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moral suasion. You cannot make men virtuous by law; you must use moral suasion." No man thinks of discarding the use of moral suasion, and all the means that can be employed by the Church of the living God to persuade men to be temperate and quit drinking. No man thinks of that. But, my friends, we do not rely exclusively on moral suasion in the case of murder, theft and robbery. There are men The Siate and Temperance. 199 who, notwithstanding all you can say, will murder, and we want law to interfere for their punishment, for the punishment of individuals who cannot be reached by moral suasion. True, you cannot make men virtuous by law, but you can do something to compel them to respect the rights of their fellow- men. If they will not love virtue, they may be made to fear the punishment of crime. The duty of gov- ernment is to protect the welfare of the greatest num- ber. Time will not permit me to go into detail on this point, but you can see at a glance that prohibi- tion, enforced as it is in Topeka, enforced as it is in the little city which I left to come to Wooster, en- forced as it is in Vineland, enforced as it is in Maine, enforced as it is even in county Tyrone, Ireland, is a wonderful means of promoting the general wel- fare. Of this there can be no question. I might ask your attention to certain minor duties