APPEAL TO WOMAN. United Kingdom Alliance, the Scottish Temperance League, the National Temperance League, the British Temperance League, and the Irish Temperance League, are all rapidly advancing in influence and utility. It is no longer possible to treat the subject The movement has atwith silence or contempt. tained such dimensions that every one is beginning to feel the absolute necessity of taking a definite position with regard to it. They that are not for us are against us, and are being constrained to show it. The hostility of many from whom we might expect evidence of friendship and co-operation is no weakness in the Temperance army; it is a proof of vitality and power; and since through the drinking custom and liquor traffic, which we are banded together to abolish, High Heaven is dishonored, and men, women, and children, are visibly perishing by not passing strange that hundreds on every side, is all Christians, clerical, medical, legal, and lay, do not unanimously take our side in the conflict, and leave publicans and sinners high and dry to fight the battle of liquordom under their own natural leader? The struggle will yet assume that shape, just as certainly as truth and holiness shall supplant error and sin. We have got the truth on this point; let us be We have got the more zealous in making it known. light on the subject; let it shine, and by God's blessing it will soon dispel the thick darkness that now broods over the community. Revolutions in public sentiment, as great as that we seek to effect, have taken place in the last generation. The eminent and venerable Dr. Mackenzie, J.P., of Inverness, lately wrote as follows:-"When I studied medicine forty years ago, I was taught by every professor that bleeding was the sheet-anchor of cure in acute disease; and when anti-bleeders ventured to whisper a doubt on the subject, they were declared to be as crazy as the abstainers are now considered by the thoughtless or the ignorant. Yet now bleeding is looked upon as all but simple murder! I may not live to see such another wise reform in science and public opinion, but so surely as I write, the day is at hand when every wise Christian will personally and publicly protest against the use of alcohol in any form as a beverage; and every wise Government will discourage its use, instead of as now, basely profiting Let by its sale, and thus promoting the temporal and eternal ruin of myriads of our fellow-creatures." nobody despair of the issue of our warfare. The day of triumph for our glorious cause will surely come, whether we live to see it or not. There are promises in the Word of God pointing to a time when a custom "Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done."" Your In this noble reform whose object is, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men," your Union has sustained its humble position during the year now gone to return no more. visitors and tract distributors have regularly gone round their respective districts. Monthly meetings of the Union and fortnightly meetings of the Committee have been held in the Mercantile Academy. Meetings of the Belfast Temperance Society have been convened by your Union in Old Lodge Road School-house, Townsend Street School-house, Welsh Street School-house, Christ Church School-house, Mercantile Academy, Eglinton Street Presbyterian Church, Nelson Street School-house, Brown's Square School-house, and Melbourne Street Methodist Chapel. At these meetings appropriate lectures and addresses were delivered by Mr. A. Riddell, Mr. G. D. Leathem, Mr. J. Reid, Rev. S. J. Fausset, Rev. ciety, in connexion with your Union has continued On the whole, during the past year, your Union Appeal to Woman. By the Rev. E. NOTT, D.D. UNDER God, I owe my early education, nay, all that I have been, or am, to the counsel and tutelage of a pious Mother. It was her monitory voice that first taught my young heart to feel that there was danger in the intoxicating cup, and that safety lay in absti nence. And as no one is more indebted than myself to the kind of influence in question, so no one more fully realizes how decisively it bears upon the destinies of others. Full well I know, that by Woman came the apostacy of Adam, and by woman the recovery through Jesus. It was a woman that imbued the mind and formed the character of Moses, Israel's deliverer,-it was a woman that led the choir, and gave back the response, of that triumphant procession which went forth to celebrate with timbrels, on the banks of the Red Sea, the overthrow of Pharaoh,-it was a woman that put Sisera to flight, that composed the song of son of Abinoam, and Deborah and Barak, the judged in righteousness, for years, the tribes of Israel, it was a woman that defeated the wicked counsels of Haman, delivered righteous Mordecai, and saved a whole people from utter desolation. And not now to speak of Semiramis at Babylon, of Catharine of Russia, or of those Queens of England whose joyous reigns constitute the brightest periods of British history, or of her, the patron of learning and morals, who now adorns the throne of the seagirt Isles; not here to speak of these, there are others of a more sacred character of whom it were admissible even now to speak. The sceptre of empire is not the sceptre that best nor is the field of befits the hand of woman; carnage her field of glory. Home, sweet home, is her theatre of action, her pedestal of beauty and throne of power. Or if seen abroad, she is seen to the best advantage when on errands of love, and wearing her robe of mercy. 