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'.- - a. ■—■ v ' , ~. ; • v. ]..;■ II Mm ’■ " " -- ”■ 'At a recent meeting at Shoreditch (England) Mr A. M. Sullivan delivered an eloquent address, itt the course of which he spoke as follows : I spent many years of my life Studjringptbut question, and I find the Celtic-temperament is more injured by alcohol than the dull and plodding Tentonic race may/be; I have seen, men steadily ballasted, with other national characteristics, go quietly home, : where the mercurial Hibernian insists has ;had too mum! That is what I mean, arid no reflection bn another’s nationality, when I say the Celtic bears drink worse than any othec'race lin the world. It disfigures us more; it harms us more. ‘ The evils of drunkenness are so wider thenhayes-sayaripps that I rejoice to behfld; and T bless any and every effort in this direction or that which goes to make war on the vice of drunkfnheifvr Jo the best of my power't ■givpfiriy sympathy, praise, and co-operation ;to_ every man, to every movement, and to every section of individuals, under whatever flag they march, to pull drop* the giant tyrant £hat dominates While I thus •desire to, give., to the good. whaffteer faith, who labor in this cause, I alw^^**#B»Wdeeply;'/on- a qcftitibri which appertains so largely to moral <]piincgg}gr, and religious ■ doctrine, that- ! nowhere can temperance be forced on the attention of a Catholic people so rightly, adequately, or 'effectively than ■ from a platform marinhd by the priests of their own faith. I have for some y* a s!i fr w pearly, spent labored a lutlem imny endeavors to benefit the condition of my people and my race. Before feeble health forced me somewhat to the rear, I had in the hum.oL JDpnegal and amid nbble Kerry seen my _ poor people struggling against adversity that only Christiari faith and hope ssSilfJsihaitefleriabled them, to endure. under many a pinching sorrow and many a terrible trial, and I say to you to-night, as I have often told before, that no matter what my views may be about temperance, the sights I saw, the ruin I knew caused . -by-lhis-accursed tyrant, pursuing them all over the wpf|;’|d|ove me to this . platform. I ‘knew it was of no use preachihg.pplitical rights to men who left thmrchildreri in rags running about English streets while they were drinking their wages in an English public-house. I learned in thirty years of Irish public life to-scorn the patriot who talked of dyip&ibr bis native land and who left hupnildren to starve--it may be to die —ShileTie squandered his money in drink/ /(Cheers). Give me but one ' generation of sober, educated, and fb&swlctl (Great cheers.) It must have been some dream like this that Caused our poet to exclaim : rvwdl tln»rhain for a moment be riven that <■* *- tyratfiiyfivirig o’er us then, Oh, >t were notin man or heaven tolet tyranny I e Jhid^itkgaiai :

1 visited dear and holy Ireland; but a few weeks ago. I took advantage of a brief holiday to take twbiof ray little boys-te-see the-home-of -their forefathers, to make' them walk over the green sod where an Irish village stood' ere the devastation of the evictor had ita way - IJodced ,*>%• the .land and t jGo«fi narf leen that country of .ours more happy, more hopeful, and moreproeperouS'Jthan.ever it had been for 500 years past.. < Great changes have COtoerdtfriftgthe "past few years, and been; won fbr the K^^^ , ro;'bjte.;mferdM",bdunty setf thelami with ah abundant bjfjaroptrfthis .ypar,. .And;.,l. saw in the peasant’s eye as he sat oh the fence and gaaeibst the waving fields of corn of cut ftfiCbe SlfeaVes ah of cbnfidhappiness that' never was there because at las) he could, acknowhhutiiy of, God: in the fruits earth, ,say : ~to himself “No jrise in the tint‘Can rob me now. of my share in •■||(pnßatarestl* {Great cheers.) Thank Sddi?rthought, and'there was. joy in „ tSj? Heiitti’ and I : prayerfully blessed the tpcnthgt yroo so much for a long-suffer- , Tn the midst of ray hapthis, there came a fear -and a shadow over ray heart, and which se*tar:itfse heatts-iof many friends of : :I Now that no consot nis industry, Where will those ftXßtfigO'? * j >WiH >h f-t go to put shoes and-rtocfeings on the feet of the children ? Will the betteF times for the Irish peasant and the Irish farmer mean better food, decenter clothing, more bffrftahteand more tidy.homes? Or will it happen that when " the glow of the ' better times will come,ahdthe peasant feels, what he was. .long unaccustomed fattling irt his purse —will he take it to the public-house and apena it there ? Ocfe of the best .priests in : Ireland said, to me: “My heS# fe full of uneasiness that, with rbetjer,; fifes.- jamong- the people, the temptation ,tftj,whiskey>drinking may increase *; but one. consolation he had against that, fear, and that our people are better edifeated now :and more self-respecting, studied! this question, and otj-feyefy farmers floor there is the nfthie" boy of eighteen and the fair young of sixteen, who will be a dribiod a Stay against the old fibd'Hbimng the whisky bottle and, the bp . the Irish floon I . ibrefore joyfully come here .to-night, gjepytogldMf tfhayq heeo *n. a large degree for somextioie past from taking part in Public {i/kopithe platform. I ' nave - to physician aiijßtlldMlJlbtt -the yolfeis' too’heavy to bcar that-would-keejp rae away from bf hiy' noble countrymen striving to Bring reform to ifitt ’ Whether the effort shorietf xir prbiong my life,

canM£ } sastp ; bis existence b a in Alleviate the better one i than irf stfuggjij?& me sorrows, the' and the ruin that lire’, temptation brings iefsbf *the wbtkirig classes. ,Inprofessional labors lam every day trtJßg'htto the ll knowledge, often privately* .of the. Stories that surround arid I have come ' 0 ' expressed, madhouse, .the prison and tbe-grave, are recruited dabniEtiiiei|a*Bpßri»oejaod 'therum shop, aad <ihenr l <toufd ,J bfc y little to do with prisbh, rediice ;> the it ,*• rfaJil# ■t -i J

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1056, 22 January 1884, Page 4

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Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1056, 22 January 1884, Page 4

Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1056, 22 January 1884, Page 4

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