In an outspoken sermon delivered in Ireland, a Roman Catholic priest said that drunkenness was responsible for more of the misery, destitution, and crime amongst the Irish people than all the political disabilities. The main requirement of the Irish people was sobriety, and until Ireland was a sober country, no organisation, political or otherwise, would make it independent, or the people happy. “ Be pitiful, for all men are fighting a hard battle.”—lan Maclaren.
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White Ribbon, Volume 7, Issue 81, 1 February 1902, Page 3
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