit of drinking intoxicating liquors. 
 " Can you tell me how to do it ? " said the slave of 
 the appetite. " Yes ! " answered the Quaker, " it's 
 just as easy as to open thy hand, friend." " Convince 
 me of that, and I will promise you to do as you tell 
 me," replied the drunkard. " Well, my friend, when 
 thou lindest any vessel of intoxicating liquor in thy 
 hand, open the hand that contains it before it reaches 
 thy mouth, and thou wilt never be drunk again." 
 We are told that the toper was so well pleased with 
 this plain advice that he followed it and became a 
 sober man. 
 
 11. That was a thrilling moment, when at a political 
 meeting in Iowa, after a man had been vaunting the 
 glories to be gained in the State by supporting the 
 party that calls for " a saloon on every hill-top," the 
 strains of " Home, Sweet Home " stole into the arena 
 of strife, and swelled out grandly in the chorus 
 
TEMPERANCE SHOTS AT RANDOM SENT. 107 
 
 tical 
 the 
 the 
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 rena 
 orus 
 
 " There's No Place Like Home." Strong men buried 
 their faces in their hands, weeping like children, and 
 the arguments of Luciier himself would have been 
 powerless to counteract the sentiment called up from 
 its hiding places in brave men's hearts. " The home 
 against the saloon " is a very unequal contest, if only 
 the home gets fairly into the field. 
 
 12. I yield to none in my hatred of the unholy 
 traffic in " distilled damnation," and in my desire to 
 have it forever abolished, but I think it out of place 
 in this warfare to abuse those engaged in it for the 
 reason that the business has long had the sanction of 
 law — that is, of the people. The people made the 
 laws regulating this business. They are not pleased 
 with the operation of their laws. The Prohibition 
 movement is a motion to reconsider, with a view to 
 repeal and amendment. The argument for Prohibition 
 is not helped by bitter speech; it does not need 
 denunciation; passion only hinders. If there must 
 " come offences," let Prohibitionists see to it that they 
 come not through them. In all that is done, let the 
 amiability and the vigor which should characterize 
 the work of Christian men engaged in a great cause, 
 be maintained. Be wise as serpents, harmless as 
 doves, and God will defend the right. 
 
 13. ♦* Better be mum 
 
 And always dumb 
 Than pray with some 
 ' Thy Kingdom Come '— 
 Then vote for rum. 
 
 
108 
 
 THE CATLING. 
 
 "Vote as you pray, 
 And haste the day 
 When whiskey's sway 
 Shall, as it may, 
 Be done away. 
 
 " There's not a single bit of use 
 To talk, and sing, and pray 
 For righteousness and purity, 
 Unless you vote that way." 
 
 BLASTS FROM THE " RAM'S HORN." 
 
 Whiskey is the devil's looking-glass. 
 
 Woe to that land where the traffic is considered 
 respectable. 
 
 There are men who starve their children to help 
 the brewer fatten his horses. 
 
 Every moderate drinker is helping the devil to put 
 in chains an army of boys. 
 
 Some men are bound in the devil's ropes, because 
 they didn't try to break his threads. 
 
 It is astonishing how many kinds of people the 
 devil can catch when he baits his hook with money. 
 
 The devil has both arms around the man who feels 
 confident that moderate drinking won't hurt him. 
 
 If the devil could be kept out of the Church, it 
 wouldn't be long until he would have to give up the 
 whiskey business. 
 
 Take away the screens from all the saloon doors 
 and you will make the devil lame in his best foot. 
 

 BLASTS FROM THE ''RAM'S HORNP 
 
 109 
 
 The man who is willing for whiskey to stay, is in no 
 hurry for the devil to go, no matter how he prays in 
 prayer-meeting. 
 
 One saloon in a town is all the devil ever asks for 
 to begin with. Give him that and he won't worry 
 about not being able to destroy boys enough. 
 
 If ever the devil feels proud of his work, it must 
 
 be when he has made a man mean enough to starve 
 
 his wife and children to death while helping to keep 
 
 the saloon-keeper. 
 
 "You may think your heads are level, 
 But I care not what you think ; 
 You are voting for the devil, 
 If you vote to license drink." 
 
 !" 
 
 FAIR WARNING. 
 
 WILBERFORCE, of English annals, 
 Waited patiently for years. 
 Fighting on, though often vanquished. 
 
 Yielding not to doubts and fears, 
 Till at length he was rewarded 
 
 By the shout of victory ; 
 Through his persevering efforts 
 Slaves were granted liberty. 
 
