Temperance Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 69, 29 November 1892, Page 4

Temperance Items

The Hospital; referring to the Penny-a-week Hospital Fund movement which*, has been inaugurated, j says/. u T£e tighi of "ettong-. h&u, in : fidl work, drinking I>eer ' 'and' smoking tobacco when 'well, and then flying to the hospital a* the first sign of illness for the aid of charity, is, if we would but think of it, both 7 a scandalous and a dangerous sign of ftetiraea" -.? Yon cannot make men moral by Act of Parliament. Such ia a commoD , enunciation of principle, which, like many others of the saibe kind, is nn one sense a truism, and in every other sense a iallacy. It is true that neither wealth nor health,: nor knowledge, nor, morality,, can m is also true that the acquisition of one and all or these can be impeded and prevented by bad ? laws, as well j as aided and encouraged by wise and appropriate legislation." far Williah Jlarcourty whose address closed th|B debate on the late Government's compensation scheme} on behalf of the Liberal party, wound up bis : address thus-:— "When you have carried the second reading you will not hays »4? ance fl ™J ■*« upon your roatf* Tort are 1 only at m commencement tif thia istrrigglei and, depend oh Vt,- we : meatt to fight out tb the endi Threonsequences are too tremendonsi the; atoke if liwnens^ tpj>ef wttteji§r *j»*s division. We^haifoifer to. tjiis f hjl^, at every stagej^f-il^-moitperliistenjt and determined resistance. '. We |aije resolted that the country jhallf have time to understand the: whole questipn/' were with- - drawn. <> '■;-': ' --■■ ■■■■'■ ■'■■■■•■; ' . ■