The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-29 00:00:00

-apt of the undetected crime

—what statist.exp;

ore it ? No ; it. will never 139 revealed

leulate it

ju Much of this vice and igno.
ance may b.: charged upon the criminalty of parents,
but much more upon the neglect of the state and the

intil the:4y of

rigment.

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neglect of the state and the public Education alone will
- rest the evil; the crimes olintemperance and drunk•
ust be repressed, if they cannot he suppresed,
let me not he misunderstood. .I have nothing to
_ _
v against the respecta'

knd h€

le license-I victualler, who has
to pursue his callinzas the butcher,'or she
It is the abuses of the

r, or any other tradesman

. .....
abuses of a good principle is no argument against
the principle itself. No, it is the vile debauching saloons,
the gambling, vice engendering beershops, that require
'controlling by the strong arm of the law. And

I can see no good or valid reason why the sale of intoxi-

ed under

d maddening liquors should

nt be pla
ions, just as it is proposed to do the sale of poisons_
hear.) But education and the repression .of

nness will not altogether meet the evil The
nust be reached and touched, and that can only be

done by means of moral and religious training. And
here begin the difficulties of the subject. But surely

t our rising statesmen some one will be found to
solve this tearful problem. It cannot he long postponed ;

eating into and undermining the very foundations of our
social system ; it is like an avalanche threatening to
overwhelm us ; it is the spectre of the banquet, marring
all our enjoyments; it is—with reverence he it spoken—
the handwriting. on the wall, and we shall do well to
heed it. (Loud applause ) It is not for me to suggest
any plan by which such great and conflicting claims can
be reconciled, such deeply rooted prejudices removed ;
bat by large and natural concessions, without the sacrifice
of great
.principles, I venture to hope that ere long
sot

thing will be accomplished; and I believe the first
and the right step will be in the establishment of a
national or compulsory system of education—(applause)
—leaving.the moral and religious training to the volun-
tary system, as at present, but enforcing nationally all
else besides, (Loud applause ) I could not help
thinking the.oths.r evening, when it teas my good for-
tune to listen to that transcendently eloquent speech of
the Right Hon. W. E Gladstone, at the Collegiate
Institution, and marked the high intellect which
beamed from every feature of that thoughtful, eare•
face, that there was a statesman to whom
in this her hour of need, could still

look up to, and who, under God's guidance, might
undo this Gordian knot, eand solve this mysterious pro-
blem. Be that time near or distant, 1 will, upon every
suitable occasion, do my utmost to extend the blessings
of education and moral and religious training to the
masses of the people, giving my utmost support and CO_
operation Wall the kindred institivions, such as ragged
schools, night schools, parochial and national schools,
which may be calculated to advance this all_important
subject. (Loud applause). The next question is the
sanitary condition of the town ; and here, I am happy to
say, the improvement is. daily, almost hourly, visible;
and thinks to the exertions of your health committee,
aided by the advice, and guided by the abilities, of your
able and much-respected borough engineer, Mr. New-
lands, hope, continue to improve, and when we get
the promised supply of water from Riving'on, much
more may be done. (Hear, bear) I trust then to sec
public fountains adorning the town. (Applause). I
know of no greater humanising, civilising element than
water—cleansing, purifying, refreshing, and invigorating
all around. It is the greatest boon that nature gives;
it. is life nr death and nn 171,fitOr 0.,..1.0. .try

We receive than a large, Continuous supply of -water
We cannot have too much for the
this rapidly augmenting population
lighted to sec the public ciste
and noble-minded TAP-

increasing wants of
I have been de_
ns which, thanks to a young

nthropist, now form so con-spit:a--
oils an object in the town ; and often, during- the recent

have I stopped to watch 'the wayworn
',art' toiled artisa" -,Tor, frail,

to slak

, and the

to the i

I say,

parching. thirst.
,iatpe of Charles Melly, who, at his,
inch that no inconsiderable one—has eon

this blessiug on the poo

(Applause), Ther

throng

mimes to whom Liverp‘;ol.iet owes a dobt of
titude—tuari who, at the sacrifice of health, and
-what is dear to some men—popularity, hive,

motivta

teadily par6u(

nest and purest
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