Excerpt from The Temperance Speaker: Compiled From Various Sources for the Use of Bands of Hope, Juvenile Temperance Associations, Cadets of Temperance, &C., In Their Monthly and Weekly Meetings
WE have fought for our independence, and now we sit quietly under the evils of a tyranny we pledged ourselves to resist. We declared against entailment, and we allow the disease and poverty and wretchedness of rum to be entailed on our posterity. We de clared against orders of nobility, and we have them in our midst privileged rulers, licensed to tread on the necks of their fellow men - their countrymen - and suck the life-blood from their pros trate victims. We have the dukes of the dram-shop - tfhe earls and marquises of the bar-room, down to the little baronets of the tippling houses. One of our cld patriots said to the tampering English, Poor as I am, your master's wealth [cannot buy me, and we, their descendants, have sold ourselves for a pittance. I and my children are, slaves of the dram-dealer we must pay out of the savings of our industry 'to support the paupers he makes, and the police he renders necessaiy; while he, privileged, licensed, stands in his shop door, gazing with a boastful, braggart, oppressive look on the community he despises in their vain efforts to put him down. And this is called a Model Nation! And we are forced to petition, to beg protection against a set of foreign vagrants. Sir, I believe five out of sik of all the dribbling dealers are ioreign ers. And it is, declared unconstitutional to vote upon the question of their license!
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