36 EXHORTATION TO MOTHERS-POETRY. But it It was not woman who slept during the agonies of Gethsemane; it was not woman who denied her Lord at the palace of Caiaphas; it was not woman who deserted his cross on the hill of Calvary. was woman that dared to testify her respect for his corpse, that procured spices for embalming it, and that was found last at night, and first in the morning, at his sepulchre. Time has neither impaired her kindness, shaken her constancy, nor changed her character. Now, as formerly, she is most ready to enter, and most reluctant to leave, the abode of misery. Now, as formerly, it is her office, and well it has been sustained, to stay the fainting head, wipe from the dim eye the tear of anguish, and from the cold forehead the dew of death. rance. This is not unmerited praise. I have too much respect for the character of woman, to use elsewhere the language of adulation, and too much selfrespect to use such language here. I would not, if I could, persuade those of the sex who hear me, to become the public, clamorous advocates of even tempeIt is the influence of their declared approbation; of their open, willing, visible example, enforced by that soft, persuasive, colloquial eloquence which, in some hallowed retirement and chosen moments, exerts such controlling influence over the hard, cold heart of man, especially over a husband's, a son's, or a brother's heart; it is this influence which we need; -an influence chiefly known by the gradual, kindly transformation of character it produces, and which, in its benign effects, may be compared to the noiseless, balmy influence of Spring, shedding, as it silently advances, renovation over every hill, and dale, and glen, and islet, and changing, throughout the whole region of animated nature, Winter's rugged and unsightly forms, into the forms of vernal loveliness and beauty. It is not yours to wield the club of Hercules or bend Achilles' bow. But, though it is not, still you have a heaven-appointed armor, as well as a heavenapproved theatre of action. The look of tenderness, the eye of compassion, the lip of entreaty, are yours; and yours, too, are the decisions of taste, yours the omnipotence of fashion. You can therefore,-I speak of those who have been the favorites of fortune, and who occupy the high places of society,-you can change the terms of social intercourse and alter the current opinions of the community. You can remove, at once and forever, temptation from the saloon, the drawing-room, the dining-table. This is your empire, the empire over which God and the usages of mankind have given you dominion. Here, within these limits, and without transgressing that modesty which is heaven's own gift and woman's brightest ornament, you may exert a benign, kindly, mighty influence. Here you have but to speak the word, and one chief source of the mother's, the wife's, and the widow's sorrows, will, throughout the circle in which you move, be dried up for ever. Nor, throughout that circle only. The families around you, and beneath you, will feel the influence of your example, decending on them in blessings like the dews of Heaven that descend on the mountains of Zion; and drunkenness, loathsome drunkenness, driven by the moral power of your decision from all the abodes of reputable society, will be compelled to exist, if it exist at all, only among those vulgar and ragged wretches, who, shunning the society of woman, herd together in the bar-room and the groggery. Why, then, should less than this be achieved? To purify the conscience, to bind up the broken-hearted, to remove temptation from the young, to minister consolation to the aged, and kindle joy in every bosom throughout her appointed theatre of action, befits alike a woman's and a mother's agency-and since God has put it in your power to do so much, are you willing to be responsible for the consequences of leaving it undone? Are you willing to see this tide of woe and death, whose flow you might arrest, roll by you onward to posterity, increasing as it rolls, for ever? O! no, you are not, I am sure you are not. However others may hesitate, waver, defer, temporize, take you the open, noble stand of ABSTINENCE; and, having taken it, cause it by your words, and by your deeds, to be known on earth and told in Heaven, that mothers here have dared to do their duty, their whole duty, and that, within the precints of that consecrated spot over which their balmy, hallowed influence extends, the doom of drunkenness is sealed. Nor mothers only; in this benign and holy enterprise, Daughter and Mother, alike are interested. Ye Young Women!