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MONDAY. JAN. 5. I891.

The “ Examiner” Again.

The Exarniurr probably thinks it has replied to the two questions we asked it. If quibblii-g is answering, it certainly has.

1. Our contemporary says Father Mclilmeel has not pointed out any error in its summ:iry report of his lei‘-

aubstantially correct. Father Melli- meeldid not. point out any error in our report either. Nay further, on enquiry at the palace we were told 00!‘ report was quite correct. The E:r.a-ni- bier‘: summary did not contain the most important statement with refer- Qncg tn rhg right, nf pPi\'ill’0 _ill('Iglll"ll' Isgiveu in Tun (iUARDl-\.‘l2 the-r for- it may be accepted that the brown:-iier left it out purposely to deceive the

electors. . 2. The Emmirier yleads in extenu-

ation of its come-mptible position that it did not initiate the pro-sent anti- Scott .-\ct_ movement and consequent- ly in not bound to propose a substi- tute for the Scott Act should it be de- feated. If the Emminer had initiat- ed the ‘movement it wuu'd have been entitled to more respect than it ‘is to- d.y_ “*9 know of no instance in the history cf journalism where a public 5,,"-gm] has been so recreant to its duties and obligations, so faithless to its readers, and so false to. its ‘motto from Euripid-'-Q, “Willi! lb dld DOI- initiate the anti-Scott Act m0"9'139nl it fr-d that movement in its infancy. and fostered and encouraged it day. aftrr day. Its whole ob- ject has been to create contempt or the law and to further tho- intereats of the rumsellers: But our contemporary need not think it can thus insult public opinion. We be- lieve it is the duty of Net)’ ll'1f’Dd Ol temperance and fair play and honor- able dealing to repudiate~—yes, and boyc-3tt~.3 journal that has so dis- ifg cglljngj We d0 H09 know whether the editor is responsible for iu course or, not. It looks more like the bungling attitude of the man. who knows and cares nothing about public opinion, but who in somfi EX- it-aordinory way manages to compel 3 clergyman and an editor to be the mouthpieces of his own ideas. If. however. the editor is responsible he ought. to be hoarfilv ashamed of himself; if he is not. he is a. craven of Eli? ‘V0!’-=' kind for handing over for his living his conncience and his mav'.ly_indeP“Dd9fl0P of thought to a party, a compilny. 0!‘ an individual. If this is his position we pity him from the bottom of our heart. ,For our part we would nther beg from door to door than be the tool of anybody.

Mr. Spence

The appearance of Mr. Spence in our midst. with his experience in fem- perance reform and his ability as a platform orator will be h-orfilv wel- OOUIPCI by all friends of the Scott Act H is address last night. was clear. argu menfative and convincing, His meth ad of rho ring practically how the use of alcoholic drinks is contrary it- the book of God, and the book of natuv-o,was admirable. and also his dec- laration that if Prohibition of the liquor trafic is not found in the Bible, it is hI’ll’nIl_Y certain that you mgvv g-».-zrr-l it from end to,-nrl and you will never find that L‘c°nse is there either. God never licenses an evil. His fiat is always “Thou shalt not." The enunciationfiof the terrible efler-ts of the liquor habit, not only upo-~ pironts but upon children to tlvw third gnfl fourth rreneration. fall with am:-Hing emphasis on the ear: of the audience. and it is sure that many left the hall last night filled with A determination never felt before to uphold the Scott) Act in the fight. Let evervhody hear Mr. ‘Spence tonight. We has chal. lenged the liquor party to send a rep- resentative to meet him on - the plat- form. We hope they will. If they

<l 04? l . ‘ . . . 0 n '9 “ppm. to the claim“, in I;-‘bl. ‘No man will dispute this propnai--

that cause a just one that dare not stand out boldly and assert itself.

We ‘feel sure that the good impres- sion created last night will bring hun-

of theBcottA.ct. Vic'or7 is sure if‘ all do their duty, and it will be as W'ate- on was to Napoleon for the liquor dealers in C:-arlottet-own.

One Guarantee.

