Temperance Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 18, 21 July 1894, Page 4

Temperance Items.

In tbe United StatPs, according to the present laws on the subject, there are no less than J 3 000.000 school children tau?ht, a* part of their regular school education, God's lnw of aK. stinence from alcoholic drinks an l injurious narcotics, top-ether with other laws of health. When the remaining six States are won over to this system of temperance education, thft whole [Jnited States and territories will be under compulsory temperance teaching. And who can predict the grand effect of this teaching on the 65.000.000 inhabitants ari'i the 18.000,000 school children of America? I notice that in Fnerland. Lord Tempi etown, in a letter to t J ie Times newspaper, has been urginar the systematic teaching 1 of temper ance in all aided schools. And what about New Zealand ? Archdeacon Farrar begins in The British Workman a series of pap j r~ on '• Drink and^ the Workincr Man " ' Working men have hefore them the example ot great tribunes of the pe<-ple, like Richard Cobden and John Bright, who were abstainers when it was far more difficult to be p«» than v is now : and of livi- g lpadprs whom they tmst, whose nbiliti<>^ and finprjry have raised them to a hg-h position, suchasJ<hn Hums. Ren iliet <nrl others of their foremost re,">re-ent:>-tives, who are, I believe, ardent r<>t:l abstainers." rouchit'jr »h° li«»» f indulgence, the Archdpncon jmii.t- o<it that there are 00,000 prisoners in England who. so far fr<>m rfuff'rin^ from total abstinence, improve in health during their iDcaraceration According: to Mr Hor-lov tin* daily average ir. locnl nH-utis »i lft?7 wnsover 20 000: in "IBD3 ■' wa only 13.821. In IB7K rh 'nc;. 1 »•. ' en vict prison-* curain^ ' -17 ?'»! i.n< ne«; in 1893 th^v en \:\\ il v I 1765.'}. Much of th im--mvi>m ■•■> is attributed by H«>r<l<-v tn ih»-chiid-SHvinji by Church tin ■ ""tsite '* Mr Hor-Wey says : — " The csins--. nf crime are many, but ab>>v^ :ill 'lie cau ; e was intenip'Tanc. ('rim* ' ■•= condensed drunkenn<'<* 'is n em|i'ied and filled ace r<iin.r ro tlin Huctti;<ti'>ns of the ' beer >rret»r.' 'p vivhls of traie at once i Hated th«> Excise returns and the Ju'Mcal *f •'iati'S It was quite a moderate estimate that ascribed half our crim and its expense <Ur*ctly, and thp rest indirectly, to drink " Ihe lessons, to lay hold of tlj children, an-l do aU that is pus*ihle ■> th m and aso to cripple ami destroy the drink traffic, ar lelt-evident to auy one.