-might the speaker whose chief concernment hitherto has been the education of the young, be permitted to adress you, he would bespeak your influence, your urgent, persevering influence, in behalf of a cause so pure, so full of mercy, and so every way befitting your age, your sex, your character. O! could he make a lodgment, an effectual lodgment, in behalf of temperance, in those young, generous, active hearts within his hearing, who this side heaven could calculate the blessed, mighty, enduring consequences? Then from this favored spot, as from some great central source of power, encouragement might be given, and confidence imparted, to the whole sisterhood of virtue, and a redeeming influence sent forth, through many a distant town and hamlet, to mingle with other and kindred influences in effecting throughout the land, among the youth of both sexes, that moral renovation called for, and which, when realised, will be at once the earnest and the anticipation of millennial glory. This, the gaining of the young to abstinence, would constitute the mighty fulcrum on which to plant that moral lever of power to raise a world from degradation. O! how the clouds would scatter, the prospect brighten, and the firmament of hope clear up, could the young be gained, intoxicating liquors be banished, and abstinence, with its long train of blessings, be introduced throughout the earth.-Lectures on Biòlical Temperance, page 176. Exhortation to Mothers. DEAR mothers I entreat you To hear a little child In accents sweet and mild; May feel the truths I speak, And come and join our standard, And fortify the weak. I drink no vile strong liquor, Who would go home to night, And give her darling daughter A victim to its blight? Pray do you think your children What right have you to think so? Have children who are sots, A scandal to our isle, That makes poor little creatures That by the path you trod, And passions of mankind. Dear mothers, oh be cautious, The world has suffered long, And you-ye tender mothers, Have taught and reaped the wrong. Alcoholic Medication. No. III. SINCE Alcoholic Medication is productive of so much evil (as I have shown in former papers), why do physicians not diminish the mischief by lessening the cause ? Would not the entire removal of alcohol from the Materia Medica be a great boon to suffering humanity? Why do medical men not utterly abandon the pernicious practice, as they have done the barbarous and murderous system of bleeding formerly so prevalent? Such inquiries naturally arise in the candid, unprejudiced mind. I reply, the experiment has been made, and the results have satisfied the most sanguine expectations. I rejoice in the opportunity of making the readers of the Journal acquainted with these results. They ought to be universally known. They demonstrate that those doctors who still persist in prescribing alcohol as a medicine, are acting as contrary to genuine experience, as they have long been to science and truth. That the valuable experience we now possess may be the more convincing and useful, I shall give it largely in the language of the eminent experimenters themselves. Dr. L. M. Bennett, of Winterton, says "I believe there is no curable disease (chronic or acute) but what may be treated, and cured, better without alcohol than with it. I have found a great number of complaints easily yield to treatment when this drug has been discontinued, and record the following facts, the result of thirty years' practice, in the hope that they may help to remove one of the most numerous of the causes of the intemperance of the present day-the injudicious and indiscriminate recommendation of alcohol as a medicine and a beverage. During the last twenty-five years I have not once used it as a medicine, or recommended it as a beverage; and although I have had great experience in the treatment of dyspepsia, fever, exhaustion from loss of blood, and profuseness of purulent dischargo, I have found all those complaints and conditions much more easily removed without alcohol." Dr. Bennet than abun dantly illustrates the truth of this statement by specific cases of his experience. Dr. B. Collenette, of Guernsey, writing in 1862, said--"I not only personally abstain from all intoxicants, but have entirely banished them from my practice, conscientiously and continuously, since August, 1841, and have never once had reason to regret it. During these twenty-one years I have not made fewer than 180,000 medical visits, and hesitate not to say that the recoveries have been more numerous and more rapid than they were during the five years I followed the usual practice, and administered brandy, wine, and beer. Of these numerous patients many were laboring under the most aggravated forms of typhus and other malignant fevers, smallpox, cholera, delirium tremens, large exhausting abcesses, and many other forms of disease in which alcoholic stimulants are usually administered and thought to be essential. On this plan I have treated all classes of patients, the rich and the poor, the overfed and the half starved, the educated and the ignorant, the over-worked and the idler, the sober and the drunkard, the moral and the grossly immoral, the countryman and the townsman, the seaman and the landsman, the inhabitants of well-lighted, wellventilated, and well-drained dwellings, and those huddled together in miserable hovels without suffici ent light, ventilation, or drainage. I have likewise attended the patients of two large hospitals for many years-one in the town, the other in the country; the paupers of a populous parish for sixteen years; the members of nine benefit clubs for many years, some of these numbering near 300 members, and in all these different cases, and under all these different circumstances, I have not found it once necessary to prescribe either spirituous, vinous, or malt beverages. I am more than