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D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, OFFIOE IN North American Hotel, KENT STREET. Charlottetown, Aug 3, !870. Goto W. A. Weeks & Co, for Cheap Goods. CARVELL BROTHERS, AUCTIONEERS, Commission Merchants, AND GENERAL AGENTS, BANK BUILDING, QUEEN STREET, Charlottetown, P. E. Island. A. McNEILL, READING ROOM PROPRIETOR, CDKMIS3IION MEREAANL AND AUCTIONEER. CHARLOTTETOWN, March 21, 1870. lyr’ H. HASZARD. Comnission Merchant, GENERAL AGENT, anD AUCTIONEER Uppe. Queen Street, Charlottetown, - P.E. I. NN. B.—Orders from «road, and the country @il! -eceive promptattap ion. April 26,1369 AGENCY OFFICE! E SUBSCRIBE: will attend to all or ders for the Selling, letting, purchasing, easing &c., of Dwelling Houses, Businees Zstablishmente, and luads both in City and @ountry. e Parties waaese dispose of - a ro of any description, to let or petit mn f , will please apply by let- ter stating particulars. tar SECRECY, when required, strictly bserved. eee A. McNEILL. Bechange Buildings, (h'town, ’ May mB, ‘1871. tf FARM FOR SALE, At St. Peter’s. pas Subscriber offers for Sale a Valuable FARM of 84 Acces, 45 of which are un- der Cultivation, ‘The remainder is covered with 4 good supply of Soft and Hard Wood. There ave oo the Farw & Comfortable Dwelling-house, and commodious Barns and “ : od i ell we The Land ie in goad coudition, and ie W - tered, Lt ia Bituated on the Main Road. leading to- Warde Mr. Peter Sinneis'’s (The position \# cen~ tral and is near Grist aud Saw Mills, School Houses and Church. This desirable Property avill be Sold at # rea- @onable Price. One half theanovey ta be paid down, and the remainder ao a term of years. For further particulars, enquire at the EXx- AMiNER Or rice or of the Subscriber Gas Fitting, Water Closets, JAMES PHELAN. JOURNAL **This is true Liberty, whevu Freeborn Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.’---Euripides CHARLOTTETOWN, PRI NCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1871, OLITICS, LITERATURE AND NEWS, [ NO. 32, usiness Cards. <_ 7? \< & t CAS FITTING, its branches, done at JOHN H TORREY’S, Kent Street. Gasaliers, Cleaned & Repaired, at JOHN H. TORREY’S, Kent Street, | ALE PUMPS, | always on hand at | | JOHN H. TORREY’S, Opposite Rocklin House, Kent Street. Ch’town, July 24, 1871. ly WILLIAM DODD, Commission Merchant and in all AUCTIONEER QUEEN SQUARE, CHARLOTTETOWN, PE. ISLAND CITY LUMBER DEPOT FOR SALE AT THE CITY LUMBER DEPOT. ALL KINDS OF LUMBER! Pine and Spruce Boards. and Plank, Sawn | and Split Shinglee (Cedar. Pine & Fir), Cedar | Posis and Fence Rails, Scantling, Stadding and Lathes. Enquire at Mr. James Barrett's, Block- maker, Dorchester Sireet, near the R. OC. Chapel, or of the Subscriber. BRISE ADD SVONL FOR SALE AT THE LUMBER DEPOT. Hillsboro’ Square. Ch'tawn, June 19, 1871. pi tf ee Apothecaries’ Hall, The Old Stand, West Corner of Queen ESTABLISHED, 1810. By Steamer City of Cork from ENGLAND. Brigantine James from MONTREAL | has completed this imp orttions for the winter, consisting of GENUINE DRUGS & CHEMICALS, Oils, Colors, Xe. PATENT MEDICINES, PERFUMERY TUILET ARTICLES, &c., &e. Vance on cost, Speciabattention, by an experienced band, to the preparativn by day and night of Physicians’ T. DESBRISAY. Charlott«town, Jan. 2, 1871. Bell- Hanger, Gun aud Tin-Suith, Dorchesier Steet, (Next to ‘¢ Examiner” Office.) { publie forthe liberal patronage extended to him since hiscommencement in business, and asks for a continuance of the same. He Arment Asortment of TINWARE, KITCHEN UTENSILS &e., &C¢., &c. will be punctually attended to. Having lately made large purchases in the Cheapest Markets,intended for House Builders, ALSO; BENJAMIN W.LLLIAMS. Square, Y and other recent arrivals, the undersigned Dye Stuffs, Varnishes, Paints, The whole of which will be sold at a sniall ad prescriptions and private recipes, A. HERMANS, EGS toreturn histhanks to the genera! keepSconstanty on hand ALL ORDERS in the above BUSINESS such as Bell Pittings, &., &c., lam prepared to SELL THEM at RATES AS LOW AS CAN BE HAD IN THE CITY, and will fit hem up ir a good workwanlike style ‘fo a generous public, I would say, that all Orders in THIS BRANCH OF MY BUSI NESS will be attended to with Deepateh A Lot of First Class WATLR COOLERS or hand. SAYER’S CRYSTAL BLUE, Seld Cheaper than ever Fuly 12, 1869 ROOFING GRAVEL, For Sale! A coonty of the best kind of Roofing Gravel. WM. KOUGHAN Queen’s Wharf, May 8, 1871. Carriage Builders WILL FIND AT THE “City Hardware Stere,’’ OKES, Rims, Carriage Banda, Dasher Piecciiens