The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16
a PREMlER's VIEWS.
Sir Villa m Fox, Ex-Premier of New Zca
land, Before the w. C. 7. u.

Sir William Fox, Ex-Premier of New Zca-
land, Before the W. C. t. U.
Sir William Fox, ex-Premier of New
Zealand, lectured before the Christian
Temperance Union, at Fraternity Hall,
yesterday afternoon. The audience was
large one.
The ex-Premier is a typical English
man. He has high forehead, white
hair, full round face and a long white
beard and is rather patriarchal in APP
pearance, but his MANNER is thoroughly
English. His style is earnest and en-
ergetic.
Sir William said he was always ready
to open his mouth for the Temperance
cause. The audience must not expect,
said he, such an grafton, as John Il.
Cough or MIR. Murphy could deliver
He had been in the Temperance fight
in his own native isle, He had right
to speak, because they were all fighting
q common enemy. The evils of intoxf-
eating liquor were apparent in him
everywhere. 1t arose not more from
drunkenness from than it did the habitu-
al use of liquor. The apathy of all pow
ers and peoples to. the evils of in
temperance astonished him. If any
o5her common enemy arose in Their
midst what a stir there would be to put
it down. Take, for instance, small
pox, which was scourging Montreal.
If the epidemic should cross the river
into Detroit and the United States, it
would not be greater enemy to life
than now existed in the whole country
in the liquor traffic and intemperanee.
Every year between 5000 and $4,000
convicts were manufactured through
the medium of liquor. We're the peo-
pie blind to these things? They were
not They shut their eyes TO them
knowingly, When a man died 81 NJ
coholism, at the present time, the
truth was concealed beneath The an
nounccment that he died of eonsump-
ton, typhus or something else. A
Coroner's inquest hides tbs terrible
truth for the sake of the friends of the
deceased. 1t used to be aDp9Nnced That
he died by the visitation of God. A
ranker blasphemy was never uttered.
He died by the visitation 0f rum. APP
plause. The number of lives and souls
destroyed by liquor would never be
known until the last day.
He would not declare whether he
was for high or low license, local OPP
ton or for the suppression of the traffic
otherwise. 1t was not his intention to
touch on American politics. lie stood
on the gospel of Temperance, and they
were going to sweep the earth with it
by and by. Applause.
Some people might say that word
about total abstinence conldn' be found
in the Bible. He might say to that
there was not a word against slavery
in the Bible, vet all the churches con-
demned it as wrong. Who would now
dare to make chattel out of his fellow
manP The Bible said: &" If thy right
hand offend thee, cut it off," and eff
thine eye offend thee, pluck it out. "
Was there any moderation in thatP II
there was anything that should make y
total abstainer of man, it was that beau
tiful story of David pouring the liquid
on the ground.
One wet day John B. Cough was go
ing along street in Boston. he was
terrible example of the wreck whisky
could make of man. He was in the
gutter--under the gutter. He had MOI a
friend in the whole city. A young man
stepped out of doorway, placed his
hand on the drunkard's shoulder and
said: '.Mr. Goughr' Cough started
and stood erect 1t was the first time
in years that he had been addressed as
mister. The young man was a good
Christian young man. He talked to
Cough long time and got him to come
to meeting next evening in certain
quarter of the city. Cough promised,
and the next evening he was there. The
young man and several others spoke to-
him. He heard words of Christian per-
suasion, and he broke down. From
that time on he was John b. Cough, the
apostle of Temperance. Detroit Post.