 Be forewarned, ye politicians, 
 
 Eyes are watching far and near ; 
 Your supporters hold the balance — 
 
 They will weigh you, never fear. 
 Be advised ; your friends are anxious 
 
 You should worthy prove and true 
 If you act as you have spoken, 
 
 They will firmly stand by you, 
 
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 THE CATLING. 
 
 But if not, prepare for changes, 
 
 For the traffic they will rout ; 
 If you trifle at this crisis 
 
 They will vote you down and out. 
 And elect those who are, worthy, 
 
 Men whose courage ne'er abates, 
 Who will face the ranks opposing, 
 
 Press the battle to the gates. 
 
 Oh, ye temperance men, be faithful ! 
 
 On your watchtowers firmly stand- 
 See ! the foes of Prohibition 
 
 Muster forces through the land ! 
 Buckle on afresh your armor. 
 
 And for right still onward press, 
 
 God, your captain in the conflict. 
 
 He will pilot to success. 
 
 — Mr&. P. L. Grant. 
 
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 PAGES FOR THE YOUNG. 
 
 Dear Young Friends, — The remaining pages of 
 this book are specially for you, and it is hoped you 
 will lind therein amusement and profit. We have 
 kept you in mind all along, and have inserted a num- 
 ber of pictures and illustrations to interest you — the 
 men and women of the future. We expect a great 
 deal from the young in this warfare with the drink 
 traffic. The chief thing is to persuade you to abstain 
 from intoxicants, and implant in your minds and 
 hearts an eternal hatred to the rum-fiend. Over sixty 
 years ago Dr. Justin Edwards used to say to all his 
 hearers, " The person who never drinks liquor can 
 never become a drunkard," and though much work 
 has since been done in this reform, we have never 
 been able to get one inch beyond that excellent pre- 
 cept. Will you memorize those eleven words, as they 
 are in themselves a sure receipt to prevent drunken- 
 ness ? 
 
 In these days of pipes and cigars, many of the boys 
 are learning to use tobacco. In some of these pages 
 you will find reliable information as to the injurious 
 effects of it, and I am not without hope that some 
 will be thereby induced to forever abstain from the 
 use of the " nauseous weed." 
 
 Here is a verse I often repeat when talking to 
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 children, and I am sure your answer to the questions 
 proposed will be, " No good." 
 
 " What good can it do, to smoke and to chew, 
 To swear and to drii>k, and never to think, 
 What the end will be?" 
 
 And the dear girls (God bless them) have a place 
 
 and a work to do in this great and good cause. 
 
 Women have suffered untold and unwritten wrongs 
 
 because of the drinking habits of their husbands. It 
 
 may be that when thoy promised to " love, comfort, 
 
 honor and keep" them, they were what is called 
 
 " harmless, moderate drinkers," but they were on the 
 
 road traveled by every drunkard before them, and in 
 
 danger of reaching its sad end. The girls of Canada 
 
 have this matter largely in their own hands. Utter 
 
 an emphatic " Nay " to the smoker, and to the drinker 
 
 declare that 
 
 i'The lips that touch wine 
 
 Shall never touch mine." 
 
 ' ' Don't marry a man to reform him, 
 To God and your own self be true ; 
 Don't link his vice to your virtue ; 
 You'll rue it, dear girl, if you do. 
 
 "No matter how fervent his pleadings. 
 Be not by his promises led ; 
 If he can't be a man while a-wooing 
 He'll never be one when he's wed. 
 
 " There's many a maiden has tried it. 
 And proved a failure at last ; 
 Better tread your life's pathway alone, dear, 
 Than to wed a lover that's ' fast.' 
 
 
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 PAGES FOR THE YOUNG. 
 
 115 
 
 *' Mankind's much the same the world over, 
 The exceptions you'll find are but few, 
 And the rule is defeat and disaster — 
 The chances are great against you. 
 
 "Don't trust your bright hopes for the future, 
 The beautiful crown of your youth, 
 To the keeping of him who holds lightly 
 His fair name, his honor and truth. 
 
 " To ' honor and love ' you must promise ; 
 Don't pledge what you cannot fulfil. 
 If he'll have no respect for himself, dear, 
 Most surely you then never will. 
 
 *' Make virtue the price of your favor ; 
 Place wrong-doing under a ban ; 
 And let him who would win you and wed you 
 Prove himself in full measure a man ! " 
 
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 THE G A TUNG. 
 
 TAKE THE PLEDGE. BOYS. AND KEEP IT. 
 
