The Exeter Times, 1884-10-23, Page 3Pe Freer irnes,
THURSDAY. OCT, 23 1834
' prohibition be obtained without agita-
tion. He urged tete people to do
their duty as Christiane—vote for the
Aot. The speaker thought that the
faot that nearly all the minietera of
the varioo& denomipationa were in
favor of bringing the Ad into forge was
It ie current rumor in England that a strong "idea" that those who vot-
Sir Jolla MaoAonala's visit is in owe. ell for it were doing righteously wind
ueotion with the proposed amalgema-
then of the West India !elands with.
the Dominion. It is also stated that
Lord Derby favors the soeme.
NOTES..
The Goderiob Star agrees with ne
with reference to the law making it
ooxnpuleory for municipal conceits to
pabinee a statement of receipts and.
disbursemenetluf the:year, previous to
the holding ot municipal eleations,
which was published in the Tories a
few weeka,ago. We hope the mann-
moot may %alio place.
The elections in Ohio this week re -
suited in the aneeese of the Republic-
ans,aad,consequently, Blaine's than-
gee for the ereeidenoy are considered
to be improved. The majority is from
I6,000 0,20,000 wbiob is muoh.rwmall
er than neuallygiveu in that stele. in
IRO Onrfield s majority was 01030 up-
on 3>,00Qh 'However. the figures give
eueouragerneus to the friends of Blain
but when the real contest for the pre
sidonoy takes plane two weeks from
now matters may imitate a different
oomplexion. lleeides °tevehold there
are two candidates who will take a
large share of thevotes, viz;-- Ben..
Butter and St, John, The latter is
weak, bot there in no doubt the old
warrior tla8 thousands of friends, and
will undoubtedly carry several itatee,
,He may not be successful, but his
cenelideture will have considerable eff-
amt on the race betweoo Cleveland
and Blaine.
;tnthustastie Scott Act ltdtoting.
On Friday evening last a large au-
vlience assembled in the large hall of
the Exeter achool house to bear Rev.
Mr, Taylor, of hayfield and Rev. Mr.
Smith, of Toronto, speak on the
Scutt Act peahen. The hall was
not wrong.. He remarked that there
was found ouee in a whsle a poor,
week -kneed, squeamish minister who
opposed the movement. but the heads
of denomtuatious were heart and
hand is she work. He said that it
wee only pressure of work and pre -
'ciente engagements that prevented the
Biebop of Huron from being on the
platform that night as an example to
the Chir%h of England people in
Exeter. He said the present fight
was uoneeeterien and nonpolitical,aad
warned both political partial and
orangennen, if Were were any present
(the speaker is a Royal Arch Orange
man) to pay no attention to the odes
of "Grit conspiracy,, Couservathve
oouspiraoy"" ar aa beteg a get np of
any particular deuowivataon, He
referred to the many remelt victories
that have beau achieved in the conn.
tie* in which. the Act has been sub-
mitted, and thought that these peo-
ple who voted for it were urn all fools,
Mr. Taylor made an eloquent appeal
40 theladies to do all in their power
to aaalst in the erect tetnperauee
movement ; be had not met a lady
in tate county who seas opposed to it.
Mr. T. concluded by saying God ex-
pected ali to do their duty, andhe
thought if they considered the matter
carefuly and asked the Eternal God{
to guide them: to a aonncientioua son -
elusion, they would conclude to vote
and work for the Oauada Temperance
Act.
At the oonolueion of his ,address'
the Rev, Gentleman was loudly ap-
plauded.
The Rev, Ur, Smith, of Toronto,
lex.% edetreseed the meeting, and
on rising was accorded au eutbusias-
tie reception. The Rev, gantlemau,
after, expressing the pleeaure it af-
fordedhien to meet an. Exeter audh-
filled to its utmost °speedly,and toren` for the first time, also ex -
many could not get inside, It is es- pressed his regret that, there were no
timated that there were between seven opposition epeakere on the platform,
and eight hundredpeupleat the meet- as he, like Mr, Taylor, was an Irish -
jag. On the platform besides the man, and the desire to be into rowa
two epoakera meutionod above, were was !laid to be one of the oharaoteria-
the following Bev. Gentlemen ; Mr. tics of a native of the Green fele. He
Dickson, Mr. Pascoe, Mr. Martin, of buinourouely remarked that it would.
