Temperance Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 99, 9 February 1893, Page 4

Temperance Items

Mrs Leavitt has formed 134 temperance and purity societies in Europe, Asia, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, aud New Zealand. She has crossed I the equator eight times, and travelled 100,000 miles in making her interesting journey round the world, in the interest of the World's Woman's | Christian Temperance Union, founded | by Miss Willard, of America, nine years ago. The American Poslmaster-General, Mr John Wanamaker, addressing his ' Bible class, said : — "The drunkard who votes for Prohibition is a freer man than the total abstainer who carries water on both shoulders and then votes for liquor, or to put it in the harness of liiyh license, It is simply a question of whether or not we are in favor of the saloon. It isn't a question of high license. The quibble that Prohibition does not prohibit has nothing to do with it. The law against stealing does notjprevent stealing. The same power that puts the amendment on our Constitution will attend to tho enforcement of the law. It is our duty to make it as difficult to get liquor as to get poison." John Burns, the Socialist leader, has, says the Methodist Times, refused an offer of £20 for his famous straw hat from a publican, aud he says he would have refused a million pounds, because he knew that it was only wanted to eutice his friends into the public house, aud so iucrease the demoralising trade. Dr Dawson Burns says that since the foundation of the Temperance Hospital the amount of alcohol used in the other London hospitals has been reduced by one-half. i In Cape Colony in February of last year a white man had the alternative of paying a fine of £7 10s or going to gaol for three months for only giving away liquor in a neighbouring "kraal.