During the past nine months the ’tV«-men's Christian Temperance Union have been “instant in season and out of season," doing What they could to advance the cause of tam rance.

They have encountered many di$cul- ties, and overcome many obit ales. At a recent meeting the following resolution was unaniru vuslv carried: “That duri the coming year we will do all that seventy earnest temperance women can do to enforce the Cauarla Temperance Act.” .

They have one prosecutor uowln the field, and if necessary are prepared to give him an assistant. -

Mas. R. -IOKNION. President. Mas. L M. Po-nu. Secretary.

The Right Ring. Sta:-Don't you think it a mistake for our to give so much space to lou wititizimziticlea on the Scott Act iron‘) Senators and ex- M. P’a., men who grg opposed to the Act and don't-voice public opininn on this question 1 fhjg jg ,3 P55. greaaivs age. We want men who are in "7"f'P“l’¥ with wr_ipen.nce .prin ‘plea, I-I'D HOW .I'%p|n8 thg '0]-1d,.“ '0 lay.“.gl’Al'Id aside" to all obgu-u¢a.,ni,W_ It is very well to hear both Olden, bug life is to short to read long qindoa M-.

ticles ft-rt’-igftfv the subj--ct on the eve of bee

bat'l.’-. “rt «:'i's'iD IO?!) I-on of this turn ?~‘-:-.‘:n«.~ss: it has only one side in "€'*ll5.l‘- Ir“ all men who love their fel- low men and consider the-mselvos their

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iModera.tion is Not

Temperance.

A S'l‘lllllING ADDRESS BY in. s. 1-*. SPENOE.

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Everybody was exhilerated ! _ Yes, exhilerated is the word. But it was a vastly different form of exhleration from that which a certain harmless (3) fluid is wont to pro low.

It nieana that everybody was stimulated to renewed effort and earnestness in sup- p vrt of the Scott Act, and in the cause of the Home vs. the Licensed Saloon.

A large audience of ladies and gentle- men gatliered in the llhrket hall last evening, after the close of the eventing services, to hear Mr. Spence, Secrets ‘y of the Dominion Alliance on the subject of toxin -raiice.

A tube was provided for the press, and the edimrs of the papers notified of the fact. It is significant that the E'.rann'ner man was not there

At 8.30 o'clock, lion. D. Laird took the chair.

It ~.v. Mr. Reid repeated the Lord's prayer. .

The chairman then arose and in a few rem rks, introducing Mr. Spence, ex- pressed his pleasure in seeing so many of the Christian people of Charlott--town present. He aiid that the temperance workers were not defiant in the struggle in which they were engaged. They were simply prepared to do their duty.

.\Ir. Spence then came for ward and delivered a ringing. stirring and practical address. He said :-

Ma. CHAIRMAN, axn Fius.\°i>s:—Ouc of ppr noblest poets has very well said that

Once to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide’

In the strife ’twixt truth and falsehood For the good or evil side,

Some great cause God‘: new Messiah Offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand And the sheep upon the right.

And the choice goes by forever "l‘wixt that dsrkne s and that light.

Alndr it seems to me such a time has come to this people and such a choice now stands before them. It will be my duty and my privilege to address to you a few facts and remarks to guide you in choosing aright iii the question at issue. Other --ppurtuuities will be given when I can speak to you of the working and effects of the Scott Act in Ontario. To-night I will deal more particularly with the gen- eral principles that underlie the t to -great questions that are placed be- fore the people at this time for their decision. It is a grand thing that we cin agree to a 0011.-‘till extent,‘ and if I went to every man in this town he would sq I nrniu favor of temperance. The ques- tion is what constitutes temperance? Some think temperance and moderation -are synonimoua terms, and Iugically fol. lowing out that reasoning legislation should merely restrain. and control the liquor tratlic. In short there should be a good control of the liquor traflic and s moderate use of liquors. On the other side we have another party who think total abstinence for the pa--ple_ and total prohibition f r the at to are the only right principles. We must consider in relation to thiaquesti in what the Scrip- tures and the law of nature say. When I speak of the Bible we must not look upou_ it as a dictionary. It is not alexicography yet no where else will we find words used so accurately as in the sacred volume I hold-in my hands, and it will be found to b- as strongly opposed to the liquor trafiic as anything could be. The Apostle enumerates a list of conimon_sina.—adult-