Exeter, and Mr. Fletcher, of the have seemed more reasonable if two
Thames Road Presbyterian Churcb.
Mr. Flotoher presided over the meet-
ing as chairman, and before calling
on the speakers he gave a cordialin.
vitation to any person who desired to
speak in opposition to the Act to take
their place on the platform so that
the programme could be arranged,
but no one faced the music. Mr.
Fletcher said he was glad to be pres-
ent, and bad no apology tv offer for
occupying a posttiou on the Temper-
ance platform; the time for apologies
for taking part in the temperance
pause was past.
Mr. Taylor, ot Bayfield, waa the
first speaker introducers. Ai his re-
quest the audience sang lustily that
grand , ld hymn, "All Hail the Power
of Jesus' Name." Mr. Taylor said he
was glad to stand before an Exeter
audience for the first time. He was
sorry, however that King Dodds was
not present, and that some of the lo-
cal celebrities had not had the man-
hood to fight the bhttle in their own
town ; the Scott Act party courted
discission both on the platform and
in the pnbtio press. Mr. Dodds, who
before the Halton and Maine victor-
ies had two legs -a "Maine" leg and
a "Halt -on" leg, was now legless, so
that he could not walk, and he had
lost his two texts, so that he was now
eminent that if the Aot ie brought in-
to foroe in a eu ftotent number of
counties to *how them that public
feeling was in favor of 'prohibition,
they would give it. Mr. Smith said
no Government whether Grit or Tory
dare refuse what the great majority
of the people asked for, and he felt
sure that, the people of Exeter and
the county of Huron would on the
30th of the present mouth give an,
unmistakeable expression of their
associating with drinking people.
Any information he hoe obtained in
from the enemies of the law.
If Mr. McLeod had visited the
State of , Maine he would no doubt
have returned home saying the Maine
law waaac fraud, but the people of !be
State of Maine, who abould be the t
beet judge', do not think eo ; neither
do the people of Nova Scotia believe
in the license system..
For twenty years the people of I
feeling in the matter by roiling up'�a' Piston county have refund to grant
good majority in favor of the Scott
Act, He compared the Donkin .act
with the ticott AM and showed that
the defeats that were in the former
did not exist in the latter.He meh-
a single license for the sate .ef intoxi-
eating liquors, uuder the Nova Seethe
law, As soon, however, as the Do.
minion License Aot became law, ap-= !
plications were Wade for licenses, but
tzoned four respeota iu whioh the the eoinmieelonere were prevented
Lauda Temperance Auk eras an im- from granting them, en acconut of
provement on the Dunkin Act, viz, ; the Scott Ass having been previously
(I) Under the Dunkin Aot 5 gallone adopted in the county, Do (bo ISIh
of liquor could be sold., but under the of September, 1842. a proclamation ,
Scott Act not less than ten gallons
eau be sold and that only by a lisien-
sed dealer to another Realised dealer,
druggist, er some one who will a a be
take it ogteide the comity er city; (2) i obeli expire, providi g such dy
Tho tine for the drat violation under I no* lege than 90 days from the data
the Dunkin Act did cot exceed $20, of encb order-in-oonnotl.
the seeond_$50. which was the high- As there were no lieeneee to expire,
eet flat that could be ineposei; the temperance people, believing the
under the Soott Ace the offender Call Act to be in force at the end -of the
be feed $50 for the fire; offence, 90 days, made strong et%rta to en -
$100 for the second, and for the Ord
iwpriaoument, with no alternative ;
(8)The Dunkin Aot could be repeal-
ed in one year after it is brought into
forcer the Soatt Aot cannot be re-
pealed for 3 years ; (4) The eoneti--
tutionality of the Seen Aot bite been
settled by the Privy Qoinoil, and the
constitutionality of the Dunkin Aot
was never settled. He spoke of dif,
Went places in Ireland where pro- eieian coat the temperance people
hibitory lave had boon prodnotivo of over $1,500, and encouraged the cl
much good, stud oleo of the State of liquor dealers to open ant again in
Maine where prohibition has been full blast.
