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Keep Before the People.

—-That the drunks arrested under three years of license here nearly eqpalled those of ten years under the Scott Act.

—That-in two cities in Massachu- setts which adopted high license the number of drunks increased l,000 in one year. : e

——That as the I.'.ru.~n.iuer says when a man got very drunk under license he was pitched into the street.

-—-That as Sam Small says the big- gest fraud in God's world to-day is high license. '

-That the E.mnn'ucr said in 1886 that “ high license in New York, and the Scott Act here were both being violated and them is no reason why

' we should reject the latter and accept

the former."

——That under license when our pop- ulation was nearly 50 per cent less than now, we required sixteen police- men, and now we need only six.

——That license sweeps away the ground of moral appeal. _

’ —That under lccense here, the Sti-

pendiary says, the number of drunks.

was appalling; citizens coming into our city were assaulted

of street roughs thronged the street

corners and women were not safe from

open insult.

-——'l‘hat fr:-e rum against the law is better than a legalized curse.

--That we could not get license if we tried because the Legislative Council say they will never vote for it: we have there- fore had fair warning; and the issue is Scott Act or free rum. -

——'l‘ha:‘ in those counties in Ontario which _rt-pealed the Scott Act ten gal- lons of liquor are now sold under license to one undur the Scott Act.

—-That as the Lugislaiive Council- lors say, the Scott Act is the best law we have ever had. -

-—Tll-‘it it is in better working order today than ever b~-fore.

—That the hop beer nuisance hav- ing fizzled, the law can be no more openly defied. 0

—-‘That the women of the \V C. T. U. are now prepared to enforce the Scott Act if the men will only have public spirit enough to vote for it.

——That this year the drunks only ‘numbered '22:}, last year 306; and the Prosecutor was only at work six or seven months. _

—Tnat all the Examiner-— the only paper that opposes the Scott Act- ever does to help it, is to sneer and in- sinuate, to create contempt for the law and sympathy for its violators.

-—That the Scott Act is the natural step from high license to prohibition.

—Tnat to repeal it is to abdicato a position which cost weary years to gain.

—That the ‘liquor dealers can not now make an appeal on behalf ofvested interests.

—That the liquor trafic ought to be made so odious that nobody but an infernal scoundrel will sell it, and no- body but an outcast will drink it.

—Tha.‘. the liquor traffic has been driven into the slums and outlawed from society.

—Th-at liquor drinking is now done by stealth and without our consent.

—That the Scott Act has largely broken up the treating system, one of the worst features of drinking customs.

——That the law of man, is now like the curse of God—against the liquor business. *

—Tha.t if offences must come, and was is pronounced upon those through whom the offence cometh, the electors who decline to become partners in the-. liquor traflic, will escape the threaten- ed punishm.-.nt of God.

—That the whole Province has been blessed by the Scott Act and Charlot- town II-is no right to make itself a curse to the country.

—~That the quantity of liquor con- sumed per head of our population is now two-thirds of a gallon and it was one and three-fourth gallons under license, more than double.

—Th:it under the Scott Act in the country thsggrass is growing green be- fore many a tavern door. A

——'l‘lmt in many settlements there are now no taverns at all.

—-That as the Examiner nys, no sympntliy is do» to the promoters of of the Anti-Scott Act petition.

~—That the city taxpayers have been relieved of the burden of supporting 1000 people annually in jail, and pay- ing salaries of,16 policemen.

—-That as the Examiner said, before it joined the rum party, “the roads are not now) unsafe as they used to be by reckless driving of drunken men; and that the Scott Act has dealt the liquor traffic in this Province a stag- gering ‘blow. ,

—Tha.t Cardinal Tascheréau, the high- est Roman Catholic dignitary in Canada, the Presbyterian Synod, the Methodist Conference and the Baptist Association all endorse the Scott Act-

-—-That only the organized liquor fraternity, their customers, and a few others, are opposing it.

-That the hundreds of citizens who give tima and money to retain it, would not be so earnest if the Scott Act were a failure.

’ —-That if the Act is sustained, Conn. Byrne says most of the liquor dealers will give up the business of importing.

-—That ‘this is the liquor dealers last kick. ' I A _

—-That even now, says the Exam- iner, there are signs of the solidarity of the liquor party being broken up.

-—That the man who votes to repeal the Scott Act dishonours the church

and prefers to follow thcéteaching of

the liquor dealers... -—-That the man who neglects to

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--That the Scott Act must be given l):'(.‘!lll§fl heretofore

the liquor dealers have been trading

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on the silence of the professing Chris-

ltian temperance men who re-fused to vote. . ’

That if you roll up ‘N. big In*%j')l‘it_V it

will lmioiisier to enforce the Scott Act.

