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| ‘ r urter, 27th day, Va. 41.9m., a.m, business | - vpey 222 San 'Moon| High | Days} They will also give the usual facilities to’ License or No License. Co" i rises sets | rises | water len‘h, | customers requiring advances, augl ies hm hm aft’n morn tain’. UU ute “Seed Sir,— Our friends, ihe enemy, are using iW lay 6 35 36 3 55) 7 S211 23 MeL A % () quite anumber of very plavsible arguments 2 = Ly o a : 26| : 43'. 29 0d, Moron Me Uarrié, In their canvass against the Scott Act. On' 2.8: 6} 32) 457 9 26: 26 4 Sacurday 7} 29152910 6) 22 BARRISTERS : ~ " ty a fo : a YT 46) = sea fA in (electors face to face in the Market Hall | j ne a 1 6 co _ on | they are altogether dumb. Often you will | ab Wet aeons 13| Ql s 14 0 a 9 ATTORNEY Ph ‘i hear such reasous as the following given, iad ’ 14} 20 9 10) 1 39 6 » and given with such a show of innocence. | 1)/Friday 16) Isf10 Bt! 2 3| 9 Ast. We are in favor of Prohibition. j] Saturday 17 6H] 16 3 38 10 39 » es , We will vote for prohibition. The Scott 12 Sunday ’ IS) l4morn| 4 55 56 Oflice tli Old Bank, | Act does not go for enough. We are Pro- 13 Monday 19} 12 0 23) 6 21 53 (UP STAIRS). | hibitionists. 14; Tuesday ) 21h 1t) 129° 7 31l 50) Ctown, Feb. 21, 1984. What ret 1 Who believes that the rum 15 Zs hacodon § GR Ol DR OS er OE a a as ee sellers haye all at once become Prohibitien- 16 Thursday 1 24 7,340,9 9 43 0 nih ists ? We’re very sorry Mr. Liquor sell . ’ oo ~| 4 | ry y ir iquor seller 17 Fri tay 25 BI 445) 9 6 40 \ LLIVAN & MAUNEILL, but we can’t believe you. Try again. ' IS Saturday 2 4] 5 47 10 24) 37 2nd. The Scott Act goes too far. The 5 sao mB Piola 4 iF a 7 ATTORNEYS 2 AT- LAW |people are not prepared for such advanced - ru. = | ala aa § a i ae legislation, = YV cad : 3.3! 56) 9 44 "0 6| 4 olici . . bi ob | Indeed, and still you say you are a full- 23|Chured ie 33 5410 35040, 21 Solicitors in ¢ hancery, fledged Prohibitionist. Now, you say the 24 Friday 351 5311 22/116) 181, i ‘ people are not prepared for a permissive 2) Setucday 36 Bl iaft 6: 153} 15 NOTARIES PU BLIC, &€. | measure such as the Scott Act. Again, 25 Saniay 38; 48) 040 242 12] opFIcEs—o’Halloran’s Buildi srd, The liquor sold now under the Scott 27 Moaday | 41 47| 120 3.87) Dl george Stroct, Charlottotown, | Act ia-vory bad. Tt is not liquor at all, it 25' Lues lay 2 hb o2 a 1 on, /naer cense we ha Loo 29 Wedneslay | 43; 45, 2 2%) 5 58 3} ai Money to Loan, liquor. P 30 Thursday 445 44,2 58,7 9) Olw we 110 Do you say this for effect or b » it j pnd Py ee fe -a| W. W. Suntivan, Q. C. | Cazstse B. Macrert O FOR Che ee IGE Sees OF A 31 Friday | 45/4 42} 324 8 9) 9 59 ae yet . | . irue, which? Ask those who supp'y the ; = ce prin trade if there is any difference in the Th ; ot liquors imported now and before the Scott THE RAILWAY TMs TABLE. WEST & RENDELL, Act! No poison under the License! Try — 9 City again. (hastened ine) Commission Merchants,|,.1%.0: esos ae ths, urshe

ST a _ be mistaken as well as others. Father Mc- @WOING West, a M. A.M. P.M. iy Paps ni Charlottctown ........<0+- 647 912 427 St. John s, Newfoundland. Gillivray was a .good Christian man, but ee RE oy 747 1055. 5 47 when he said from the fulpit that a rum-

P. M.? Consignments solicited, Liberal advances seller was a double murderer, and when he Rensingte o-+2+e00c+ceeus 842 1222 705|)made. |asked the people to support the Scott Act, Summerside, | 2*™V@-----> 9 07 12 a7 7 37 July ‘5, nS06. . Zaw 4m ____ jhe was certainly in the wrong.

