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

Appendizces.
prosperity. When Mr. E. C. Delavan visited Paris in
1838, he waited upon the king, Louis Philipfipe, and his
son, the Duke of Orleans, both of whom acknowledged
that the intemperance of France was (then) upon wine,
and that it would be an economical blessing to that country if the use of so large a portion of the soil in the growth
of the vine for wine-making could be done away with,
and if the industrial energies of the people were devoted
to another purpose. The use of wine did not prevent the
use of brandy and absinthe, and what wine, brandy, and
absinthe have done for France, in both her military and
civil estates, let history and the confessions of her wisest
sons attest!
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EFFECTS OF NO LIQUOR TRAFFIC ON THE SOCIAL
CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.
70onas Hannay, in his work, "The Defects of Police the
Cause of Immorality" (I775), alludes to " a certain parish
in the North of England, where no public-house was licensed, and where there was no poors-rate, nor occasion
for any such relief. At length three licenses were granted;
and what was the consequence? Within thirty months
the poors-rate amounted to eightpence in the pound.
Upon this the justices withdrew the licenses, and the
economy of the people reverted to its former channel, as
no rate was necessary." In Dr. Lees' able "Argument for
the Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic" (I856), and the
"Condensed Argument" (i866), instances are given of
the benefits arising from the suppression of the liquor
traffic. The cases of Sallaire in England, and of Besbrook in
Ireland, are illustrations of manufacturing places which
are free from the sale of intoxicating liquors, and where
the results are of the most pleasing description. The
case of the agricultural district, 6ii miles square, in the
County Zyrone, is an illustration of the similar good effect
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