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CALENDAR FOR OCTOBER, 1890,

MOON 8 CHANGES,

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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Temperance and the Scott Act.

Srr,—My letters, which you have so kindly done me the favor of publishing, have elicited, so far as | have seen, three

communications bearing upon the use and abuse of intoxicating liquors from ‘* A Re- former,” ‘*‘A Roman Catholic Citizen,” and ‘‘An English Catholic.” The first ‘raises the question: ‘Is drunkenness a | Vice ora disease?’’ Although I have given a goud deal of thought to the subject, and ‘have had excellent opportunities of forming ‘conclusivns, it is one foreign to the matter I treated of, and for the present, at least, I dismiss it. ‘‘ A Roman Catholic Citizen icomes to the rescue of Father Strubbe, de- ,nounces the Scott Act, and upholds the moderate use and the sale of intoxicants ; iwhile ‘‘An English Catholic,” who has ‘anticipated me with some vigorous and highly appropriate utterances of Archbishop Ireland, supports the Scott Act. ' I had intended steering clear of this Act, /which is a troublesome factor in the tem- perance controversy, but I find that I can- |not avoid it; and, considering that an elec- tion is imminent in Charlottetown, it be- hoves every man, having the public inter- est at heart, to deal with the Act according to his honest cunvictions. | may as weli be plain and say at once that lam nota sup- porter of the Scott Act. On the contrary, I have always opposed it, have voted against it, and have done as much as, if not more than, any other mam to defeat it in Char- lottetown. Ido not believe that this Act can ever be an effective measure, and in this opinion I am sustained by many thousands of Canadians who, having tested its merits, have abandoned it in despair, if not in disgust. Since its enactment it has been submitted to public opinion in 82 cities and counties ; seventeen of these re- jected it promptly, while 55 adopted it. Of these 55, 28 abrogated it on the first op- portunity, while two others gave it two chances before rejecting it, so that now it is in operation—as feebly, no doubt, as in Charlottetown—in only two cities and 33 counties of Canada. These two cities are Charlottetown and Fredericton, N. B. How it works in Charlottetown we all know, and I have only to referto the New Brunswick papers for proof that, in the election which took place in York County in that Province, its existence was wholly ignored in Fredericton, where drunkenness held high carnival. Says the St. John Gazette : ‘* Liquor was as free as water, and this in a city that has on four occasions cast majorities in favor of the Scott Act.” hile Ido not concur in the views of **A Roman Catholic Citizen,” who evidently thinks that all prohibitory measures are of themselves wrong, as they interfere with an inaleniable right of man, I am of the opin-

sean cae rn Full Stock Now Landing Of | ion that no such law can be effective unless

adopted by a two-third vote of the munici- pality, which will materially assist to ensure its efticient working. The Scott Act, however, is not supported by public opinion in Char- lottetown or elsewhere. At the first elec- tior, held in your city in 1879, only 1,090 votes were polled—about one-half the elec- At the second election, in 1884,. 1,470 votes were polled—about two-thirds of the electorate. 755 of these were in favor of the Act, which was carried by a majority of 40. At third election, in 1887, 1,358 votes were polled, and the Act sustained by 689 to 669, a majority of 20! lt will be observed that the supporters of the Act decreased from 839 in 1879 to 735 in 1884, and to 689 in 1887. It was carried at the first submis- sion by a minority vote, and at the last two elections by less than a third of the electorate. A law which is not sustained _y public opinion cannot be successful, and the Scott Act will never attract public sym- pathy or support. Charlottetown is not a

opened a Studio at No. 307 Kent} yet, am I going too far when I say that the Street (one door East of Dr. Johnson’s),|Seott Act has been a universal failure wher-

, where instructions will be given in the various} eyey tested ?

branches of DRAWING and PAINTING.

Show me where it has been

suceessful. I know the reply will be made

The Studio will be open to visitors every that the Scott Act has never been adminis-

Thursday afternoon, from 3 to 5 o’clock. Terms, etc., on application,

MAUD H. JOHNSON, MARY A. DOULL.

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tered properly, and that it has not hada fair chance. In the name of common sense, what better chance does it want than that afforded by the past eleven years during which it has been the law of your

MR. H. L. HEARTZ,

city? Governments guilty of malfeasance in office are promptly displaced, and not given second and third terms. Your citi-

Organist of the Methodist Brick | zens have the administration-of the laws in

Church,

wt take a few pupils in the art of Singing. Those desirous of taking lessons may ascertain terms, etc., at the resi-

their own hands, and have alternately had Scott Act and anti-Scott Act Councils, paid prosecutors and no prosecntors, with invariably the same result—drunkenness

dence of Mrs. William Kennedy, Hillsborough | abounding, the liquor trafiic extending,

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defiance, but brought intocontempt. Would that it were only the Scott Act—the law of man—that was broken. But is it not,a fact that since the operation of that measure the false oath is a very common one in our courts? I have high authority for saying that this isso. Ihave no doubt that, on the eve of the approaching election, parties

| ill be again found to pledge themselves to Tanners and Curriers, ; cal enforcement of the Act, but how

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have these pledges been fulfilled in the past? Your cltizens can answer each for

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The Scott Act does not make the use of intoxicants illegal ; it allows their whole- sale importation but forbids their sale ; it pointedly says to the day laborer: ** You cannot have your glass of beer without breaking the law,” and, as you cannot afford to import it like the ‘ big bugs,” you must do without it. Whatis this but one law for the rich and another for the poor? And the rich take advantage of it. < remember seeing on Powna!l Wharf, some years ago, a number of empty beer casks

on Dwellings, Furniture, Stocks, etc., at)) iting shipment to Montreal ; they were

very low rates.

