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DAILY EXAMINER.
DECEMBER 19, 1880.
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To the Proef, Mr. Mayor!
His Worsutr tHe Mayor expressed his regret, at the meeting, last evening, that Tre Examiner —“‘ the leading organ of the Liberal-Conservative Party in this Pro- had become ‘the champion of the rum sellers.” His Worship also said, in effect, that Tue EXaMINeR, at the begin- ning of the campaign, stated that the issue was between the Scott Act and Free Rum ; but that it advocating High License as against the Scott Act.
We deny both these statements, and challenge His Worship to the proof, offer-
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premises, men hot for temperance, —who are yet ‘neither cold nor hot” for the Scott Act, and are waiting the end of the discussion to make up their minds how they will vote on the 8th of January, Are these men to be ** spewed out” as *‘ neither cold nor hot.” Oa the other hand, we know men who are very active about the promotion of the Scott Act, who speak in favor of it at public meetings, and have no trouble in making up their minds con- cerning it, ——who, yet, didnotlet the wine pass them by at recent public dinners, and who have occasionally purchased a ‘** black duck” from those who violate the law. Are these men “hot” in the estimation of the Rev. Mr. Sutherland? His Worship the Mayor was very lively at the meeting of last evening. He has been a blue rib-
ing to place both the fyles and the columns of Tue Examiver at his disposal, in order that he may prove them if he can.
His Worship need not go far to discover the utter falsity of the latter statement ;
for in the very last article which appeared |
ti in Tue Examiver, this sentence will be tou id :
‘The question for the electers —at least these who are in favor of seems tu be narrowed down to whether tis
‘ } ‘ _ better to * bear those ills we have than fly
to others we know not of’
teniperanc *
lving between the Scott Act as it has been |
administered and ‘ free rum.’” We presume, therefore, that His Wor- |
ship will, as the first gentleman of the city, | offer an explanation and apology in respect | t of his; and| that he will prove the first or stand con- | put it
» this erroneous statement
vieted before the public of—we mildly —a breach of the Niath Comuad- ment. We may add that his silence will | be construed by THe Examiner and the! public as a confession of | guilt. |
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The Meeting of Last Evening. |
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tantamount to
Tue large and excellent audience present | in “aesot Hall last evening was very grat- | |
ify »>THe Examiner; for it was a
ltality ‘*
(—the choice | |
bon man and a Scott Act man; and he ap- pears triennially to preside over a Scott Act meeting. Yet, when he was Lieuten- ant Governor of the Provinee, he hadn't
the courage of the Honorable A. A. Macdonald; he hadn't the backbone to act according to his principles, and
to set a noble example of consistency ;
' i . . | but he dispensed the gubernaterial hospt-
” r the custom of the country Is the Mayor to be clasxnd among those : while the
afts
who are *“‘ hot’ for temperance man who acts out his principles in his life but yet hesitates aa to how he had better vote in respect to the most intricate and difficult question ever submitted to a com- munity, ‘‘ neither cold nor hot” and to be ** spewed out.” A lit- tle reflection will, we think, convince the
is accounted as
Rey. Mr. Sutherland that_he ‘‘ barked up
the wrong tree.”’
Miss Earle’s contribution of sweetness and light was highly appreciated by the audience and heartily applauded, and the
Rev. Messrs. Brewer and Cahill both made
many goods points which we have neither time nor space to bring out.
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What About “ License?’
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DAILY EXAMINER,
proof of no doubtful character that the dis- Our correspondent, ‘*Taxpayer,” has cussion carried on by Taz Examiner hs! directed attention to an important point in b3en the means of rousing public atten- the issue. THe Examiner referred to this tion, —of setting the people to think about point some time ago, and would ere this the questions in the issus which has been | have expressed its opinion concerning it, if forced upon them. It was gratifying also, | it were not for the friendly, useful, and in one sense, to note that most of the js very interesting discussson "—we quote speakers made THe Examiner the subject the Guardiau—which has resulted from the
of their remarks. The facts and arguments | advanced by Tue Examriver are evidently
to be grappled with. We regret that the! spirit and tone of some of the speakers | seemed to indicate that they had not yet ! come within the benign influences of the | Christmas Festival, and that misrepresea- tations fell ‘‘ thick as leaves Vallam- brosa,””
We must compliment Mr James updn his excellent speech. If, as he saya, the statistics prove that there has been a sensible increase of drunkenness in those counties of Ontario which have renounced the Scott Act, the fact may be taken as a/ point in favor of his contention. But it is | rather unfortunate that the Rev. | James Carruthers has taught us doubt the |
reliability of even ‘the official figures.” | Apropos of his somewhat labored attempt to explain away our importations of liquor, duty paid, we submit the following : Two! active supporters of the Scott Act were on their rounds a few days ago. One of them,
meeting a Government official, asked him,
** Is it true that the quantity of liquors im- ported duty paid equals or exceeds the quantity entered for duty?” Turning to the other seeker after truth (a merchant) the official said, ‘* Do not you import some of your goods, dutyjpaid 7” ‘* Yes,” was
the reply, ‘‘ the greatest part.” ‘* Then,” ssid the official, “if you import moet all your goods of which you are not ashamed, duty paid,when you might importthem in
bond,andthen enter at the Customs counter openly and without shame, how much more than the half must the liquor dealer im- port duty paid when he knows that his acts are watched, and thats he is condemned ?”
