Temperance Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 264, 11 May 1895, Page 3

Temperance Items.

A British Parliamentary return show that during last year the renewals of up wards of 340 licenses were refused b; the authorities. On her arrival in New York, Mis Willard had a truly ' royal ' reception, : large number of societies uniting in th< welcome. Miss Willard says: 'I once askec Thomas A. Edison if he were a total ab stainer, and when he told me be was, ] said : ' May I enquire whether it wai home influence that made you so ? and he replied : ' No. I think it was be cause I always felt' that I bad better use of my head. ' " Recently a London morning paper, speaking of the winner of the Queen's Prize, declared that a teetotal Scotsman ■was an unheard of monstrosity. And yet the Scotch Good Templar Order reports an adult membership of upwards of 38,000, with 30,700 juveniles. It is said, indeed, that Temperance is making more headway in Scotland than in England. Addressing a meeting lately at St. Leouard's, in England, D. Walker stated tbat a medical man stood in a most rc—diculous position in supporting a Terumovement. Intoxicating drink was so extensive a cause of disease, lhat a large part of a doctor's practice was due to indulgence in it. But on the other hand, at a gathering of the British Medical Association at Bristol, Dr Long Pox said that medical men miffht be great lemperance reformers-, and they should be abstainers if they liad the true interests of their patients at heart. The English Anti-Tobacco Society and Anti-Narcotic League continues its crusade against the ' weerl ' with unabated vieour, amidst many discouragements. The twenty-sixth report congratulates the members upon the steadily growiDg public opinion on boy-smoking. The means of th:s propaganda arc speech and Press, although a Bill his recently been drafted and presented to Parliament, prohibiting the sale of tobacco to, or its use by. any pers">n under 16 years »f ngo.