Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-04

lawyer told me that lie had lost $50 a
year in the same way. In the city OIL
Derry am told there never were SO man!
childrens boots sold as last winter. The
drv goods men say they are selling more
clothing to WorkingmenS wives than ever
before and the furniture dealers say they
have never known such prosperous times
in Ireland In Coleraine one draper who
sells ready made clothes was cleaned out
of suits before Il holiday recently. one
tailor in County Down village that l
know made nineteen pairs or trousers
for workingmen liz January. l:n9 In
January 1910 lie made fifty-siN pairs.
Old debts that had been written off as bad
are being paid, and people are coming
into the shops to buy With cash in their
hands. That's the result.
Although Mr.. Patterson could not give
figures showing the effect on the liquor
trade some unconmonly significant fig
uret We're published last month ny the
English revenue department. These show
that the revenue from the spirit DUTY
was S1O7 OSJ.0o in the year l9Os-9, and
that in the wear 1903-1O Ii was only x9o.
5000 That most of this falling of is
due to the change in Ireland is shown by
the fact that beer duties have not fallen
off at ALL Beer is the drink of the Eng
lish nottingham. and spirits are drunk
by the Irish.
Furthermore. there were only lo.IJS.:itiJ
gallons OF spirits distilled in Ireland last
wear compared with l. 1872. IA gallons the
previous year The full extent of this
movements cannot be known until the Ii
cense returns for the wear are compiled.
Perhaps one OF the most significant evil
dences of the effect of Mr.. Patter.on's
campaign is contained in statement
made by an Irish missionary WHO has
been in China for ten years. He returned
TO his home near Belfast last July. and
July l.. the anniversary of the battle of
the Bovine he visited the field where the
Orangemen were holding their celebra-
ton.
Ten years ago" he told me. 80 per
cent of the men there would have been
drunk. This year | didn t see single
man the worse for drink. and. what's
more | didn't hear the Pope cursed once.
Patterson is making new Ireland
Mr.. Patterson was asked what he
thought of the legislative prohibition
movement in the United States. which he
hopes to visit some time toward the end
of next year.
Il don't believe prohibition will ever do
a bit of good he said. unless YOU in
out the drink. Compulsory conversion
never lasts. Voluntary turning to the
good is the only thing that counts. I
don't mean by that that the economic
side should he neglected. and | never fail
to point out that total abstainer is
much better off than drinker. but il
drunkard is to De reformed he must be
filled with the holy spirit
What do you think Of the moderate
drinker?' was asked.
If there We're no drinkers to excess
there would be no drink problem. was
the reply. and every drunkard began as
nibbler and a faster. Maybe some Of
Us can take our Wee drop and enjoy it
without it's doing any harm. but how
do We know that i, won't and then
there's the other man to think of. How
can You catch Your pal IL you're not
caught yourself first?
Yes" he declared. That's the whole
secret Of it, Appeal to the unseltish in
man. Give him something to do. Mere
formal abstinence because il is good for
ones self has no inspiration. Catch my pal
and who knows what wonderful things
may come OF 1t. The Lord caught An