greatest miracle in modern history. It has
healed the sick by the hundred thousand and it has raised the dead.

VI

The readers of the commercialised Press when they scan the inspired
articles regarding America's social uprising have only to use their
common-sense to realise that they are being served up falsehoods. They
have only to think what a mighty change for the betterment of humanity
has been wrought in the great cities where alcohol no longer seeks and
lies in wait for the unwary at every street corner. Instead of liquor
seeking him, the drouth must now seek the liquor--and the search is a
toilsome one in a dry and parched land. What a deliverance that must
be for the weak-willed when the State no longer, by licensed premises
every few yards in the crowded streets, tempts them to take the road to
pauperism and destruction. They have only to think of the lives of
rich and poor whom they themselves knew, that have made shipwreck on
these rocks and shoals, and think what a deliverance has come to the
nation that no longer, with the marshalled host of its liquor sellers,
seeks to enslave and destroy its citizens. They have only to look at
the city of their habitation and ask themselves why it is that so many
hundred thousand of their fellow-citizens live under conditions that
mean unspeakable misery. Why are families doomed to one-roomed houses?
why are children reared under conditions that mean their being damned
before they are born? The answer is--Alcohol! In proportion to the
number of public-houses in any district is the misery of the housing
conditions. You have but to scratch the surface of human misery
anywhere in our cities and you find the turgid stream of alcohol. Let
the reader of the subsidised Press ask himself why all the money spent
on clearing and cleaning slums has wrought no result? It is that
alcohol creates new slums faster than the old are cleared away. Let
him ask why all the money spent in mission work, in philanthropic work,
in rescue work, has not diminished the mass of human misery; and the
answer is--Alcohol! Let him think of the money now wasted by the
workers in the reeking public-houses being used to clothe and feed and
house the children--and what wonderful cities we would have and what a
new race we would become. And all that has been done in the United
States and in Canada. 'Our great claim as Prohibitionists,' said
Admiral Sims, 'is that it has shut up the school