Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-03
.ROUS|NG IRELAND
TO TEMPERANCE:
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the good woman. What does ali TN
talk about IAtch MY raj mean
There's ,NlAl il means, saiu she, point
Ing to IL big dish Oh uutrlters meat Oh
the table. 1t means thNt We huY'
meat every day instead OF bones 81
saturday ulSht, l am told t!'efe y
Ia.lu butchers inca. sod now III iI'
north OF Ireland than ever there wa.
before.
And here's more of what it means,
Mr.. Paterson continued. Formerly We
used to have Il weekly sitting OF half I
dozen magistrates in Armagh and theS
had all they could do to finish up the
business of one day. Last october Their.
wasn't single case for them on any OF
the four Wednesdays that they met. In
Cambridge, which was as drunken
n town as Armagh, they have given uI
the weekly sessions and meet only
once month and the town council has
petitioned the government to reduce the
police force to half its present mum
Der because there isn't any use for the
men. In this town 500 men Joined In
one night. One solicitor in the north
of Ireland told me that he made $1,000 a
year defending 'drunks' one n week
1T tllt iJttts StSSIoiif iilt lipN' no ttii''
me, all that's gone. thanks to our
movement. Another lawyer told mo
that he had lost $3.50 n year in the
same way. In the city of Derry / am
told there never were so many chill
dren's boots sold as last winter. The
dry goods men say they are selling
more clothing to worknGmcn's wives
than ever before and the furniture deal
ers say they have never known such
prosperous times in Ireland. In Coler-
aine ono draper who sells ready made
clothes was cleaned out of suits be-
fore n holiday recently One tailor In
n County Down village that know
made 10 pairs of trousers for working
men In January. 1909. In January
1910, he made sc pairs. Old debts that
had been written off rs bad are being
paid. and people are coming into the
shops TO buy with cash in their hands.
That's the result"
REVENUES lit HARD.
Although Mr.. Paterson couldn't give
figures showing the effect on tho liquor
trade some uncomnonly significant
figures were published last month by
the English revenue department. These
show that the revenue from the spirit
duty was Sl0T ,0S5. 900 in tho year i90S-9
and that in the year la0910 1t was only
s90SS5,C00. That most of this falling
off Is duo 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 English workrgman
and spirits are drunk by the Irish.
Furthermore there were only TO-
1896 gallons of spirits distilled IN
Ireland last year compared with 12,-
192.24i gallons the previous year.
can also testify from personal expert
ence that all over the north of Ireland
publicnns are going out of business.
The full extent OF this movement can
not be known until the license re-
turns for the year are compiled.
Perhaps one OF tho most significant
evidence of the effect Of Mr. Pater-
sons campaign is contained in n state
ment made to me by an Irish mission
airy who has been in China for 10
years. He returned to his home near
Belfast last July and on July 12, the
anniversary of the battle of the Boyne.
he visited the field where the Orange
men were holding their celebration
Ten years ago." he told me- 30
per cent OF the men there would have
been drunk This year I didn't see n
single man tho worse for drink. and
what's moro I didn't hear the Pope
cursed once. Paterson is making IL
new Ireland"
Before leaving Mr. Paterson asked
him what he thought Of the legislative
prohibition movement in tho United
States. which he hopes to visit some
time toward tho end of next year.
Il don't believe prohibition viii ever
do a bit of good" he said. unless
you inspire the men with the desire to
do without the drink Compulsory con-
version never lasts. Voluntary turning
to the good is the only thing that
counts. don't mean by that that
the economic side should be neglected.
and never fail to point out that a to-
tai abstainer IS much better off than
drinker. but If drunkard Is to DO
reformed he must be filed with the
holy spirit"
THE MODERATE DRINKER.
what do Won think of the moderate