 DARE TO DO RIGHT. 
 
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 ^ HEREBY ^liftt^0 mmelf timt, Gon beino my 
 Helper, I vill abdain from the use of all Intoxicatini; 
 Liquors as a BeverrKje: from the use of Tobacco in any 
 form; and also from Swearing and Profanity. 
 
 Signed 
 
 Date 
 
 MANY little boys and young men have taken the 
 above pledge, and have kept it, too. Some 
 men were once working together, and a little bo)^ 
 seemed to be in the way, and they said to him, " Get 
 out of the road ; what good are such things as you ?" 
 The little fellow looked up and thoughtfully said, 
 " They make men out of such things as me." Well 
 said ; and if you are good temperance boys, and keep 
 your pledge, you will make good temperance men by- 
 and-bye. A little boy had signed the pledge. A 
 gentleman — if we can call him such — said, " I can get 
 that boy to drink wine." So he filled a glass and 
 offered it to him, but the noble boy refused it, saying^ 
 " I have signed the pledge." 
 
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 TAKE THE PLEDGE, BOYS. 
 
 I will give you half-a-doliar if you will drink. 
 
 No, sir, I will not." 
 
 I will give you a dollar." 
 
 No, sir." 
 
 Will you drink if I give you a $10 bill ? " 
 
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 He looked at him, and it 
 
 led desirable, but 
 
 seeuH 
 change in his answer. 
 
 The man then pulled out his silver watch and said, 
 "I will give you this nice silver watch if you will 
 drink." 
 
 That was the greatest temptation, for most boys, 
 you know, like a watch ; but instead of yielding, he 
 replied, " Sir, if I don't drink, I may some day have 
 a gold ivatch." The boy was right, for mony have 
 spent all they made in drink. Instead of spending 
 your money on this foolish indulgence, save it up for 
 the missionary and other good causes, and God will 
 bless you in your givings, and perhaps you may have 
 the " gold watch some day." 
 
 A man who once was addicted to drink gave 
 it up, and afterwards he was said to look the 
 color of gold. The landlord said to him, " Why, 
 Mr. Garner, you are beginning to look yellow since 
 you gave up drinking!" Garner (putting his hand 
 into his pocket and pulling out five or six .sovereigns), 
 replied, " Ay, and my pocket is beginning to look yel- 
 low too ! " 
 
 You may be assured, my young friends, that pros- 
 perity cannot attend the use of strong drink. Solo- 
 mon said, " It clothes a man with rags." Some time 
 
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118 
 
 THE CATLING. 
 
 ago a youth was put out as an apprentice and often 
 had to go errands for the other and older apprentices. 
 Part of his work was to procure their ardent spirits. 
 But the youlh never drank any himself. The others 
 laughed at him and said he was " not man enough to 
 drink." Under their abuse he often cried. But every 
 one of these apprentices, we are told, is now a drunk- 
 ard, or in a drunkard's grave. The young teetotaler 
 is now owner of a large estate, which he has acquired 
 by his industry, and he exerts a highly salutary influ- 
 ence where he lives. 
 
 Did you ever hear of a dog taking the pledge ? Poor 
 Caesar followed his master one night to the tavern and 
 they persuaded him to swallow some liquor. It made 
 the poor brute tipsy, and he tumbled over, and played 
 such queer antics that the topers roared with laughter. 
 The night after the man took him again to have some 
 more fun, but they could not get him inside the door. 
 They coaxed and drove, and the tavern-keeper offered 
 some cake, but it was no use. Caesar had taken the 
 pledge ; one trial of the drink was enough for him. 
 He was not to be caught in a rum-trap the second 
 time. It proved to be as good as a temperance lecture 
 to all those topers. The dog's master was never 
 known to enter a tavern again. He made up his 
 mind that he ought to know as much as 'Caesar, and 
 some of the other topers followed his example. 
 
 Now, in regard to the second part of your pledge, it 
 reads, " I will abstain from the use of Tobacco in any 
 form." We have this as part of f <ur pledge because we 
 know it will be for your good to abstain from its use 
 
TAKE THE r LEDGE. BOYS, 
 
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 Use 
 
 1. It will be good to abstain for Acai^/i'8 aake. Some 
 have become such slaves to it that they cannot even 
 sit down to think without a cigar or pipe in their 
 mouth. If they undertake to think without it, their 
 hands tremble and their heads whirl. You will see, 
 boys, it is better to let it alone and keep the head 
 clear and the hand steady. It makes many who use 
 it pale, puny and nervous, 
 
 2. It will \ good for the 'pocket to abstain. If a 
 boy uses a cigar every day at tive cents, that will be 
 $18.25 a year gone away in smoke. Would it not be 
 better to buy a suit of clothes, put S5 in the bank 
 and give the rest for the missions and the poor ? What 
 do vou think of this old verse ? 
 