ever convinced that the banishment of these from my practice is right, and more firmly resolved than ever to continue in the course I have now followed for so many years." Dr. Henry Mudge, Mayor (or Ex-Mayor) of Bodmin, said at the Temperance Convention in London, in 1862, before the Medical Section-"Most unquestionably medical practitioners could help our work by the less frequent, and, shall I say, the less flippant prescriptions of alcoholics in disease. The exigencies of our country at least demand that alcohol shall be treated as a dangerous drug, to be used, if at all, with more than common caution. I fear, at present, that if the alcohol, now prescribed medicinally, were divided into ten parts, nine of these are given to please, and one only to profit, if that be possible. Again, the diseases said, in some popular Temperance literature, to require the exhibition of alcohol, may be arranged under twelve heads. With eleven of these I am intimately acquainted, and have seen them all, through a period extending over thirty years, well and successfully treated without the use of any alcoholic drink of the twelfth part I cannot speak from personal observation, since they are diseases of low city life, and my practice has been confined to a country town and a rural district. I have no doubt, however, that a fair trial of the non-alcoholic treatment would illustrate its advantages even in these forms of 38 ALCOHOLIC MEDICATION. low disease. Where is the city practitioner who has made trial? The wonder is that none of the magnates of the medical profession have the courage and discernment to make the trial wholesale in our hospitals and elsewhere, and publish the results. Having published short notices of over forty forms of disease cured without alcoholics, I have some right to claim equal explicitness from the prescribers of alcohol. I may confidently declare that, in any case where alcohol is conscientiously considered indispensable, the stimulant can be procured in a suitable form without sending for it to the common liquor merchaut. The resources of the chemist and the pharmaceutist are fully equal to any demand that can be made on them in this direction, and the 'Unholy Alliance,' at present existing between the doctor, the brewer, and the vintner, should be at once dissolved." At the meeting of the Medical Section of the great International Temperance Convention above referred to, there was a very numerous attendance, including some of the most eminent physicians of the age, from both the Old and New Worlds. Dr. J. MacCulloch, of Dumfries, presided, and after the reading of a considerable number of able papers, each followed by discussion, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted :-Moved by Dr. Figg, of Boness, and seconded by Dr. Bennett- -"That the recent experiments and discoveries of physiological science, confirming observation and experience in all climates, have clearly demonstrated that alcohol has no dietetic value, but that its use as a beverage, in any form or to any extent, is injurious both to the body and the mind of man." Moved by Dr. Norman Kerr, of Glasgow, and seconded by Dr. M. Franks, of Heckington-"That the progress of medical science and experiment has exploded many theories on which the prescription of alcohol has been hitherto based, and has demonstrated, not only its non-dietetic character, but also its nonmedicinal virtue, in a large range of disease that; the scientific, as distinguished from the empirical application of remedies, requires that their specific properties and reactions should be understood-conditions never yet fulfilled in regard to alcohol. This Convention therefore earnestly calls upon the mem. bers of the honorable profession of medicine, not only to respect their own reputation as a body, but to bear in mind their grave moral and social responsibilities in prescribing so questionable, so dangerous, and so abused an article. The Convention would also press upon the friends of Temperance the duty of insisting that alcohol, whenever prescribed under the plea of a supposed, or the justification of a real necessity, should be dispensed, like other drugs, not by the publican, but by the apothecary." Ꭺ Dr. Beaumont says "I have long since ceased altogether to employ alcoholic stimulants. During the past two years alone, I have treated, in public and private practice, nearly three thousand cases, and have never ordered wine, brandy, or malt liquors in any instance. Most of the cases have been characterized by asthenia, and have comprised almost every form of disease, both acute and chronic. large proportion of these cases have been fevers of the adquamic type. My treatment has been satisfactory and successful, the duration of the cases shorter than formerly, and the general results of a lengthened trial are quite conclusive to my own mind of the truth that diseases of all kinds are more manageable and more curable without alcoholic stimulants than with them. Besides the appropriate medicines, I freely order nutrient preparations from animal food, such as hot beef-tea, in some cases, or These include accouchements by the hundred, hemor hage, shock, typhus fever, consumption, purulent discharges, large burns, and indigestion. cold jellies in others, together with cocoa, prepared milk, tea, and nutritious fluids of all