The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-10-28
A PREMIER ON TEMPERANCE.
Sir william Fox, EN-Premier of New Zea-
land, Before the w. @. Il. u.

Sir william Fox, Ex- Premier of New Zea-
land, Before the w. g. Il. u,
Sir William Fox, ex-Premter of New
Zealand, lectured before the Christian
Temperance Union, at Fraternity Hall,
Yesterday afternoon. The audience was
a large one.
The ex-Premier is 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 b.
Cough or Mr. Murphy could deliver
He had been in the Temperance fight
in his own native isle. He had a right
TO speak, because they were all lighting
a common enemy The evils of intoNi-
eating liquor were apparent in him
everywhere. 1t arose not more from
drunkenness from than it did the habiJu-
al use of LIQUOR. TIE apathy of all pow
ers and peoples to the evils of in
temperance astOnished him. If any
Other 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
Ii the epidemic should cross the river
into Detroit and the United States it
would not be q greater enemy to life
than now existed in the whole country
in the liquor traffic and intemperance
Every year between 5000 and co. 600
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 OF al
cohOlism, at the present time the
truth was concealed beneath the an
nOuncement that he died of consump-
tion, typhUs or something else. A
Coroners inquest hides the terrible
truth for the sake of the friends of the
deceased. 1t used to be announced that
he died by the visitation of God. A
ranker blasphemy was never uttered.
He died by the visitation of rum. Ap-
plause. The number of lives and souls
destroyed by liquor would never be
huDWu uulll LlG ldSL udNs
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. He 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 a word
about total abstinence cOuldn be found
in the B BILE He might say to that
there was not a word against slavery
in the Bible vet all the churches con-
demncd it as wrong Who would now
dare to make a chattel out of his fellow
manP The Bible said: % If thy right
hand offend thee, cut it off, and iii
thine eye offend thee, pluck it out "
Was there any moderation in thatP II
there was anything that should make a
total abstainer ofman it was that beau
tituI story of David pouring the liquid
on the ground.
One wet day John B. Cough was go
ing along a street in Boston. lie was a
terrible example of the wreck whisky
| could make OF q man. He was in the
gutter under the gutter He had not "a
friend in the whole city. A young man
stepped out Of a doorway, placed his
hand on the drunkard's shoulder and
said MIR GOugh!p Cough started
and stood erect 1t was the first time
in years that he had been addressed as
mister. The young man was good
Christian young man. He talked to
Cough a long time and got him to come
to "A meeting next evening in a certain
lquarter Of the city Cough promised,
and the next evening no 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.