are ruined. AVithout them they might have been sober, honest, upright children ; boys that would do honor to a father and mother; men that would have been a blessing to the Clmirch and the world. But now what are they? Eotten carcasses. You as a father may lavish tender care ; you may lavish days and nights of toil upon your children; you may spend and are spent for their welfare. You do the best you can to train them. You instill into them lessons of truth, righteousness and temperance. The Sldte and Temperance. 187 They grow up. They go out. They see the open saloons. They ask what is inside of those blinds. They go at first from curiosity. They see the shin- ing bottles. They smell the drink. They are tempted to taste. They learn to love it, and in spite of all the care of home down they go to ruin. Many, many a family has been draped in mourning through this process. But for the open saloon this might not have occurred. Now, my friends, is it the duty of parents to bring up their children to be sober men? Have they not the right to be permitted to doit? Has any man on earth a right to interfere, to make it difficult or impossible for them to do it? And wlienever there is such interference is there not a trespass? Better a thousand times sweep away a man's estate and leave him penniless than sweep