——-That the eyes of the temperance people of Caluula, and above all the eye of God, are upon us.

-—That as Mayor Haviland says, on the battle to be fought on the 8th

my native city. --—-<>«>—-—--

Father McElmccl and the

Scott Act.

ll uving heard a report that Father McElIueel had condemned the Scott Act in a sermon preached in the Cath- ndral yesterday. a representative of Tlllt Gl'.\BDl.-\.\' waited upon the clerg at the palace this morning, and al- though Futher )IcElmeel was too un- well to be seen, we saw his associates and gathered that the reverend gentle- is in favor of the Canada Temperance Act per - se and if a guarantee were atfordod him that its provisions would be strictly enforced he would vote for it. lie considers that the Act might

'be made of great service to the cause

of temperance in Charlottetown, and that it had not more satisfactorily served the just. purposes of its legisla- tors was due, not to any defect in it- self, hut’-to the absence of a strict en- forcement of its wise provisions.

As to the statement which the Rev. Mr. McEhneel is repor ed to have made respecting the nuuub r of illicit liquor shebeens, we have no hesitation in saying it is incorrect. It is ab-‘o~ lutely impossible that there could be any such thing as an average of 100 liquor ’ dens to evrry VVard. VVh_v, there are only some 2.000 dwelling» in the city and would any one any eunry fourth house is devoted to the purposes of illicit liquor selling '3

As to thefuture enforcement of the Scott Ac’, that is assured. We have the authority of the Woinen's Chris- tian Temperance Union to state that if the Act is sustained they are deter- mined to see it carried out. lHitherto they have only been learning, and now with the experience of the last few months and well-tried prosecutors, they intend to enforce the law to the letter. “is can assure the Rev. Mr .\lcElms-cl that THE GU.-\RDlAN, too, will not be backward in the work. VVe can assure the rev. gentleman that other guarantees will also be forth- coming if he on his part will guarantee to use his influence with the members of his congregation to have men re- turned to the City Council who will support instead of violate and obstruct the laws they swear to maintain.

The view of Rev. Mr. McElmeel that every man should vote according to the dictates of his conscience will commend itself to both Roman Catho- lics and Protestants.

Laurier’s Christmas on the Ice.

The experience of Mr. Laurier and party in the ice on the Stiaits is thus des- cribed by the Moncton Transcript: On Wednesday night Messrs. Laurier, Fisher and Choquette accompanied by Capt. \'~'e1sh——all liberal members «if parliament left Charlottetown for Cape Traverse where they slept over night. On Thurs- day morning it was intended to have started the journey across the Straits at eight o'clock but the boatmou declared that the wind was too high and unless it moderated the crossing could not be made at all. At ten o'clock word was sent up that they were ready to start. members of parliament were driven in a sleigh about half a mile out on the board ice to the boats. The latter were five in number, each manned by tive men and one passenger went to: boat. and the mails occupied the fith. Five boatmen hauled each host. The boats were hauled half a mile before the shore ice was clear- ed and then commenced the arduous por- tion of the journey. The ice was floating in many cases; and in others n--t thick en-Tu-_:,h to bear the weight of the boat; and it broke thr--ugh. For long distances the men had to haul the boats through the soft slushy snow on the ice—at times knee‘ d-.-ep in water. The pqivations hich these hoatmen endure -sére u--ted by the mvnihers of parliament, and will not be forgotten ' by and bye when a tribute may be of use Mr. Fisher, M.P., says ho saw one of the men in the middle of the straits, sit on the side of his boat. pull off his high tip boots and p..ur the water out. Th~~ thermoxnoter was below zero. _ The rn-in's stockings were wring- iu wet. That the men's constitutions can withstand such r--ugh usage is aston- lslling. The distance across is nine miles; bu: the boats had to travel more than that distance The last mile occupied over one and a half hours; and the travel- er.-I were for over six hours exposed to the intense cold of the straits. Mr. Laurier was much exhausted by the unaccustomed exposure. On -arriving at Monct« In Messrs. Fisher . and Choquo.-tte, M.P's were driven to the Brunswick Hotel, and the Hun. Mr. Laurier driven to Mr. Peter McSweeney’s residence. whose gm-st he will be during his stay. Owing to Mr Lauricr being so exhausted, last evening and this morning were entirely devoted to rest and there was no ‘reception.

COO

General Booth Checked. .

