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WEDNESDAY. DEC. 1890.

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Christmas.

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The holy and happy season of peace and good will, with its sootliing‘, glad- dening, and benign influences, is once more upon us, and we are one and all looking forward to the enjoyment of thy blsmings which it bringa- to the Christian man and woman. Family gatherings, happy reunions, ‘perhaps after many days of separation, the healingcf old wounds, and the more

ractical duties of dealing bread to the

ungry and clothing to the naked will naturally engage our attention during the festive season and contribute to our enioyment of it. But with the clanging of the-church bells will come to us far of? echoes of the music of the Hggygnly Host as they sang the mes- sage of peace on earth and good will to men on the first Christmas morning to a group of a humble shepherds in Bethlehem. and we should be thankful for Christianity, thankful for our re- ligious birthright, and thankful that we have lived to share once more in the blessings and joys wherewitli the yearly festival of the birth of the Saviour surrounds us. We wish all our readers

_ A Vaar Harrv Cimis1_'I.is.

— '————<-e~)——-—- The Question to Face.

We are face to face with the ques- tion which shall it be, License, Scott Act, or Free run. No one thinks of this latter because we might as well invite a plague into our midst, and yet let it be remembered that should the Scott Act be defeated we ‘rill prob ably have free rum for four years. As a matter of fact the liquor fraternity will fight any Act that restricts them. and it may take four years before it can be determined whether the Act is constitutional or not. i

We are asked to legalize the traflic. Think what you are asked to legalize. The most cold-blooded, heartless trafic in blood that the world ever saw. It has transformed the body--God's mas- terpieoe-—-into a loathsome mass of humanity. It has broken the ties of friendship; made the indulgent father a brute, a tyrant andmuiderer; trans- .formcd the affectionate mother into a fiend; broken up homes; taken the food from the mouths of thousands and compelled "them to beg for bread; stolen men's palaces and given them liovels in exchange; robbed men of valuable acres and given them not even a burial place in death ; it has complicated our laws and crowded our

fceurts, filled our penitentiaries ai'id~

'_ poor-houses and straitened us for room in our insane asylums; taken away "faith, hope and charity, and given de- spair, infidelity, and all the emotions and deeds of wickedness; it has ban- ished Christ from the , hearts of thousands and created hell within %h_o.In.~; in --brief, ‘it ‘has wrecked and enfeebled bodies, shattered and de- minds, imperilled and ruined the souls of our fellow-men. It has followed the » missionary of the Cross, and wherever he carries the good news of the 1 it sends its wares to curse those whom they try to bless, until at this hour for every missionary we send into’ Africa they send 70,000 gallons of liquor and the torch of Christianity blazes in the bung hole of a rum punclieon. The trade grows rich by feasting on the souls of .,men- and not satisfied with the destuction at ‘ home’ they carry their awful trade among the heathen. Will you vote to legalize a traflic that deals in the man- hood of yours sons; to legalize a trafic whichcan be successful only when it destroys?‘ It cannot exist without your boys. Will you legalize the means for their destruction 7

We are told that we have almost free rum now, and that license will regulate. We submit this for your consideration. For these ninety years on the Continent of North America we have been trying to restrain the liquor business with’ license laws, and wha't has been the result! That from every state in the Union and every Province in the Dominion there comes one and only one reply. It does not regulate. We ask every voter to search out the result of license high or low, and without exception there is but this one answer. It does not regulate. But the trafic grows until it has made an annual waste of one thousand mil- lions of dollars on this Continent alone, and nearly 200,000 souls, every year sent todrunkard’sdoom. More than that in every state and in every prov- ince the license law is a dead letter, and no man will dare deny it.

The law says the drain shops shall not sell liquor to minors. They do sell to minors. The law says they shall not sell liquor to drunkards. They do soll'to druakards. The law says they shall not sell liquor on Sundays. They do sell on Sundays. The law says they shall-~» not sell adulterated liquors. They do sell poisoned liquors. For more than ninety years in differ- ent... states and provinces the people

have tried to make this old license ,

fizzle work.

