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X.XX11 SOME NOTICE OF THE
Pamphlets by But besides these fugitive pieces, he published some
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His tirst publication of this kind, which was anonymous,
was an Inquiry into the influence of the excessive use of
Spirituous Liquors in producing Crime, Disease, .and
Poverty
in Ireland. 1
It appeared in 1830. In a presenta-
tion copy of it to Mr. James Haughton, there is the follow-
ing note in Mr. Haliday's writing:
" This, I believe, was the first publication of the temperance
movement in Ireland."
E-e was an actiye member of the Society for the Suppres-
sion of Mendicity in Dublin, commonly called the Mendicity
Society.
This Society, at a time when there was no legal relief for
the poor, and the streets of Dublin were crowded with
beggars, .took a lease of Moira House, on Usher's-quay, and
opened it to receive all poor who should come there of
their own accord or with a ticket given by anyone whom
they had solicited alms from, and they were there provided
with wholesome food for the day, on condition of stone-
breaking for men and boys, and other suitable work for
women.
Archbishop Whately pronounced it the best system of
relief that he knew. Here Mr. Haliday gave his personal
attendance. And when the cholera morbus made its first
terrible visitation to Dublin in the year 1832, and seized its
most hopeless victims amongst the poorest, it naturally
committed awful ravages amongst the needy frequenters of
the Mendicity Society at Moira House ; yet Mr. Haliday
never flinched or deserted his post, but was present at his
usual hours, and helped those seized to carriages to convey
them to the hospitals, while his family and friends were
filled with fear for him, and indeed for themselves.
The experience he acquired at this institution causol
'8vo, Dublin, pp. 127, Milliken, 1830.