INTEMPERANCE

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 136, 2 May 1885, Page 4

INTEMPERANCE

Reader,— This^space is devoted to the publication of all sorts pf interesting information on.,,the ; afciove very important subject- The advertiser bespeakfer^bur SeriouScdrisiderition of the tacts and figures thus brought to your notice in every' Saturday's issue. «• The writer regrets, r ¥ery/mueh : -I,h» all-but-defunct, srtafie.: of? temperance organisations, in present time; none the less because.it is the usual iace.ofafl' 'sutfh whan they ceaW tb'be Sfrgiessivfc. Forgetting their ■ great /Wine'ss'-übf Jceepin g awake and • increasing ; public interest in th e[ w,ac against, . the; grim tyrant King _ Alcohol, v they (f "sfililfi down '" to a study of their/fiances, enjoyment, and extinction, ' " ' " x 'Satisfied with 1 being sAte {h&MUs they allow their< unfortunate '^Fellow creatures to!: ,drift : by them A irito ( /the maelstroir of drunkenneas ( an4 .destruction. .Still the,,wpr4t ef-ijuinjgo^s : If I needeJl ah r apolpgy tSt bripginj? 'this 5 'great cau's^ 1 tb 'your ü boifitc'^ 1 it Would 'b'e unnecessary %o traTfeifwther tbaniQurown^lQcal^ty.i vi-o-fira . Within .. the past s&yen or weight years I can easily. re'raemb,er.aeyeral iiwjmisi n<r .business mien, and many a hard-handed son ;6f ' tbiif^lio! fasteaji .f bein^ )ibw T ' -on^eir : 'tfrelr own 'vine i add fig kree/'havehadto reluctantly bidi us :good-b^e>;A)ejcanße ol their ■ partiality ; , to ! , .the .,be.er,. l aftd brandy, bottle.,, pther.s^^jw.hp^ haje remained with us* ,'aije ' *' from f , "tne same cause," just in" tb^i"B^nie / ,impi - cunious 'position they 10 were -'s'ev'e'n ag-Oj in spite v of regular pnaployspjehtand igobd iwages.Ti?rik)h Mi|t&^e men „could see ; the.gr^nfl:,total,th^r Uttle spr^eeihave co^t..them |li|rjn g g,all those years, made up ot ,^he earnfofis 'of tu'e'bes't j^artdf Mr^ivjes wb^h't they" be'surpnsed p'' l ftli kioj U.-ua | On ' ttfe etfciei'f'ha'nd, ;^here irtlie t emperAt© . and industnousi man in. -our Wldst,, who o feas no%Meft&nrsj A ®BkI,rpying h^s position Arou^ *$&&• mg any money to. spare. for beer ; — KeadeVV^ wllP'yi)ii :: nSf. He'l? S iMnff abdura'b^itel' sta^^of are interegred iri' 'this«bußii»essy«-irt-'they!. owtn- -<it. oriiibLirPeraons r flssir.o,us 10 help Jn^any c^a^iViAig»t ray address. ftm^^SWS^'flhr' '■': AbVERTIS£R.> ■J : ; ■ ■:•>■ . • ■ • ■■■■;*■ ■>•>■<• -Jtiil ni7O~.