 " Tobacco is a nauseous weed ; 
 It was the devil sowed the seed ; 
 It drains the pocket, soils the clothes. 
 And makes a chimney of tlie nose." 
 
 Then you are to abstain from swearing. A higher 
 authority than man has said, " Thou shalt not take the 
 name of the Lord thy God in vain," and He will not 
 hold you " guiltless " if you do. I have known some 
 boys who seemed to think it was manly to swear, as 
 well as to smoke and drink ; but it is not. 
 
 The story is told of an errand boy in an office 
 where there were four men. The boy was small of his 
 age, and did not seem to grow much. One of the 
 men said to him one day, " You'll never amount to 
 much, you are too small." 
 
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 hesitation, " as small as I am, I can do something 
 which none of you gentlemen can do." 
 
 " Ah, what is that ? " they asked. 
 
 I don't know as I ought to tell you," he said. 
 
 But they were anxious to know, and they urged 
 him to tell what he could do that none of them were 
 able to do. 
 
 " / can keep from siuearing," said the boy. I tell 
 you there were some blushes on four manly faces in 
 that office then, and there was not another word on 
 the subject. 
 
 God will certainly punish, in the future world, 
 those who " take His name in vain," and sometimes 
 they are punished in this life ; for He will not abide 
 this sin. 
 
 " There was a young man standing on the rail- 
 road track in New Brunswick, blaspheming. The 
 cars passed, and he was found on the track with his 
 tongue cut out. People could not understand how, 
 with comparatively little bruising of the rest of the 
 body, his tongue could have been cut out." 
 
 You will see that the pledge says, " God being my 
 helper.' And He will help you if you ask. With 
 your Heavenly Father's assistance you will grow 
 up a joy to your parents and an ornament in society. 
 
A WORD TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS. 121 
 
 A WORD TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS 
 ABOUT READING. 
 
 'OR years a gentle- 
 man named An- 
 Comstock has waged a 
 truceless war upon dealers in 
 printed poison. He speaks of the 
 large number of boys And girls in 
 this country, and states 
 that about one-third of 
 thetn are in the training 
 school of life. "To cor- 
 rupt the boys and girls of 
 to-day," he says, " is to 
 degrade the men and 
 women of to-morrow. 
 There are three things 
 which may be called 
 prime-breeders : (1) Intemperance; (2) gambling, and 
 (3) evil reading. Each of these degrade the indi- 
 
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 vidual, wreck homes, bejrgar women and children, 
 create crimes, and then foster them. One poisons 
 the blood, burns up nerve and tissue, destroys ^the 
 nervous system, and turns man into a brute. The 
 second leads men to dishonesty, undermines indus- 
 trious habits and common honesty. The third cap- 
 tivates the fancy of boys and girls, corrupts the 
 thoughts, perverts the imagination, hardens the 
 heart, and damns the soul." 
 
 There are many light, vicious publications, and you 
 cannot be too careful as to the character of the books 
 and papers you read. " A man is known by the 
 company he keeps," and there is a companionship of 
 books as well as of men. If you consult your best 
 interests you will aim to live in the best company, 
 whether it be of books or of men. Perhaps you have 
 never thought of the intimate connection between bad 
 reading anc^ the commission of crime. Some months 
 ago a twelve-year-old boy in one of the States, who 
 was a constant reader of a number of well-known 
 vicious books and papers, took his revenge upon a 
 negro for a trifling injury by splitting his head open 
 with an axe. In the boy's pocket was found one of 
 these vile papers containing a thrilling illustration of 
 a Southern tragedy where one man killed another 
 with an axe. The youngster's crime was directly 
 traceable to the reading of such immoral stuff. 
 
 Have nothing to do with bad books. Do not read 
 them. Do not shelter them. Let the devil support 
 his own literature. Let not curiosity lead you to read 
 
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TOUCff IT NEVER. 
 
 123 
 
 them. It is not worth while to roll in a mud hole to 
 see how it feels. 
 
 There never was a time when so many good books 
 and papers could be obtained as the present. Seek 
 them out, and reject forever those that " corrupt the 
 thoughts, harden the heart, and damn the soul " 
 
 TOUCH IT NEYER. 
 
