TWENTY-TWO MAYOUR ON TOTAL ABSTINENCE.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 121, 28 March 1885, Page 3

TWENTY-TWO MAYOUR ON TOTAL ABSTINENCE.

' " ' (_DVEBtisE»n*NT.I ' : ''■' (Continued). Tb ihe'horror which the terrible event created, I asked myself, as did many others, "whether _ I hid dose all jn my p«Wer to discountenanqe tbe rice out of wbieh it arose; and I felt that! could not say that. \ had, while I withheld ray cooperation from those who from no neees •ity on their own aecoust, but for or ample* take, had join»d the ranks nf the teetotallers. I did so immediately ; and my expedience leaves me ac cause for regre*. save'tbht I did ncrt take the step forty or fifty yi»ate 'earlier.,' , The Mayor of «'litheroe(J. Sime, E»q. ) wrote:^- "There can be n« deuht the temperance movement is one. ef great im portasce. I(w» combine the Ban-1 of Heps with thetempefsnee movement, and add the closing pf public-hoases ob the £«nd*yi the* w* tnay . hope for a ferear ehsngs, aad an abundant blessing upon cor nation/ •..■-• :j* l - >■' ' '- ; - ' The Msydr of Denbigh (K. V. Jones, \ Esq.):—'' I bSt^e had forty' years" e_perieoee of total abstihienijefrom allintoii. eating drink*/ . -hd 1 haye 1 brought up a family whbi't km bajspy to :'ssy. 'practise , the same pi'inclples: Slty experience, has long ago convinced me of the jitter. use» letsnets (even ia^o^f ration)' of uitox*. cants." . : Z.ZZ : y k \,y.iZ> „. ■•/' The May9rr«fCrecpn.(rVia,^de W'Qton. Esq,) wrote j"r-"Af te? s6tjio;year»';«perif / ence I can hea?jt«timoavoto.theadva«v ta-peia mvoenertil health f^Mnabstmeuoe from hllai^Mlte drink*, the tt*eof which I gaV* up by the «d*iee'6f an emisent phyjiiciahi J iHtttt tor-tay that ftiy er o?ib •nee ifr'thWlwraa-^', whe& t'hSve three tin^Hi '••■i*#M'^£'aAce^;df 'tt*j[<i>r,_ is that iatempereQce is oa the increase, and that it is not confiq'eil'to rank,' sex,, or ag?; ,a|jd that nine. *^*es out of eyery Un which are brought befoi* *ur btechat Petty -Sessions miR-ti b* iftet4 '% !t he'r *rb{in to drtnVin^" .'.V;*;^ '\\.ZZZ''y.- .'< ■ The, lifsyor^gon^fMCt (John llhodf s, E«q.) wrote? — "Were - it not for intemperance ahd the%nme ; it fosters,' we vhbuld harfelittlo or afli ieedof raajistfates in ■: d :,-.. -(■•.'; / I 'i ,' ' ■ .■-'■ a•' ■■■i''l .- - • ■• our town, as hjiiete'sp os^.ef every twenty eases that come before, the beach are the offspring of intotapehHiee/' The Mayor df FslfeWh [f. C. Down, j in*:, Esq.) lifrtffc^'fti&^J&i.Wiig* with it te me «?a -increased fia^e of the importance of the. work A6t promoting total abstinence from- alcoholic drinks, and T Sin thank'! lit tVat' iii this lown'this _«o ye ment has, never atr any time, made grfater progress or shown aimore marked influence ia. decceaseef drunkenness, aad the many crimes arising frem it, tkhfe in ths p*Bt yea¥." ' Ay^.,'y\ . '