We like to hear the Rev. Mr. Sutherland speak, for he tells a good Scotch story in a good Scotch way. But it wasn’t necessary for him to goto “license” andtheOld Ceoun- try for something pathetic to tell as a result of the use of strong drink. If he had told about the young man who, under the un- fluence of liquor, laid upon a street of Charlottetown throughout the terrible night of Saturday last ; if he had pictured that young man upon his bed at the hospital awaiting the amputating knife of the sur- geon ; if he had gone to that young man’s heme and heard his mother’s wail about the Scott Act houses, he would probably
have drawn the sympathetic tear just as freely as he did by his Scotch story,—and much more to the point and purpose. Mr. Sutherland was justly severe concerning those who are ‘“‘neither cold nor hot.” But it seems to us that there was some con- fusion of thought in his application of the parable, The duty of the community, in- dividually and collectively, is to be hot at all times for the Christian virtue of tem- perance. But the community, both individ- ually and collectively, may be either hot or cold for an instrament (such as the Scott Act) used for the restriction of drunkenness, according as it proves to be good or bad, successful or unsuccessful. For in- stance, we know men who have never paid @single red cent to any liquor dealer in thie city, men who are in the strictest
in
| fied period of time.
; clared against it.
Rev. James Carruthers’ demand fer facts and figures. ‘* Taxpayer” is undoubtedly right in his contention that the Scott Act will, in the event of the petition being aus- tained by a majority of the electors, con- tinue to be law in Charlottetown for a speci- We believe that he is wrong in his statement that the period is sixty days. The period is, if we mistake not, thirty days. At the expiration of thirty days after an adverse vote of the majority, the operation of the Act in Char- lottetown will be stayed. But it matters little, in our opinion, whether the period be the longer or the shorter one, It is not likely that an Act which is, admittedly, not well enforced while the majority is in its favor—except when a petition is in cir- culation and an election pending—will be enforced at all after the majority has de- The moment the Scott Act is condemned by the electors of Char- lottatown, that moment it will, in our opinion—we may be wrong—become a dead letter as far as Charlottetown is concerned,
If this opinion be right, the pro- moters of the petition should either have secured the passage of
a license law before they began their cam- psign, or they should have waited until the moral sense of the community had been roused to demand the passage of such a law as would be backed up by public opinion and enforced. With a divided Legislature, and public opinion throughout the country strong against the licensing of the liquor evil, the prospect of obtaining a good work- ing license law under any circumstances is not, at the present time, good. Then, there is thequestion of the powerof the Provincial Legislature to pass a ‘‘local option law.’ It is safe to say that unless the principle of ‘** local option ” can be incorporated in it, the people will not give their support to a license act. A tavern, however, well kept, is necessarily a nuisance. There will always be -arrivals late at night and knockings, the r.nging of bells in winter and the rattle of wheels in summer, to disturb the quiet and cemfort of the neighborhood, Therefore, the neighborhood is entitled to & governing voice in 4 question whether a tavern shall or shall not exist ? We hoped that the Jawyers of the town would have volunteered some information upon this point. But they have not done so. We are yet in the dark in respect to it. Until light be afforded the people will not, prob- ably, concur in any change which will necessitate the passage of a license law.
Personal. The New York Herald says that Charles Coghlan, the actor, has been declared a bank-
rupt.
Me. Herbert Henderson, Manager cf the Anglo-American telegraph cffice at Sackville, is spending a few days in thecity. His place at Sackville is being filled by Mr. A. Saunders ef the Company’s office in this city.
Chief Justice Sullivan and Mrs. Sullivan are in Georgetown, en route to Montreal, where they will spend the Christmas holi- days.
We regret to have to record the death ot Gecrge R. Montgomery's only child—a pro- mising boy—which took place at his home,
sense ** total abstainers,” men who do not tolerate drink or drunkards about their
Alberton, on Tuesday. The cause of death was scarlet fever,
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1890.
