Temperance Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 71, 3 December 1892, Page 4

Temperance Items

In a sermon preached for she Anerley Temperance Society, Mr W. 8. Came observed that he went over a brewery the other day where the value of the. stuff made amounted to £1,000,000, and they employed 660 men. In the iron ore works fn which he was interested the turn over each year was only £260,000, but they employed 1200 men iv preparing the raw material The results of spend-

ing so much money upon dnnk were social misery, bad houses, rickety children, pauperism, murder, disease, death. Drink gave us full prisons and empty churches. He wished to see a party in the State formed to take up this question/ and get ii settled. If every Christian who comes to the Lord's table would unite with them in this effort they could form a Government in five years, A mouse who had been caught in a trap appealed to the owner of the house to spare hwlife, adding: "roaily it can make no difference to you whether there is one mouse more or less in this great world." "While that is good sophistry," replied the man, "it is blso a dangerous argument. It is one vice, added to another that makes a man a dangerous ennv inal."— Moral : I'he " onemore" drink has made a hundred thousand drunkards. One ot the Melbourne daily papers lately published a striking article showing the proportion liquor trade bears to. every, other known industry. TJiereire two sin Melbourne toev.ery toaper ; three to every baker,;' iour to every printer j five to every blacksmith; six to c.very bookseller j 10 to i.cv.cry school; 20 to every producedeaierj 21 to every coffee palace or temperance boarding house; 24 to every miller; 45 to every bank; and 42&J to every circulating library.