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people still fancy that the drink trade helps the * landed interest/ 

 because it consumes a large quantity of barley. The drink trade 

 is a big customer : yes, but the nation is a much bigger one ; and 

 considering the damage which the drink trade does to the nation, 

 and considering the extent to which it impairs the purchasing 

 power of great masses of the people, the few millions obtained for 

 barley are but a trifle compared with the loss caused by intem- 

 perance." — Alliance News. 



"When railways were introduced, the question was asked, 

 what shall we do with our horses ? That problem is solved 

 without any injury to the farmer. With good management, high 

 cultivation and favourable seasons, much may be done to contend 

 successfully with foreign competition, not only in the production 

 of beef, mutton, pork, poultry, butter, cheese, eggs, &c., but in 

 grain also, and depend upon it, the secret of success in Agri- 

 culture, as of other branches of trade and commerce, is to be 

 found to a considerable extent within the four corners of this 

 question. 



AN APPEAL TO THE CLERGY, LANDLORDS, EMPLOYERS 

 AND LABOURERS. 



I would again earnestly appeal to all landlords, employers and 

 labourers, to give this great and most important subject their 

 serious consideration. Landlords can help by doing away with the 

 sale of intoxicating liquors in their villages, and in many other 

 ways. When lately passing through the village of Everingham in the 

 east riding of Yorkshire, I was delighted to find that Lord Herries 

 had set such a good example in this respect. His Lordship, on 

 seeing that harm was being done to the people in the village 

 through the drinking going on at the public house, did away 

 with the license, and made the house into a Temperance Inn, 

 and, in order that the publican might be able to get a comfortable 

 living, his Lordship attached a little more land to the house. 

 Farmers can help by at once adopting the plan of paying in cash 

 instead of giving the men beer, and encouraging temperance by 

 their own examples and efforts. Men can help by thankfully 

 receiving the extra money, making good use of it, and practising 

 habits of temperance themselves, and encouraging the same in 

 their own families. But above all I would appeal to the Bishops 

 and Clergy of our church, for it is only when the church wakes 

 up to a sense of her duty in this matter, that we may hope to 

 meet with success. I do feel most strongly that till within the 

 last few years, the church has lamentably failed, in the discharge 

 of her duty to the people in this respect, not only have the Clergy 

 as a body, (with but few exceptions,) stood by, looking on with 

 cold indifference, not only content with making no special effort 

 in this direction, to save the masses perishing around them, but in 

 many instances openly opposing the efforts of others. Some 

 have even refused the use of the parish schoolroom, to bodies of 

 working men, who were anxious to associate together for mutual 

 protection of themselves and families against the common enemy 

 that threatened their destruction. Although a loyal and whole 