Enamelled Duek and Dri!l, Maiable Castings, Bolts and Nats, latent Axels, and every other urticle in their line. As we have the Agency of the above articles, we will guarantee to sell ata lower rate than they can be purchased elsewhere. BOURKE, GILLAN & Co, Auz. 22, 1870 Dissolution of Co-Partnership. OTICE is hereby given that the Co- N Partnership heretofore existing between the Subscribers, under the Style or Ficm of Proup & McCouprey, bas been dissolved frow the day of the date of thie notice, by mutual con- ” JOHN HENRY PROUD. ANDREW C. MeCOUBREY. All persons having claims against the said irm are requested to furvish their Accounte to og tebe ; and all persons indebted to the said Firm, either by note of Hand or Book Ac- evunt,are requested to settle the same immediate- ly, as no further notiee will be given. ANDREW C, McCOUBREY. Ch’town, July 10, 1871, 4in WANTED —Two Compositors, stant employment, and the high- I O island Wages will to given at Examiner er. > gnsur awice, ~ The Travellers’ Insurance Comp’y, At OF HARTFORD, CON. Cash Assets - - - - = $1,600,000. Grants everything desirable in LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE ON THE MOST FAVORABLE TERMS. Accident Department. fg) HE Travellers’ Insurance Company, in its Accident Department, is a General Accident against Death or wholly Disabling Injury by Ac- cident te men of all trades, prefessions, and ocen- pations, at rates within the reach of all. It in sures against accidents by machinery, accidents from the use of tools and implements, accidents }that occur in the usual and lawful avocations of | lite, as well as accidents by travel. General Accident Policies are written for a term ef-one to twelve months each, and insure a sum of to-$50 weekly indemnity for whothy diewbling in- jury by accident, not to exceed twenty-six weeks for any one accident, at an annual cost of $5 to $10 per thousand for occupations vet specially hazardous. Hazardous risks taken at higher rates Life Department. In its Life Department, the Travellers grants fall Lite and Endownmieut Policies, embracing the best features of the best companies, but witvout the complications or the uncertainties or the note system. It sells Insurance rather than future ‘“*dividends.”’ Its contract is a plain one, its secu- rity isample and unquestioned, and its rates of premivm are exceedingly low. It prefers to do business on a cash basis, and thus gives its policy- | holders advantages not attainable under the credit | eystem. Premium system, the favorite low rate cash | plan. All policies non-forfeitable. Its ten, fifteen and twenty year policies can be converted into Endow- | | ments, at the option of the insarant. This feature | ds.oviginal with this Company. The Travellers’ furnish everything desirable in either Life or Accident Insurance. It has issued | 215 000 genera! accident :policies and Paid Four- | teen Thonsand Claims for death or injary by ac- | cident; the amount thas retarned to,poliay holders | averaging about Seven Hundred Poliars-a ‘Day for evere working day during theypast seven years. In its Life departmentit has written 11.300 po- licies; and its Low Rate Cash Plan iis steadily growing in favor with the insuring public. Example of Life Rates. Phe hdider of « policy for $4000 will pay an-an nualpremium of $7020, which will cost in-most other courpauies very nearly $90. Llence the as- sured can secure in the Travellers a Life Policy for over $5000 ‘for the sume-aunual premiam xs charged Ly other companies tor only $1000, and | the iusurance take effect from date of policy with- | out waiting tor bonus additions, ci ure uucer- tain, and at best require the assured to have a | unurantee of life for a number of years in order te realize. Falifax Board of References: Hon W.A Heory, Mayor. A. Uniacke, Feq Cuetos, S. Pobin, Esy , fx Mayor. N. Clark, Eeq., Clk. Peace. G. Taylor, Esg., Sup. N. 3. R. James Scott, Esq. Merchant. E. W. Chipman, Esq , do. W.. N. Wickwire, ‘M. D., Medical Referee. Canada Board of References: C. J. Brydyes, Esq., Managing Director Grand Trunk Railway, Montreal. W.K. Muir, General Superintendent Great West- ern Railroad, Hamilton. Hon L. Hulton, late Minister of Finance, Moutre- al. i Hon. Alexander Campbell, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Kingston. Hon. W. M. McMaster, M. L. C., Firm McMaster & Nephews, Merchants, Toronto. William Workman, Esq., Presideut City Bank, Mourreal. Hugh Allen, Esq., Firm Hugh & Andrew Allen, Geuveral Merchants and Ayents Montreal Ocean Steamship Company, Montreal. J. 1. Beaudry, Esq , Mayor of