The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-05-18
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EVILS OF SOCIAL DRINKING
English Statesman Says Greatest DIFF.
ficuIty Is to Entertain Publicly
Without Liquor.

Sir James Haslett, member OF par
lament for Belfast speaking at
meeting held in London presided over
by the Archbishop Canterbury, gave
the following important testimony
which we commend to the statesmen
and public men of the United States:
MY lord bishop, It is with very
great pleasure that ! rise to propose
hat the best thanks Of this meeting
be given 20 you for presiding on this
occasion think you are the right
man in the right place. The church
must lead If we ave TO have healthy
influence in society AS a stranger
amongst you, have had very great
pleasure in hearing all that has been
said in regard to total ahs,inence. !
may say that drank II in from my
! mothers breast have never tasted
drink, and what possibly Is not an
easy matter, have never offered 1t to
others The greatest difficulty we
have is in the social intercourse OF
life-to entertain publicly, as pub
lie man. without drinking SO strong
are social habits that you have raised
| against you all the weapons that sat
ire and evil communication can pos
sibly find. You are called mean and
'niggardly, and a hundred other
things think, my lord that the
change must come from the women
They must act as a lever in this mat
ter. though | do not know very well
how they are to do IT, II was one OF
my duties, as the mayor Of Belfast, to
entertain the representatives OF royal.
ty, and It was a difficulty with me how
could do 1t without drink. Unfor
tunately. the lord lieutenant dropped
upon me just the week after | was ap
pointed. That difficulty was greater,
think. than | might have been able
to withstand: but had then my wife
with me, and she said: Well, you had
better resign your Office We carried
II through as best we could. | trust
that the recollection of that may still
brighten her life in the other world
But It Is the difficulty of social life
that you must seek to unravel. You
cannot do II by legislation. am
bound to say that when | waited upon
the lord lieutenant and told him about
my difficulty, he said: My dear fellow
I would only spit upon you If you sac
rficed your principles Lord London.
derry was too much of a gentleman to
seek that | should in any way lower
myself, and ! felt, as an old Sabbath
school teacher. working amongst the
young, and addressing meetings all
my life, that If | had then put drink
on the table | would have sacrificed
all that had ever done. My lord
bishop It is not an easy thing to act
thus. have passed through recent
election and my bitterest enemies
we're those who sold drink 1t has
been said in Ireland that the readiest
way to a mans intelligence is through
his stomach. II is wonderful how
kindly we are disposed after we gel
our dinner 1t has unquestlonably al
immense influence; and there is {
large class in our country of wnom Il
may be said that the readiest way t
their intelligence is through glass
of beer or spirits. You have that t
fight against. During my recent con
test, anu during a contest ten year!
ago. never had at the election com
mittee meetings one drop of stronl
drink. If we cannot carry an election
without it, then, in Gods name let u
surrender" - National Temperate,
Advocate.