“ § depart...... 927 232 > ans ; Yes, the churches are against you, and Port Hill... ...+-+++eeees 1030 4:15 out of twenty clergy in Charlottetown, you a POO... eee cers soeces 7 = ’ a ij can’t get one to give consolation— not one.

ignis hese cceeeeeseeeeere - t- ‘ Again, PROM WEST. P.M. A.M, A. M. sill teta ae 5th. If we had a license law we would Tignish a fen 20 687 \ R. CHARLES CAIRNS, in returning) so¢ to it that illicit selling was stamped Allerton . 0.6.6. s ce stcecdes 240 757 + thanks t< the public for the liberal) (14. we would do it for our own protec- Dette ns si 415 1025 popromage extended to him, begs leave to ID! son, ae / ; lt ipa ;

"aaetade at ei 517 1207 orm his old customers and the public general-;"0"* . ; ° a he $Qaey,;50, Feo Sun ys aaah 542 122 657/}ly, that he has taken into partversbip Mr. age ce to aid t a police.

Penske ees 6 07 209 730) Malcolm McLean, and that hereafter the Indeed, why didn’t you do so when we H v aor REED... Cewek, 702 325 8 47| business will be carried on under the title of | had licenses y You were never yet known a nt eee a to close up illicit liquor dens ; but you have Charlottetows .....606 0004 802 507 1007 ‘ ’ "" ' CAIRN SS & CO often been known to have supplied them yonqeig * ren aa podoandlliyedibas *9 with liquor, and you know it. Ch BPAOULCCOWE. . neces seaeeees . 4 MW 7 02 But why go on further ? Who is it that nioune stewart, (406-7 S22 $22] MAPD1G 8 HUONG CUGGETS, |oters Hee, otiections Ie, the Suen Ven ones seller. is the man who is interested in Blew WAGE Oe. oko das vce eeeneenes 617 1002 . tor nan ie _ some way or other. The battle is now de- P. M. ; : Sencia 722 1202| They have on hand a fine stock of Monu-|fined. It 1s the rumshops against the re en eee eee ee A. m.| ments, Tablets and Headstones, in Italian and; churches. Which shall be victorious ? ah ice 532 907 mer Marble. tae ag the latest de- Tax PAYER. tite. 1:00: xalstian bin Acai 629 10 22) Signs, and at prices to suit all. SPONEUPIN D ccnidescvececactceses 647 1047 % GATES Ten Good Reasons FROM EAs‘. a * . Mc . ME oc echoes vddces ci ac ate 647 217 Ch’town, June 30, 1884—pres n e pat s j wp FOR ABROGATING THE SCOTT ACT, AND RE- te, BOOED... cecspesceccscieces | Cl as VIVING A LICENSE SYSTEM. Manns. Stewart oar ye wks ; -— cae N. J. CAM PBELL, aeolian ik se ~ ” | depart........ ; : i 1 Reason First:—The Act is dangerous to > wore rat cae bre! bee fi eee > — re BarnettorseDanghall & Saysen) the liberty of the subject, when men can ain ee 745 35 : ceaiil be dragged to prison for what they drink an -n2°> Seki at cae 745 347) Auctioneer aud Commissiog Merchaitt, \or scti, to be drunk by others. Who is to ciariedesieieiai —— | tell where tyranny is to stop, in the matter SHIP BROKER of “food and clothing?” It is a retregrade CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. L Ooi a movement in Legislation, back to the cele iaie AND ENSURANCE AGENT, | tyrannical and invidious times of the ' . F sumptuary laws. Are the public aware 2. O'DWYER, COR. GF QUEEN AND WATERSTS., [that in the first inception of the ‘Scott ; Act,” it was proposed to prohibit tobacco its . Charlottetown, P. E. Ustand. | as well as beer. Tobacco will have to go COMMISSION and General Merchant athe. a | when the fanatics get the upper hand. As

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| Sir,—QOne feature of the present temper- $ ance campaign demands special notice.

The Rum Sellers are desirous of creating the impression that under the Se tt Act more liquor is being sold and drank than under the old License Law. But see their consistency, or rather inconsistency. They want the Scott Act abolished. That is to say, they are anxious to lose money from dimin- ished sales in the interest of public so- ‘briety. | They oppose the Scott Act because they don’t want to sell so much liquor ; because |they don’t care about making ‘so much *9 money. Public sobriety and public im-

APPLES, APPLES, APPLBS, CHARLES DONALD & CO | provement is their only object.

