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rhich, when i was mere, xiaa
sached a memoersnip oi zu,uuu
fod bad cnangea mo uvea ana
iabits of whole communities. Ana
Belfast lady tola me a story tnat
?as the outgrowth of tlio work done
v this society. She said that many
drunkards had been reformed, and
hat a minister, speaking to the
rife of one of these reformed men,
Baid: 'Your home lite must De more
)lcasant now, since your husband
ms quit drinking,' and she said:
POh, yes, yes, he is more like a friend
iow than a husband. (Laughter.)
inu such a cnange can De ac
complished and can take place under
favorable circumsances.
"France, one of the greatest wine
producing counfries in the world, has
decided to teach in the schools the
effect of alcoholism on the system.
But the most startling piece of news
comes from Germany. Some two
years ago the empsror, speaking to
itlio naval cadets at Vevey, dared
'to attack what he described as the
I traditional beer drinking habits of
his people, and told these young
men that in any contests that might
arise the country must depend upon
them, and that it could not do so
unless their brains were clear and
their nerves steady, and then he
warned them that alcohol would rob
tVir brains of clearness and their
nerves of steadiness and in the name
of the Fatherland he appealed to
them to join total abstinence socie
ties, and held up for their own ex-
I ample the total abstinence societies
of the British navy. And when I
read this appeal of Germany's em
peror to the young men of that
country to be strong for war I asked
myself: 'May we not appeal to the
young men of this country to abstain
from the use of alcohol, that their
brains may be clear and their nerves
steady for the battles of peace and
progress that lie before us!' (Ap
plause.) "But there is a phase of this moral
development that I can not pass, un
noticed. It is a phase that has in
terested me and I doubt not it has
interested you. It is the change in
the point of view from which men
are considering public questions.
Sixteen years ago I found that most
of those who were actively engaged
in reforms felt an immediate pecun
iary personal need for remedial
legislation. One could notice that
everywhere. And it. is not strange,
for wq were then at the end of an
era of falling prices. For nearly a
quarter of a century the purchasing
power of the dollar had been rising
and the price level had been falling.
For nearly twenty-five years the
money owner and the money changer
had been gathering in an unearned
increment and the world was being
forced into bankruptcy. It was not
a national peril only, it was inter
national. There had been three
great congresses in which every im
portant nation was represented, and
everybody everywhere admitted the
seriousness of the situation. The
only question was 'How shall we
escape?' That was the situation
n. it is entirely changed now.
Within the last sixteen years we
have had unexpected increase in the
Production of a precious metal, not
only unexpected, but unparalleled,
nothing like it in all the history of
man, and this increase in the world's
volume of standard money has re
versed the process. Now, instead of
the dollar rising, it is falling. Now,
instead of the price level falling, it
's rising. Now, instead of the world
soing into bankruptcy it is getting
0lt, and if you are paying a debt
contracted sixteen years ago you aTe
Paying it in dollars that will not pur
chase more than two-thirds as much
on the average as the dollars that
you borrowed, and nobody calls you
a repudlator either.
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