no-es, idolxtry, witchcraft, liatr--d, wrath. strife, aediti -na. hereaies. envyings, mur- dera, drunkenness, ravellivigs. Look where drunkenness comes in-I-in 5 cats- logue of the worst sins. Then the ap--atl-: enumerates a list of virfue9.—-love. inv. peace, long suffering, gentleness, ood- nesa, faith, meekucaa, temperance. perance comes in in the moral virtues, and it is a grand tl1i"8 to be able to GENO that temperance is a moral virtue. Who’ isa virtue? The word man is derived froui the Latin air and from it we make the adjective virtuous. “ManIy" and “vi;-1-,uuns” are ayunniuioua terms. Un- less you can call yourself virtuous y-»i_i have no right to call yourself a man. Without self control there can be no tem- rance. and temperance means self-"com

tion. Suppose on our way to this meet- ing we mm a dog gnawing a bone. And I say, “Look at that dog he is practicing temperance." “ Why” you would say. “What do you mean, there is no (em- porance there; he is merely gratifying his appetite.” A9: sin supp use we see it b -y grvedily munching a sugar stick. I say again. "Look at that boy; he is practising temperance.” “ No,” you say. “ there is no Ielf-control there." But we come in- to this hall and I find this glass full of‘ clear cold wnf-r and I drink it down while I am in a hot gonditiou. There is no fen,ip'*rance there, no self-_coivi-ol. n’- virtue in that. But suppose the chair- man says, " You are very hot and when you are warm it is wrong to ‘drink cold water; wait until you are ciol." “Y--z air,” I say, “I believe you are right. I will let my will 4: -iitrol my inclination.”

"8 That i8 temperance. (.Q.9plause._}

Let us so that the chairman and myself go an drink a g ass of lager beer.’ There is alcohol in this beer. We exer- ¢l§0 110 more temperance than the d with the bone or the boy with the apple Then, imagine the c air-min saying to me let's have another, but I'i-my no, we have had enough. That is will control. But remember that we only exercised teniper- apce in letting alone the second, nut in taking the first, In the first glass lies the danger; it no es flip elsmgntg of harm both moral an physical. Tam «.-raucg interferes to revent you from taking the first drink otal abstinence is the tem- penance of scripture. science and common sense. What do people drink beer for. Some drink brandy and others takptlxor. What is the difference? Both are an for the exhilaration they produce. Its the alcohol the drinkers are after, and the dill’-avenge in the beverages is only the degree of quslity, That is, ten glasses of pr coiflnin about the same qqqntifiy alcohol as one nf brandy.’ ' Take away the "l°"ll‘ '1 15nd the W-‘Int old taper in town Ivileiiibdthe liizttureii-flpliiioduoziisia biiri‘i:i".ii alcohol and demonst ’ ‘B " its volatile “ted ‘ y ”p"‘im.nI

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liquid that it never was intended for use by man either as food, drink or stimu- butt. in fact alc Illul is a narcotic poisqny and there is no medical man in this city who has any reputation to sustain who

Mr. Spence also showed by experiment the action of alcohol upon an egg, by put- ting the substance of the egg in some 0 the liquid and leaving it remain a few minutes. When the subst.-ince was taken from the glass it was seen to be quite hard. The effect is the some upon the brain and body when taken_into the sys- tem, producing incalculvible injury to the same. »

The alcohol in a short time changes the egg, making it quite hard and -tough. The three properties, than, of slcqli»-l are acrid, narcotic and astringent. Now. let us see what Ilcullnl does. There was as time when it was regarded as a food. People thought that alcohol was an excel- lent thin to brace them up for any extra genre, 15...: food does two things. _It is conveyed through the blood to the differ-

*ent parts of the body. and builds up the

system, replacing the worn Out aml broken down particles of sinew, muscle, nerve and tissue, and it also creates warmth. Heat is produced by the com-

cliernically uniting gives forth heat and the resulting compound us a poisonous known as carbonic acid gas. The heat of the body is prnducetl ll? ll” union of the carbon of the food with the oxygen of the air we breathe. In winter nu observe we use food containing a liirger amount of carbon than what we use in summer. And the Indians of the arctic regions u e fat and blubber, as these contain much carbon.