9 ren S u. C. ; 79 Queen St, London, E. C., |” What pore nobility of soul! How ‘truly

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. poor old Senator Scott, the putative father oe of Choice ‘of the Act, Is a vegetarian, he would have a » Ament for P. B. len of the liked to prohibit beef. **To deprive a poor British Em ine Muteal Life Assurance Com-'™2" of his beer” in England, would pro- ‘duce a revolution. Are Canadians more

any, of London, England , auc : aes attention given to Auction Sales of easily trampled upon than Englishman! There is a point where forebearance ceases

Lumber, Coal, Fish, Apples and other Fruit, | ‘ Keal Estate, Household Furniture, Bankrupt to be a virtue; and we have reached that point.

and other Stocks, and all kinds of Merchan- | Reason Second :—The Act is not a legi-

dise. ae Correspondence and Consignments solicited. timate outcome of the progress of the age,

Returns promptly med In every known instance of ameliorations oe oe ‘of law that have been of permanent benetit

MONCTON saong se Pope hemate, ad bo Gosh and Door Factory.

them percolated downwards to that lower N R. P. LEA, in returning thanks to the

‘stratum of society which it was designed to public for the liberal patv-nageextended

\benefit. The middle class, who have a stake to him while in business in Charlottetown,

in the country, are the people. The present miscalled ‘* Temperance” agitation did not begs leave to inform his old customers and the public generally, that he, in company

grow as a natural cutcome from the peop!e,

but tock its origin in the weak and bun p-

tious brains of a few enthusiasts who are

a : daring enongh to say to their betters,

with Mr. William Rogers, has appointed ‘*Stand aside; we are holier than thee !”

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Messrs. B. Williams & C08 the movement has spread upward until Lumber and Coal Dealers, Pownal Wharf, it has checked off the classes who should Charlottetown, our agents, who will keep have originated, modified and directed it. constantly on hand a full supply of Mould-| The time has come fer plain speaking, no ings, Window Sashes, Doors, etc.. at ‘inatter who it may «{!.nd. Who supports

a ‘As > . the agitation in ito present shape! An- LOWEST CASH FE RICES, ‘ awer :-—The ch zy and old women, teachers All orders entrusted to them Will receive! who know little uf the world and are com-

prompt attention. 'pelled to be hypocritical ; junior clerks,

the street and in the press they are wonder- | that the cold water agitators had it all their fully brave, but when they meet the own way, and in their vulgar triumph,

the great majority of citizens, who are butter, Gran’ma’s bedquilt; but these puils

Nursed in the gutter, where it was intended |

ISLAND. MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1884.

Who are opposed to and ashamed of it? Answer :—-The upper aud middle classes who have become tired and disgus‘ed with sceing the comfort, morality and frecdom of action of the community fettered hand and foot by a presumptions cliqne, that have a comparatively email stake in the -country. By all means let us have back a respectable ‘* Licensiny S.s'em,” that will put some sort of check on the power of one-sided ignorance and water besotted bigotry. Reason ‘Third—The voting on the Act

has heen a curse to Canada, by lowering its morality, and it will take at least one gene- ration to undo the mischief he has done. Reason Sixth :—The Scott Act has re- moved the ‘* drunken and rowdy ” element from nuder magisterial supervision and control. When fellows of low nature get together there will be coarseness and fight- ing, whether they have drink in them or not. Previons to the Act, such ruftians were turned out of licensed houses when sthey showed symptoms of, intoxication ;

has not hitherto represented public opinion. they fought out of doors, and were promptly Men of respectability, sensitive of what relegated to the police and sitting magis-

trate. ‘Now all this is changed. The real dravkards burrow in secret dens, where they get as drunk as they like, and the mat- ter is carefully concealed to prevent trouble coming on the vendor. A low rum-hole is tiled as closely as a ‘“‘ Masonic Lodge.” Those opticnists who think everything is love’y all along the line, because they do not see culprits more often before the police court: do not know what is going on around them. ‘They cry peace ! peace! while there is no peace.” The pclice, if questioned, could tell a different story, but they are powerless | under the secretive nature «f the Act. | The teetotal arrow shot at drunkards has_ missed its mark, and wounded the real’ friends of temperance. The Act is mocked at by the sedden class of drink bards who | chuckle at the increased number of free drinks that it gets them for nothing. Not} a man-jack of them but will vote for a con-| tinuance of the Scott Act. Reason why? Low vendors know that they are at the mercy of every tippling wretch who can inform on them, and consc quently they are obliged to buy their silence with frequent free liquor. This is not a random asser. tion, but has been ascertained by enquiry. So far, therefore, from the Scott Act diminishing drunkenness among the disso- lute class, ii provides every facility to get contraband drink in dark places, and enables them to levy blackmail and get

