Temperance Item.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 110, 3 November 1894, Page 4

Temperance Item.

be doctors settle jLuvgrr own quarrel,' c mk wwwjtfsspfe JfefrSy i 1 Weft SifttrtortP jSff Kfc I 1 fteo three aocjfir^c^MjflJi WfrdfflWb • and said wv n ibn' wbulA die it be dl^^rS^^?fe. if W™»K been 'yareirX . ccP 'luyy "Q)»it mmd that people believe vflr^t4lrey "wish to believe. It i.s the 6M" story— the wish becomes ' the fattier d' the thought;' th&^&oii^ti^wuicli now and again brings forth the old falsehood, we must drink or die, when all the while men are djing because they drink. Who amongst us does not know that there is a covering up nnd keeping ' back of the truth to a shameful extent when men die from drink. That one fact alone upsets the theory of ihe value of our national records of mortality more than many sincere aud honest men are aware of. Men may die of cholera, of smallpox, ot typhoid fever, and n hundred other diseases, and the fact is not shirked, but when they die of drink, or because of drink, it is never recorded if, by any excuse or twisting of (acts, some other reason can be given — but does that niter the facts ? When drink is at the bottom of it then it is the moral character is touched, and wo say it was heart disease, or syncope, or brain fever, or apoplexy, or the man missed his way in going from the refreshment bar and laid down on the sands, and the tide came up during the night and ho was drowned. Nobody gets drunk ; it's the ' air that effect:? them,' and the tide will come in sometimes rather inconveniently. What is worse men df sense and science are tn'injr to make ?ut it need not be so, but it is so and the facts are • chiels that winna ding.'"