Thetemperance people during this time have done all they could to secure obedience to the law, and to save men from the pernicious influences of the hciuor tr-sic. They have used the pledge. They have gone down in“, the gutters and lifted out the victims of this devilish system. And when they have lifted them out of the pit- fall. the license men vote to keep the pitfall open, so that other men may fall therein‘; and temperance men have work on hand all the time. Temper- ance‘ workers have established temper- Theyhave built friendly in»: 1'0-vr have built some

They have established reading rooms, and put lecturers on the platform and paid them. They have circulated books and arguments and they have none into towns and cities and organ- ised leagues to enforce the license laws and try to make them work. Note‘. after ninety long years of trial. after ninety years of prayers and “SP9 and hard work and money giving and struggling we put it down here and say, what no man dares to challenge, ‘that this work has demonstrated the license system of this and every coun- tryto be the most unmitigated humbug that was ever invented by bad men to fool an enlightened 10. If; 9. license of a restrictive nature went Hi-. to force to-morrow, it would be resist- ed by every liquor man in the city clause by clause, in all our courts, and when confirmed would — not be en- forced. We say it again, and we —.welcome any one who will show that on the continent‘ of North America for -the space of ninety years the license system has restricted the trafic or de creased drunkenness. i What has the Scott Act done? It has done for us in Charlottetown that for which the temperance men are working to secure in other countries. It has made the trafic disreputable. In‘every part of the world this was recognised as the first step to be taken. We__ha\'e gained it. There is not a respectable Christian who to-day wsuld sell liquor. So long as society sanc- tioned it by law, so longgit maintained its respectability. We took that away from it. It has lost caste. Respect- able men dropped it and it is now lookrd upon as criminal. Society looks upon it as never before. It has down into the darkness. It has to be got- ten by stealth. It no more stands in any man’s way; if he gets it, he must seek it.

It has broken up the treating sys{ tem as nothing else could have done. Two thirds of those who began to drink began with treating. The bar was made a temptation; there was a romance about it, and our young men thought it manly to treat and invite their friends into the rum-shop. Now the romance has been taken away from it. There is not much romance sneaking throqgh an alley way, up a back stair, down a collar, into a barn, sucking out of a black bottle; not much romance indeed, if one chews tobacco and the other does not. The Scott Act has driven it into ‘holes. where it will do less harm than the open gilded saloon into which young men may walk openly. Will we vote to bring it out again into the light of day, an open temptation to our young men ‘l

The Scott Act has rid us of our re- sponsibility. So long as we voted to keep the saloon we were also ‘respon-

our protection. goes on in spite of us, in spite of law, and the price of blood does not burn in our pockets. The man who now sells is a criminal. Once we were responsible _for the drunkenness, now if it goes on it is not with, but without our consent.

It has decreased crime. In 1877,

78, 79, there were convicted for crime before the City Court 2,186, while in 1887, 88, 89, not counting breaches of the Scott Act, there were only 1,041, a difference in favor of the Scott Act offl.l-$5 in three years. There were convicted for drunkenness in 1877, 78, 79._l.317, and during the years of 78 and 79 the Stipendiary accounts for the decrease as largely owing to the temperance movement. New-rthbless in those evil days 1887. 88, 89, there were only 781 convictions, a difference infavor of the Scott Act of 636. And it wrought all this in spite of the op- position of the majority in the City Council, elected with the evident in- tent to frustrate the working of the Act, and who tried to frighten the police force, who passed resolutions in favor of the convicted. who dismissed the prosecutor. going through the farce of appointing one at the nominal sum of Eve dollars a year. If this could be accomplished with such opposition;-’ what may we not ex-_ pect when the demand is com- plied with to furnish means for a prosecutor not under the control of the Council. They have tried every court in the land, and resorted to every, means of breaking the back of the Act and yet today our streets are infinite- ly better». than ever. Crime" has de- creased. Drunkenness ‘has decreased. The taxpayers have been relieved of the burden of supporting one thousand people in «jail, and as citizens we have a clear conscience that what crime is done must be done by stealth and without our consent. Let the voters see that they refuse to put the men in power who to-day are trying to debauch this city. We have reached this point in our history as a city. viz : shall we the citizens of Charlottetown be controlled/ by men who against law are ruining thifbodies and souls of our young men. Shall we legalize a traffic which Mr. Gladstone says, has “injured us more than war, famine and pestilence".

