Today the people and the ‘Trade’ have come to close quarters in their conflict; and all Temperance workers must join with dedicated fervour in unremitting and widespread agitation, till the danger is past.  Deep and living must be the zeal and the faith that inspire our work.  The campaign of protest and of “active resistance” has started vigorously, and it must never slacken till victory is won.  Day by day the pressure of public opinion must increase, till the impression made on Parliament by resolutions and petitions shall be overwhelming.  The struggle against the ‘Trade’ and its Government backers is hard, but we must fight straight on, for the issue is of vital importance and we should be ready to make a determined and triumphant resistance to the Prime Minister’s sinister and unashamed attempt to sell our immemorial rights to England’s most dangerous foe, that gigantic Drink Trade, which lives and thrives on the sorrow and degradation of our people.

The worth of our temperance party as a fighting force is once more being tested, and I trust that we shall not be found unworthy servants of the great cause which is in our keeping.  It rests with the Temperance stalwarts, leading the conscience of the nation, to win the day.  They fought and they won the same battle in 1888, and again in 1890, and the achievement of those years can assuredly be repeated today, if we rightly grip the principles that underlie our old Temperance beliefs, holding fast to them without wavering or losing heart, and if we work ever zealously, glowing with the cheerful faith which belongs to those who know that Right will win in the long run, if only reformers are patiently steadfast in their task, even when the ultimate goal is not yet in sight.  We must spend ourselves, still marching with our faces set. 
                                        Rosalind Carlisle,
          President North of England Temperance League. 
          President British Women’s Temperance Association.

     This article is from the temperance witness of north of England.

This explains the danger to honest trade.  The reason why we have capital against labor.  The concentration of money without compensation to labor.  The funds that accumulate corrupt the government and enslaves the people: 

          Thecause of bad trade.

“Every shilling invested in the liquor traffic inflicts a distinct injury to the cause of labor, for there is no trade which pays less wages in proportion to its receipts than the traffic in intoxicants.  If therefore the capital which is now invested in the manufacture and sale of these liquors could only be turned into other channels there would be no difficulty in finding an honest wage for an honest day’s work for every unemployed laborer in the land.  Let us illustrate this.  In a blue book on wages