Montreal. Edwin Atwater, Ksq., Firm E. Atwater & Co., Merchants and President Citizens’ Insurance Co., Moutreal. Henry Starnes, Esq., Moutreal. James Johnson, Esq, Ex-President Provincial Exhilitien, London. Applications for Life or Accident Insurance are respectfully solicited. J. D. WELLS. General Agent for Maritime Provinces Office in McLeod's Buildings, No. 114 Hollis Street, Halifax: Manager Ontario Bank 3m. APA Weeks & Co. 5 offer an ATTRACTIVE 8TOCK READY-MADE £, ’Clothin at the Lowest Prices, —jy Pleaee call and get ¢ SUITED. Notice to Country Merchants | A LARGE LOT OF HAYING TOOLS, COMPRISING: NASH’S PRUNE SCYTHEPS, SNEATU’S, (different kinds,) SCYTHE STONES, HAY RAKES, HAY FORKS, Will be Sold very low to the Trade. Apply early at *" STONE'S * HARDWARE STORE.” Ch’town, July 3, 1871. WOOL. WOOL. Stanfield Woolen Mlills. 1is7i1. HE Subscriber. thankful for pact favors, would T inform the public that he continues te MANUFACTURE CLOTH from CUSTOM WOOL ae heretofore, and at pre | vious rates. WOOL, clean-washed, free of mats and hip-| .. J. Caccsecn’s Chur- Joux D. Rein & Bro s ° locks, may be left at Hox lottetown, or at Messrs. : Sunmerside, where a most extensive supply CLOTH will be found. Ss. E, DAWSON, Jox ‘Tryon, May 22,1871. tf 200 Dozen Hay Rakes. Fo SALE very low, by | | Miscellany. | the Temperance Convention, held in the Atheneum, July 27th. j ee Fi ’ we “oS al, expressed himself in favor of the moder-' from the storm, That pi'ot risked his life and that we, teetotalers, are wrong. Bat ‘ate use of iatoxicating drinks, and declared himself an example of that course of life. in a moderate use of spirituous liqaors. | in the bope of being able to save that ship moderate drinkers are as insensible to the ; and her crew, aud hud the satisfaction of danger to which they are exposed as acid- ~~---~ He was seventy-five years of age, aod ex-| eaving both, idress of Hon. Neal Dow before hibited himself as an example of the safety) * Now, Doctor, what do you think of that? tle-field, I But you want our people to encounter a soldiers do not mind it; they step sometimes jers sometimes are to the dangers of the bat- When the battle rages fiercely, was not present at that meeting ; but in| danger a thousand times greater than that upon the bodies of the dead aud sometimes \looking over the reports ef the speeches 1 | to which the ship and her crew were ex- upon those of the living; they resh across (saw that he was not sufficiently answered — | posed, ‘I would compel him to tell me fields covered with living bodies, with horges A LECTURE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. | probably out of respect to the position he oc-| what consideration he holds out to those and artillery, irrespective of the bodies of ‘eupied in the cburch. The Doctor said| young peep’e for the risk which he would | the'r wounded comrades; their eyes are fix- | (SPECIALLY REPORTED FOR THE EX4MINER). | what he, no doubt believed to be true ; but/ have them undergo, when he advises the ed upon gaining the battle—upon vietory. On Thursday, July 27:h, Hon. Neal we temperance men believe, rod are sure, , moderate use of intoxicating drinks. There! It is just so with drunkards, It is fer|is but one answer the Doctor can make, and their comrades falling all around them, and that he was altogether wrong, They ees Dow, of Portland Maine, delivered the fol-| you, therefore, to judge between us, and de-| that is,-—the only consideration he can offer they don’: mind it, Ina one of our large lowing Address before a large public meet- fusurance Company, granting policies of Insurance ing of the Temperance Convention, beld in ‘the Chair. Mr, Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: | On Wednesday evening last, [ landed upon your shores for the first time. For many } $500 to $10,000 againat Death by Accident, and $3/| years past I have heard your Island highly ‘spoken eff by my countrymen, but [ am disappointed in finding it 80 much superior to anything I expected. During a short | drive into the cocntry to-day, | was remind- jed of some of the English landscapes —the Deautiful valley of the Connecticut, and the seenery around Springfeid, 1 was remind- (ed of what a Paradise your Island would be if you could get strong drink banished out of it. Nowhere could it be more easily ‘done. You are cut off from the Continent, and form a little community by yourselves: | you have a Local Parliament and Govern- ment, and can coatro! your own affairs, and therefore have this matter altogether io your own hands. You-can consult your interesis, and