The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-01-08

And England's voice upon 1t will again
be heard all over the world. { Applause ]
"Our statesmen in the past have been
awfully blind on this question. Lord
Salisbury sometime ago wrote an able
article on housing the poor. This is
one Of the great problems IN England.
But he never once touched upon the
liquor question Mr.. Chamberlain also
wrote an able article on the same
question. but be said not word about
the liquor question. Lord Shaftbury,
England's greatest philauthropist, said
if we want to drive back the evils Of
poverty. We must first arrest the evils
of the liquor traffic. He knew thatthe
secret Of poverty was in spring touch Of
liquor.
| 81 have been among the tenement
houses of New York, and would say to
the people Of this great land that there
turks in that quarter power which
will overcome the land il not broken
up. They tod us in England that ed
uiation was the great panacea that
would set all things right. Then the
churches cried out and said: Wait
until our Sunday schools have done
their work and you will see everything
in apple pie order Out of l0,S6l
inmates in London prisons, 6.572 we're
educated in Sunday schools. There is
no real power and force here for the
liquor traffic. Time has shown our
statesmen that there is something yet
stronger to be grappled with. Now,
Gladstone, Churchill and Morley, all
say that BY far the most important
question Of the hour is the liqnor traffic.
"There is not a man in England to-
day who will dare make a contest for
Office without discussing the liquor
question. We will very soon obtain
relief in England when we get local
option. A strong government recently
brought forth measure to compensate
the holders Of liquor license when they
should go out Of the business. The
idea was to appropriate q sum of money
to perpetually endow these men. 10
one week the strongest Conservative
government OF modern times was glad
to keep quiet on that bill. Applause
I'VE advocate local option because it
will lead to total prohibition. A royal
commission was appointed to go among
the workingmen and learn something
about their attitude on the liquor ques.
ton. The report concluded by saying,
sWe find large class Of people who
are anxious to be protected from temp
tation which is thrust in their midst
The saloons. my friends, are not among
the rich they are not in the beautiful
squares but they are to be found in
the alleys, the side streets and among
the poor. Here the ealoons do their
work of destruction. The poor man
has the saloon thrust upon him, whether
he will or won't. The next election in
England will solve this question.
"Iu England there are what are
known as side house; that is the great
brewer owns all the saloons in a certain
district In Liverpool there is only
one instance in England of real prohi-
bition. In district Of fifty thousand
inhabitants there is no saloon, and one
pauper to one thousand population. In
another district there are forty FIVE
thousand population, one hundred
saloons. aud one pauper to every eighty
inhabitants. In the prohibition district
all is clean and bright; in the other,
the women are Stevens, and the chill
dren ragged and barefooted. In the
great Art Gallery Of Liverpool there is
statue Of muni6cent donor. On it is
the name of man who was q manufac-
turer Of gin. I would Ike to take that
marble and tear it down, and then take
all the ragged, homeless children and
place them in that gallery. They
could say Our rags, our homelessncss,
or poverty paid for this.'
In East London, in 200 saloons,
within three hours, 4S,6OS men, 3d.
SAT women and 1913 children passed
in and ont. God only knows how many
20 in and out of the 10000 saloons Of
London during the long NIGHTS. On
the Milan road, in the Whitechapel
district, for straight stretch, quarter
of mile long, there are forty saloons.
These are all served BY young girls. /
thank Good that in your land public
sentiment prevents this.
"All hail to the land of the Stars and |