The Red Cloud chief., 1885-10-30
a PREMIER ON TEMPERANCE.
Sir William Fox. IX-rr~misr Of New Tea
IanL. I:rfnr. TIA. ". Z. !. L.

1900
Sir William Fox. cNprcmicr Of New
Zealand. lcc,urrd before the Christian
Temperance Union. ~ irat"rn " Hall.
Yesterday AFTERNOON. The audicnC- was
4 large one.
The eN-lremicr i i typical English
man. He has "a high forehead. white
hair. a full round face aul 4 long white
beard. and j rather uatriarchll in APP
pcaTancc. bnt hls manner j. thoroughly
English. HI style i, earnest and en-
er"ct.c.
Sir William said h. wa, ALWAYS 7. adv
to open IA mouth Tor the Temperance
cause. In" audience must not expect.
SAID he. such an Grafton. n John t..
Cough or Mr. Murphy could deliver.
He had been IA the Temperance ight
III his own native lie. liz had 4 riyht
to speak. because they were al lighting
a common ENEMY. The evils %; iuio>i-
eating liquor were apparent IN hm
clcrl where. Il arose not MOI" from
drunkenness, from than Il iid the hati'u-
al u-r of iI.Uor. TIE apathy oi all pow
crs and peoples to- the evils OF IL
temperance a,tuu.>hcd him. II any
o-hcr common enemy aro-c N the r
midst what 4 stir there would bc to put
il down. Take. for instance. small
poN. which was ,Cour@Ing Montreal.
II the epidemic should cross the riye-
into Detroit and the United >ta'c~. Il
would not be n Greater cucmy IL NE
...,, ,.,r- -. 81 =, -. a. q ..rn -.
in the liquor traffic and intcmperaucc
Every year between 1900 and tu.uH
~oonvic;> were manufactured through
the med m of liquor. Were the pco-
pie blind 10 these thing,2 They Were
not. They shut their eyes to them
knowingly. When a man died ri: al
coholI>m. NJ the present time. the
truth was concealed beneath the an
nouncement that he died Of con,ump-
ton, typhus OF something else a
Coroner's inquest hides The terrible
truth for the sake Of the friends Of the
deceased. IL used 10 De- announced that
he died by the visitation Of God. A
Tanker blasphemy was never uttered.
He died by the visitation of rum. IAp-
p!ause The number Of | vc. and souls
destroyed by liquor would never lie
known until the las, dav.
He would not declare whether he
Wa for high or low license. local OPP
ton or for the suppression of the traffic
otherwise II was not his Intention To
touch on American politics. He stood
on the gospel Of Temperance. and they
were going TO sweep the earth with it
by and by. Applause
Some people nigh, saw tina, a word
about total abstinence couldn , be founi
in the Il bic. II. nigh, say to that
there was o a word again,t slavery
in the Bible. Vet ali the churches ron
demned il n, wrong. Who would now
dare To maze a chai;el oUt of his fellow
man. The Bbie said: If thv nigh;
hand offend thee. M il off," and II
thine eve offend thee. pluck i; out
Wa there any moderation IN ;ha,' II
there was ANYTHING that should make 4
total ab,iainer If man. i, Wa that beau
tiful story Of David pouring the liquid
on the ground.
One We; day John u. Cough was 20
ing along 4 street in Boston. H. was 4
terrible eNamp.e Of the wreck WHISKY
could make OF 4 man. lie vas IN the
gutter under the gutter. He had no: =
friend IN the whole city. 4 young mar
step Ell oai O! Z dYorsay. placed his
hand on the drunkarI's shoulder ard
said: MIR. Cough" Cough started
and Stood erect l. wa the iirs; tine
IN year, that be nad been addressed a.
The Young man was a god
Christian young man He talked 20
Cough a long tine and got h II 10 OF.
10 = meeting hex evening in = CERTAIN
quarter O! the city. Cough promised
and the ne1; evening b. was there The
Young man and several Others spoke 10
HIM He heard word, of Christian per-
and be broke down From
time o n he was John IL Gough. tho
apostle Of Tempcrance-Dx!roi! IosG
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