Temperance Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 101, 14 February 1893, Page 4

Temperance Items

Baron Leibig says that " brandy, in its action on the nerves, is like a bill of exchange drawt on the strength of the laborer, which for lack of cash to pay it, must be constantly renewed. The workman consumes his principal instead of interest — hence the inevitable bankruptcy of the body." Baron Dowse lately said, when trying a man for murder done under the influence of drink, that he could measure the sorrow and wretchedness of every neighbourhood by the number of its public houses. Referring to the habit of some men of spending out of their wages weekly of perhaps 25s some 10s or 15s in drink, the late Mr Spurgeon designated such as " brute beasts." He would not like to say a hard word, and therefore he would retract that expression — when he found a better. — (Laughter.) A man who robbed his wife and family was a " double-dis-tilled thief"— (hear, hear,) — and ought to be put in a different prison to ordinary thieves lest he should deteriorate their morals.