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TEMPERANCE NOTES
THE WORSHIP OF BACCHUS.
Selected by the W.C.T.U.
Daring the last 30 years (recently remark
ed a prominent British politician the
amount spent in intoxicating drinks in Eng
land [?]s nearly doubted. To-day. with alt
trade, with :vlI the poverty
in our laree towns .uni ctttes. we are upend
in'- £l5O CO3.CCJ a rear in intoxicating drinks.
Slow can such Ufa in upon the pocket*
of tlic peoue. to s.ry :io'-line of the waste
of moral force and ene’gy occasioned .by
-nic.it habits, lead utuna.tciy to anything
iioft of na.tinnn i 'if star ami rum? Be
h>r-- this ... cur ehaft.es ntt«r
-1 r. r i! .tv are pr ;tlc? to
kr'kcpt ;.-;:c -,v-_-v.a: drink trade
.is lioaoiiH' such ■ r.lr.'i 11 y force m tee land,
inil n‘|i li.cnina'o aim party lo winch it
■title* iiarll?’ nor,’, B,v:o : e:y said some time
tan ilia’. : -f the irifoi ■l l i not strens.e tho
drink tratlic. it wont! .-livif.-to the nat.on;
and f think lie never uttered n truer word
Yet in face of this we are threatened with
a Ufa sure which win cripple the power nt
the iicenflintr mars’rates. and destroy near
ly tlio only safcrutird we have against this
e’.eantic one! tlemo-al'sing curse. dVo may
-r mav not r.cati fiscal reform, hnt certain!.
to liny in cheap markets and have nn.axed
hr»:td. tint hoc-ruse we have ehcr.oli-ed n.
y'-.'nr in our ht-eo-t wlrro re sucking_aw«F
til" very life Void of the nation Unless
"Vrou£ to tbe enormity of tins
'rrfr'.t. evil tli? d.ty of ->u!* will have
passed by.
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