 CHILDREN, do you see the wine, 
 In the crystal goblet shine { 
 Be not tempted by its charm : 
 It will surely lead to harm. 
 Children, hate it .' 
 Touch it never I 
 Fight it ever ! 
 
 Never let it pass your lips ; 
 
 Never even let the tips 
 Of your fingers touch the bowl ; 
 Hate it from your inmost soul. 
 Truly hate it ! 
 Touch it never I 
 Fiyht it ever! 
 
 Fight it : With (iod's help stand fast ; 
 
 Long as life or breath shall last. 
 Heart meet heart and hand join hand ; 
 ilurl the demon from our land. 
 Oh, then, hate it \ 
 Touch it never ! 
 Fight it ever I 
 
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 125 
 
 
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 STRONG DRINK. 
 
 HERE is something in the world that 
 
 Destroys health, 
 
 Ruins the home, 
 
 Increases poverty, 
 
 Never does anyone any good, 
 
 Kills both body and soul. 
 Could you imagine what that is, my little reader ? 
 Just read the first letter of these five lines and see 
 what word they will spell when put together. And 
 then determine that this something shall never come 
 inside your lips. Mr. E. Carswell composed the 
 following " Song of the Corn": 
 
 " I was made to be eaten. 
 
 And not to he dranh ; 
 To be tlireshed in a barn, 
 
 Not soaked in a tank. 
 I come as a Ijlessinjr 
 
 When put through a mill ; 
 As a blight and a curse 
 
 When run through a dill. 
 
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 126 
 
 THE CATLING. 
 
 Make me up into loaves, 
 
 And your children are fed ; 
 But, if into drhik, 
 
 I will ftarve them instead. 
 In bread, I'm a servant. 
 
 The eater fshall rule ; 
 In drink, I'm a master. 
 
 The drinker a fool. 
 Then remember the warning, 
 
 My strength I'll employ — 
 If eaten, to strengthen ; 
 
 If drunk, to destroy." 
 
 ALCOHOL. 
 
 YOU have heard of the Philosopher's Stone, no 
 doubt ; a wonderful stone which folks in years 
 gone by were always trying to discover. They 
 thought it would turn into gold everything that 
 touched it. How very silly, wasn't it ? Another 
 silly idea some had — they thought there was a cer- 
 tain liquid, which, if they drank, would make them 
 live forever. They called it " The Elixir of Life." 
 Some men spent their whole life trying to find it out 
 — of course, they did not succeed. Why ? Because 
 it was all rubbish — no such thing. One day an Ara- 
 V.ian philosopher, who was trying to discover " The 
 J Uixir of Life," distilled a liquid which made those 
 who drank it do some very silly things, so he said 
 that it was an evil spirit — or, in his own language, 
 
ALCOHOL. 
 
 127 
 
 Al Ghoul, which means evil spirit. Do you know 
 what it reully was ? Yes — alcohol. Alcohol being a 
 corruption of the words Al Ghoul. He was quite 
 right ; alcohol is an evil spirit. Let us see — 
 
 I. What it is. 
 
 (1) It is a mocker. That is, it professes to be some- 
 thing which it is not. It tells you it is good ; but in 
 reality it is bad. 
 
 Illustration. — It professes to be a food ; but in 
 reality it is only a narcotic. Food strengthens, nar- 
 cotics weaken. 
 
 (2) It is a deceiver. Many use strong drinks 
 because they think them good and beneficial. These 
 become slaves to drink, but it works their ruin and 
 their death. 
 
 II. What it does. 
 
 Solomon says that it bites like a serpent and stings 
 like an adder. 
 
 (1) It fascinates. A serpent lies hidden in the 
 grass or in a hole. There is nothing bold or heroic 
 about it. Then, when it has got its victims near 
 enough, it fa.scinates them, so that they cannot 
 escape. Thus it is with drink — it hides under a 
 pleasant form or taste, and then fascinates its victims 
 so that they cannot escape. 
 
 (2) It destroys. A serpent bites and an adder 
 stings when they have got their victims in their 
 power, so destroying them. So with alcohol ; it 
 strikes a man, poisoning his blood, destroying his 
 intellect, often destroying him altogether. 
 
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 128 
 
 THE CATLING. 
 
 III. What are we to do ? 
 
 We mufst take Solomon's advice when he tells us 
 not to look on the wine when it is red, which means 
 the juice of the grape when fermented. If we do 
 not wish to be fools, we must not be deceived by- 
 alcohol, which is certainly an evil spirit, and "he 
 who is deceived thereby is not wise." — ^d. 
 