Science has shown that in alcohol there is nothing to build up bone, muscle. 01‘ nerve. and it also proves thrit it is not a warmth producing food. But then it is said to be a stimulant, and that it tunes up the stomach. This also has been proved to be a mistake. By the acci- dental discharge of a gun a man was wounded in such is way that a hull was made directly into his stomach. The wuund healed around but did not close. so that it Wits possible to take out food ill different stages of digestion, and physi- cianslmade different tests in his case of the process of digestion when alcohol was It was observed that it inflamed the >toinaich, hardened the food and hardened the nerves. The nerves convey inf-irnintiani to the brain. and when anythiuyia wrong they soon make it known. Somenicn when the) cat a more than ordinary hearty dinner think that a glass of brandy or wine does them much good. helps to digest their dinner. What does it do in reality? It silences the nerves so that they can- not convey the wrongs of the abused stomach to the seat of intellect iii the brain. If your house were on fire and some one came in to inform you of the fact, it would be very uuwelc -me news to you, but for you to strike him a blow with your fist might silence him and pre- vent him from bringing such news to you again, but it would not prevent your house from being destroyed. So by d.:ad- ening the nerve, messengers does not save the stomach. but on the contrary exposes it to greater abuse. '

Leavinz the stomach we come to the blood. When a glass of liquor is taken, the circulation is increas d, the heurt beats faster. Beer dors the same thing. Suppose the chairman takes out his watch and counts the pulse beats in in_v wrist. He counts 75 to the minute. Now I sit down; he only counts 70. Next I lie down and the pulse only boats 65. "Anutherw-vnderful‘ wise provision of the wonderful loving Father by which when we lie do vn to rest at night the heart slackens.10 beats per minute, and the tired body relaxes its labors‘ But some of you take a “ night cap" before you go to bed. What istlie result ? Your heart keeps going at the rate of 75 all night through-.-at arate that lifts 20 lbs. of blood per minute, 1200 pounds per hour. 9.600 pounds each night or nearly 5 ton.- of lifting is done, because of the liquor, that,G--d never intended to he done ‘Then you wake up and feel seedy and stupid and cannot tell what is the mint- ter. But you say liquor often huildsii man up. Never. The first thing the alcohol did when it got into the blond -was to the fatty particles and sec pndly the blood began to fill up wit these particleathat should have b--on used up and plimingtsdifrqm the system. You Pall know what’ fatty degeneration of the heart or the liver. etc., is. Well th- next time the doctors tell you a man dies of any such disease just go back and en- quire about his habits and you will find

nine cases out of ten he had been using ‘alctiholic liquors. The alcohol 8I!DpI\ hardens and retains the fat. and if you .want to carry that fat about you it would .pay'far better for you to go down to the butcher and fill your pockets with fat and carry it around with you. Vmlld P“? F“! oak at the nun.- ’who is stout fro drip ling. There is "nothing healthy about him. ' The blood is fat! y and unhcalrhy,the skin is coarse and unhealthy. The blood carries the partic les of fat which should have been used, preserved in spirits. pickled in alcohol.

Que point further and I gain done Wit‘-ll RICQIIUI. Every iison a, min; takes into his system pols-ma him all over, but it attacks a certain part in r- ticulsr. Tobacco affects the heart; sad poisoning the hand; and so on. The par- ticular point which alcohol touches‘ is always the brain. This is a scientific fact. Medical men tell me they can go into a hospital and iii the darkness, witha single stroke of the scalpel candistin qiah ‘toe brain of a drunkagd from that o ' a ‘sober man. It’ Iias'the'aame effecting; the b-sin as you saw it had on the white ofan egg.» Of course one glass of liquor does not If- fect the brain so uickly as the alcohol _affected the egg. ii the liquor the icon

3 dilutes! find lience the rocessiss ower-

,l}tf_l\’Hl'y»l13h_!l who -mists.-g an eggnog, knows the egg"s hai-d--'n'o1 hi the ' liqu 1-. and so the brain is ‘after it is drunk. The effects may pass f, but the brain will be a weaker one than before, and if tllfl hfibit “I Qtlflliing is continued, the time will come when it ill t-ii-meut him with the horror of delirium treirwnis, an late!‘ he will be an inmate of a lunatic asylum.

