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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Times, 1891-07-03, Page 6utglAam F1 UDA.N. JULY 3, 1801. RROEI$'.TIO1 . Sri^n•."Iz I1d VII UOTJSE or ComIONs lea 'rR, .6rACDONAb,D, DI. P. FOR EAST IluanN, indictment deliberately, and, baying 1Ir 21Ic1CDONALD (lltlron). Ill made such a sweeping charge, you will approaching this very important sub, expFct that I bring my evidence to Acct, 1 feel that 1 ant not capable of prowl it. I aha not of the opinion discharging my duty in proportion t4 which the lion member foe Aluskoka the importance of thesubject brought11r O'Erien) .expressed yesterday, 1--efore this House., 1 acknowledge '(lvlitfn he state.l that in countries that there is a great deal of difficulty where they drunk a large quantity of surrouudiug this matter. It is a mat- liquor they are fart further advau• ter which has knit itself into the csd in civilization, • If that social interests of the people for a very were so,• it would be advisable long bine, but the foot that there are for the Government to encourage the difficulties surrounding it is no reason consumption of a greater quantity to lead usnot to approach the question than we are drinking to -day. Of with candour, fairness, and, above all course, that argument is not worth without any political bias, From the following. What evidence is there to 1rf r number of . petitions which have been show that 'this tial iu is a blighting L•' if 1 did not express. my opinion in favor t•f their views. But it may be asked, why do we ask for prolr:bi•' tion 1 We ask for prohibition be, cause, in my opinion, and ill the opinion of most of the people of the country, this traffic is a blighting, damning curse upon everything deet'nt, pure grid virtuous, 'because it is the enemy of lily, order, morality, (Jrn•is, tiauity and civilization. I make this presented to this house during the curse upon every thing decent, pure ' last three weeks, it is evident to my and virtuous 'I First, I take into the p2iu(l at least, that there is a strong witness -box a man who, is well known feeling in favor of prohibition in the by reputation to everyone in the country from one end to the other. House, a man who occupies a protein. The hon. member for 14luskoka (Mr ent position in ode • of the pul,lio in O'Brien) stated yesterday that these stitutious of this country, and from petitions were signed by the father, whom I have received a letter on this the mother and all the family.. The subject. I have a letter from Dr fact is, no, one under sixteen years of Daniel Clarke, s'uperinteudettt of age signed these petitions, and about 2,000 petitions have, been presented, signed. by oder 500,000 people. T think it behooves the members of this House,whether they are opposed to, or in favor of, prohibitiory liquor laws to consider the question fairly and square. ly. ] t is a question that must be decided by the people of this country before many, years elapse, and if we have prohibition approximately . or remotely, it must be obtained, in my opinion, by a union on this question between the ttvo great political parties • ,vlrbach: now divide the country upoii• other subjects. Therefore it is the duty of everyone in this discussion to far otlr prisons, more misery, more suf- fering among helpless wives unci innocent children, more sorrow upon parents and more depravity than anything else in. our country," Sir; that gentleman, who occupies .a posi- tion which gives hills the best opportun- ity for ascertaining the practical results of liquor drinking, states facts wholly at variance with the opinions of the hon. gentleman tor' Muskoka, who says that crime does not largely arise from the use of intoxicating liquors in our coun- try. Mr Massie sends me some statistics to show that what we have stated with reference to gaols, is true, He says that front the time the institution was estab- lished in 1874 up to the time be wrote this to me, 8,118 persons were incarcerated. in the Central Prison for various crimes, and atter making a careful examination of the previous habits of those potties, he found that 1,728 were temperate and 0,390 were of intemperate habits. Does that not show conclusively that intem- poranoe is a great element in the produo- tion of crime ? But, Sir, not being yet satisfied with the evidence I had received on this point, I wrote to A'Ir J Reilly, superintendent of the Mercer Reforma- toryfor females, established in the pity or Toronto in 1880, and he tells rile that in 1884, 156 females were incarcerated in that prison, of whom. 112, or 71 per cent., were intemperate. In 1885 there were committed to the prison 142, and 94 of these,or 66 per cent,were drunken women. In 1886, 123 were committed, and 78, or 04 per cent, were drunkards ; and out of the whole number of 1,075 receiveo into the institution since 1880, a similarly large proportion were invariably intem- perate... Sir, here wo lind even women carried away from the paths of virtue and integrity, and brought down to be out- casts upon the streets, through the Toronto insane Asyluni,in which he operation of the liquor traffic; and still says ' we find hon. gentlemen willing to set Indirectly alcoholic habits strength the question of revenue over against the ens the hereditary tendtincy to insanity virtue and integrity of the women of our and the full results are an unknown country. A letter froth another gentle - quantity and cannot be expressed in man in the city of Toronto, a gentleman figures. , particularly well . known to those who This is what caTii.e under,his own ob come from the city of Toronto—I refer to Col Denison,, policy magistrate of that servation, and he gives it as his opin- cit• y --says: In .1887 there passed through ion that 10 per 'cent. of the 7,000,'case s his hands 10,497 prisoners, and •of that •of insanity in Canada arise. directly number 5,229 were drunk or disorderly. brought against fifty Acts ou the from the use of intoxicating liquors. Col Denison further says`, Statute -book tivith the same force and consistency. The statute 'in regard to Another testimony that L will give, • " One.half of the cases of assault, one- the observance of the Lord's Day, that half ot pretty larceny, oue.half of the regardingtheft or murder, and articu- e uall valuable in this connection, is cases of vagrrure skid a large. number of 1 q y Y, g gr early tins Act prohibiting the importation of Lourioia As loin, who writes to position. aWe c1o not'p profess tn o make a y to iutemperauce." y "k ruin it record I kept of the boys sent to Victoria Industrial School, 1find'that 08 per cent have now, or had one or the other or both of them, parents given to 1 ► ' ; , lit the intemperate use of.alcoholic drinks. --Is 1'UBLI61IE It is also a sad feet that the present un- EVERY FRIDAY 1110 fortunate condition of the 1(itls is caused directly by the habits of their pareuts." m^AT'rIIE-- 1 have a letter from Miss Wright, who TIMES OFFICE,,JOSEPHIN , T? ET was matron of the Girls' Home, wbo WING1IA111, ONTA1.I0.a makes a similar report fund 1 have a letter from Miss bcctti who was the seer°. tary of the Boys' I'loino, giving me sin:ilex statements as to the result of the liquor traffic. When we consider all these facts iu regard to the traffio and remember that they have been gathered up around one city, we can judge as to the amount of evil caused throughout the country, and the statistics that :right be presented from the diil'ereur centres of population, Sir, 1 thiuk I have amply proven, by the most` reliable testimony acd by statistics of the Most authentic nature, my indictment againat this traffic, that itis a blighting, damning curse upon everything decent,puro and virtuous ; that. it is au enemy to law, order, morality christianity and civiliza- tion. But the injury is not all in this direction, Allow me to .point out the cost to the city of Toronto in daaliug with police oases alone; and I call the atteutiori of the membere for that city to the cal- culation 1 brave been able to make, based on the figures supplied to me, Toronto had in 1889, 200 p1Tices to sell liquor. Result : Arrest of 5,411 drunks ; sent to gaol on an average of 30 days, 1,096 ; cost for board at 55 cents a clay, $34,584; lost en wages -say $1. a dray, 862,700 ; time lost by 3,345 drunks let off, $10,725 ; say five days for each—arresting, 'convicting and sending to gaol, $6,000: total, $120,. 009. No oue looking over those figures can find auy fault with :the calnulatiou, because it is based nu statistics furnished by those who are actually engaged in the., work. But tliere are rnany objections brought against prohibition. notwithstaud- iug this. Having established the charge 1 b °:met .against the liquor traffic, I will now proceed to deal with other phases. of the question from another etaudpni'ut. It is said by some people, 'and I believe it has beensaid by some hon meinbers who discussedthe questiou the other evening, that, this being a mortal question, we cannot ' make the people moral by law. The same argument can be of Dr Buck, superintendent of the I other offences outside of the regular druu an 1 disordely list were diroetlyattributable man moral by law, but we profess to as follows:' • - Sir, I slave written to another gentleman assist°bim in maintaining his virtue and enter it free from any political parti- 1 do not•know that I have PVer Fieen , who is'.also well known in the city of To• integrity; sed on the same principle we sh a case. of itisnnity whish 1 could say route ; and liege let mo remark that if the w. to prohibit the importation, nolle • sanstiip or bias, and to' approach the 1 and manufacture of intoxicating .liquo•s was caused by strong drink. At the' use of strong drink produces such ravages in order to prevent these who would question in the interests of the people same time 1 am as sure as 1 cau be of in the city of Toronto, the best ordered otherwise drink, obtaining it. Although whom we represent. This resolution anvthulg that alcohol is one of the 'nest , oity on the continent of America, how the Government cannot make people has not been brought forward by the potent'_'aotcrs in the productionof roen- much greater are those ravages likely to moral by law, it is the duty of the Gov- erntnent to make it as difficult as