IN REPLY TO "S."

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 73, 20 September 1894, Page 2

IN REPLY TO " S."

TO THE EDITOR OP THE STAR. Bib, —Your correspondent, " 8 " pays the "Temperance Bodies" • great compliment by saying-"their efforts just now are almost solely devoted to getting Prohibition." Too long have their efforts been devoted to attain the impossible,' namely, to regulate " the traffic" Jh intoxicating diiak. After, three , hundred years vainly spent in attempting regulation, like sensible people, they have given it up for a bad job. "They now conclude it would be as easy to regulate a prairie fire, a volcano, or a tornado as the liquor traffic, 'and 1 so earnest ' reformer will attempt such a thing again. "S" says, we already have Prohibition, and will not use it- f This is a serious charge. - Let us«ee if it is true; Doubtless he "alludes to' the -■" Prohibition Order " system, -" Surely "8" is not ignorant of the great difficulty in procuring^ a, conviction against the offending drunkard or . publican, and, even when .the order is obtained, of its utter futility, seeing the many ways open to evade it " S " goes out of his way' to say that an order is not wanted for "Mr Editor or himself '* but,' seeing the insidious way the appetite"for strong drink grows on men, .the wise .man. is he who takes.it out. against himself before it is wanted. Many thanks to "S" for explaining the process for , obtaining the v Order," and for the assurance of its beneficial effect.' Ton will kindly give him 'my address as of one willing to do what he can in any case brought to his notice. lf Now, as to his charge against the Temperance Bodies of the town. What are they doing ? In reply, there are 100 copies of the " Prohibitionist" circulated in the town. There is an average of two Temperance meetings held monthly which are fairly well attended, especially the. Band of Hope, carried on under the auspices of the W.C.T.U., having nearly 200 names on the register; which body sees to the circulation of the paper mentioned. The ladies ' have visited habitual drinkers^ with a view to reformation. Indeed I- am sorry to say that the Temperance work in the town is to a large degree left to the ladies, and that many well-known Temperance men, whose convictions are right, are remarkable by their absence from the meetings. Is thif right? I am, etc., ?f\