tongue by spending the money she needs for the family? Are you
not buying temporary insanity at so much a glass?

Are you not running a fearful risk of becoming a criminal? I know of a
little beershop where murders have been hatched, and that in a quiet
rural village! Do not men go primed with drink to rob and slay? Do not
wife-beaters get their inspiration at the public-house? Is not gambling
fostered in the bar parlour? Do you tell me that you are not likely to
become a thief, or a murderer? So others have said whom we have known,
once as decent and quiet as you. Besides, if you keep out of the hands
of the police, you will have to take your trial some day for robbing God,
and for soul murder! In the public-house you learn to do all this.

(II.)--IF THIS STATEMENT BE TRUE, ALL PATRIOTS SHOULD OPPOSE THE PUBLIC-
HOUSE.

How can a man love his country, who supports that which is increasing
taxation and demoralising his countrymen? Should we allow any nation
under the sun to do us the harm one public-house will do? Is it not true
that nearly all the police are needed by those who frequent the Public-
house? Is it not this devil's academy that costs the nation so much more
than we spend in education? Would not many of the prisons have to be
pulled down if we could stop the drinking habits of our people? Answer
me these questions, and tell me how you can call yourself a patriot, and
yet help to keep these places going?

(III.)--IF THIS STATEMENT BE TRUE, WE MUST CLOSE THE PUBLIC-HOUSES.

Can it be tolerated that such places should remain open? Are felons to
be manufactured, and men get rich by the process? We must shut the
places up, even though we ruin places like Burton-on-Trent, and compel
rich brewers to sell their carriages. Nothing is so likely to pay off
the National Debt as to cause publicans and brewers to enlarge the list
of bankrupts. They cannot live but by the nation's loss, and sorrow. A
brewer's dray, as it leaves the yard, carries with it increase to the
taxation, and hunger and nakedness for little children!

While we do not lose sight of the importance of legislation, and while we
push the questions of Sunday Closing, Local Option, &c., to the utmost
extent, it will pay us still better to close the public-house through
making the frequenter of such places see the sin of it. If there are no
customers, there will be soon a closing of their doors. We call upon all
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