"Chapels for the exclusive use of colored worshippers are growing in number in the South." So are prisons, penitentiaries and alms houses for the reception of criminals and paupers, made such by the use of intoxicating liquors.

"The roll of membership of Boston Young Men's Christian Association contains two thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight names."-The roll of liquor sellers is more than three thousand, and of liquor drinkers fifty thousand.

"At Berwick-on-Tweed during a recent diocesan choir there were more than five hundred and fifty voices heard in song."Ten times that number of voices can be heard every night in the liquor saloons and concert gardens of New York City.

Once, they said, "O you can't free the slaves!" But the abolitionists kept pegging away, and, at last, they won the victory. Note the onward march of the temperance movement! It grows like a young tree in rich soil,

LICENSE HAVING FAILED, NOW FOR PROHIBITION.

OBJECTS OF GOVERNMENT.

Our constitutions, State and Federal, declare substantially, that all men are entitled to enjoy and defend life and liberty, acquire, possess and protect property, pursue and obtain happiness and safety, and that to secure these inalienable rights governments are instituted among men. These natural and Godgiven rights of the individual can be abridged or limited only so far as the general welfare may require. Individual liberty may be restrained or private property taken when the public good demands. Every person has a right to go where he wishes and do what he pleases upon the important condition that he in no way interferes with the rights of others. There are two kinds of offences of which the law takes takes cognizance. Acts

wrong in themselves, and those which are wrong because they are prohibited. The first includes murder, arson 10bbery, theft, etc. The criminality or guilt of this class of offences is not increased or lessened by the human laws because prohibited by the common and statute law of God. The second class of wrongs exist only because of legislative enactments. The importation of goods without paying the prescribed duties is an offence for the single and only reason that it is made a crime by law. The act would be right if not prohibited by legislative enactment. Every act, occupation or trade which uniformaly perils life, health, morals or peace is an evil in fact, and neither its license or

They say Lower California is adapted to become the greatest wine country in the world. And they say men have invested largely for that purpose, and that a prohibition law would be unconstitutional, because it would interfere with a legitimate business. Do they not know that grapes can be prepared in many ways for food? And just as profitably as if made into wine.

prohibition diminishes or increases its criminality or guilt.

A butcher or tanner

We say uniformly and universally, because there are occupations which under certain circumstances are useful and harmless, which under other conditions would be highly criminal. or chemist may properly and innocently carry on his vocation in the county, but his business is forbidden under penalties in a crowded city. In the latter case he endangers the health and life of his neighbors. The quality of any act may therefore be determined by a very simple test, and there is no room for special pleading or metaphysical reasoning to arrive at a correct conclusion. The unlettered is as capable of coming to a proper con. clusion as the scholar and statesman.

THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

The traffic in alcoholic beverages everywhere and under all circumstances endangers health, life, peace and morals, and hence in all civilized states has been recognized as

coming within the sphere and range of legislative enactments.

In England, in a period of six hundred years, there have been over four hundred acts. of Parliament to regulate, restrain, or limit this traffic.

In all the territories and states of the United States it has commanded the consideration of legislatures, and induced more enactments than any other question. After all the discussions, deliberations and legislative experiments the public mind is still unsettled as to the best mode of dealing with this subject.

The great statesmen of England agree that no law has ever been devised in Great Britain which accomplished the object of its enactment or satisfied the expectations of its authors. The history of legislation on the liquor traffic in this country is a record of disappointments and failures more or less deplorable.

The repeated failures attending legislation