wade a part of the constitution of the Z'hie state of facts in en fur as the
stats. The epeaker oautended that
the Scott pot did not interfere with a
man's personal liberty any more than
wee iaettett by the Government deolar-
iug the Aot r.obe in forge and take
effect upon and after the day on
which the licensee than in foree
Rr N T"ON BROS, take First
Prize for great display of 150
pieces Fashionable Dress
Goods, 5Q pieces Beautiful
Velveteens, 200 Styles Latest
Dress Buttons, Black Sibs,
force the law, and succeeded to chasing {Ottomans, Mantle Cloths, Cor -
up many places where liquor was dots% Coy8etB, Pine Laces, and
sold, for et hetet six menthe. About f
eeventy 'Mt* :tare lircaght ; a few al Iyew LTO0 Sin Lad ea wear;
paid fines, 41130":1:111
number served two also Extra Prise folr Rest Qr�-
wonthe la 1ho 0enutp jail, others doled. 4lothin ; in Fine Suits,
appealed to the liupreree Qonrt, rind Genteel Overcoats and Nicee-
after more than twelve months delay .
the court. decided that the Aol had netting 1'arlts• All are wel-
never been iu fore at alt. Thie de= Come, N O trouble to show
Goods at RAN TON BROS.
Meet in the Act ie concerned ie pa -
metier to Nova Scotia and does not
apply to oilier pievineee where 'leen-
roomy other laws #hat are ackoowi. l acs were granted.
edged by all to be just and riQttt ; It' The Act itself is quite satisfactory
was the sale of the liquor, not the nae 1 to the tewperance people, and bad
of it, that the law dealt with ---e mai the Government not made a blunder;
could drink as fnuoh as he liked if in bringing it iota force it would have
he could get it. There was ne law
to prevent a person from using die.
eased meat, milk, ar other articles,
but lel him offer them for sale, and
the law steps in and says n0, you can ithe province, the work of aupnreaaing1
eat your poisoueue food but you will 1 the illicit traf0e will be ocmmenoad
not bo allowed to sell it to other peo- M in earnest rind the efficacy of the new
pie. Tho compensation quuetion was law willbe readily eol:nowledged by
ala° t :ken top, and it tray shown that everybody. Any Ontario writer who ,
comes to Nova Seatta to look for do -1
feats in the working of the Scott Aot
will be disappeiuted,
Yours truly,
ROBERT A, MCGREooR.
!!'ectad all that was expected of it.
The AO has since beau amended,'
and: as noon as the a turta decide that 1
it is legally in force in the counties of
Irishmen bad been cont around to when the number of hooneed houses
was reduced by the Crooks Aol, men
who lost their licensee were not tom-
peueated ; men who bought property
good fighters ; the only opposition And erected bnildiugs on a proposed
they had met with was at Soaforth :a line of railway, were not compeusat-
ed when the company changed their
mind and aeleated a different route ;
nemeses were ouly grauted from year
to year, and people mut into the busi-
ness for to make mouey, running the
risk of obtaining licenses from year
to year. He said the temperance
people were quite willing to go into
the oompensatien question, and if
the liquor dealers would compensate
for the cost of keeping paupers and
insane people, made so by drink, and
for thewreohednese and misery caused
in thousands of homes, the people
could afford to compensate them. Mr.
Smith concluded with an earnest ap-
peal to all present to support the Act.
and took his seat amid applause.
On a standing vote being taken
nearly all present stood np in favor
of the Act, and if there were any who
stood up in opposition to it, t he writer
did not see them.
The meeting was
throughout.
tell the people what kind of liquor to
drink:rather than to admonish them
to drink none at all, but he supposed
they were sent because they were
tbo person of Dr. Martin, but it was
ouly a little "divershion," as the Ir-
ishman acid, to lay the Dr. out. Mr..