are not under the necessity of asking the consent of any other government —not even that of the British Government— to the mesure passed by your Legislature You can promote your own intersts, mental, moral and social. There can be no mistake in saying that the virtuous and pious part of the people control public opinion and sentiment among you; it is not the vicious who lead the the people. The opinions of the wise and good prevail ameng you, end the .responsibility of the Liquor Traflic, therefore. rests upon them. If that part of the people are satisfied wita the results of the traffic, it will rewain in ;our mids:, aad expand to far greater proporticns ; but if che virtuous part of the people choose to sce as tney ought, the terrible mischiefs of the traffic, and address them ebves to the work of emancipation, it will be -easy ‘for them to carry ‘it-out. Inthe great city of New York, the good do not centro! public opivsion ; butit is quite different on this Is- land,—it is for the viriuous to say what the intersts of the peop!e here require. The latter have but to say what snall be done, and it will be done. I, theretore, charge the pious, intelligent, and edveated part of the people with the responsibility of -intemper- ance and its results. It can hardly be con- ceived that a vast amount of ignorance exists among muititudes of men and women, in reference to a matter which concerns the interests of society as mo other question Joes orean. ‘Ls it not astonishing that peo ple who do not think themse ves ignorant ou social, commercial, scieutific, historical and other matters, should be so profoundly ignorant in reference to the evils of the Lquor Traffic which affects every man’s pocket, and the general interests of the sta'e tosolargeanextent, We bave to ba- lance the advantages and disadvan:ages of the traffic in-intoxivating drinks,in order to find the real state of the matter. Sume persons cry ou! for changes of one kind acd some for those of another; and on the other hand, mulii udes olject to those changes, For instance,in my county there is a movement calied the Woman’s Rghs movement, and matiy exeellent people gu about agitating for a politics! stetus for women. are others who think there are advantages meo, under the preséat law ; and it will be some years before this question will be fisa!- ly settled. The disndvantages to the state arising from the traffie in intox cating drinks are greater thau those resulting from all other evils comb ned. The good done by- it to the state and the people does not amoun' to a shilling, while the mischiefs done by it! are greater than thowe arising from al other evils Does anybody deny this? Nobody. Everybody ad wits it ; itis a plaia proposi- two. That the | quor treffic is ao infi.ire mischief to the state and society, is clear to all. That Leing the case, is 't aot a little extraordinary that a peop!e like those 1 see | bzfore me. having tbeir own government in | their own hands, haviog clear convic*ions of the right, is itnot eatraordinary tbat they should aliow such « trade to exist among them. The 'iquor dealers make fortunes | out of the traffic, an’ declare that it is pro-| ductive of good, But aceording to the old proverb, * Money tha" comes over the devii’s buck is sure to go under his belly.’ You have liquor dealeis amoag you every penny o! whose fortuces represent a sigh, a groan or a tear of some unfortunate wile or daughter, Every pounc of those fortunes represents the hunger, cold and suffering of some miserab!e wretches, and should bave been used to supply ordiaary wants. Is it not a little extraordinary that there should be such a Ciiference of opinion a nong youon this subject, whea you see people going to the devil before our faces, and deliberately stepping down! down! down! till they are finally ruined forever! You see this every- where. Theae is, therefore, no protection for the people from ibis enormous evil, ex- cept by entirely abstaining rom the use of intoxicating drinks, But many people have not such opinions in reference to the liquor trafic. It is very extraordinary that such is the case. We temperance people do not see how there can be avy difference of opin- ion about this ; we cannot see how an intel- ligent man can makea mistake about it. | We declare that these liquors are a poison ‘to both body and soul ; but people just 2s intelligent as we do vot agree with us on this matter. They te!l us it is perfectly safe and right to drink, but that we sbould not drink too much. Drink moderately, say they. ' At a New England Temperance Conve- tion