The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

Appendices.
pounds produces, the Edintburgh Review (July, I854), may
be left to describe: " The liquor traffic, and particularly
the retail branch of it, is a public nuisance in all three
respects, physically, economically, and morally. By its
physical consequences it causes death to thousands, reduces thousands more to madness and idiocy, and afflicts
myriads with diseases involving the most wretched forms
of bodily and mental torture. Considered in its economical results, it impairs the national resources by destroying a large amount of corn which is annually distilled into
spirits: and it indirectly causes three-fourths of the taxation required by pauperism and by criminal prosecutions
and prison expenses; and, further, it diminishes the effective industry of the working-classes, thereby lessening
the amount of national production. Thirdly, viewed in
its social operation, it is the cause of two-thirds of the
crime committed; it lowers the intelligence and hinders
the civilization of the people, and it leads them to illtreat and starve their families, and sacrifice domestic
comfort to riotous debauchery."
E.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONTINUANCE OF THE EVILS
OF INTEMPERANCE
[The following appeals are selected from the words of eminent men, who
"being dead yet speak" to all who have ears to hear and hearts to feel.]
THE late Bisizo! of Norwich (Rev. Dr. Stanley) said: "Few
can bear more impartial testimony to the merits of teetotal societies than myself, since for some time I was opposed to them on the supposition that they were visionary
and impracticable. I have, however, long since been a
convert from conviction, founded on experience and observation, that they are most instrumental in raising
thousands and tens of thousands from a degraded profligacy to virtuous and industrious habits, and converting
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