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Mrs. Johnston took pleasure in gardening, and this last season was the first she missed from the garden. She was never ill, and was only kept from the garden this year by weak- ness. For two weeks she remained in bed, with no specific ailment, and the physical machinery simply ceased running. She was a good kind old soul, and was ever ready to give a helping hand to a sick neighbor. She leaves two sons and three daughters. The funeral on Sunday was larger attended. The death of Mrs. Johnston in South Verulam, last week, removes one of our oldest residents. She had been a. resident of the township be- It has been figured that the next time it will be possible to get a like i combination will be in 98 years, 11 months, 2 days, 23 hours, and 58? minutes. Then it will be possible to . write the exact date 10: 10-10-10-10-10. i n! «Jo gt Hiulnhnthm'l start. MRS. JOHNSTON fiBITUARY These remarks will show that I have no animosity to the bar keeper as an individual. I have pointed out that he is in mafiy cases the victim of a. vicious public sentiment'in the Ultimately the greatest sufierers from the bar room are the kith and kin of the proprietor. Woe to the family tree which has its roots in the liquor traffic. The men we have placed in power have demanded, as a price for the :monopoly of selling intoxiCating 1i- lquor, the providing of suitable hotel faccommodatiou. In pursuance of this Epolicy, endorsed, be it remembered, Eby the electorate, they have insisted Ton large expenditures on hotel pre- Emises. The man who has been forced Eto make this expenditure under Ethreat of forfeiture of his license to .sell intoxicating liquors, naturally genough feels aggrieved when a local E option contest threatens to leave him lwith a white elephant on his hands. E I know very well that a license is a privilege given for one year, that the Eman who obtains it knows the risk Ehe takes, and has no legal claim Ewhatever to compensation. I do not Ehold that such a claim can be estab- Elished on the strict principles of jus- Etice. My plea was on the broader :ground of equity, fair play, generous dealing. And I pointed out a way in which the compensation I advocated could be provided for out of the 11-3 quor traffic itself. GIVE HOTEL MEN A CHANCE However, I fear. that I am in a hopeless minority in this position. But I hope that I am not outvoted in what I am going to propose, namely, that the electors of Newâ€" market should say to the men who hold liquor licenses: If your licenses are cut 01!, as we hope they shall be next January, we are willing in every way to help you to make a. living independently of the most debasing and dangerous way of making a living under God’s heavenâ€" the bar room. 1 i 1 f It is at a certain amount of per- sonal inconvenience I am here this evening. I am alone in the midst of §an amount of parochial work which .of itself is too much for me. The {sterling parish priest of Newmarket, Father Whitney, at whose inVitation ; I have come to take part in the local E'optiozi contest now being waged in [your midstâ€"and his is the only in‘ ivitation I have accepted â€" knows isomething of the pressure of work jof which I speak. E AN UNFORTUNATE ALLIANCE Two reasons prevailed on me to ac- cept his invitation. (1) My personal esteem for him, which has grown dur- ing an acquaintance of a quarter of a century. (2) My delight at seeing a confere in the priesthood in favor of local option. For several reasons Faâ€" ther Whitney’s course has not been as ‘ common as I would wish. One of 1 these has been the unfortunate al- liance of the bar room and the hotel, brought abodt by our custom, and‘ Sanctioned by our legislation. 1 During the local option campaign in Newmarket, one of the most in. teresting and helpful incidents was an address given by! Father Minehan at a public meeting held in the town hall, where he expressed himself very comprehensively in regard to local option as follows: ' aid and counsel as a. Viceâ€"President and a member of the Executive Com- mittee of the Dominion Alliance, but has also frequently pronounced strongly in favor of the removal of the bar room by local option. Rev. Father Minehan on Local Option ‘ Strong Sermon by Toronto Clergyman Father Minehan not only lends his I game of bluff to the verge of reck- lessness. I, yield to none in my hat- red of hypocrisy, but it I were asked ito give 3 good illustration of that vice, I would point to the man who subscribes generously to charitable organizations and then takes from a Spendthrift father the money which should be devoted to the mainten- ance of wife and children. If I want an explanation of unpaid debts, of murders, suicides, wrecked homes, if I seek a recruiting agent for vile theatres and dens of infamy, if I look for the archâ€"enemy of every one of Drink is the twin brother of im- purity. The intimate connection be- tween the two was proclaimed by Pagan and Christian writers thous- ands of years ago. The worship of Bacchus, the Pagan god of wine, was carried oue with rites so wild and unspeakably immodest that the'Sen- ate of Pagan Rome suppressed the same with the utmost severity. The Great Apostle of the Gentiles warns his followers of the intimate connec- tine between wine and lust. And the greatest Scriptural scholar of early Christianity declared that he would not believe a drunkard to be chaste. “HYPOCRISY AND CANT.” The advocates of the bar room who indulging in platitudes and morality, profess a zeal for the whole law, and denounce hypocrisy, are carrying the I could go into detail and barrow your feelings by describing scenes branded on my memory, but your own recollections of what you have read and witnessed will fill in what I have only rapidly outlined. DRINK AND IMPURITY ‘ We are often told that