held a short time 4go, there was pre- sent, a Doctor of Divinity who avowed him- selfeutirely opposed to the whole Temper- ance movement, Ele believed total absti- CARVELL BROS. Saly 10,187). Aw nenes to be unphil This ie all very well ; but there) | position of great peril, and almost beyoud connected with the present sfatus of wo-| \cide which is right, ‘low him, make up your minds to do so. or |follaw us. Is this not devilish? The only If you choose to fol-| is—the fun arising from the use of strong cities | saw a young man whom I knew, | drink, : eer i fie is making a profound im-| answer moderate drinkers can give to this | had just filed a drunkard’s grave. A few the Athenzeum,—J. W. Morrison, Esq., in | pression upon the young, aud in our opivion, | question is that they indu'ge in moderate days afierwards, another young man said of smiling at the death of his comrade who it is but right that this false impression | deinking for the love of the fun and gratifi- that sime young man, ‘ Weill, Tom is dead.’ |shoutd be eorreeted. | Doe'or prerent tc-night, and say * Well | Doctor, you are honest in your opisions, but | | we wa I wi!l suppose the, cation waich follow it. inary tu see intelligeot peopls following in tbe paths of tews of thousands who, have Is it not extraord- * Yes,’ says another, ‘and I am glad of it; it is such fellows as he who keep up the |price of liquor,’ Some two months afver- nt to ascertain who is right—yon, or | gove down to destruction by following that | wards, | was in the same street, and beard we. If you can persuade the people of this, live of life? Every one of you knw thiste a young marremark: ‘There is a fellow Continent that you are right, how many | be the case. You may perhaps fi d it at on his last leg.’ A few days afterwards thousands of people will inevitably become | first difficult to decide which course of life) the man was dead. Itwas the same who ‘drunkards ? jof the millions of people on this Continent | |will become drunkards and go down to a} and death to determine it, Lxamine the results of moderate drinking and of total L ask the Doctor how many | it is best to pursue, but it is a matter of life| had been glad at the death of Tom. This is the way in which drunkards regard the ‘death of their comrades There ison'y one \drunkards eternity in consequence of his | abstinence end you will easily be able to | cure for this evil, and that is total abstin- |teaching, if he persuades them he is correct.| determine which is the right course to pur-| ence from all that can intoxicate. You I ask him to reply. He does not immedia-| tely do say. By and by, he says «Neces-| lsarily, if all the world believe me, and fol. | low my advice, none of the people will be-| ‘come drunkards,’ I say this statement of| the Doctor is.as untrue as it would be for a soldier to declare that there is no danger in flying bullets and cannon balls, because he bas been in a hundred figbts and never had ascratch, Seventy-five years of age, Doc- tor and a moderate drinker during nearly the whole of that period! Ll ask you how many of your comrades you have seen going down to a drunkards grave, who began with moderate drinking Sotere is this great Doetor of Divinity with all bis experience, still a moderate drinker. There is another question which I woud put te this great preacher. It is this. ‘Doctor, you advise the perple of this country toa line of life that involves great peril ; you admit there is danger is such a course, that many moderate drinkers are falling into habits of intemperance ; you do not deny that there issome danger atiending it, Does a man encounter danger without some consideration or remuneration.?” ‘Not genera!ly so. When he does so, he isa foo!.? Ona the coast of Rho?e Island there is a steep chasm, clelt or gully, wide at the mouth, but get- ting uarrower inwards—so narrow, indeed, that boys often amuse themselves by leaping across it.from side to side. On one occa- sion, some boys were competing with each other in showing who could leap the furihest out, and they went on leaping over wider /and still wider part of the deep chasm. One | of them wishing to distinguish himself, and |prove bimself a hero, tried to leap over a | wider part than usual, missed, aud went down eome ninety feet, and was instantly killed. (I am not talking to the Doctor, now). ‘That boy died likea fool; he mere- ly wanted to have it said of him that he could jump a litile farther than anybody else. This was similar to the wisb of a fat pig who wished to get fatter than any other pig, | in order that when