kinds. The profession has long attached an extravagant but unmerited value to alcoholics, and it is now high time that a change in opinion and practice should take place." The venerable Dr. Higginbottom of Nottingham, writes" It is now generally admitted that alcohol is not food; and, from daily observation and practice, for more than half a century, I do not consider it a medicine in the true sense of the word. What is a medicine? It is a term derived from medeor,' to cure. During my long and extensive practice, I have not known or seen a single disease cured by alcohol; on the contrary, it is the most fertile producer of diseases, and may be truly considered the bane of medicine, and the seed of disease. It is entirely des. titute of any medicinal principle implanted by the Creator as in genuine medicines-such as emetina in ipecacuanha, rhein in rhubarb, jalapin in jalap, quinine in peruvian bark, &c., &c. Alcohol is the invention of man in the forms we use it, by the destruction of the good food and fruit God has given us. A poet says, by the agency of the devil 'He joys to transform, by his magical spell, To famish the stomach, and madden the brain." Shakspeare says, 'O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no other name to be known by, let me call thee devil.' The subject of alcohol, as a medicine, has occupied my attention ever since the year 1810. At that time I was of opinion that alcohol, in various forms, could not possibly be dispensed with in medical practice, but was absolutely necessary, and that nothing could be substituted for it in the treatment of some disorders. I believe many medical men are of that opinion at the present day. For the first twenty years I ignorantly gave alcohol in some diseases, as was customary with the profession. Yet, at so early a period as 1813, I discontinued it in typhus and typhoid, and other fevers, with the most marked beneficial results; in 1818, in all cases of midwifery; and at a later period, in delirium tremens and in all other disorders and diseases, from a full conviction of its injurious properties; so that I had lost all faith in alcoholic stimulants, and discontinued their use several years before the formation of a temperance society. For about thirty years, I have not once prescribed alcohol as a medicine: so that I have now fully tried both ways-with and without alcohol --and I perfectly agree with the Scotchman who said, 'Honesty was the best policy, he was quite sure, for he had tried both ways.' I only differed from the Scotchman in acting dishonestly with my patients from ignorance. I am now fully of opinion that a more dishonest and cruel act cannot be inflicted on a patient than to prescribe or order alcohol as a medicine. Why is alcohol prescribed at all as a medicine, being such a fertile producer of disease? Dr. Trotter enumerates twenty-eight diseases arising from intoxicating drinks-viz., Apoplexy, Epilepsy,Hysterics, Convulsions, Fearful Dreams, Gastritis, Enteritis, Ophthalmia, Carbuncles, Hepatitis, Gout, Schirrus of the Bowels, Fatal Obstructions of the Lacteals, Janndice, Indigestion, Dropsy, Tabes, Syncope, Diabetes, Locked Jaw, Palsy, Ulcers, Madness, Idiotcy, Melancholy, Impotency, Premature Old Age, Diseases of Infants during Suckling. One of our medical writers says, 'The diseases occasioned by alcohol have been far more destructive than any plague that ever raged in Christendom; more malignant than any other epidemic pestilence that ever deso. lated our suffering race, whether in the shape of the burning and contagious typhus, the loath DOCTORS, DRUGS, AND DRINK.-ORATIONS AND ENTERTAINMENTS. some and mortal small-pox, the cholera of the East, or the yellow fever of the West-diseases by far more loathsome, infectious, and destructive than all of them put together, with all their dreadful array of suffering and death united in one ghastly assemblage of horrific and appaling misery. The late Dr. James Gregory, Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of Edinburgh, said, 'I never got a patient by water-drinking, but thousands by strong drink. The question may be asked again, 'Why is alcohol at all prescribed as a medicine?' The answer will be, what a medical man said to me, 'I like it.' Another medical man said, 'Let them have what they like.' The general answer has been, when I have closely asked medical men personally why they order it as a medicine, they say, 'We could do without it, but it is convenient, always at hand, and the patients like it.' Alcohol is a most dangerous luxury: it is neither adapted for food nor medicine. The ancients called it a delightsome poison.' I have been long convinced that I should be criminal, were I to give it or prescribe it, either in health or disease. Alcohol is given to gratify an unnatural and depraved appetite, not having anatomy, physiology, philosophy, science, or common sense to sanction its use. In fact, its prescription as a medicine, is the most dangerous quackery of the present day.' In the light of the foregoing evidence and testimony, surely I am justified in asking my readers to beware of the use of alcoholic poison when prescribed to them under the name of food, beverage, stimulant, medicine, or any other fictitious title. It will be observed that in several of the above quotations reference is made to the use of alcohol in