IN THE DAYS OF NOLICENSE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1266, 23 October 1911, Page 6

IN THE DAYS OF NOLICENSE.

RESCUED FROM MANY WATERS THE FLOOD STORY UP-TO-DATE. 1. Onoo thoro lived a good man who was greatly favoured in tihat he had a fore word about a big Hood that was to eomo down and drown all tho people that lived in Iris valley. 2. On receiving the news this man eet about preparing for the safety of hi» wife.,, his family, his ox, his ass, inid. everything that was his. 3. Ho told his neighbours that there was going to be a flood, and that if tQioy did not, like him, build boats for themselves they would all bo swept away. 4. Now, that generation, tad no fear of a flood, for they were water driukorg and wicked; und they pooh-poohed tho old man's idea of a flood, and laughed at his boat-building. 5. Nevertheless, the old man went on building his boat, and when he had put tho last shingle on tho roof ho saw tho rain clouds riving out of fcho north, darkening the whole firmament. 0. Ho then told his wife and his children to get in with their hobble, ekirts uud things, and 1)0 drove air tho stock, male and female, into tho boat; and night coining on, he juilled up the gangway, took his "night-cap," and went to bed. 7. While ho yet slept great rains dcs. cended, and before morning tho whole valley was a sea covering tho tops of the. highest hills. 8. When lie saw that all tho people had perished, ho said: "I told them, the vipers, that there was to be a flood, and they would not tako tho straight tip, so they are all drowned." 9. Happily, his boat survived tho stress and storm, and as tho waters subsided, it drifted towards a pleasant part tit that country. 10. Now, thifi man had been used to drinking good drink even beforo tho Hood, and his supply of Tokay having given out, he bethought him to plant a vineyard, and make moro from the luscious fruit of tho vine. 11. And when tho summer was passed and the autumn fully conic, the old man rejoiced m tho work of his hands, and was delighted with his field of grapes, for tho crop was beautiful and abundant. 12. Thiis lie said to hiinsolf: "My soul longeth for tho taste of good wine," 60 ho made a.drop of good drink after Iho manner of his fathers, partook thereof, and his heart was glad. 13. But tho privations of a lonj voyage, some, forty days and forty nights, had depressed his soul, and ho drank 100 deeply of the generous wino ho had made, and was drunken. Id. Now, Ix 3 it known to all men, especially women, that No-Licenso prevailed throughout all this laud, neither wn9 tkcro any hotel iu that country, so that his drunken state could not bo set over against any form of the licensing system or tine allurements of the open bar, so to speak. 15. Neither were there any Prohibitionists in that country, for they und all their abominations had been swept away in tho great ilood. IC. Neither were there any police in thoso days to arrest men who indulged too freely; neither did ten o'clock closing then curtail the plenitudo of their mighty libations. 17. Verily, these were the days of NoLicense, every man was froo to brow hie own beer, make his own wine, and get drunk when he chese, cither abroad with his neighbours or in tho bosom of his own family. 18. Generation followed generation, and. in process of timo the people in. this NoLicenso country became riotous, ungodly, wanton, and lewd; tho laud was altogether wicked. 19. Now, there aioso in this land some truly righteous men, who loved virtuo and temperance; and seeing tho sad condition of tho land under No-License, they said we will adviso the King to give tho making, purveying of wino and all such lkl'iiids into tho hands of respectable perhOlH. 20. So the days cf No-License, with all their wickedness, were put an end to by the righteous and patriotic men of that day, and tho inhabitants of the land bocame at once wiper and moro and withal temperate in all things. 21. Yet there came cunning and dosigning men and women to that land, who sought to overthrow the good work of tho righteous advisors of (he King, who set up tho licensing system, and again tried to constitute No-Liccuso, with its accruing abominations, among the people. 22. Much deceit was practised to attain this iniquitous end, but these NoLicenso persons were babblers all, and thoir deceits were speedily exposed. 23. And the people who rcmcmliered the falo of (ho man who came out of the boat, and all that generation who lived under No-Licenso at (he time of tho great flood, renounced the machinations of No-Licensers, and vould have none of their nostrum. 21, And (o this day it is said (hat those who would return to tho days of NoLicciifo, in which men and women got spellbound, drunk, and wanton to their wills'-content, are not the true friends of mankind. 25. And a frro people, loving liberty, but righteousness more, declare unto you Hint nil moral sense epwdily abandons HioAC who dwell in No-Licenso places. 2f>. Thus the nnnnls of time, nnd particularly of (his generation, lostifieth that the people returned not to tho wickedness of No-License, for on all occasions in the secrecy of the ballot-box (hoy siTiic-lj out (he bottom linos in all voting iwpcrs. 2". Thus it is that (he machinations of No-Liconwrs and other workers of abominations shall L-o utterly overthrown. ,