Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-08
Temperance and Iste,npeTdnce.
Rev. Canon Farrar.1

IteT. canon farfar.
'Ilook around me, not here in England
only, but also through all the world, over
dependencies over which the sun never
sets, and 1 see the frightful, the intolerable
evidence OF the devastation wrought by one
fatal sin, the sin of drunkenness; and that
sin caused by one fatal product, alcohol
diluted with Intoxicating drinks. amun-
able, have not the heart, to touch on one
tenth or one-hundredth part of the proofs
which demonstrate to every serious mind.
which is at all acquainted with the facts,
the awful importance of this question.
Focus the lurid CLEANS which fash
tion, and you will see how fright
full is the glare. Track the subterra-
mean ramifcations of the evil, and you
will see how the whole nation, the whole
empire, Is undermined; how every tread
we rake is over fire ever bursting through
the treacherous ashes. It is matter not of
assertion but Of sternest demonstration,
that the drink traffic causes the most
amazing waste OF our national resources;
that to 1t are due, mainly and almost ex-
clu7ively, the worst phenomena of pauper-
ism; that it causes IS per cent. of those
melancholy causes of domestic ruin which
fill our police courts; that it contributes
enormously, both directly and indirectly
to the hlGeous social evil; that,
but for it, on the tes-
timony of nearly every Judge
on the bench, crimes of violence would we'll
nigh disappear; that is the cause, both di-
rectly and indirectly, of the most terrible
mortality: that it chokes our prisons, mad
houses and penitentaries; that it creates
an hereditary faint which makes life a
curse 10 q stunted population; that be-
cause Of il thousands, aye, tens of thou
sands oftniserable men, and yet more mis-
cradle women,and poor little children most
miserable of ali, lead lives of such squaIor
and anguish as only they who have wit
messed can conceive; that it devastates the
humanity, and bllghts the bodies and
the souls not only of 100000 drunkards,
but of the millions which their ruin drags
down to shame; that it illustrates our
religious efforts at home; that it DESTROYS
and ruins our mission efforts abroad: that
1t Is the chief bane and ruin of our homes:
that Ii is the darkest stain on the glory and
the prosperity of our nation. Exaggera-
ton! there Is not one word of this indict-
ment which is not true to the letter: not
one word of it which is not capable of
most rigorous proof which evidence can
establish and statistics contain. And un-
less 1t be proper to say twilight when we
mean midnight, if it is no ekaggeration
to say twilight when we mean midnight,
then it is none to say the blackness of its
darkness could not be represented in such
colors as when some mighty painter dips
his pencil in the hues of earthquake
and eclipse. Those who know nothing
whatever about the subiect-those who are
so unhappy as to be blinded by the pos
session, il some shape or other, of share,
or freehold, or an interest in the pro-
dUction or the sale of that which is the
cause of all this iniquity-may call this
impeachment exaggerated; but they have
never shaken, they have never attempted to
shake: the damning evidence on which it is
founded, and TO which concur with startling
unanimity the testimonies of every single
person, and every single class Of persons,
that has IL any way studied or come across
the subject. That evidence has been pro-
duced in the most public way, and in every
possible way again and again; it has been
produced before committees of the house of
lorG7, and before committees of the house
OF commons: 1t has been gathered for the
northern house of convocaiion, and for
the southern house of convocation: il has
been collected by statesmen, and collected
by political economists; it has been fur
nlshed from sources the most opposite and
the most unsupported; it is derived from
clergymen. and from judges, and from
lallers, and from policemen, and from the
heads Of warehouses; and asylums. and
from physicians, and from publicans; and
1t stands not only mistaken. but absolute.
ly uGchalieuged. Can man who calls
himself patriot, who calls himself a
Christian, can any man who has any heart