temperance ‘fanatics make the whole Law of the ‘Prophets consist in Prohibition, and that a man may never touch intoxi- cating liquor and at the same time be utterly bad in other respects. This may be so in some rare instances. If it be so, the person who, while not tasting intoxicating liquor, yet trans- gresses it in other points, does so in spite of and not because of, his abstemiousness in the matter of in- toxicants. Whereas the man who lov- es the social glass and yet keeps soul and body pure, does so in spite of one of the greatest incentives to impurity. â€"-wherever I was forced to see the poor remains hacked by the dissect- ing clay without a solitary word of blessing or appeal for mercyâ€"wher- ver I saw the home dreary, fireless, foodless, reeking with filthâ€"wherever of shame on her shameless face and heard that rasping voice and laugh which are the most terrible sounds at this side of hellâ€"wherever I gaz- ed on the loafing, worthless son, the besotted father, the mother to whom it was a profanation to apply that sacred nameâ€"I could almost invar- iably say, “This is the work of the bar room.” I beheld the daughter with the brand Wherever in the course of my sgiri- tual ministratiOns I have been brought face to face with tragedies of the soulâ€"Wherever I stood by! the death bed powerless to give any aid to the soul being fast borne to the awful verge of eternityâ€"Wherever I stoo‘d beside the corpse and could of- fer no word of prayer or consolation past. Towards his business I have the profoundest antipathy. I have had an opportunity for many years to observe its operations at close range; And that experienre has made me a thoroughgoing advocate of its abolition. THE LINDSAY POST. Eliminate that system and you have practically cut 011 the power from the drunkard factory. Some lit- tle donkey-engine of a drinking dive may still continue to operate, some sots will yet continue to procure their favorite beverage by ways and means worthy of their habits; but the great machine shop with its in- viting lights and its V’retinue of loaf- ers waiting to be treated will be no longer running. With the bar closed It may be said that if vou cause the bar rooms a man can bring li- quor home and enter upon a de- bauch in his own house. Yes, he can but the number of men who will swill at home is, according to my obser- vation, very small, and the number will grow smaller as their nursery, the bar mom, is cut ofl, for they are mainly bar room products. Rarely have I ever seen the police van drive up to the door of a home; wheneier I see it on its gloomy errand it 18 generally going towards or coming from some bar room. When I meet any member of my flock that has been on a. spree, I invariably hear this confession: “Father, I did not, intend to get drunk, pressed me to} have a drink with them. I had toi treat like the rest, and the moment we had two or three rounds of drinks we were all ready to sing, ‘We won ‘5 go home until morning.’ And sure enough some of us did not go home until morning, or until well on to noon, for we found ourselves figur-I ,ing in the daily parade of drunks ‘ that interview the police magistrate" THE TREATING BYPTEM There we have in a nutshell the process of drunkard manufacture. The pernicious association of friendâ€" ship with the social glass which has come down to us through genera- tions is, notwithstanding the blessed revolution in public sentiment which has taken place in the past forty years, still strong in many quarters. Of all the senseless customs, that of duelling- not excepted, which ever held mankind in slavery, the most destructive has been the “treating system.” THE BAR ROOM EVIL For my part I do not believe that it will be necessary to go to this ex- treme. I believe that the spinal col- umn. of the liquor curse is the bar- room. Practically every drunkard with whom I have been brought in contact received his initiation in the bar room and graduated from that seminary of drunkenness. How are we going to bring about this result ? I say unhesitatingly that the best weapon at present available for this purpose 03 local option. Some may say, “Why not ‘go in for prohibition at once ?" Simply because prohibition is a. Dominion measure, and the Dominion as a Whole has not yet prepared for that extreme. But to the individuals who wish to throw down local option by raising the question of prohibition, I say “The liquor curse must be stran- gled at any cost, and if any measure less energetic than prohibition will not sufl‘ice, then prohibition we shall have." THE BEST AVAILABLE WEAPON We are happy in our comparative freedom from the fearful conditions which prevail in the cities of the Old Land and which are crushing its very life. The phy'thon oi intemperance has not attained here the giant proâ€" portions it has reached there. Now is the time for us to register 3 solemn vow that it shall not be allowed to grow, that we shall rend its folds here and now, before they get strong enough to seriously threaten our na- tional life. That relationship is seen to be one of cause and effect. Not that ev- ery man who drinks is a criminal. That is not true. But it is true that nearly every crime of violence, and very much of the misery and shame of life is connected, directly or in- directly, with the liquor habit. Every day’s report of Canadian happenings brings heme to the pub- lic mind the inseparable connection between indulgence in intoxicating li- quor and the committing of the most atrocious and revolting crimes. the Commandments, I put my hand on the drink curse and say, “Thou art the guilty one.” And when the apologist for the bar-room which is the throne-room of the drink curse, has recourse to plattitude about mor- ality, depths of odious cant. THE ARCH ENEMY OF LAW Let me confirm what has been said concerning the