 
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WHERE HE USUALLY BEGLSS. 
 
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 WHERE HE USUALLY BEGINS. 
 
 you want to know where a boy begins to be 
 fast ? With a cigarette. It is the lad's first 
 step in bravado, resistance of sober morality, and a 
 bold step in disobedience. Our country has legislated 
 against the sale of tobacco to boys, and a number of 
 the States have done the same. Other nations are 
 legislating against it. Germany, with all her smoke, 
 says, " No tobacco in the schools." Knock at the door 
 of the great military institutions of France ; " No 
 tobacco," is the response, and in many other places 
 " Drop that cigarette " is the word. And yet it is to 
 be feared that the habit of using tobacco is not de- 
 creasing. A merchant doing a business of $10,000, 
 told me he sold, annually, about $1,600 worth of 
 tobacco. Our young people need to be instructed 
 concerning its physical and moral effects. The make- 
 up and contents of the cigarette usually found to-day 
 is that of unripe or imperfectly prepared tobacco. 
 Dr. L. E. Keeley says, " It is usually soaked in nico- 
 tine, which is largely impregnated with opium, stram- 
 onium, and belladonna. The wrapper of each cigar- 
 ette is generallj^ rice paper, whitened with arsenic." 
 Medical evidence is unanimous against it. 
 
 A strong argument also against its use is the intense 
 nausea and sickness felt by persons in their first at- 
 tempt at smoking or chewing. It is nature's protest 
 against its abuse. Many a lad who has gone to ruin 
 was first led astray through this habit. It led into 
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 evil company, and it created an unnatural thirst — 
 which induced drinking. Statistics show that the 
 smoking teetotaler is five times as liable to break his 
 pledge as the non-smoker. 
 
 Parents, teachers and ministers should discourge 
 its use, and we believe the secular as well as the re- 
 ligious papers ought to denounce it at every oppor- 
 tunity. 
 
 Boys — do not use tobacco. You never will get 
 enough pleasure out of it to pay you for what it will 
 make you suffer, and if you never begin you will 
 never have the longing for it which those have who 
 have contracted the habit. 
 
 It will be a glorious day for our boys when they 
 can see how much more manly it is to have a clean 
 mouth, a clear head, and strong nerves ; to be able to 
 say " No " to temptations ; to have right principles, 
 and moral courage to live up to those principles. 
 
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 INSIDE OR OUT. 
 
 BOYS and young men should know when to say 
 ''No," and having decided for the right, stick 
 to it; or, as Davy Crocket said, "Be sure you are 
 right, then go ahead." 
 
 The Youth's Temperance Banner relates the fol- 
 lowing : — A boy who had been brought up a staunch 
 teetotaler was about to be apprenticed. The foreman 
 offered him a glass of beer. The little fellow said, "I 
 
IVOOD/E^S TEMPERANCE SPEECH. 131 
 
 never touch that stuff." «' Halloa, youngster," replied 
 the foreman, '< we never have teetotalers he;e " - Jf 
 you have me, you'll have one," returned the boy The 
 
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 here. You 11 either have this inside or outside." The 
 httleellow said, "Well, you can please yourself I 
 brought my clean jacket with me and a good charac- 
 
 WOODIE'S TEMPERANCE SPEECH. 
 
 COME people laugh and wonder 
 
 ^-^ What little boys can do 
 To help this tenip'rance thunder 
 
 ^ Roll all the big world through ; 
 I'd have them look behind them,' 
 
 ^ When the.,, were small, and then 
 I'd like just to remind them 
 That little boys make men ! 
 
 The bud becomes a flower, 
 
 The acorn grows a tree, 
 The minutes make the hour— 
 ^ 'Tis just the .same with me. 
 I'm small, but I am growing 
 
 As quickly as I can ; 
 And a temp'rance boy like me is bound 
 
 lo make a temp'rance man! 
 
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THE GREEDY BOTTLE. 
 
 133 
 
 THE GEEEDY BOTTLE. 
 
 A POOR, under-sized boy named Tim, aiUinjr by a 
 bottle, and looking in, said, " I wonder if there 
 can be a pair of shoes in it." His mother had mended 
 his clothes, but said his .shoes were so bad he mu.st go 
 barefoot. Then he took a brick and broke the bottle, 
 but there were no .shoes in it, and he was frightened, 
 for it was his father's bottle. Tim sat down again, 
 and sobbed so hard that he did not hear a step 
 beside him, until a voice said : 
 
 " Well ! what's all this ? " He sprang up in great 
 alarm ; it was his father. 
 
