Temperance Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 63, 8 September 1894, Page 4

Temperance Items.

A dispute over the maintenance of a child at Belper, England, revealed . the fact that the little one was originally sold by its .father in a public- j house for a pint of beer. The Nottingham Town Council have decided that intoxicating drink ought not to be sold in public parks, ana have accordingly withdrawn tho license from the Arboretum refreshment rooms. Three ladies have been returned as Guardians for West Ham. They are all teetotallers and pledged to a reduction of the local Union drink bill, which has hitherto amounted to £1000 a year. Seedy party, to publican : " V our refusal, sir, to trust me a paltry drink of whisky fills me with astonishment and indignation ! " Publican : "'All right, sir. You can fill yourself with astonishment and indignation, and it won't cost you a brass farthing, but if you want to fill yourself with whisky, you will have to pay cash." " The prosperity ofthe liquor trade is the adversity of all others. A •million and a half invested in the iron trade employs 3000 meu ; the same sum invested in the drink trade employs only 150. The transfer of the capital now in this business to other trades would give work to all the unemployed in the country." Lord Chief Justice Coleridge declares that judges are " weary with calling attention to drink as tbe principle cause of crime," and announces that he " can keep no terms with a vice that fills our gaols, destroys the comfort of homes and the peace of families, and debases and brutahses the people of these islands."