is due to themselves and their order, have felt it, in a manner, a degradation tu go and ‘publicly defend themselves by recording their vote against a measure that purposed to treat them as the vilest of mankind, who cvuld not drink a glass of small beer with- out getting drunk. There was an insult ‘implied in the very circumstance of putting it to the polls. Look over the voting list and see how many men, r presenting the | wealth and intelligence of the city, stayed ,away from apublic franchise that would have put on record the fact that, without ‘any Scott Act, they could trust themselves alongside a glass of beer without becoming intoxicated. It wag rather too much _ to expect that they should vote on their own innocence of guilt. The consequence was

covered with opprobrium the men whose refined feelings they were incapable of com- prehendiog. The abstainers have had the matter after their own heart for nearly four yeers past, and a deplorable mess they have made of it. The time has come to reverse proceedings and place affairs on a more rational footing. It is to be hoped that the better classes, of means and brains, will lay aside all ill-timed bashful- ness and vote as one man to rescue the city from the domination cof a fanatical clique, once and forever. For when a proletariat fancy falls, it ‘falls like Lucifer,’ more liquor than their limitéd pockets can never to rise again,” ‘buy. AW this could be remedied by again Reason Fourth—The Act has missed its Placing houses for the sale of liquors under aim. It is impossible to make men wise, License, and thereby holding the Licensee or virtuous, or sober, by Act of Parliament. ‘responsible for the good behavior of those History is full of examples where it bas, he supplies, thus at once bringing all per- been tried and never succeeded. The ; 8008 who do not behave themselves under Scott Act has failed Sgnominiously because, the direct notice of the police and magis- it is based on the assumption that all men | ‘racy for punisnment.

are drunkards when they can get at drink,! Reason Seventh:—The Act has set and therefore require to have it locked up neighbor against neighbor,and class against cut of their way. ‘This may be true ot the'class. In all small communities, there are Scott Act apostles and their associates, but’ always objects of difference. Jones’ vote, certainly it does not in the least apply to, Brown’s deg, Robinson’s cat, Aunt Mary’s

good citizens, good husbands, good fathers! of controversy, soon blow over and quiet and friends, diligent in business and reigns. Even on erucials questions of N. moderate in all things. Why should this P. policy, and who shail be governor, estimable majority be inzulted by tetal Sensible men agree to differ. Eut under prohibition because the tea-tota! howlers the Scott Act, there is neither peace nor and shriekers cannot keep themselves | armistice. The agressive triumph of the sober? . But, in fact, the Act is a dead abs’inence party exasperates moderate letter, not answering its end, but merely! temperance men, and keeps alive, an_ iil causing annoyance. It is doubtful if even feeling in the commonity, that bas had one private table that was heretofore, no parallei in our Isiand history. Itis an supplied with wines and other stimulants’ ever-festing sore. Men of the highest of civilization, is now restricted to cold | office, even on the Bench, do not find them- water under the Scott Act. If any atall,’selves exempt from being dragged as they are very few, and are apt to provoke! witnesses on the information of the vilest suspicion that the retrenchment is more) street-corner informer. Society is full of from stinginess than principle. The rapid | spies. Paid agents of the teetotal league professional and commercial life of the day! parade everywhere, and trepan purchasers causes an expenditure of nervous energy|/as well as vendors to social destruction. that requires stimulating or soothing inj Personalities of the lowest stamps, under moderation. A fundamental error of the; the guise of letters from correspondents, Scott Act is it that ignores the grades in|appearin the presses. A bluebook, un- society and their habitudes of custom, the! exampled in the records of Parliament, has

varions expenditures of brain power, the; been printed at their instigation, holding self-respect and even prejudices of educated; up to ridiule the names of those, intellectual men, and many other things|male and female, whose ailments

required them to take stimulents, on physi- cians’ prescriptions. Even admitting that slaves of appetite. Is it fair, or to be. that list contains names of some whore only endured, that all society should be re-! ailment was thirst, it was unpardonable to modelled and governed by the hysteric’ gibbet them to all future ages in the cfticial theories of cold-water and ginger-pop) records of Canada. That blue-book will, shriekers? Certainly not. Let the better) however, change ‘the representation of part of the community who are gifted with} Prince County at the next general election. common sense throw off the yoke. Let us|Much might be said of the convenient have a well advised license system. handle that Scott Act informations gives to Reason Fifth—The Act has taught a on-| Sneaks and cowards to pay off old scores

tempt for law and lowered the tone of, against those they owe a grudge to, and of public morality. ‘the malignity with which old scores have