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Tlse number of .drssuk— ards ‘unis appallt1sg';'stran- gers we're ‘assaulted: herds of -‘st:-"cot s"'oisglss usroasged the streeg corners,

from opus insult.-stipendiai-y Fitzgerald, I877, uuder_ License.

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A Bsatrrmn. Pssssirr.-—Mr. Fulton, of the ‘Bazaar 00., has kindly resented gie ‘Prince of .\:'iales _(‘t}}qllege tuxdgnts’ lmstianAssocia onwi a e_a _ - ‘vs Biblfi. hand_somel:rgl>ound oixn

sible for its fruits. It ran. under‘ If it goes on now it- ‘

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The Examiner in its "*6 Bight ‘Mind.

UNANSWI-l.llE—ll ABGUMENTS BY

“lllllll UON’l‘EllPOIlAllY [IF _ 5

towards the Scott are sure that the

from Philip7drunk_

in other words; from the Examiner“

, qornmi ms.

ls viewof the pttitude taken up

Act 1 question, we following extracts

from its editorial columns under the dates given will be read with great interest and we ‘doubt not with some » surprise. We confess to no little“ bewildermentourselves, and ‘to find the "way out” we enter an app

cal, to Philip sober, or‘

on the side "of riumsellr-rs to the Examizier on that of‘ sobriety and

inconsistent ii ‘- Is t

good morals. _Is not our contemporary

here not a cause?

Is not that cause anything but whole- some? Does it not submit to the

power behind the mind of its own?

throne? Has it a Our readers will

have a good opportunity of judging from a careful perusal of the extracts

here to appended : A Dirrsaarrr

Act now ‘I Is there sold within the city wonder whether the

or an uncamlid one ignorance of them. was in force in this different spectacle.

SPICTACLR.

not as muoli liquor

as ever?" And we '

speaker is a candid

man without knowledge of passing events

pyesuining upun our 'hile the Scott Act

city it presented a We were freed from

the curse of drunkenness and had drawn

the. attention of the people of Canada to

a city where G. T.

A. was a practical

reality. The temperance workers brought

at least showed no

their prosecutions; and -the Magistrate-

desire to screen the

culprits Over twenty convictions had

months of Septembe were only 15 cases of

within the Jan. 25, 188 . GBOSSLY

-mt, however, no on the Scott Act or

taught the law-breakers that the way of the transgressor was hard. The police reports show that in the

r and October, there drunkenness before

the Con 1:. while there were some 16. past few days.—E.i-aminer,

UNI’-‘AIR. longer the blame of

our present unfortunate position be laid

any ‘test of its elli-

cienc be drawn from our city as it now

is. Jan. 26, 1882?.

‘,excelle_nt

o do so is grossly unfair.--Examiiier.

NOIRASON T0’3EJ3CT IT.‘ ' - ‘.‘ There is in operation ‘in New York a license law-ea high license law—an_d pp _ 1 ‘ _ "°8“l“‘9n.3 ' . 7"!‘ .5"l OPE-7-And other Fhym I 8‘ lements. All work

‘Yet we see that the law is violated there

with "just as much impunity asflit is here.