Citizens can get insurance at being returned by one of our judges. He

the actual cost, instead of paying exorbitant certainly imported wholesale, and I have

premiums to foreign corporations.

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The under- signed has been appointed Secretary, and can be seen at his residence, Lower Great George

no doubt still continues to do so. The rnagistrate who fines Brown for having sold Smith e glass of beer, can himself drink all he wants because he can afford to import it, and is not under the necessity, like Smith,

‘}should have been none),

of buying by the glass. Is it surprising that the laboring man—-the working classes —have no respect for the Scott Act? The people of Prince County in 1878, and the people of Queen’s County and of Charlotte- town in 1879, adopted the Scott Act, thus declaring the sale of liquors unnecessary, hurtful and illegal, With this verdict of the majority of their constituents ringing in their ears, we find the Local Government of that day giving a banquet to the Govern- or-General, and filling up a select crowd of nabobs and tuft-hunters with choice wines at the public expense! What sort of ex- ample is this to be set by those who are charged with the conduct of public affairs ? (1 do not know that any liquors were used at the banquet to Lord Stanley, but there The Scott Act practically says to the working classes : ‘** You shall not drink, because 1 can pre- vent you; but the rich can drink all they like, because I can’t help it.” The law which deprives the poor man of what it allows to his rich neighbor, introduces into society a state of things which renders its successful operation impossible.

lt must be admitted that restricting the poor man would not, under certain circum- stances, be a legitimate argument against the Scott Act, because the state, in the in- terest of the common weal, has the right to enact a law which may press hardly on a few, for our whole system consists in the abrogation of certain individual rights in order to the attainment of greater ad- vantages. Therefore, if it were at all evi- dent that the working class alone abused liquor, and that the other classes of society rarely, if ever, did so, it would be proper to enforce such a law as the Scott Act, in like manner as it is penal to furnish intoxi- cants to Indians. But this state of things does not exist.

The sale of intoxicants in se is not im- moral; it is the drinking habit which is hurtful, because it leads to the acquisition of an appetite, the gratification of which is sinful. It is this drinking habit we should seck to destroy. Itis the frequenting of saloons, with its attendant train of evils, we should endeavor to stop; and the re- striction or prohibition of the sale of intox- ieants is only a means to this end, It seems to me that very many good people are con- tent to stop at passing the Scott Act, satis- fying themselves with the vain excuse that, having voted for the Act, their dvty is done. These are the persons who thank God that a glass of liquor cannot be obtained in Charlottetown without a breach of the law, while they know all the time that, in spite of the law, the traftic goes on week after week, and that bodies and souls are being

ruined. Yet they mock God by thanking Him for a state of things which is most grievous in His eyes. Our duty is to make men sober, and keep them sober ; and with this object in view, to restrict, if we can- not wholly restrain, the traffic in intoxi- cants. lt we can do this under a license law more efficiently than under the Scott Act, under which all attempts hitherto have failed, then let us have a license law. But no matter what law we have, we must work, and that work must originate with the clergy, and upon the lines laid down by Father Elliott. We shall always have need and use for temperance societies, and the more of them the better. Ido not believe that intoxicants should form any part of ‘“‘our daily bread.” I believe that men and women are far better and healthier, moral- ly and physically, without them. I believe in preventing their abuse and discouraging their use by all legitimate means. But 1 do not believe in the Scott Act as a remedy, and I have given some of my reasons.

Having presumed to speak on the temper- ance question, I have found it necessary to a myself on record on the Scott Act.

am one with Father Strubbe in his opinion of that measure, and I would here call the attention of *‘A Roman Catholic Vitizen” to the fact that I never found fault with Father Strubbe’s remarks regarding Its worthlessness; on the contrary, I said “Those who do not approve of the Scott Act should not be con- sidered as inimical to the cause of temperance, and those who deride Father Strubbe for what we are bound to belive his honest con- victions are themselves to be blamed.” The points at issue between the rev. gentleman and myself I clearly defined in my first letter.

Before I close I think it well to correct a prevalent misaprehension, that if the Scott Act be defeated, your city will have no law of any kind until the legislature makes a new enactment, This is a divice of the sup- porters of that measure which was used at the last election, The Scott Act is not abrogatedjby the ;simple vote of the citizens, but only by a proclamation by the Governor- Generai in Council declaring that from and after a certain date, its provisions will no longer be in force. There is no fear of the Minister of Justice advising the issue of such a proclamation until a law has been peoviden to take the place of that defeated.

he press should make this plain, and not allow the people to be deceived by such plausible subterfuges.

I have not yet finished with my subject, but only with the Scott Act branch of it. I shall therefore trouble you again in a few days. A Roman CATHOLIC.

Feast of S. S, Simon and Jude, 1890.

Two-Rowed Barley Tests.

Prof. Saunders was asked by the Lnwire for some information in reference to the two-rowed barley tests this year. Mr. Saunders said that the samples that had been received at the Experimental Farm from Ontario points were very good, con- sidering the season. They ranged from 52 lbs. to 55 Ibs. to the bushel. Some of the samples were of very good color, others were more or less so, dependent on the character of the season where they had been grown. Messrs. Tuckett, of Hamilton, who cropped ten acres of two-rowed this year, are very well pleased with the results they have attained, the crop averaging 34 2-5 bushels of barley of first-class quality to the acre. Prof. Saunders thinks that for the first year the experiment is of a most encouraging nature. Parties who have grown six-rowed along side of the two- rowed have in every inetance reported that relatively the two-rowed made the better showing both in quality and crop.

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