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Show A TEMPERANCE LECTUEE. We take the following from the Sc ientiji ; A mcrica - Mr. William E. Dodge, the well-known well-known manufacturer and merchant of. this city, when recently before the congressional con-gressional labor committee as a witness, said that his lirm, employing some 2,00) porsorjs, mado it a rulo that persona engaged en-gaged in their manufacturing villages should not use intoxicating drinki. As a consequence there was no complaint of hard times among them. The villages named by him were: Ansuiu, Conn,; Dodgo Mills, near "Witliamsport, Pa ; St. Simons Mills, iia : Wabasheon Mills and Magnatliwan Mills, Ontario, Canada, Cana-da, and Collirgswood Mills. Canada. "Many ef our employees," Mr. Dode continued, "are property owners. They own their dwellings and havo reared largo families. Some of them havo been with, us ten, twenty, and twenty-live years. Our men havo noi su tiered during dur-ing this depression. They have, accepted wages which wo could pay, and taore ha.i, therefore, tieen no special distress among them. Crime is practically unknown un-known among them. No more forcible temperance lecture lec-ture was evtr uttered, and the crowds of idlers and tramps who applaud Kearney could not have a better answer to their complaints than the above. Mr. Dodge aptly illustrates what employers may accomplish by adopting and enforcing the simple rule of requiring eobriety of their men. The workmen are helped, so- iety is improved, and the employers are certainly benefited. Tbo plan is so plainly for the advantage of indiiB trial works, that it is somewhat of a wonder that it was not long ago adopted generally. It is a duty that those who hire men owe to them selves, as welt as to society, to se that bad men men who are injurious injuri-ous or threatening to s-citty, us thieves, iucei:diariea and vicit.ua ;i tatop3, are excluded from their tshib-lisbinert?, tshib-lisbinert?, and the means that would be employed injuriously withheld from them. We do not c!a?a the inttmperate man among the rogut-s and scoundrels, but be is ph un?afe psrsoa, in that he cannot be iru-ard; and be is on the road that leads to! crime. The reason that Mr. Dril-V ' men do not c":ir!:;i nl tmrd fni"- ; is because tbey have uriird ill r wagrfl to gcicd account, wiii';; nothing iu drink. Th'-y ura go-d citizens, rum whese rau;a no recruits deuce ud to s'.t! the army ol tram;n or iucrenso the followers of the Keur- neyt1. Tbiy are the men who do their work well and not only prosper themselves, but also sssiit their em- , ployers to succeed. I1 |