 " Who broke my bottle ? " he said. 
 
 " I did," said Tim, catching his breath, half in 
 terror and half between his .sobs. 
 
 " Why did you ? " Tim looked up. 
 
 The voice did not sound as he had expected. The 
 truth was, his father had been touched at the sight 
 of the forlorn figure, so very small and so sorrowful, 
 which had bent over the broken bottle. 
 
 "Why," he said, " I was looking for a pair of new 
 shoes ; I w^ant a pair of new shoes awful bad — all the 
 other chaps wear shoes." 
 
 " How came you to think you'd find shoes in a 
 bottle ? " the father asked. 
 
 " Why, mother said so ; I asked her for some new 
 shoes, and .she .said thev had gone in the black bottle 
 and that lots of other things had gone into it, too — 
 coats and hats, and bread and meat and things ; and 
 
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 I thought if I broke it I'd find 'em all, and there ain't 
 a thing in it ! I'm real sorry I broke your bottle, 
 father. I'll never do it again." 
 
 " No, I guess you won't," he said, laying a hand on 
 the rough Jittle head as he went away, leaving Tim 
 overcome with astonishment that his father had not 
 been angry with him. Two days after, he, handed 
 Tim a parcel, telling him to open it. 
 
 " New shoes ! New shoes ! " he shouted. 
 
 " O father, did you get a new bottle ? And were 
 they in it ? " 
 
 " No, my boy, there isn't going to be a new bottle. 
 Your mother was right — the thinajs all went into the 
 bottle, but you see getting them out is no easy 
 matter ; so, God helping me, I am going to keep them 
 out after this." 
 
 A DANGEROUS ROAD. 
 
 THE country became very much alarmed at the 
 numerous and frightful railroad accidents 
 which occurred during the months of September and 
 October, 1893. But nothing has occurred so terrible 
 on any or all of the railroads of the land, or caused 
 so great numbers to suffer by it, as the one we are 
 about to relate. It is the most appalling on record. 
 
 When the excursionists stepped on board the train, 
 little did they think what scenes they should be 
 called to witness, or in what a tragedy they were 
 
A DANGEROUS ROAD. 
 
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 about to participate. As the train moveu slowly out 
 of the magnificent station-house, all was gaiety and 
 cheer. Not one of the thousands of passengers 
 thought of examining the engine or the brakes ; and, 
 as they rolled along the gradually descending grade, 
 no one thought of the tremendous power that was 
 drawing them, or of the accelerated speed with which 
 they were every motnent advancing. Some even 
 slept, while others engaged in amusements to while 
 away the time. No bell was rung ; no whistle gave 
 intimation of danger. Faster and faster the cars 
 moved on, until they seemed to fly upon a cloud of 
 dust arid smoke. In vain diu the wavinij of Hajjjs 
 alorg the track give warning of danger, as the train 
 shot forward to the open drawbridge. One place 
 after another was passed without being noticed, and 
 even the cruel operation of the conductors, in throw- 
 ing out passengers at certain places along the road, 
 did not arrest attention, until those who were ejected 
 struck the ground, whcr^ i uoep impression of distance 
 from the place of sttirtirig seemed to be awakened. 
 By those within 'iO cars, the heaps of dead and 
 dying which had beer thrown out along t!.'" ' 'ack 
 were scarcely noticec, while to those without the sight 
 was perfectly appalling. So great was the speed of 
 the train, as it advanced towards its fatal plunge, 
 that many travelers became delirious, and many 
 more insensiV.le. 
 
 The name of the place froLi whi'2h the train started 
 was Sippington ; it moved slowly o Tippleton and 
 
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 ToperviUe, until it reached Drunkard's Curve, when 
 it shot ahead to Beggarstown, Prisonton, Deliriumton, 
 Demonland and Destruction, with a speed that beg- 
 gar's description. — Anon. 
 
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 THE TRIPLE PLEDGE. 
 
 8TRONO DRINK. 
 
 T ITE will not buy, 
 
 * * We will not make, 
 We will not use, 
 
 We will not take 
 Wine, cider, beer, 
 
 Rum, whiskey, gin, 
 Because they lead 
 
 Mankind to sin. 
 
 TOB 4iCC0. 
 
 We will not smoke 
 
 The smoker's pets, 
 Those little things 
 
 Called cigarettes ; 
 Wc will not chew, 
 
 We will not snutf, 
 Nor waste our time 
 
 In playing putf. 
 