Time was when Prince ; Edward Islanders were a straightforward | been so paid off. But enough has been people, with very little of the sneak in|8aid to show that we have a corroding them. They were a law-abiding people, canker and leprosy in our midst, that and a decision given by the stupidest of J., should be at once cut out and cured. The P.’s was uncompiainingly submitted to, be-

cure is a reeurn to license. cause it was supposed to be the law. That| Reason Eighth—The Scott Act has in- time was before the Scott Act.

i : . Look at jured many vested interests, leaving out of the dreadful change now! Persons whom| account the closing of breweries and dis- one would least suspect of anything that is) tilleries, which is a natural and legitimate not equare and above-board, have to dodge consequence of prohibitory legislation— round corners and in at back-doors to buy} although even that has thrown many men liquid from unlicensed vendors ; in wiortal with their families out of employment-— it terror that they will be pounced on as wit-| has had a depressing effect on other des- nesses and turned into informers as well as'criptions of property. It is well known sneaks. Time was when every accused’ that a considerable part of the profits of British subject claimed the right of being! hotels is derive] from the wines and cx'ras confronted with his accuser. Is that the) now prohibited, and the consequence 1s case now? Let whisky prosecutions tell.|that hotel property 1s deteriorated to a Moreover, a bartender standing behind a great extent. Where profits ere diminished, counter cannot break the law by himself,| rents cannot be paid, or cannot be kept up unless somebody comes to buy. It takes to the former standard. The same applies two to break the law—the seller = the! to ey a ete., > agg. Aon. by buyer. * The purchasér therefore ecoense| des ers. ay, it even affects railway an particeps criminis, a partaker in ‘he crime. | shipping freights, truckmen, coopers, and ‘The Jaw is broken with his knowledge and| various artificers and laborers whose occu- assent, and he knowingly helps to break it. | pation in that connection is gone. All Is that a position for a man, otherwise law-| such business was legitimately active under abiding, to be placed in by the votes of a the license system. The revenue was fanatical majority, under a specially tyran- | benefitted by custom duties that are now nical Act, which many good lawyers think! shirked. If drinking usages were as really unconstitutional? It is manifest that a! stamped out as abstainers say, there would habit of breaking one law produces @ con-| be less cause of complaint ; but it is notort- tempt for the sanctity of all laws. This is yus that driuking is not stamy ed out, but is an especially dangerous habit for the ignor- carcied on as a contraband business more ant to acquire. The seed of contempt for) largely than it ever was openly. Instead law sown under the Scott Act will some| of open and legitimate traflice, supplies are day produce a crop of _— oH ° a anrsme mA cen ay sa ect“ “ane ~ proper system of license be introduced, so’ trickery and deceit. [his 18 @ dey lorable that respectable persons who feel the need| state of things, which property-holders of stimulents may cease to be eae should Rath bem to, a bring ae sneaks, and take their moderate refresh-' property, now deteriorated, up to the ment, openly, and in a garage licensed | forsmer oe by having the license sys house, with the eyes of the guests upon tem restored. them to keep them straight. Under such; Reason Ninth—The Act is mocked at conditions there is little fear of excess ; but by the debased drunkards whom it is in- if they exceed, there are the Police Court) tended to keep sober. Ask any corner-

that might be mentioned, and puts all men under a regimen adapted only to the basest

| who se.k to curry favor with their employ- LEA & ROGERS,

ers ; nselessand irresponsible goody-goodies Moncton, N, B, of au kinds, backed up by a scheming crew

May 16, 1884 ~ whkly tf

Sept, 6, 83.—2aw wly tliat are trying to make something out of it.

and the constable, which are a sufficient! loafer if he could get himself a drink, and