pee- * temperance men , for the purpose of I tal disease ; but it is not so much the ' be iu other large centres of our population? oihlo to do wrong and as easy as possiltle compromising the Government or coni- la alcohol drank by the patient, though ' co.I wrote to Col. Grassett, chief of police in 'to do right. It is the duty of the State p I this is often an important eaueitive ; the oily of Toronto, and he replies : to make the ' road to manhood and t protnast.ig a single member of the agency, as that drank by his ancestors. ,"Total ecmmitmeuta in the city m 1884- honour as easy as possible, to plant by Parliament; but it has been brought l Insanity as we see it, is largely due to gg and 1890 were 23.919, of which 11,786 .forward fer the parpose of ascertaining 1 heredity ; but if you go back far enough, wore committed for drunkenness, or 49 per p p e of course it has an origin entirely apart cent of the whole. the sentiments of the representatives from that, That origin I believe to have Nr of the people in regard to this vital I higher nn ervecentres,es, perversion d nothing inter- genlemaul1,1 the take city ofhe iTorouto dence of has and to hedgcrime and e it n ithur, tle therocks of brambles ftof 'question. Even if this resolution were , feres with the healthy activity of these Ilea control of the Toronto gaol for a public opinion and the Briars of public the wayside flowers of hope and promise and Public approbation. On the other hand it is the duty of the State to plant into the road down to licentiousness, to Carry,"I do not b:,li o • I more than intoxicating drugs of which. !lumber of ears, and who is known by eve, as the hon. ; alcohol is the chief.y member for Leeds stated, that the' the name of Governor Green. He says There is the testimony of another em- that from 1884 to 1888 inclusive, there Government world regard it as a want I inent man, a man who has no personal were. committed to aha grans in Toronto confimdence - Ift uttoil. it wore to interest in expressing such an' opinion, 11,516 persons. of whom 11.208 Nvere of carry, its 'mandate would be merely f but hegives the result of his observations, intern perste h abits, or 70 per cent of the directory. True, the Government the result of"a nnulber of years of study whole number. .And this is hie testimony weal: be required to give vitality to upon this question. I have a testimony t corroborating that of Colonel Denison : coudetnnatiou, and then place the citizen at the beginning of the two ways and say to hini : Takeyour choice. It is here that the duty ot the moral stlasionist comes in, He 'can point otit the diffi- culties placed in the way of crime and licentiousness by the Government and the facility with which the road to hon- our, to morality and to proferment.can be travelled. It is, therefore, the duty of the solution at the earliest possible ? from another source in our country, and "t1. largo portion of the crime of this the State to remember that the unit of I think that when the vital interests of city is 'committed by parties under the society is the individual, and. if it wishes to build up a good society it must culti- vate the institutions and customs which elevate and improve the units which constitute society. Theprosperity of any country having only institutions which develop health, strength,. morality and intelligence is assured, . On the other baud, any country that enters into a • partnership with env system or traffic which debauches public morals, destroys public health, impairs individual credit, stimulates vice and crime ere long will be a thing of the past. Home life is the keystone of our civilization. If the key- stone is weakened or corrupted by any cause, or, in other words, if home life, the sacred guardian of our rooial fabric, continuously breathed upon by the scorching breath of this traffic, I fear for the future of my country. It is said by tome that the licensing' system can ac- complish all t,.o good•results we can ex- pect. If the charges I have made against the traffic are true, and they are true, then license has been a complete failure, because all of the chines nave chatter. ated have been Perpetrated under it. lint Passing to another pnint,that prohibition There is other testimony in regard to the will not prohibit, that is aqttestion which •0 1 epsy, nervous , and above Y g has been brought up by some of those moment. y. I that the sentiment it. e *snow la ie sen itnetl our people are affected, it is clue to the infiUbuce of drink, Iii fact one•ltalf tof of temperance is '` ,nigh strength in Canadian Parliament, it is clue to every the petty tsar -ernes, nearly all of the s .,waste reed robberies of the person are the country every day» The tide of ' representative, no matterhow much they attributable to the same cause. and cer. temperance sentiment is rising, and ' may be opposed to the methods suggest- tainly the atnnunt of drunkenness prevail• the waves of popular feeling against ed to remove it, to give a thorough and rr resulting ther etlie f Oiso are warming. rder end immorality candid consideration to testimonie- Sir, lot Tile quote ono other testimony shore, and you may rest