Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-15


pronounced that act of contrition, ask
them how it was that such as he, that a
drunkard's grave in the bottom of the
ocean would have to be his lot. Oh! the
wreck of this terrible destroyer, drink.
of this Citizens league, to rally around it ?
Need appeal to you, no matter what may
be your creed or nationality? If we are
men of different creeds, in this work we
are one. There is no reason why creed or
nationality should separate us.
You, in this young country,
I say, have to defend and
protect it against this vice that is working
such desolation and which is producing
SO much misery and pauperism IN the
older countries of Europe. Here you have
not to reform. We have to reform and re-
generate in the old country. 1t is hard to
reform. 1t is next to an impossible task.
But just as that poor boy stated to me to
try and prevent the boys from becoming
thieves, so do 1 say to you IN this young
country, to prevent this vice of in
temperance from getting foothold
amongst you, for if it does, no plague, no
leprosy has ever worked the desoiatlon
which this vice will inevitably
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at Castle Garden with respect to emf
grants. Every emigrant is subject to the
closest scrutiny. Why so? Because within
the last two years smallpox has been in
troduced into this country, and it is a ter
rible plague-a terrible evil. But what re
its effects? How many does it strike
down? How many men does it ruin?
What desolation does it carry in its wake
in comparison with this evil of intemper-
perance? Your society has for its object
the carrying out and enforcement of the
law The law ought to be sacred to every
one, no matter what our religion may be.
For what is religion? We all believe in
the one God, and what is re-
ligion but our duty to God and
our duty to man. Religion is that tie
which binds US to God, and which binds us
to society. And the law of God is the basis
of society. Society rests upon the law of God
and it is every mans bounden duty to see
that the law is enforced. Otherwise where
is the stability of the nation?
Here in this country you have wise law
which says that there shall be no traffic.
there shall be no traffic or drinking on a
Sunday. We are fighting this battle in
England. We have not got that law but
you have that law.
Mr.. Sullivan, from this platform the
other night, showed you how etfectual
this law has been in Ireland !; the wonder
full effects that it produced; how much it
had lessened crime. Why cannot you
make that law operate the same here:
appeal to you, then, to stand up and to be
firm for this law. Whatever is your reli-
gious belief, you believe in the necessity of
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mandment that you and 1 have learned to
tell at our mothers knee; that command
ment which was given amid thunder and
lightning on Mount Sinia, ''Remember,-
remember you keep holy the Sabbath day."
This is binding upon all men, and if the
doors of these liquor shops are open, and if
people can obtain drink by any means is
not this law violated? Why. is it not
more innocent to sell bread or to sell fruit
or to sell fish on Sunday, ana yet the
the prophet to be closed on the Sabbath
day that men might not bring in wine and
fgs-that they would not traffic on the
Sabbath day.
My friends, let me give you some idea
of what the drinking is in the old country
on a Sunday. A committee of the house of
ago to make report as to the extent of
drinking in most of the large
towns in England, and this was
conducted with great care, and I have be-
fore me the returns that were presented to
the house of commons. In Manchester,
one of cur great -centers of manufacture,
when this return was, made showed, &C
cording to these statistics for six sue
cessive Sundays, which city includes 159
spirit vaults and 256 public houses, and
1851 beer houses, which gives the average
number of visits on Sunday to be to 1,456
houses, 1852 men, 70,47S women and
22,232 children. The total number of Wis
its to those 1,456 houses being 212,243
persons. This is the result of their inves-
tigatiOn. Some persons may have made
more than one visit to house, and may
have made several, but if it be taken for
granted that every person paid three visits,
still the number would be over 10000, or
between a fourth and fifth of the
entire population of the city.
And this attendance was from
IL to 3, and from to 10 at night. Let me
ask you to think what must be the spirit
ual condition. of city like that, where the
grog and tile liquor interests hold such
paraEsoun* sway. Here, as you have the
law to close these houses, it is the citizens
duty to see this law carried into effect, Zap
plause) not left to be dead letter. It
will not take long to corrupt your bright
young men; it will not take long, for the
leprousy of incompetence will spread in
to the heart of the family, carrying in its
train not only misery but social and spir-
itual desolation. find that you have a
law that minors are not allowed
to be served. with liquor
in your town. I do not know wheth-
re children are in the habit of going to
public houses, at least to drinking saloons
we call them public houses in the old
country. But think of the children again
and again. I'VE have the law, too, but it is
dead letter, I regret to say. Little chill
dren should not be served, but when you
see little child of from seven to eight
years of age-a little girl of seven or eight
years old-going or being sent into these
gin palaces that we have in the old country,
carrying a Jug like this filled with beer,
who gets the first sup? The child
that carries the jug, and then this
child acquires a habit and taste for
drinking. Oh! drink! Drink is an in
sidious demon. That child that is sent to
that public house by that parent is on the
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