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The Scott Act Meeting.
o'clock the building was crowded to dvor. His Worship Mayor Haviland occu- pied the chair. The meeting was opened with music by the choir, after which Kev. Me. Archibald offered prayer. The chairman, in his opening remarks, referred to the pleasure it gave him to have the honor of presiding over such a_ large, and respectable audience of ladies and gen- tlemen, and counselled all to be careful how they voted in the forthcoming contest, as the welfare of the province depended ' upon the result of the election on the 8th of January next. After reading from the Stipendiary Magistrate’s report for the year 1877 to show the amount of drunken- ness under the license law, he proceeded ito take Tur EXAMINER to | task for the course it had adopted. When the movement for the repeal of the Act was lbegun Tus Examiner tovk excep-| ition to iton the ground thatif the Act | | were repealed there was no law to take its place—that the issue was between the Scott | Act and free rum. But a change has taken | place, and he was sy to see that now) | Tue Exawiner, the leading organ of the, | Conservative party—a party to which he | had been unswerviag iu his allegiance — was now championing the cause ef the rum- sellers. Proceeding, he referred to some | of the great theologians of the day who were pronounced temperance advicites, and after touciing upon tke evils of the licensed sxloon, he apoke of what a correspondent of | ‘Tue Examiner had to say as to the law in} the matter of the repeal of the Act. The | correspondent in question had stated that | should the Act be repealed on the 8.h of ' January, it must remain in force for sixty days thereafter, at the expiration of which | time the Act may be repealed by order of ' the Governor-General -in~-Council; but} should a license law not be passed by that} time, the Governor-General can withhold |
his proclamation for some time longer. He did not believe any such thing. ‘’May,” in legal documents, often meant
‘‘shall,” and he thought that at the end of sixty days the Governor General would be bound to issue the order for the revocation of the Act. In his opinion it would be ut- terly useless to attempt to continue the Act after public opinion had pronounced against it. There was no law to take the place of the Scott Act should it unfortun- | ately be repealed; and he thought that those | asking for the repeal of the Act should have had a license law passed at the last session of the Legislature when all was quiet. The Scott Act, notwithstanding the many or- deals through which it had passed, was a good Act, and he was prepared to gtand or fall by it.
T. C. James, Esq., was the next speaker. This, contest, he said, was brought on by the liquor men. Although he would not tay that every man who signed the peti- tion was a liquor man, he would say that the liquor sellers were the power behind the scones. They are the men who ask for the repeal of the Scott Act in the interests of temperance; the men who claim that the Act is a failure. But the Act was not a failure. The returns show that under the Act the consumption of liquor and the arrests for drunkenness have decreased. The police records show that there were three times as many persons arrested for drunkenness under the license system as there were under the Scott Act. And the scenes on Upper Queen Street and on the roads leading from the city were also changed for the better since that Act be- | came law. The Act has b.ea repealed in! several counties of Ontario, but the change | was for the worse; that the repeal was a re- trograde movement is now generally con- ceded. Ue took exception to THe Ex- AMINER’S statement, that one-half the liquors imported to this Province were duty paid. Itis true, he said, that some did come in in this way, but the quantity was small, High I--nse had been tried in Chicago, Boston, Glasgow and other cities, and found wanting. He thought the peo- ple were thoroughly alive to the evils of the liquor traffic, and were not going to legslize the saloon. In conclusion, he strongly urged upon the people the great necessity there was for doing all in their power to stamp the traftic out of this fair city.
Rev. Messrs. Sutherland, Brewer and Cahill were the other speakers. They dealt at length with the evils of the liquor traffic, and appealed to those present to stand by the Scott Act in the forthcoming contest.
Miss Earle sung *‘ Where is my Wander- ing Boy To-night” in fine form; and the meeting closed with the National Anthem.
SD A Report Asked For.
Srr,—The Guardian, the Patrtot and Mr. Carruthers are endeavoring to make a strong point in favor of the Scott Act from a report sent by Mr. Fitzgerald, the Stipendiary Magistrate to the City Council in the year 1887, Mr. James, from whom I would expect better, argued on the same line last night at the temperance rally.
This report was submitted four years before the Scott Act was brought in force in Char- lottetown, and six months before the act was — by the House of Commons consequent- y it can have no bearing on the issue before the electors of Charlottetown which is, ‘‘ Has the Scott Act, asa temperance measure, been asuccess?” That is the question before the citizens, and not whether there was drunken. uess and crime in the year 1877. Thisis the point which the temperance epeakers last night overlooked, whether through ignorance of their subject or through wilful desiga I leave with themselves.
But since Mr. James seems to think that Mr, Fitzgerald's opinion is important and should be considered by the electors before casting their ballots, I would ask him to ob- tain the report upon the Scott Act sent by Mr. Fitzgerald to Ottawa, not four years be- fore the Act came in force, but some five or six years after it had been in practical eper- ation backed up by Mr. Carruthers, Mtr, James, the Patriot and Guardian, and all the other effervescent temperance workers in Charlottetown. This report, if published, would show a different state of things from what Mr. Carruthers and others are endeavor- ing to make people believe exists in Cha: lotte.
Scott Act advecste obtaining Mr Fitzgerald's report. He will, no doubt, give it to them if they ask for it, as icis very much against their side, which is reason he will not: give it to the anti-Seott Act people.
OnE or Last Nicut’s AvprIEnce.
DIED. AtAlberton, on the morning of the 17th, Georgie R., beloved son of George R. and — Montgomery, aged 6 years 2 montis and ays.
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