assured that : ed iti the riding from. which my hon. from a gentleman well known to the the politician or the party who heed friend from Muskoka (Mr. O'Brien) in people of Toronto, Dr Reilly, therasidant them not will sooner or later be , the town of Orillia, county 'town of the physician in the Toronto General Hospi. tal, who writes as follows:— the liquor traffic are making for the this kind. We have an asvinm establish - overwhelmed. There must be no com bon. gentleman's riding. In that town. promise in the settlement , of tliia ; there is an asylum for idiots, and I wrote to Dr. Beaton, superintendent of that quieation, because a compromise .asylum, to get the facts in connection of principle is a victory for the , with the causes of the idiocy of those enemy, 1 would like to bury this, under his charge.. He says traffic its the old Wersh. lady said she' "'My experience, and that of the lead - would bury the devil, that is, with his ithat aplarge0numiber othis id otstlan Qntthe face downwards, so that, if he carne to children of drunken parents. While, on life and tried to dig himself out he the other hand, we believe that drunken - b gess is the cause of physical and mental would only dig himself deeper down, • degeneracy, and that the drunkard's This tragic is citrin daily dna hcurf `posterity inherits scrofulous diseases, g y 1 irritability l b "-I am sorry to say that my experience during the twenty -ono years of hospital life has been very large as regards the troubles and diseases caused by alcohol. Acute alcoholism causes acute catarrh of the stomach and the mucus membrane: of the intestines, rapid coina, • delirium tremens, and several forms of acute mania and temporary insanity, insomnia and epilepsy. Cases of this kind are 'ad- mitted by the score for hospital treat- ment. A very large number of diseases admitted here are traced to intemper- ance." more into the vital intoreats of our all, moral obliquityy Therefore congen- physical degeneration which this traffic who have spoken oil this question. if '+Canadian people. So 1 belive it is ital idiocy is not the immediate legacy of brings on the people. hundreds of dis- absolute prohibition is meant it is prob- the drunkard to his posterity. eases'w.,nl.1 be avoided by the people if ably true, but otherwiee it is not, If the our duty as, representatives of the ' people,, not only in apolitical but its a information, to prove that this traffic i diseases which send people to our liospi- strong;, and it the feuforcni intent of the law But let me' •gofer to another some et they were fret) from the drinkin'V habit law is intended to prohibit, if the n a• - • I f` die , y Moral nense, to pass choral laws if we is a curse to our country. 1 wrote to Mr. ; tale, poor houses and infirmaries, at rho is placed in the hands of extvul ire ail - think the interests of our constituents James Massie, warden of the Central exl,onso of the rod of the community. versat>poiuted by the (aovereinent, there 1 tt1 1 tl r I b t it t re re, them. I have pat tens from 6,000 leop Subscr iption prfce,$lper year, in advane IS 1 e 1 ang er m p: o rl t ion 1V1 no has 'occupied that position,I understand, . will then have done with the city of a taut of it Y .ny Government thnt eau- esented I'rison'in the city of Toronto, a man who ( Ono more, testimony I will Give incl I prohibit. Is not thea tato stronger than tom my I jog trod' its Sdjttcent npl'glibatirpod, fished. In his letter to me ho says : 1,1 Hendry, late principal of the Victoria the best of the people, the stealer it goes , since1874,the year in which it wail'estab- Toronto, I will give the testimony of W not carry into effect a law r,'quired by ADVERTISING RATES: Spaea 1 1 yr. 1 0'mo. 1 0 m0. 1 1 mo. ono Coliilun 5110 00 38600 C20 00 56 00 klalf " 30 00 20 00 12 00 5 00 Quarter r' 20 00 12 00 7 00 100 Ono Inch 600 a 00 2_00 100 Local and of ler casual advertisements, Sc per line for first insertion, and Se. per line far each subsequept insertion, Local notices 10e, per line for first hieortron, and 80. per lfoeforeaohsubsequent luserticr., No local notice will be charged loss than 20e. Advertisements of Lost, Found, Strayed, Situations, and Bosh:ass thanees Wanted, not exceeding 8 lines nohpareii, 51 per month Houses and Farms for Salo, not exceeding 8 lines, 51 for first month, 50o, per subsequent :bomb '.those terms will be strictly adhered to Special rates for longer advertisements, or for longer periods. Advertisements without specific directions, will be inserted till forbid and changers accordingly. Trac; sitory advertisements must bo ),aid in advance ' Changes for contract adv'ert,sements must ho in the odic° by Wednesday noon; in order to appear that week R. ELLIOTT PaoritINVOC ACD PUDLiSEIEB DR. MA(WONALD, LJ JOSEPHINE STREET, wINe trAM, B. TOWLER. Ar:b.C.M., . QNTAAr0 Member College Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario. • —Coronor for County of l3Urou— Of ice at "TED PuanatAcr" • - Wingham, Out. DR. J. A. MELDItTYM, Honor Graduate et Toronto Untvereity,, Ai* Member of the College of Physicians and Surre0netof ' Ontario. 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