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Intemperance

Excluding the
brewers, and simply taking the public
coins and beer sellers, we have a frightful
total of one hundred and thirty-six
thousand five hundred and one engaged
in the traffic [crossed out] (of) in strong drink.

The number of publicans alone caus-
ed, as Mr Gladstone said in Parlia-
ment "a shudder to pass through the
frame.["]

Need we wonder that Cedric
Bollin said our social life was 'a horror'
"What a comment it is on Church and State
'the blessings of the English civilization' ... 'moral
England' ... 'philanthropic England', ... 'Eng-
land', 'England the great head-quarters of
the world' ... 'England whose press has print-
ed more Bibles than would, placed end
to end, belt the world"! We might with
him earnestly desire "one bold determined
national attempt to deal with such
matter as that before us." S. G. O.

Sidney Godolphin Os-
borne.

............. I cast my eyes about on other
families that I knew; I found that there were
few families consisting of five or more sons
and daughters, in which there was not [added above] (seen) at
[crossed out] (most) one at least inclining to strong drink.
I saw it in my own, and I said, 'Never
shall any of my children have to say that
which I cannot say of my father, that I
set them the example, or caused them