Smith said he had never seen the
churches so united on any question as
they were on the Scott Act question;
all denominations were helping in
the great work the Aot could not
have been earried in Arthabaska bad
it not been for the aseistanoe of the
Roman Catholics. Mr. Smith said
he had not a word to say against ho-
tel keepers, as their license gave them
the legal right to sell, and he consid-
ered it aoatemptibly mean to license
men to sell liquor, and then turn
round and blackguard them for doing
what we had given them the right
and authority to do. He spoke for a
short time on the evils produced by
the liquor traffic, and quoted author-
ities to prove that three-fourths of the
crime and misery in the world was
traceable to drink. Mr. S. said the
only way to prevent this crime and
misery was to prohibit the sale of
that whiob caused them. He object -
unable to preach. He said the Scott led to the license taw because it oreat-
Act question superseded; all others i ed a monopoly ; let one hundred
that oould be possibly brought butoher shops open in Exeter, he
before the public mind at the present said, and uo one would object, but if
time ; There were very few except half that number of hotels and saloons
King Dodds and his follower, Mr. I were opened, the people would rise
Moir, who would attempt to deny that and say they wonld not allow it, hence
the liquor traffic was`the cause of evil it prevented free trade. He oonsid-
and only evil continually ; its bane- Bred the oard oyes' barroom doors
ful, blighting, and destroying infinen- "licensed to sell, &o" indicated the •
nee were felt in England, Ireland, character of the man—that he re -
Europe, Asia, Africa and America, it quired watobing—Ibe same as the
was a crying evil, and the queelion board on the cow's face or the poke
was what to do with it ; should it be on the horse showed the oharaoter of
cherished, licensed, and fondled, or the animals whish wore them; he al -
should we muzzle it; we had tried the so raised other objections to the li-
former method, alas l too long, and cense law which are admitted by all.
found that nothing .would do but to He said the Dunkin Aot as introduced
sweep it out of our land ; some said . by Mr. Dunkin was all right, but
the Scott Aot was not a prohibitory
law, but, he said we were not going
to be satisfied with the Scott , Act,
years ago we were on the platform
trying to persuade the people to give
up drink, then the Dunkin Aol was
agitated, passed by the government
and brought into effeot ia' different
places, but proved, a failure, as it was
intended to be --now we are on the
Scott Aot platform, and soon we will
go up on the prohibition platform.
He showed that the present' slate of
feeling in regard to the liquor traffic
was not brought about in a
day, but by agitation, neither would
very orderly
The Scott Act in
Nova Scotia.
Now Glasgow, Picton Co., N. S„Oct. 7,'84.
To the Editor of the Exeter Times.
Sin,—A frieud sent me a Dopy of
the Reflector containing a letter from
Geo. McLeod, giving an account of
his trip to the lower provinces, and
bis experience of the working of the
Soots Aot in oonitiee where it is in
force,
Mr. McLeod says, "when I left
home I was prejudiced in favor of the
Aol, argued in favor of it and had but
little patience with those who said it
would do no gond. But my observa-
tions of its workings in the eastern
provisoes have caused me to change
my mind. It's a fraud of the first
water.”
that it fell into the hands of uneoru- I Now while I admit there is at pres •
puloas lawyers in the House and was
eo changed that it was of little or no
use when passed. Finding that this
Aot was ineffective the Government
was, again asked for a more prohibi.
tory law, and a commission was ap-
pointed to ge to places in the United
ant a considerable amount of .liquor
sold in Eaton county contrary to law,
I deny that it is either the fault of
the law or the unwillingness of the
temperance people to enforce it.
I1 seems a little strange that a man
professing to be eo strongly in favor
Stakes where prohibitory' laws were of the Act as Mr. MoLeod should
in force, and ascertain if they worked have allowed himself to be so sudden -
satisfactorily; the two commissioners lv converted' without first calling ; on
after thorough investigation, return-
ed and reported in favor of a prohi-
bitory measure, and the iioott Aot
was pseud; the promise has also
some of the temperance people, and
informing himself as to the cense of
the law not being enforced. Instead;
of this he takes' the very opposite
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