he was killed, it might, be saidof him that he was the fattest pig. Such: feats as these were just like that which the Doctor had tried; but be succeeded in jumping over the chasm sifely and reaching old age, while millions of his fellow men be- come drunkards and died the drunkard’s death. Others encounter imminent danger and great peril, in order to benefit theirfew- low-men, and save their lives. I read a short time ago, in an newspaper an account of the saving of a great sbip with all ber crew from destruction, She was observed off a rocky bound coast in a human aid by a poor fisherman, who with some comrades, was looking after his boa's. The meu were gazing at the ship and one of them remarked that she wae too near the shore, if she kept on ber present tack, to escape being dashed to pieces. ‘The fisher- man, seeing her terrible position and the fate which awaied her, if some effort wa» not made to save her, said to his compan- ions, ** Come let us try to save her,’’ lis) comrades declared that no boat cou'd live through such a sea, and that the ship could not be reached by any power of theirs. No more was said for a little while, when the fisherm .n again said, ** don't stand bere and see the ship go down, let us try to save her.”? “ Very well said the cthers, if you choose, let us try’? They then took a whale-boat ard made their way through the foaming breakers which !ashed each other in tremendous fury, now sinking down into the trough of the sea, and now rising to (he top of:ome crested wave, exerting all their strength, and in the greatest danger of being overwhelmed by the roaring sea. The people on shore who were Spectators of the siruggie, at times, when the boat des- cended deep into the sea, believed them lost, but they reached a ship, A rope was flung to them from the sh'p, fas‘ened round the pilot, and he was hauled aboard = Afier taking bis breath a little, the pilora ked the captain what sort ofa ship he had) “ A) very five ship said the captain, said the pilst,’’? [ can take you out of this, if you listen to me, Give me charge of | the ship, and | will save you if 1 can,’’ The captain gave him full cha-ge of the| vessel, ‘* Down helm,’ said the pilot. This) was immed ely done. Shake the reef out | of your topsail the captaia. * stand it,’ said the pilot’ and up went the topsail, she then luffed | sufficiest!y to gain a point, and bounded on | ‘and on in ber new course. * Is it not time,’ ‘said the captaio, * to put her away; we are ‘too close to the breakers.” ‘ Steady,—| | Steedy,—Steady,’—eried the pile’. * Ain’t! you nevsring the breakere too mach,’ said want to get ae wuch happiness as possi- | lation ! t ‘Steady her a little, eteady ble out of our lives; if we believed the uae | are avousily spent by ber people on intor- ‘the captain.’ ‘her a litle, keep ber at that, Keep ber at) ‘that,’ said the pilot, On aud on the ship |went, the captain in great terror, fearing | that all was lost, ‘Helm bard down’ said ed right among the breakers, which pow | minutes she passed through 8 channel in the | reef well kaowa to the pilot and rounded io- osophical and uascriptur- to calm smooth wates where she was safe say that those who drink strong the pilot, and in acother moment she desh- T'hose p2ople on the other side ure in of the sams object, bat they think thed roared around her on all sides. Jn a few ing of ivtoxicativg liquors is the way to ob- sue, If I came before the farmers of this Island, and advised them to a different line of farming from what they had been accus- tomed te-practice, how could they decide whether my advice is right or wrong? IL would say to them; in such a case, ‘ step acress to the south side of your Island and see what Mr so and so has accomplished by practising this system of farming, See how superior it is, and at how much less cost it is ecarricd on, They would go and see for themselves and ascertain whether my advise is wise or pot. Of course they would. If they jound the system superior to their own, they would go heme and ad- opt it. It woud be just the same in man- ufacturing or any other pursuit. Now, young people, we advise you to let drink-alone.s aud here is my friend the Yocror of Divinity advising you to drink moderately, io order that you may be able to judge between us, we are going to have a review of ull the cruvkards and all ihe teetote'ers in the country, tc-night, Let us suppo-e they are all present and that you young people are looking on. Come and look at us teetotalers, first. :Some.of us, | ain efraid are very shabby tellcws; but it is not beeause we are