The times., 1899-10-23

glo-Saxon race has spread its influence all
over the globe. and it is. We believe,
beniicent influence. taking it as whole.
It seems that its present pTowess can never
be undermined or supplantsd, and that 1t
will always prove a blessing. But let Us
learn from history. Eternal Rome was
not eternal Sensuality undermined it, aud
the United States and Great Britain are
threatened with the same wonderful and
horrible thing. Through sensual indul-
geuce the people are fast becoming race
Of drunkards and alas for US, it seems,
We love TO have it So The Mohammeda IS
are total abstainers. and in European
countries, where the people are not blessed
as we are with prosperity, the people can
not afford TO indulge themselves. In Eng
land and in the United States more par
ticularly, where there is an abundance OF
wealth, the evil drink habit is constantly
growing"
Mr.. Wilson spoke at length of the evils
attending the use of liquor by the people
at large and by the soldiers i'll our aTmIs5,
He cited the complaint Of John G. Patton,
the missionary who returned TO beg that
intoxicants be not shipped to the c0un-
tries of the heathens that missionaries
were laboriug TO Christianze. The liquor
he said make savages of the men who are
being civilized and threatens the lives OF
the missionaries. The minister stated that
the only way in which to save all persons
from ruin and the governments from in
evitable overthrow was to eradicate the
cause Of the trouble. There was. he said,
no use in attempting TO instruct people
or warn them against the evil as long as
f. it existed. 1t must be eradicated. The
war with Spain. said the minister, cost US
many lives and millions of dollars, but
that, he stated, was nothing compared with
the number of wrecked lives and homes
caused by liquor. Rev. Wilson would not
say that the country was about to so TO
pieces, but claimed that it was certainly
on the road to it and that the seat OF the
trouble was the liquor traffic, encouraged
by our citizens and legislators, for no 9TH
eT reason than soTdid gain.
During his sermon the minister quoted
from a book of statistics in reference to
the relation Of the liquor traffic to pauper-
ism, crime, and insanity in the State Of
Massachusetts. The figures he said, show
ed that 70 per cent Of the paupers, by their
own confessions, were addicted to the use
of liquor. and that 46 per cent of that
number attribute their paupeTism TO the
incorporate habits of themselves and their
parents.
One of every four insane persons becomes
so through oyer-indulgence in alcoholics.
Every alternate person was addicted to
drink, and seven out of every ten insane
persons had at least one Incorporate par
ent This, said the minister showed the
hereditary influence. 1t also served to
show that liquor was dethroning the rea-
son Of the people. In reference to the re-
Iationship between crime and liquor. Mr..
Wilson stated that sc per cent OF the con-
vicJicns Ia Massachusetts were for drunk
enncss. Eighty-two per cert of the Of
tenders were under the influence Of liquor
when they committed their crimes. Ninety
four per cent of all convicted criminals
were addicted to the use of liquor, and
cnly 6 per cent including children, were
abstainers.
After gCing into a detailed instruction
as to the manner in which the evil com
piained OF shCuld be crushed and eradicat-
ed Mr.. Wilson begged his congregation to
use their influence and labor against the
use Of liquor. That, he said, would be the
cniy remedy for the evil at present, and
until it was thoroughly and absolutely
wiped cut the condition of affairs hoped for
could net, he said, be realized. To in
stTuct child not to drink, said the min
ister, is ali right, but to have liquor where
the child can get possession of it. is a
constant temptation, and viii eventually
lead TO just what the child has been warned
against.