CIVILISATION AND ALCOHOL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2276, 9 November 1889, Page 2

CIVILISATION AND ALCOHOL.

Slowly, bat surely, olvlllaitlon li baoomlng alive to the crime of demoraiisIng " the Inferior raoos " by means of Intoxicating liquors. There Is to be aa International Aft low Oonferenoe la the •QtamD, and t bis -,lb to ba one of the ohlef questions considered at it. Perhaps the worst Instance on record of the deatrnotion of a. native raoe bj> means uf aloohol, Is thiit of the Sioux Indians, who little more than a generation ago numbered nearly threa handced thouaaad souls, and who now ooant about a .tenth of that l number. They were killed off by the drink demon, iv the truffij la which the United State* officials taeanelves — the very men entrusted with tha duty of pro- | tooting the Indiana — did not disdain to participate. As regards Afrloa, It li pleasant to think the English and German Parliaments have been taking, something like oommon aotion — thoogh not oonsalously concerted octloc. Qermaas and j&rglish would be better employ od In pteventiog the demoralisation of tne natives than m fighuog eaah other for the block man's inheritance. The German Roiohiteg a ahort tlma ago paseed the following resolution !— «» That the Relohstag resolve to request the Federal Government to again tnke Into consideration whether, and how the trade m splilte In tha Geroun colonies o*n be efl/otualiy opposed either by prohlbitkn or limitation." The reaeludon of the House of Oommoni on the asme subject was paßaed laet year. Lord Salisbury has just written a sympathetic) leitar on the suoj-'ot to the Duke of Westmlniater, who Is President of the Native Rices and Lquoc Trvffle dnlted OomtaUtoe.— ", Eoho."