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Show A.mo.V'J the most 7-c.tlous advocates of the temperance movement, which seems to fe spreading over the land like a tidal wave, arc fuund many prominent Catholics, archbishops, bishops, priests and laymen alike tiking an active interest in the movement. move-ment. Archbishop Munniug, in an address recently delivered in Exeter -lrnrLonnon, said : "That if the enormous tniilie in li jiior? continued to extend itself yuar after yv.ir unchecked, tho day would come when Parliament would be unable to cope with it; and iU indue ice over the people of this country would th?n be so strong, that by it tho votes of electors and elected would tc determined. He looked upo:i this as one of tho gravfct j-igns of the present day." The danger threatened is certainly not any greater in Britain than in this country, and it is praiseworthy to see that thinking men in all sects and parties see and leel it and are ar raying themselves against it. |