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 age temperance worker that they brand as the encourager of the incorporate every person 1 who daring to think for himself, ventures to
 differ from their method In this very town I there have been put into working order. with
 much pains and prayer, four rooms for a re l sort for the same sort of men have spoken 1 of rooms containing the amusements that I make saloons attractive, without the liquor; place where man can play any game he l likes. read amusing books, see the daily pa- l pers and the magazines smoke and keep his
 hat on; rooms warmed, lighted, and kept in
 order. Yet one man, sO7called minister of
 the Gospel, has already characterized these appliances as ''deviPs machinery" and used
 all his little influence to make the affair de-
 spised-he himself beinga violent temperance ] agitator and more than one man, also of his l persuasion as to temperance and religion both,
 has declared this enterprise to be as bad as soloon keeping. ef ss. .ra..s.g z.r
 :, Yet the rooms are always filed, orderly | and quiet as any place of the sort can be- a police officer testi6es that it is frequented
 nightly by those whom he has often hauled
 tof the beer shops drunk; and the part of
 the town where this place is situated is much l quieter than ever before in the evening.
 | But it is SO much easier to hold pleasant
 prayer meeting than to put ones shoulder to
 the muddy wheel and help lift it that l sup
 pose it will always be done till baptism of
 that Spirit who is both light and power shall | convince even the careless and the fanatic which is the right way. -~>r Y
 Then, to look at still another side Our
 manufacturers have it in their power to give the
 cause of temperance such mighty help as will
 Set it forward years in advance of it's present | position. Our manufactures are infested with
 workmen who are drunkards because they are | good workmen; that is to say, they keep their places in the workshops because it is not easy
 to find others skilled In their trade. 1 know more than one factory where men get drunk
 every few weeks, go off for a day or two. and
 then come back, sure of finding their places kept for them. #7.- l Manufacturers pemit this for two reasons
 first from an idea that they cannot find work men able to do some special sort of work easi- ] ly, and they do not like to lose capable
 hand; second, because they are afraid that 1 the discharged man will revenge himself on
 their buildings or machinery. should like l to ask these gentlemen one or two questions;
 and firstly, is the damage done to your busi-
 ness by the delay of fulfilling contracts, or
 the necessity of breaking them, incurred by
 the employment of men who can never be re 1 lied on fully Compensated by the spasmodic labor and skill of these men Tsss e.l es;5 27's | Secondly, do not you honestly think, on
 considering the matter, that manufactory so
 respectable and so respected that it employed ouly sober and steady men, would always be preferred by that class of workmen {? Thirdly, are there not in this country
 enough specialists, of honesty and sobriety, in 1 your particular trade, who could be procured l by advertising for them?
 Fourthly, if you fully insure your factory l and machinery. is it not better to have them l burned down once in few years than to break your contracts and lose your customers
 continually? Besides there is great deal of l truth in the old proverb, Threatened men | live long," 1 know there are a few kind-heart-
 ed men who Keep taking back drunken enn. pleyee out of kindness to his family; but is
 it kindness? Do you not bv this continual | encouragement take away every reason for be 1 ing temperate from this man? I believe one | timid soft-bearted manufacturer is worse tor Ia town than it's worst saloon, as far as the en | couragement of drinking goes. 1 know that | this experiment has been successfully tried. l Not very many years ago great manufactur- 1 ing firm set up large workshops near certain ! New England town, and hired two master | mechanics, young men highly recommended,
 
 st. Work began with full complement of ''hands,' but in a short time one man was i finally discharged for drunkenness then an- other, all skilled workmen. The proprietor of the concert. hearing of these losses, hurried I up from the city to remonstrate p '- What are you doing young man?" he cried. ''You will ruin the business at this 1 rate. You have turned of three of our best hands in fortnight" ~.-.e iod ryith l steady, skillful men, calmly replied the oyer- seer.
 | "But it won't do, tell you! it won't do You may find three, but that's more than you l could expect. If ithappens again shall have l to put the machinist in your place."
 "He has done the same thing twice this l week, SIT, said the overseer, with smile. ''We are of one mind j; for we were brought | up under the same master and, MT. w., 1
 will promise to pay you out of my own pock ct at the end of the current year any losses you may sustain from this method but tell you plainly will not run this or any other fac tory on any other principle" s... .,.s r, Mir. w. did not want to lose both his over seer and machiuist, so he let the matter drop and found at the years end every contract | had been punctually- fulfilled. neither delay ! or loss had occurred, and his business had l never been so fourishing. Both these men | are now wealthy manufacturers themselves 1 Need enlarge on the ilustration2 4-x $ ! Then there is one other. of the numerous faucets of the subject: Is the hereditary drunkard totally irresponsible and hopeless? Cannot he too rouse within himself some nor al courage, some power of fight to resist the inward enemy? We do not say to a naughty
 child, s'Poor little dear you cant help being | bad-tempered; you inherit it from your dear l mother. You may strike and scream, and l nobody shall find fault with you: t is hered- l tary." Nor do we ever accept it as plea | for stea ling that the thief was burglars
 child and grandson of a high way robber, he
 goes to prison for just as long time in spite past generations and we hang the murderer with just as much alacrity and dispatch as if 1 his father had been a saint. sHeredity excu
 ses to law no other moral delinquency, though sfo oto a,xl ,f,,ln f