Liquor dealers are everywhere the same. ‘ Many persons here say‘ ‘we should be all right if we had a high

license law. ’

License Law and‘Scr-tt Act

occupy the sameipoeition in this respect, both are being daily’ violated; and from this point of view there_is_,nu reason whetever why we should:-r“ej,ect~ the one

and ‘accept (the ‘

Sept. :4, 1886.

other.",—‘-Elsa miner.

Salli!-ROADS; ‘ _ .

H‘-‘ Can the Church abuts "the evil of the liquor traffic while -*'the5 State licenses taverns? The Church alone has f tiled-—

therefore let Church The Scott Act is only

-be aided by State half n1<?asure—weak

in many points-'—and yet the liquor‘

dealers are not now were ten ‘years ago.

respectable “as they The results of elec-

tions lately held show that. they. don't now possess the large influence the enjoy-

ed when licensed by law.

They are,

indeed, a thoroughly discredited class. The roads in the vicinity of the town are

not ‘now unsafe,-as t the reckless driving

ho-y used to be, by of drunken‘ men

The temperance sentiment is stronger

than ever.

And just in proportion as

the law has been enforced, has the liquor

evil abate-d. To any one who takes the

trouble to lonlt below the surface of the matter it must-be apparent that, riot- withstanding all thn hindrances placed in

has been regarded.

its way, and the coldness with which it

the Scott Act has

dealt the liquor trafiic in this Province at

least, a staggering blow."———EJca. Déc.1886‘ ——————-0--2-——

We challenge and defy the

liquor dealers to say tkey are

not the chief mover: for the

repeal of the Scott Act. . .

The Point Illustrated.

While we regret that circumstances

have arisen to delay

Hon. Mr. Laurier

and his associates on _th_e_ Island, we are not sorry that he has had such an

opportunity to realize the great incon- venience under which as a colony we are placed, and that our remarks in

Monday's issue have been so well con- firmed. Perhaps the next time, he ,

visits us he will not leave unnoticed the one great obstacle which more than Free Trade or anything else so seri- ously hampers the trade of this Prov. ince. Mr. Choqnette is said to have

jocosely remarked today that for his part he will vote for the subway. now even if it costs thirty millions.

However we need never expect the subwayor anything else unless the

people of thii Province and the press

too. __wake -Ip‘3fr6m‘i*the “apathy and in- diflbrence, wlsichfiseems to have taken possession of them. Eves the, --a w---»~-wm not -an .'*-'..:'.::'*:';.%::.‘a.?::::.°‘.t.*;.°. 1:21;: ing the leader that it was what the people are most anxious to hear about. The tunnel we believe Image: to come and the ‘sooner our represents} ' tives begin to agitate it the better. '

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gsansn ’*riaivo's§s.‘ .....;..a ‘to the ' L undersigned. and endorsed “ Tender for Port Selkirk Work." will be received until

*i'°lY. -for -the ‘construction of a Block Ifid Span to the Pier at Port Selkirk, Queen’: CWMY. P. E. I. ‘according lo 1 pl!!! ind .

' specification to be seen on application to the . .

VVe often hear the passing remark: “ Well, what do you think of the Sc--tt

Postmaster, Vernon River Bridge. P. E 1-. “"1 at the Department of Public Woflli. Ottawa.

Tenders will not be considred unless made on the form supplied and signed with the actual signatures of lenderers

An accepted hank cheque. pavahle to the Order of the Minister of Public Works, equal lofive per em: of theiaoaount of tender, must accomplfly each-jender This cheque will be forfeited if the’ party decline the contract or fail to complete the work contracted for. and will be returned in case of non-accept- ance of tender. i L

The Department does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.

By order, 7 T, A. GOBEIL, Secretary. Department of Public Works. Q Ottawa, Dec. 15th. 1890 3 1i

D. A. .McKINNON,

LAWYER .

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Claim! collected in Canada and United States. anloney to Loan; ‘ [doc°.4.

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