THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 261, 28 July 1908, Page 2

THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

"# " ADDRESS, BY MRS.'-. HARRISON . LEEi Mrs. Harrison Lee, at St. John's .Church on - Sunday;' delivered a striking address; m the text "'Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the _things that are God's." She dealt mainly with! tha theme that God thought fit . to 'make man after: His own image, and it .was their duty, as voters to.see that that image 'was'noli, inarred-through tho evil influences-of tha liquor traffic. Man, through upholding and permitting such evils to exist, had'made'his brother lowor than the beasts of the field. God made man'a little'lower than'-the angels, and-the man or-woman who' Voted for the continuanco of the liquor traffic was re-, sponsible to his Maker for all the lives and homes that were ruined through its evil-in-fluences. Mrs. Lee stated that .the brewer and the publican were responsible'to God to a certain extent, but the voter who- permitted tho temptation toTemrin-was just as. responsible. She told of a medical'mission-' ary working among Arabs who;informed -her personally of the- great recuperating potttrsof the Arabs in cases of sickncss,, due to tiia fact that thoy .were'total-abstainers.- Then religion enforced total abstinence froa all intoxicating liquor. The speaker, also quoted Sir Androw Clarke,as. saying that seven out ' of every ten sufferers in tho hospitals vrera t-horo, through drink, and if they could pra-'. vent seven out of every ten people sufft-: m<» • was it not their duty to banish the. trr&c from their land? Sho also said the iratron in one of the West Australian, hospitals had told her that but for , tho drink traffic (.We would be but few patients in her hotpitah. ■, In her closing remarks Mrs. Lee • stated that they wanted more Garibaldis in their • ranks. He was onoo appealing for men to help him in bis groat undertakings, and one stopped forward and said: "How much will you givo us?" .And ho «aid: " Rags, wounda on the battlefield, ■ and perhaps.death." Instantly enough men came forward to satisfy his requirc-niejik. If they had more men in thoir midat who would oocie out' boldlv in spite of what their falso friends would Say, the victory would be easier. \ She closed with quoting tho remarks of G. J. G. WoolleyTho liquor traffic sky: I Lot us sacrifice mon tojmako money,' but we, with God, say Let' us sacrifice money to make men.' . -