MRS MURPHY'S SERMON.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 380, 26 June 1889, Page 8

MRS MURPHY'S SERMON.

MBsMuRPHY,in Canada, urgingher husband to «gn a petition for the Scott Act, which shuts np the dram shops — was asked by ]iim if she would sign a petition to stop Jier cnp of tea. She replied : ' Was it a cup o' tay turned Bidd}' Malone out o' doors in the dead o' winter because her man lift ever3 r cent he arned, and that 3 r ou know, at the tavern ? Was it the cup o1o 1 tay blacked Pandy McCul loch's two eyes, and let the little gossoons, Riven ay 'era, run about in ra<rß, without enough to ate, aji' no Fchoolin' — while the poor woman slaved at the wnehtub to get 'em a bit o' bread ? Was it the cup o' tay did that same? Was it the cup o* tay sint Maggie Smith to the police an' got her thirty days in gaol. ' Is it th* cnp o' tay t«rn«= the wife and children into the strate, and smashes the furniture, and quarrel wid the neighbour's ■ — and fetches the police ? Ts it the cup o' tay drives the fnmilv from house to hoiiPe,^ gettin' wupr, and into a maner neighbourhood ivery time, an' putß a mnn in the* gutter, an' rollH him in the mud, nn' Brts the bye'- jeeiin' — and riddenß hip nope, an' blears hi< pyes nn' Ioopen«? his tung, and puts a hole inhh coat, and knocks off his hat, and Mndp him home shtajrgering' wiJ bis sinces where lie can't get ut 'em ? ' Tr it a cup o' ta-, malted a fool of a man, Pjiddy Murpby, that his hist friends can't respect him? And a brute of a mnn, Paddy Mnrnhy, so that bin wife trembles, an 1 hiw cliildipr. run away, an' hide whin they hear him coinin' ? Ir it the cup o' toy make a lia<!te o, a man so that there is ]<\ss fiin«p. or r.'ii'-in, or self inspect in him than there is in a pig, Paddy Murphy? "Whin you show me that a cup o' tay will do aH : Hfh things as these, Paddy, I'll fiign a Scott Act again' it ; in the meantime I sign agfiiu' wlm-ky an beer, an' wine or anything else that luiß the pipon in it that makes a m-m or woman fit or a lunatic a\v!uiri 01 a 2:0 a!, or anywhere, except home orhe.viu.' — Ohio Good Temp'ar.