 PROFANITY. 
 
 We will not curse. 
 
 Though many dare 
 Open their lips 
 
 To curse and swear , 
 Our words shall be 
 
 Both pure and plain ; 
 We will not take 
 
 God's name iu vain.— /Se^ 
 
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138 
 
 THE CATLING. 
 
 A PARABLE. 
 
 Sv- 
 
 A GENTLEMAN bought of a dealer a beautiful, 
 ornamental fruit tree, and had it planted in 
 his lawn in front of his house. It grew, and at 
 length produced a fruit most tempting to the eye. 
 The children of the ouse v/ere permitted to play at 
 will beneath the tree v.\ their ignorance, the little 
 ones put forth their harido and partook of the tempt- 
 ing fruit. In a short while all took ill, and in spite 
 of skilful treatment one child died. The gentleman 
 thus discovering the dangerous nature of the tree 
 he possessed, but having set his heart upon it, deter- 
 mined not to destroy, but to build a railing around 
 it, and gave strict injunctions to the gardener to see 
 that the children did not climb over. But vigilance 
 will sometimes be relaxed, and again the children 
 reached the fruit, and again fatal results followed. 
 This time the father, brought to his senses by his 
 sorrow, had the tree cut down, and destroyed in the 
 fire. 
 
 This tree is the liquor traffic. The gentleman is 
 our government. The children are the people. The 
 gardener is the executive of the law, and the treat- 
 ment of the tree is the treatment accorded the traffic ; 
 only we have not yet reached the last stage — the 
 destruction of the tree. — Rev. G. McKillop. 
 
' JOHNNY I.EA. 
 
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 JOHNNY LEA. 
 
 I'M Johnny Lea, just ten years old, 
 A sturdy L. T. L., 
 My badjre is blue, to this I'm true, 
 And 'tend my chapter well. 
 
 I'll never smoke nor chew, indeed 
 
 'Tis just a fearful waste 
 Of needed cash, for poisonous trash 
 
 Repulsive to my taste. 
 
 I In apples ripe with ro.sy cheeks, 
 I'll take, whene'er I may, 
 My eider sweet as food to eat 
 It's just the safest way. 
 
 Instead of beer, the nice sweet n)ilk 
 That Brindle gives I'll take ; 
 
 'Tis better far, nor will it mar 
 The path I strive to make. 
 
 When I'm a man I'll vote for right 
 
 Till each saloon is »one 
 And all our land curse free shall stand - 
 
 My name will then be John \—8d. 
 
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 ture. 
 
 A FUNNY TEMPERANCE TALE. 
 
 lOUSE fell into a beer vat, poor thing ! and a 
 cat passing by saw the struggling little crea- 
 
 The mouse said to the cat, *' Help me out of my 
 difficulty." 
 
 [ " If I do I shall eat you," said the cat. 
 
 " Very well," replied the mouse ; " I would rather 
 be eaten by a decent cat than drowned in such a 
 horrible mess of stuft as this." 
 
 It was a sensible cat, and said, " I certainly shall 
 eat you, and you must promise me, on your word of 
 honor, that I may do so." 
 
A PRAYER. 
 
 141 
 
 " Very well, I will give you the promise." 
 
 So the cat fished the mouse out, and, trusting to 
 
 the promise, she dropped it for an instant. 
 
 The mouse darted away, and crept into a hole in 
 
 the corner where the cat could not get him. 
 . " But, didn't you promise me I might eat you ? " 
 
 said puss. 
 
 " Yes, I did," replied the mouse, " but didn't you 
 know that when I made the promise I was in liquor ?" 
 
 And how many other promises made in liquor have 
 been broken ? 
 
 A PRAYER. 
 
 /"~\UR Heavenly Father, we pray thee to look 
 V^ down with favor on all the efforts of thy 
 people to elevate and bless humanity. Give wisdom 
 and zeal to those charged with the training of the 
 young at home and in the school. May they cultivate 
 the affections as well as the minds and manners of 
 those entrusted to their care. Bless the conductors 
 of the press, both secular and religious. May they 
 not pander to the tastes of the ungodly, but let their 
 great power be always used on the side of virtue and 
 truth. Restrain the reckless wickedness of those 
 who would rouse the baser passions of mankind by 
 selling impure books or papers, by leading others 
 into dens of shame, by deceiving the simple in 
 gambling saloons, by putting the bottle to their 
 
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 THE CATLING. 
 
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 Spirit to resist evil in every form, to do justly, to 
 love mercy and to walk humbly with thee all our 
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