But stop, I must refer to another oint. Of all the sins that our poor, wea bu. msiiity can gptiiigiit there is none lwiprge tlmn‘fthos1ns of the fathers that Liz.- visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation.” In the Insane Asy- lum in Vlassachtisetts the doctor informed me. there are 300 inmates, of whom 145 are children:-tint children vgho went silly -but who were born silly, -accuse the :- fathers were inebriates. In one » case where both father and mother were drunknrds, a ‘whole family of seven chil. «iron are insane. Haven't I said enough toahqw that total qhstiqeqcg and tops] prohibition are the oe ‘ta 5! So;-iptm‘-,3, and of common sense. (rt)-‘I has written two books, the Bible and the book of nature, and you are as in »rall_v b mud to

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“Thou shalt not steel" is the one “ Thou shalt not use exhilarating spirits." If 3'91! do then nature will punish you for It. You came to this hall to-night from your churches which are coinfortable and llmvl some edifices. Now, suppose that before next Sunday IOIIIB’ wretch defiled and polluted the sacred precincts of those laces’ You would have him punished with the .f'ull'ponalty of the law. Yes 3 you built the church, but therein another building not made with hands, and any- body who defileth the temple of God, him will God destroy. «Now, look at the effect of the liquor traffic upon the na- tional as well as the physical life of A community. Liquor va eakens my stomach, and liquor p \l‘MIy7.L‘S the productive powers of the state. Alcohol taken hold of my b uly and causes distress and pain therein. lt also takes hold of the state and results in social disorders. strikes, poverty, &.c., &.c., It bonumbs my brain and many things are done in our 1 gushi- tivo halls and by our governmental bodies which go to show that it has 8 stupcfyin: efl‘ect there also. Keep it out of the body and out of the community by fotil pru- hihition for the state and total absiii-nice for the people. We strive to model our laws after the laws given by Go-1, and in fact nearly all tllusis upon - -nr statute books aire based upon tliosec-f the Holy Book. We read the cuiiiimnds which set forth in unmisriikcable langiiuge ellrtt we shall not do. Some one might enquire, “where is total prohibition cuniniand-.d iii the Bible I" and to this I might reply, "where is license justified?” The Bible was llnl intended to give de!aiI.s of our daily life, but is one uf grand principles for us to live up to. N0 principle is more incul- cated by the teaching of tlie-Bible than total prnhibiti--ii for all evil. \Vhiit kind of prohibition , would that be frained iccording to license. Just imagine if when llfiises was receiving the com- mandments frniii the Lord lie szii-l when giving the command, “Thou shalt not ate-il," Bit. Lord, that won't work. \lvike it read. ‘Thou shalt not steal un- less you pay a license fee.’ He would be ordered to stand ‘aside and somebody more fitted would given the laws. The lesson learned fro this is, nevr; degrade the laws to the moral degradation of the pee lo. , here is no license), but has prove.-3 itself a curse. I Il:l\_‘9‘l'I5i)lntl from th Province of Ontario. If there is a c-‘run on the fqcg of the globethnt has a bent.-r license ‘law than any other, it is Ontari--. Before leaving Toronto I called at the office of the Chief of Police’ and of the Inspector of jails, and I found that out of 4 population of abnit 2,000,000, during last year 12,531 persons had been locked up in jail; 1,732 of thong were women; and 4.77?’ were", nit in for being drunk- ards; 4,544 were‘£‘=,_it~holics and 7,937 were -: in -testantsaw ’ rfltfll not hereto den. mince any man. not even the liquor men of Ontario. Some of them are persons’ friends of mine. Many of them are clever, capable men, and men who coul-_: do a great deal of good if only they wet in some better business.