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Losnox, Dec. 23 —-The Times an- nounces the resignation of Commissioner Sni‘th of the Salvzitimi Army. His resig- nation, it says, at this critical eriod in the history of the army is most important as Smith formed the one substantial guar- antee that an earnest and business like effort would be made to execute the prac- ticable part of Gen. Bouth’s scheme of social regeneration. The ground of dim- culty seems to be Smith's desire to keep thesocial working scheme and its funds distinct from the religious work of the army. ‘

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_iSaw_t’ell tube Hanged.

' Dv‘I~’i.’.It, 33!.-, _I_I., Dec. 26.——The juryon the Sawtello ‘case ca_mo' in at 7.30 p. m., after an absence-of one hour and fifty one minutes with a verdict of guilty on the first count of murder. Sawtollo was son-

vobo will be regarded with ' suspicion Jiencorl to be hanged on January mi, 1991;

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of J anuary. depends the future pros-‘ perity, both moral and. social of this‘.

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AGAINST THE PETITION

A Thoughtful Lettesfrom the Supt. of Education.

GUARDIAN ", CHARLOWN,’

DEAR Suc.—-A few days ago Lrccuivcd a Hutu from you requesting an 0X|ll‘t}.~.8l(|ll of my views on the repeal or retention of the Scott Act in this city. I then defer-

‘ mined to comply whenever I could find

lime to devote such attention to the sub- ject as would result in the formation of an opinion, clear and tenable.

Hmvever pronounced my ionvictions on the general subject of temperance are, I was prepared to view this question of Scott Act versus License fl'ml‘| a purely unbiassed standpoint.

In the meantime a pretty thorough dis- cussion has been conducted through the press, an that the necessity for investiga- tion on my can account no 1- mger exists; and the facts and figures brought out by this discussion are so convincingly in favor of the Scott Act. that I have come to what to me 8£‘8ll‘IS the only c--nclusiun

.«Issi.l»lc, viz., that no system as yet tried in this Province has done so much to de- crease drunkenness and its attendant evils, or has been so effcctual in saving the weak and unwary from the pitfalls of iiitempcrance ‘

For the legalized saloon with its flash and glitter and c-vlor, which met our youth at erery turn, and through whose inviting portals they might enter without fear of public e.rpo.s-ure, has given place to the illegal don which must be sought by dark and turtunus wavs for following which they are liable to be brought into (men court to their great confusion and shame. There is in this surely in restricting in- iluence of no small consequence. Its re- sults caenlnt be nu asured by numbers, nor estimated outside of eternity,

A comparison of the present with thr p.-uir must convince any person open to conviction that the Scott Act. (imperfectly enforced as it has been) is yet. greatly su- perior to any license law for the suppres- sion of the liquor traffic.

Recall the (lava of license, when street brawls and reeling men were scenes as common as they are now uncommon, wh -n quarrels on lines of travel were nf daily uccurn-nee, and when, after night- full, reputable citizens were almost afraid to risk their lives on the l.ll=ll'0L1gllffll‘c8 loading fl0Il'l the city.

All this has been changed to a very uiarlied do gree, and the Scott Act is cer- tainly ontit ed. to the greater share of the credit.

But nr-twithstanding that much has been done. the state of things is yet far from satisfactory, but as long as s-I-cirty is constituted asat present we can no more expect that the Scott Act shall be p- r- feclly observed than t! at no r bberies committed or incendhirism practised.

L-awhrcakers there will be till the mil- lenium Cfllllefl, be the uflicers of justice ever so strict and public opinion ever so strnric. to be brouglt to justice as to have the penalty of the law meted out to every illicit liquur seller. The nnrvol is that so much has been accomplished in the f.-we of such a powerful organization as the liquor fraternity, the indifference of the general public. and the unscrupulous shifts of those upvn whose word convic- tinn depends.

Realizing that to a considerable extent at least, we are our brothers’ keepers, it becomes the duty of every citizen to stand by the law which helps him most effec- tively in the discharge of this acknow- ledged obligation.

But I have already occupied too much space in a repetition of facts patent to everyb--dy.

Iu conclusion let me ask the electors of Charlottetown in their consideration of this question, to remember the striking psychological fact, that‘ we are always more or less discontented with the pre- sent-were it not so, there would he no progress—that the

“ The Past will alwavs win

A glory from its being far, And orb into the perfect star .' \Ve saw not when we moved therein,

and that the :Future, gilded with the cnlnurs of imagination and hop», becomes for us "the good time coming." If we make due allo - mice for --ur excessive dis- satisfaction with the Present, and our undue estimate of the Past and of the Future, and view this question in the light of what really has been, is, and, (judging from the Past) shall be, I can see but one course open-—to hold firmly by the existing law, and then enforce its provisions by every legitimate means. Yours respectf u1l_v, J. A. Nrcnotsox.

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