teetotalers, Some o! us ere no better than we ought to be; but you do not find our wives and children in want of the common necessaries of hfe. You will find us, generally, friends of law and order; you won't find teetotalers io mobs or committing crimes of any sort; you will find that they respect property and the rights of-other people; you won’t find them iu jails or houses of correction, While io England, | was in the great jail of Preston, and found that the average num ber of prisoners in it was fifteen hundred The jailorsaid he bad been there fourteen years und had never known a teetotaler to oe imprisoned in that jail during the whole of that peried. One-:bird of the prisoners had been Sabbath-School Children, but there were no teetotalers there. Now we are going to examine the people who ¢riok, Is the front ranks you find no mark of strong drink upon them, and if you ask a question you receive a proper answer, Go a little tarther down the ranks aod you fled that their tongues are @ litte thick, and that they answer rather ¢'upidly. Go farther down etill, and you will find their .clothes out at the knees and elbows, and their countenances bloated and disfigured. These are the persons who commit three-fourths of all the crimes committed in this country Those crimes may be enumerated as fo'lows: iarceny, felony, house-breaking, house-burn- ing, riots acd murders. This class of peo- ple pay no respect to the rights of other people and do not recogn:ze the principles which govern all well-regulated communi- ties, Now, yourg people judge between the iwo classes, the moderate drinkers and the teetotalers, Go to the work-honses: it is those who use strong drink, who fill up ‘hose places as well as the jails and houses of correction, You see the wives and children of those people in the gutters, io rags, and in a half-starvel state, wanting the common necessaries of life. It is this class of people that constitutes the mobs and dangerous c'asses of all our great cities Are any of these the children of teetotalers ? No, notata'l. Judge between those who use strong drink and the teetotalers. No} less than 60,00) of those who indulge in| the use of strong drink, die a horrid death | every year! You find no siekness among | | his right to it? people of Prince Kdward Island have your Government io your own bands, you have the regulation of your owa affairs. Why not abolish this terrible evil from your Is- land, it isio your power todo so, The ed- ucation of the young is the deepest interest you have; it is of the deepest interest to society and to the state to preserve the young from bad influences. 1 wasin the city of Detroit a few summers ago, and one eveaing delivered an address ia one of their churches. The pulpit of that church bad, on one of its gas lizhts, a large glase globe, aod playing around tais was a great Dum- ber of moths which were continually fall- ing ino the light and scorehing their wings, aed in a short time the apholstering of the pulpit was covered with the bodies of those silly woths. J called the attention of the people to it, ahd remarked that those of them who frequented the.grog-shops «were just like those silly movhs, and were doing just the same thing, Ltook my +anaker- chief and bru bed them all away. That was ‘moral suasion.’? Butio a few minutes ‘here were as many around the lamp, sine | g2ing their wing, as ever, and their bodies jtell as fast as ever. I then turned out the gas and no more moths singed themselves, Turn out your grog--hops, and the liquor trafic will ce.se. ‘Lhere is no other way in which it canbe done. No, there’s ov other way itcan bedone Extinguish your grog- shops and you put down the liquor traffic, Perhaps you say that that would be iuter- fering with the rights of the subject : that’s what they say ia Kogland. I was talking with an English geutieman in Eogland, pot long ago, woo remarked that it would be a long tune before L-could persuade Koglish- meo from doing what they like. We all know that there is no coantry in the world where the laws interfere more with the. ple and prevent them from doing what they like, thaa in Kugland! They bavo a great mony laws there, to prevent the people from doing what they like. That which best promotes the éaterest of the state conduces to the general good. aud must not be. inter- tered with by individual ioterests, Indivi- dual liberty is nothing when it comes in eon- tact with the gevera! good of the state, The welfare of the people is the supreme law pow, just as much as it was in the time of Augustus, Individual right must always