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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1911-12-28, Page 6• IleettsaiY, Derawnia IS, 111 THE SIGNAL : GODERICH ONTARIO H11:1fAI1)RkVPPLIEDB' IHELOCAL OPTiOl COMMr1TR=.i B4iSf THE BAR -ROOM And Destroy t Treating, System Ballots like This Will Do it. The Voters to Decide Bar -Rooms or Nd Bar -Rooms' Monday, January 1st, 19121 Vote Early Your Vote. TM. paper will be read by many As -clots who on Monday next will be chsil;ed with the responsibility of ioUng for and against the continu- sore of the open bat -room and the hyuc•t stole in our town. To these into and woven is this siticle ad di es,.c•d. Ir, God's providence there,is imposed upon you the right to say whether or not the bat -room', operation shall be carried on to Ooderich during the nest three years. The failure of one of you to vote, or the casting of one vote on the wrong side, may give the novo. dealers of town the right to sell liquor under the protection of the law. ' Thi -re can be no doubt in your mind as to what the permitted sale of liquor will do. Every bar -room adds to the number of citizens who are de- based fioor, intelligent manhood to drunken imbecility. Every licensed tar beings sorrow, degradation, buffet- ing and Joss to some homes. In our towns and cities, brewers and distillers are building colossal foil ones' eye.), dollar of which must be paid he the patrons of the liquor traffic, and every dollar of which must leave .some citizen poorer. Unlike the man- ufacture of shoes or clothing or brooks, or furniture, or other useful commo- dities, the liquor producer puts noth- ing of value into the homes of those whose wealth he gathers in. Th Iiquot trade means loss instead o gain to all its patrons. Unlike the church, or the school, or the printing press, the liquo dtatributing enterprise does noth ing to aid the moral tone or the intellectual development of those who contribute to its main- ' Lenience. - Other agencies make men . and women better. This maks them worse. Other enterprises make homes happier, lives brighter and the coun- try's moral sentiment stronger. The liquor traffic wrecks homes,debases in- tellect, lowers moral tone, and makes our cwntry's life worse instead of better. As ...Christian citizen, interested in our fawn's welfare, desirous of up- huildirtg character, purity and pros- perity, can von do anything else than use the Sacred trust of your voting power against 'the liquor evil ? lou carry a high responsibility. You have a great opportunity. You may help what is pure and good and true, or you may help the system that. blights and debauches and destroys. It is not likely that you will stand neutral, indolent, indifferent, apathe- tic, while the forces of good and evil engage in A Strenuous conflict. The stirring pulse of manhood, the niers. consciousness of A higher place in be- ing than that of mere senseless matter or the unthinking brute, will impel you to some action. Let that action be worthy of the soul and mind With which you are endowed. Priv the sake of the weaker brothers, easily led astray, and among whom you live: for the save of the patient wives who may suffer because of your mistake: for the sake of the blight hove and girls who will have less hap- piness and more misery if the liquor traffic is continued; for the sake of the bright young men around you, our country's hope, our town's hope, who will he helped in the passing of a critical period of life by the absence of the bar -twill's seduction: for the sake of ell that is good and pure and true in opposition to what in your heart you must despise and condemn, go to the polls Monday next and vote organist the bar -room and treating system by marking your ballots IN FAVOR OF LOCAL OPTION. — —e--_ _— Every Voter to the Polls on Monday. No one /11169—the question at issue is of vital importance to Goderich. it is either bar -room and liquor store ear no bar -room and no liquor store. % hich shall it. be ? f • t • Father Minehan's it,Strong Appeal. Awls I— A A STRONG CATHOLIC'S FAMOL S SPEECH A Strong Stead for Local Optiue Extracts from address , , • the local option campaign at New- market by the pastor of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church. Toronto. Father Mineban said : I believe that the spinal column of the liquor curse is the bar -room. Prac- tically every drunkard with whom I have been brought tip contact received his initiation in the hat -room. and graduated from that seminary of drunkenness. It may bo said that it you close the bar -rooms a man can bring liquor home and enter spots a debauch in his own house. Yes, he can : but the number of men who will swill at home 4s, accot ding to my observation, very small, and their number will grow smaller as their nursery, the bar -roots, is cut off, for they are mainly bar - rod . ar- roducts. Rarely have 1 ever , teen a police van drive up to the door of a home: whenever 1 see it on its al Marked For Local Option X Against L'. cal Option. How Shall I Vote? By Marking Your Ballot as the foregoing. every, the most destructive has been he " treating system." Eliminate that system and you have practicality cut off the power from the drunkard factory. Some little donkey engine of a drinking dive may still continue to operate, some sot, will tet continue to secure their favorite beverage by ways and means worthy lof their habits: but the great machine shop. with its inviting lights and its 'retinue of loafers waiting to be treat- ed, will be no longer running. With the bas closed • toe Orating system u wiped out, "and the main supply wire of the mill of intemperance, with its awful output of ruined hearts and brain,. and homes and souls, will be severed. More Dangerous Than Dives. We are told that if men cannot slake their thirst at the bar -room, they will i have recourse to illicit dives and de- grading expedients for getting liquor. Let me say in reply that I know many houses in Toronto blighted by the think curse, and it is not to the illicit , dive but to the bar -room that sad -faced wives and mothers attribute their misery. There will he no doubt a cerlain amount • of illicit drinking when dr bar -rooms ate put out of gloomy eu•and it is generally going , In this matter of seal for personal liberty the advocates of the bar -room )show a sense of humor which, if ap- plied to comic opera, would make their fortune. A crest' individual named Corey led an army of tramps to Washington some years ago, and Cosev's army became the joke of the continent. The music balls and comic papers made capita/ of it for months. But just imagine, a prosperous saloon- keeper leading au army of bar -room patrons beneath a banner inscribed with the motto, " We are friends of personal liberty." As a side-splitting Performance Coxev's army fades into Insignificance beside this " personal liberty," on the lips of men who pan- der to the vilest slavery! What a joke ! Aye, and what a profanation of that glorious word " Liberty," Me- thinks I see the eye of Libertyblaze with indignation as she exclaims, "Do you dare to set up my throne in a bar- room and gather its besotted habitues round me as my supporters? If ever I come to such a place it will be to wipe it out, and try to deliver men from the thraldom of its ale ver v. ' Personal liberty' I have known the personal liberty of a whole neigh- borhood to be setiously interfered with by one bar -room. 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PINDER Plumbing, Heating, Electric Fixtures and Metal Work Hamilton St trot (iuferich towards or coming from some her - room. When I meet any member of my flock who has been on a spree, I almost invariably. hear this confession: "Father, I did not intend to get drunk, but i met a few friends and they pressed me to have a drink with them. I bad to order my treat like the rest, and the moment we had two or three rounds of drink we were all ready to sing. 'We won't go home until morn- ing.' And sure enough some of us did not go home until morning, or until well on to noon, for we found ourselves figuring in the daily parade of drunks that interview the police magistrate." business. CPT Lain individuals will visit , towns where local option is not in force and plunge into a long debauch. Were the waters of Lake Superior to he diverted into the Mississippi river, our own St. Lawrence would not run dry immediately. After a disease has been conquered it takes some time to eliminate its poison from the blood. So we cannot expect to do away at once with the effects of centuries of drinking. Let local option get a fair trial. and it will convert, as it has in many cases converted, those who were at first its opponents into its warm friends. Personal Liberty. But we are told that the policy of local option is an infringement of per- sonal hbetty. Personal liberty is dear to us all. For my part I wish to see personal liberty given the highest possible latitude consistent with the public good. Jealous regard foer- sonal liberty most be con' itionedpeby the public good. The man who wishes 1 to exercise his public liberty to the I detriment of his country is ignor• ant of the elementary principles of true liberty. The Treating System. There we have in a nutshell the j process of drunkard manufacture. The pernicious association of friendship with the social glees which has come , down to us through generations is. notwithstanding the blessed revolu- tion in public sentiment which has then place in the past 40 years, still Strong in many quarters. Of all the senseless customs, that of dueling not excepted, which ever held mankind In children did not want to pass it after dark. The sidewalk reeked with ex- pectoration. Young girls were insult- ed by tear -room toughs. Property all round was depreciated in value.ttOn Saturday nights the eyes and ears of residents of the neighborhood were outraged by what they witnessed _The personal liberty sty in connection with the bar -room is indeed a huge joke or a huger insult, Sober by Act of Parliament. But we are ,told that you cannot make men virtuous or sober by Act of Parliament. Neither can we make men prosperous by Act of Parliament, yet wise and progressive legislation has much to do with prosperity. The same is true of morality, By remov- ing incentives to vice, and making the way of the traosgre'eor hard legisla- lation is a powerful aid to decency. And the value is not an much in the penalties it inflicts as in the educative influence it exercises. We are told that the proper way to promote true temperance is by educa- tion, and by legislation. This shows an utter ignorance of the relationship between these two. Education and legislation ere not opposed. They go band in hand. Enlightened legislation is the crystalization of sound educe - ion. We talk of the big improvement which has taken place in public senti- ment in the matter of drinking within the last 40 year*. Yes, and the mile- stones of that improvement are a series of laws representing the liquor traffic. 'the education which has brought about the salutuary change noted has been in a great measure the work of campaigns such as this. Grid bless local option, I say. Its object is to do away with the most potent agency earth ever saw for the undoing of the Saviour's work. "Glory to God, peace to men "--did anyone ever hear this anthem issuing from a her -room ?? Did anyone ever know a home to be made brighter by • bar- room, or a holy or generous thought to there find its inspiration ? Ah, no: its hest paid advocate cannot claim for It any affinity with heaven. Let us then, in His name, cast an from our midst His greatest enemy, the bar -room. Let us do it in His spirit. Let us hear in mind that it is in our midst hsearise of • pernitiome public union is the past. Let es as• knowledge that society Is reernawd de for its esietenee, and that the.. who oondnet it simmer*, In many eewes, b e sympathy, rather than our comdiseals• Dow Let this sasepetre be orndemihol int a spirit worthy of Him, who Medi *raised had • hard wnr,wrO�1 fordo lobo be was ddant. 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