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Title: The Story of a Dark Plot
or Tyranny on the Frontier

Author: A.L.O. C. and W.W. Smith

Commentator: J.H.F. Sutton

Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21285]

Language: English

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THE
STORY OF A DARK PLOT;

OR,

TYRANNY ON THE FRONTIER.

By A. L. O. C.

BOSTON:
THE WARREN PRESS,
160 WARREN STREET,
1903.

Entered according to Act of Parliament, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-eight, by W. W. SMITH in the Office of the Minister
of Agriculture and Statistics at Ottawa.

[Illustration: W. W. Smith, Sutton, P. Q.]

PREFACE.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon
line, line upon line; here a little and there a little.--(Isa. xxviii.
10.)

This is a divinely appointed rule to which we will do well if we take
heed, as it will save from many disappointments and discouragements.

The writer of "The Story of a Dark Plot" has no hope by this work of
revolutionizing society or even working any very marked reforms. Books
and essays on temperance topics are numerous, and this is but one
among many. However, it is hoped that this may prove one of the lines
and precepts that are of some service to the cause. There is always
need for those who are on the right side of any important question to
unfurl their banners and show their colors bravely, but just now, in
connection with the temperance movement in our Dominion, there is a
very special call for action presented by the Plebiscite.

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