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much by highway throughout the Province since licenses were abolished, knows that every few miles are shanties very properly called ‘‘rumholes,’ where poisoned poison is sold in azny quantity to whomsoever has money. Persous, otherwise of reepectabil- ity, who cannot procure their accustomed moderate stimulants at reputable hotels, are necessitated to buy at such roadside sinks, This statement may astonish f.lks who stay at heme and know nothing, but it is nevertheless true. The consequence is that more liquor, of a worse description, is consumed, than would be under a iicense system, which system would shut up these wayside ever flowing fountaims of aduiter- ated alcohol. As tothe pernicious habit of carrying private bottles it has grown into a public calamity, Let any person who has attended picnics and travelled by ‘railway say how many men he met without a flask of liquor in their pockets,—men ‘who would feel it disreputable to carry a liquid pocket pistol if required stimulants could be legitimately had in a moderate quaniity at a licensed hotel. In short, the Scott Act, by abolishing license, and free- ing the trade from all restriction and supervision, has largely increased the quantity of liquor consumed, and of a worse quality Reason Tenth—The Scott Act injures the prosperity of the Island. A good deal of wordy nonsense every now and then in the newspapers praising P. E. |. as a plece of summer resort for foreigners, and talking of the necessity of new hotels of the first class. This visionary view is all unmitigated stuff. American and other foreigners, will not make P. E. Island a summer resort so long as they cannot get here their accustomed glass of wine or beer, without breaking the laws of Canada, and running the risk of being in a Police Court as witnesses against their landlord. Sourists of that cless are used to all that money can buy. With so many other desirable resorts of summer travel offer attractions to catch him, is at all likely thet a rich man of position, with money to spend, and a habit of spending freely, would run the risk of exposing himself and family to annoyance under the Scott Aet! No! at all likely. Few of those who howl so loudly for the Act in our midst, have ever been beyond the limits of this little Is'and, and know nothing of the amenities of a higher civilization that demands the use of luxuries in food and drink. Mainly brought up in the spartan simplicity of this Province, hawlers may be contented with cold water and salt pork, but rich strangers require turtle and wine. Imagine New York if apr hibition were put on champagne! Oi a certainty, foreign visitors, spending money freely, will not come here ualess they are made confortable and have their accustomed wants supplied. Many thousand dollars of fureign expendi- ture are thus lest to Charlottetown. The Scott Act offers but a poor recompense for the loss. Besides, the prohibit’on of every fluid beyond cold water, even of swipes and lager beer, strikes foreigners ina ludieru- ous point of view. This was not so badly expressed by an American gentleman who, knowing nothing of the Scott Act, recently found his way to these shores, and was refused ale at luncheon, and it being ex- plained to him that an Act of Parliament necessary to prevent us Charlottetown folks from getting drunk on small beer, held up his handsin amazement, and ex- claimed :—“ Lord, what a drunken lot you must be!” To sum up :—The Scott Act, in its pre- sent manner of administration, has proved dangerous to the liberty of the subject. Itis not a legitimate outcome of the age. The voting on the Act has not hitherto represented the public opinion of Char- lottetown, as distinguished from the coun- try, for it was carried in the city less by the activity of its supporters than by the lukewarmness of its opponents. The Act has missed its aim at the victims of intem- perance, and has wounded the moderate and true friends of temperance. It has taught a contempt for law, and lowered the tone of public morality—sowing the seeds of evils, of which the full crop is not yet. It has removed the drunken and rowdy elewent from under magisterial supervision and control into the shelter of actual, not figurative, rum-holes, where they can safely getas drunk as they please. It bas set neighbor against neighbor, and class against class. It has injured vested inter- ests. The Act is mocked at by the drunk- ard, evaded by the temperate, and deplored by all who see farther than the range of a fanatical agitation. And finally it diverts many thousand dollars annually of outside money from the shops of Charlottetown. The 16th of this month offers the last opportunity to remedy these crying evil. and every respectable citizen, gifted wit): common sense, should make it a point ©) honor, as well as of self-interest, to | aside all squeamishness and attend the poll on that day to vote for a License system. One or THE Nine Hvunpkep.

A Great Russian Air Ship.

The centenary of the ascent of the tirst balloon in England brings us news that the second trial of the wronauts at Meudon has resulted in a failure. The expectatioas of those who hope to steer balloons must now be turned from France to Russia, where Capt. Kosztowitz, the Russian eronaut, is quite confident that he has sulved the problem by a balloon which is at present being constructed at St. Peters- burg. It js of the shape of a huge cagar, driven by ascrew, but it is also provided with sails. The inventor calculates that his air ship will be able to make 160 miles an hour, with’an equipage of sixteen men, 10,000 pounds of ballast, and an epgine of 50 horse power. The balloon,with its appurtenances, will be 200 feet long, 80 feet high, and will probably make its first excufsion from St. Petersburg at the end of this month. The odds, however, are a thousand to one against Capt. Kosztowitz.

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