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The State and Temperance. 195 the prosperity of that city. Business did not leave it. It came to it. The city did not diminish. It increased. Being at the head of a college, I had reason to know something of the difficulties of disci- pline. Before the close of the saloons one difficulty was from intemperance, from drinking and drunken- ness. But after the saloons were closed the difficulty absolutely ceased. It caused us scarce a thought until I left the place. The change from my point of view was most marked. It was said there was as much drinking as ever privately. We went to the agent at the depot, through whose hands every bale of goods must pass, and he testified that the dimin- ution of imports was as great as could be expected. If any one has doubts on this subject, let him go to our friend Yocum, and hear from the city of Topeka, Kan., a city of 30,000 population, and a large proportion of that class who are most naturally dis- posed to drink; and yet in that city not an open saloon ; not a drunken man to be seen ; not a sign of intoxicating drinks anywhere; but all around marks of the greatest prosperity. Now let me give you the testimony of a disting- uished member of the British Parliament, Lord Claude Hamilton, one of the large landed proprie- tors of Ireland. Now, what can be done in Ireland