fever. This is a subject of vast practical importance at the present time, in consequence of the prevalence of fever in many of our towns, and of the almost equally prevalent practice of drugging the poor patients with alcohol, a practice which is only adding "fuel to fire" and so increasing the mortality, as shown by all true science and experience. A considerable number recover under this treatment, and the doctors tell them the wine and brandy have saved their lives. The patients and their friends believe it, and thus a powerful impres sion is made in favor of the value of Alcoholic Medication. But a large per centage die under the same treatment. What of them? Would it not be as rational to conclude that those who recover, do so in spite of the alcohol, and that most of those who die are killed -stimulated to death-by its use? The one inference is just as legitimate as the other. I have a deep conviction that this is the true state of the case, and shall give the reasons in my next paper. JOHN PYPER. "Doctors, Drugs, and Drink." DEAR SIR,-From every part of the kingdom I find one complaint and one impression amongst thoroughgoing temperance men-namely, that the perverse, ordinary, and indiscriminate prescription of intoxicating liquors is one of the most powerful antagonising influences to our great reformation, and by far the most frequent cause of pledge-breaking, and of the backsliding of reformed drunkards. How long shall this continue? I have come to the conclusion that since the profession will not reform its ways, the outside public-as in the old days of Lady Montagu and Dr. Jennermust reform them. They must be attacked, right and left; and their fatal ignorance, their adherence to formula, their pretentions, must be exposed without flinching. This, in my judgment, is the only way to arrest the growing evil, and to compel the medical 39 profession to think upon their responsibilities. We have a press at our command, and are quite equal to the task of coping with them. If we will, we can outflank them, and stop very quickly the widespread mischief they are doing. I have been requested, by several eminent friends of our cause, and by the British Temperance League, to write a short work on this subject, for the people. But this will not do. It must be at least 100 pages, in order to contain at once the thorough exposure by means of FACTS that is needed, and the thorough instruction on what medicine can and can not do, which ought to displace the popular superstitions. I am willing to undertake this work, on condition that the friends and organizations of temperance will ensure its extensive circulation. It is of little use my thinking and printing, so long as there is no trade agency interested in circulating the results of my labors; and this deficiency can only be made up by co-operation amongst ourselves. Mr. Sims, for example, liberally offers to subscribe for 100 copies; and other gentlemen for 50, 30, &c. But we want an effort for 20,000 copies-(one for each doctor to begin with)-and societies alone can do this. Will the teetotalers imitate the Alliance in its circulation of the "Condensed Argument '? We could then strike a blow that would be felt at once, Need I say more? Yours truly, F. R. LEES. Meanwood Lodge, Leeds. Orations and Entertainments. BY J. W. KIRTON. THERE seems to be just now a danger among our societies of pandering to a morbid taste, rather than honestly and unflinchingly setting forth the great fundamental truths which belong to our movement. If ever we are to gain success, it will not be by turning the Temperance platform into a "Punch and Judy show," but by teaching the people the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We are quite aware that there is a large class of men and women among us who are always hankering after "something new," or a 'sensation;" but what we have to ask is this, are these the people upon whom, after all, the success of any enterprise can be allowed to depend? Are they not rather the very elements which are constantly getting us into trouble, and therefore, on that account, should be kept in the background, if they are to be tolerated at all? Unless the dignity of the Temperance movement is maintained, and its principles faithfully and clearly expounded, we have no hope of making converts of the right stamp. True we may, by studying this, only secure a hearing among a select few; whereas if we were to announce the lecture to be accompanied with a "dance, or a polka in a fryingpan," there will be a great rush to see the performance, and under the excitement of the inspiration raised from such a source, money may be made, and a noise created. But is this real success? Judged by the experience of the past, we unhesitatingly say No! Rather educate half a dozen than amuse as many hundreds. People are not to be fiddled into this truth any more than they are to be fiddled into religion or politics, and if they will not come and listen to the utterances of men who can place the subject before an audience in an intelligible manner, then the only thing left is to shake off the dust of your feet as a testimony against them. We have been led into these remarks because we think that the time has arrived when something should be done to make a stand against this money. grubbing scheming, and we entreat the temperance |