give way when itclashes with the interests of the state. Perbaps; strictly speaking, there is no such thing as unqualified indivi- dual right, There is no country in the world where property:is guarded more care- fully aod safely than in Kuglaod, and ‘even there no wan bas a right to property «vhen it conflicts with the public good, The same princip'e applies in many otaer ways, Men nave an ivalievable right to liberty and the pursuit ef happiness.so far as they do net luterfere with the interests of the state. La my country (the Ua ted States) the Govern | ment puts bis long arm down into our poo- kets, takes just as much as he likes and tells us to keep the rest till be calls for is. -be general good requires this, and that is | (be reason the Government gets it. As to |personal liberty, when a man commits a ‘crime, he gets a fair trial and the verdict is rendered ‘ this man’s liberty is inconsis- tent with the geueral goud be has forfeited His liberty is then taken away because the general good requires it; he is confined or put where he canaot iater- fere with the good of the state. When» wan is convisted of murder, the judge says, us teetotalers, but you fied a vast deal of it) ‘this man’s live is inconsistect with the among those who driuk intoxicating liquors, | geoera: good,’ acd orders hie life to be takea You fiud that contagious diseases of all sorts | make terrible destruction among them Chis and a great deal more that cannot be | mentioned fo lows the use of strong drink. | A was in New York, who ultimately fell a! victim to the intoxicating cup, declared that no man could write except with a pen of away, according to law, I'be traffic io in- toxicating liquors never had any right to exs!; it isinconsisteut with the gesersl god. And it is on that ground that in Mine it is put uoder the ban of the law. Many of the Western States are to-day srouping around for some means to throw fire dipped in the lava of hell, the evils that | off thie incutws, to get rid of that tremend- flow from the use of intcxicating liquors. | 0v8 evil which is to day sapping the life of ers choose to follow. I ask you what you! young lady takes wine oecasionally. ber what she takes it for. If compelled to answer, she says, ‘I take it for the fun of | /iquors. Nobody takes strong drink for any-| Is ic not shocking to see an ed-| iu.’ thing else ucated and refined young gentleman take ‘She can’t stand it’ said! the devil into his mouth to steal away his, past. 2 She must stand it, she must | brain, merely for the fun of it? Ove would land, which reveals some starthing {ac:s om out went the reef, not thiuk it would require a very long talk this matter. Among other matters .coa- to induee all the young psople iu this hall to come to-the conclusion that we teetotslers are right, and that those who drink iutoxi- catiog liquors ere wrong; that the line of lite we total abstainers parsue is rigdt, and that followed by the o:bers wroug, We of stroog drink would give us the most bap- piness we would adopt it, but we do pot tLe icve thie; we know-taht the teeto- toler gets the most bappiness out of his life, search rink- tain it. Do you thick they ere right? | This is the line of life that moderate drink-| the British Natoo, The abolition ot . the liquor traffis is a questiva of live and death ”” + Well,” take this drink for? For the fun of it. A to Great Britain: she mwst come down, and 1 ask | down, aod dowo to afifh rank power, -mo- @8 she cas's off this traffic in iwmtoxicating It is impossible that she can hoid her oo among the nations of the earth, if the traffic in intoxivatiog drinks is allowed /to go on iuereasing as it bas for some time I bave here a book published in Eng- tained in itis a reimrn of paupers in Great | Britain for 1870. It is here stated thatif all ber paupers, supporved entirely by the ‘poor rates be summed up, they will amount to oue third of the labouring classes or &° teen to tweuty per cent of her entire popu- Move than £200,090,000 sterling ‘cating liquors! Many pursuits and indus- tries are at a dead standin England. Is ber ecommerce decreasing? No. Her exports ‘and imposte are greater than ever belore; but ber home consamption is falling off con- stantly. This £200, 0 ),000 instead of be- ing spent in all sorts of domestic industry, is paren what is worse than useless, and “Nobody with a thimble-full of braios would the former lunguishes, The consequence are right is that vast numbers of British people are wr — on —— lm ees = 2 ewe Oe aw te we ew >, * * BE a Me al i _ —— POP A ee ee w..* ~- more 2 ES Ie Pree tee