Temperance Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 95, 31 January 1893, Page 4

Temperance Items

It was reported at a meeting of the Manchester Board <ot finafdian* in January last, that in 17 cases only had it been found necessary to give outdoor relief to able-bodied men, notwithstanding the continued severity of the weather. The chairman and Mr Pooley referred with satisfaction to the fact that not only pauperism but in- g temperance also was decreasing in Manchester. Mr Andrew said Mr * . Pooley struck the key-note when he told them of the decrease in drunken. ness : a decrease in the drinking habits j of the people was the cause of the decrease of pauperism. It was also : Btated that the mortality at the workhouse was less at the present time than for some years past, One of the Chicago city judges re- i marked that ". of all boys in the Reform School at Pontiac, Illinois, and in the Tarious reformatories in the city, 95 per cent, are the children of parents who died through drink, or became criminals through the same cause. To educate the young the executive committee of the Liverpool Diocesan Church of England Temperance Society has unanimously resolved to advertise for a certificated day-school master to gire in tb© Church olljtogiand day school* throughout the diocese of Liverpool simple scientific lectureß, illustrated by diagrams, showing the effects of intemperance on the human system. The lecturer will also act as the organising agent of the juvenile section of the society, in. connection with whichthere are 128 branches. Liverpool is the first diocese in which such an appointment has been decided upon. ' ' The West Ham (Essex) Town Council have come to a right and good decision affecting the liquor question. Some time back the council decided to let a liquor license lapse for the good of the town, though they were offered £1000 to "keep it alive." More re- . ently an alderman of the borough sue- j (•ceded in persuading the council to sell him h corner site for a gin balace for _ 1 000 . A great indignation meeting was promptly held, , and a deputation sent to the council, with the satisfactory result that the decision was rescinded, and the alderman does not get his corner publio house. That such a premium should be offered is a proof of the enormous profits drinker* provide the publicans.