drink curse as the arch-enemy of every law, divine and human, by the following quotation from the “Toronto Globe” of Octo- ber 20th, 1909. There is an extract from the first editorial of that issue entitled, “Crime and the Liquor Traf- fie.” ' Compare this record with that of ‘the corresponding three Christmas Days. Just one week before New Year’s Day, ‘1907, when the earth was stared with Christmas lights, there were other lights shining too-r lights which had no heavenly mess- ageâ€"lights which were not leading to Bethlehem, but luring to destruction â€"the lights which gleamed from ev- lery bar room window. If there is one lday beyond all others of the year in which home and live and Heaven ought to appeal to the better feelings of even the sot, and make him keep sober, and keep him in the bosom of his family, it is Christmas Day. Yet on Christmas Day, 1906, whilst the earth was listening to that tenderest and divinest of narratives, which told how the Lord of Heaven and earth was born in a stable and laid in a manger to teach the world sym- pathy for the weak, sompassiQn for the poor, mortification of the brute appetites; 44 wretches were being; hurried through Toronto’s streets all j aglow with Christmas decorations, ! past churches from which the an-l liquor. Let I: know many 1: ed by the dr to the illicit roomithat s: wives attribt will be no do illicit drinkin are put out dividuals wil bal opti0n is into a prolo water of Lak ed into tne own St. Law immediately. been conquer: eliminate its So we canot once with th drinking. Let trial and it vs many cases were at first warm friends. (Continut Mr. H. M01 in On New Year’s Day, 1907, Toronto, with its population of nearly 300,000 soulsâ€"many of them recent arrivals from lands in which unfortunately the workingman’s beer is looked up- on as a necessity of lifeâ€"had one ar- rest for drunkenness. On New Year’s Day, 1908, it had no drunkard in its toils. On New Year’s Day 1909, out of a population of considerably more than 300,000, just four drunks ' found themselves in the hands of the po- Sufficient proof of this is furnished on that blessed (1337) into the gloomy by the following figures, which me establish the efficiency of to cells of the various police stations. local 3 On Christmas Day, 1907, the Same optiOn in a manner absolutely unasâ€" J fate betel 33 inebriates, and on last sailable. Torontonians have local opâ€" tion in force throughout their city on New Year’s Day, which is their municipal election day. From eleven‘ o’clock of the preceeding night toI Christmas Day, 1908, 78 drunkands had a ride at the expense of tie city to her free lodgings in the po- lice stations. With open bar rooms on three suc- six o’clock of the following morning cessive Christmas Days there were every bar room in Toronto is closed. Now if these bar rooms were open on‘that day of social calls, of good fellowship, of election excitement, it' is certain that the drink record would be the heaviest of the whole year. But the bar roams are all closed, and what is the result ? On New Year’s Day, 1907, Toronto. 155 arrests for drunkenness in tin: city of Toronto, whereas on the; three corresponding New Years Days, with closed bar rooms there were five arrests. The Toronto papers pointedly commented on this Cornâ€" trast as eloquent testimony to the wisdom of closing the bar rodms on New Year's Day. They might have the treating system is wiped out. and thems of the main sufiply wire of the mill of an earth 1 intemperance with its awful output forth into of mined hearts and brains and hOm- exultant s1 es and souls, will be severed. : reeking wi A SUFFICIENT PROOF. 5 and mud . and theme of “Glory to God, and that wash day is like child's play. There is nothing in it but pure Soap :\ It cannot injure the clothes and give: 53 the: sweetest cleanest results. To wash the Surprise way Read the directioason the wrapper. Yuan use Surprise in any and every way. cleanses-“so 32.5in Soap E Mr. H. Morrison, of Norwood, k in tOWn today on business. ed into tne Mississippi River, our own St. Lawrence would not run my immediately. After the danger has been conquered it takes some time to eliminate its poison from the blood. 80 we canot expect to do away at once with the efiects of centuries a! drinking. Let local option get a fair trial and it will convert, as it has!!! many cases converted, those who were at first its opponents, into its know many homes in Toronto blight- ed by the drink cursefand it is not. to the illicit dives, but to the bar roormthat sad faced mothers and wives attribute their misery. There will be no doubt a certain amount: of illicit drinking when the bar roams are put out of business. Certain inâ€" dividuals will visit towns where 10.. I know no more convincing testimâ€" ony to the efl'iciency of .the policy (1 closing the bar room than the ex. perience just given of Toronto. ‘ We are told that if men cannot M their thirst at the bar room, they will have recourse to illicit dives; and degrading expedients for getting: liquor. Let me say in reply that I bal OptiOn is not in force and plunge- into a prolonged debauch. Were the- water of Lake Superior to be divert- go'ne further and pointed out tin wisdom of extending the same pohcg to every other day of the yw. MORE DANGEROUS THAN DIVES'. forth into the streets in thrilling and exul‘tant strains, past open bar room reehng with smoke and coarse jeans and maudlin laughter (the one blot on that blessed day) into the gloomy cells of the various police stations. On Christmas Day, 1907, the same fate befel 33 inebriates, and on last Christmas Day, 1908, 78 drunkanls had a. ride at the expense of tm city to her free lodgings in the poâ€" lice stations. With open bar rooms on three euc- on earth to men of good will” tonal (Continued on page sixteen? They might have