Men see, as they never saw before, how utterly evil and destructive are the drinking habits of this and other nations; how they weaken the judgment and deprave the moral sense; how they not only take from every man who falls into them his ability to do his best in any pursuit or calling, but sow in his body the germs of diseases which will curse him in his later years and abridge their term.
Other evidences of the steady growth among the people of a sentiment adverse to drinking might be given.

We see it in the almost feverish response that everywhere meets the strong appeals of temperance speakers, and in the more pronounced attitude taken by public and professional men.
JUDGES ON THE BENCH and preachers from the pulpit alike lift their voices in condemnation.
Grand juries repeat and repeat their presentations of liquor selling and liquor drinking as the fruitful source of more than two-thirds of the crimes and miseries that afflict the community; and prison reports add their painful emphasis to the warning of the inquest.
The people learn slowly, but they are learning.

Until they _will_ that this accursed traffic shall cease, it must go on with its sad and awful consequences.

But the old will of the people has been debased by sensual indulgence.

It is too weak to set itself against the appetite by which it has become enslaved.