Temperance Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 81, 29 September 1894, Page 4

Temperance Items.

A petition has been presented to the King of Sweden, signeti by 208,827 people, asking for the absolute prohibition oi the liquor traffic in that country The Rechabite Order has secured another distinguished adherent in the oerson of Lady Henry Somerset, who has become an honorary member. In a speech at cer initiation she remarked that she was in Whitechapel a week or two ago on Saturday night, tine wished she could take some of the leading men of our land down into * the midst of that sceDe of misery, degradation, and sin, all springing from drink. No Government had a right to make arbitrary lnwg to enforce sobriety. But every good Government could make it easy to do right and difficult to do wrong, and it should be for the people themselves to decide whether they would hay« the drink traffic in iheir midst or not. The RTomiletic Review says : Of 26 of the leading- business firms and manufacturers in the United States — all rated by Dun's Mercantile Agency as possessing a capital of at least 750,000 dollars— interviewed by us, only one allowed the use of liquor in his establishment, and then only during* the dinner hour. Everyone reports that the business interests of the employer are jeopardised by the dram-shop association of the em* ploye, and that most cases of individual poverty among- the latter can be traced to the saloons. A majority believe that to the inability of the drinking* man to consume the products of labour may be traced, in greater or less degree, our recurring periodg of business depression ; while all but two unite in the assertion that • the abolition of the dram • shops would be the greatest blessing both to labouring men and their employers.' Drink the Hygienic Blended Teas— the Purest, the Cheapest, and the most Delicious Teas in the Market.— Henry Jolly, agent, Feilding.— Advt.