TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2047, 15 September 1880, Page 3

TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

TEded by C. M. Q.l WELSH StfDAY CLOSING BILL. Think of tfc Wales Sunday Closing Bill being carried (rough a second reading without a division,The bards of the principality ought to celebto the great event in a series of lyrics whieshould be as immortal as the language, anc'of that immortality no true Welshman caientertain a doubt. The House of Commons cknowlodgos the strength of the Sunday osing movement in Wales, and the ancient Htona, in the person of their descendants, dumph in a Parliament composed mostlyof men of Saxon, Danish, and Norman bloo I, a Saxon, am proud of the cynic.—S. inae “Alliance News.”

ANALYSISIF VOTES AND PAIRS ON THE LOLL OPTION RESOLUTION.

GETTING- ALAEMED. The Lndon correspondent of the “ Western Morning News ” remarks that “ the publicans are evidently getting terrified by the prospect which is n store for them in regard to Sunday closing. They have placarded London all over wih large colored bills, signed ‘An Englishnan,’ declaring that Sunday closing will be ai infringement cf the liberties of the liberties f the people, and they are sending men wih sandwiches about the town with the samopieca of information on their backs and froits. The fact is that the licensed victualles’ trade is now aroused to the danger in whia it stands. There is little or no doubt tht in a very short time they will have to look public opinion directly in the face. People ffe tired of a monopoly which only succeeds in making a few persons rich, and in pauprising the rest of the nation ; and the enei*etio efforts which the publicans are making ihow that they themselves are already quite alve to the fact.”

ONimsiBNTBD Wink in Ohbistchuhch. — It may be of some interest to total abstainers, and the public generally, to be informed that Frank Wright’s unfermented wine, which is in use in upwards of 2000 places of worship in the United Kingdom, is used at Communion service in St. John’s Church, Latimer square, and St. Saviour’s, Sydenham. The officiating clergymen at both these places of worship are total abstainers, and active members ot the Church of England Temperance Society, recently formed in this city.

A Dbbaey Pbospeot. —Some of the lovers of drink and defenders of the traffic have drawn doleful pictures of the dreary desolations that will probably result from the exercise of the ratepayers’ veto. Large and populous districts quite deserted, not a drinkshop oasis to relievo the weary monotony of groceries, and butcheries, and pastrycooks, and confectioneries ! Coffee-shops and coeoabouses, eatables and wearables in dreadful abundance and variety, but alas ! alas! no place where a poor famishing drinker can wet his whistle or slake his thirst. The poor man’s beer, the rich man’s wine, the old dome’s gin, the veteran sot’s fiery potion, neat, punch and toddy, brandy and rum, Scotch whiskey and Irish, all gone! A famine of strong drink, and hosts of poor, weak nurslings, who cannot exist without that elixir of life, left by a set of cruel ratepayers to perish! What Britons will ever stand that P What will life be worth, what will tho old country be good for, when all the drunkeries are gone ?—“ Alliance News.”

Shall we Pay Compensation P— And when the day shall come that shall see their drinkabops closed by scores and by hundreds, are these the men who will deserve compensation P—men who will not take warning, who will not observe “the signs of the times,” who will not prepare for the inevitable, the forthcoming budget of the ratepayers’ veto ? Are we to think of compensating men who are determined to cling with the tenacity of the death-grip to gold filched from the horny bands of the sons of toil, from the tiny fingers of sickly children clad in rags, from the brutalised mother who has left her own offspring huddled together on a bed of straw and clamoring for biead, from the befouled paws of the victims of debauch, from the fast young men whose grey-haired father has gone broken-hearted to his grave ? Compensation to men who are daily helping to desolate ton thousand English homes, and to ruin the health a"d waste the substance and beggar the families of uncounted myriads ? What a monstrous absurdity! What a barefaced audacity to name compensation here ? Just fancy you see this noble host of British benefactors, with the ex-M.P. champion at their head, stating their claims before a Parliamentary Committee, and pleading compensation. John Bull is a wonderfully patient taxpayer, much as he may grumble when he hands out the cash; but try him with a tax for liquor traffickers’ compensation, and we need not describe what he will do then.—" Alliance News.”

The Peopbs Kind of Compensation.—A wife’s loss by her husband's intemperance has come hetore the lowa Courts for compensation. The “ New York Witness ” reports that a business man in Jones County. lowa, U. 8., possessed of considerable property, and engaged in a business producing £3OO per year, fell under the power of intoxicating liquor, and became a confirmed drunkard. He lost his property and his business was ruined. His wife thereupon commenced a suit, under the Civil Damage Act, against every liquor seller in the city. There were eight of them, and seven paid a sum of money as a compromise. The eighth dealer was condemned by the jury to pay ten thousand dollars (£2000) to reimburse the money the husband had squandered, and two thousand more by way of punishment. The dealer appealed, but the judge confirmed the decision.

John Wesley on Bbandy and Wateb. —The Kev. John Wesley was once being entertained by a gentleman, who after dinner proposed a little brandy and water. Oa perceiving this Mr Wesley, with an air of surprise, cried, “My brother, what’s that ?” “It’s brandy,” was the reply; “my digestion is so bad that I am obliged to take a little after dinner. “How much do you take?” inquired Mr Wesley. “ Only about a tablespoonful.” “ Truly,” was the reply, “ that is not much, but one table-spoonful will soon lose its effect; then you will take two ; from two you will get to a full glass ; and that in like manner, by your becoming used to it, will lose its effect, and then you will take three glasses, and so on, till you may become a drunkard. Oh, my brother, take care what you do with it! ” Sib Wilfrid’s Victory. —For years and years Sir Wilfrid has, each session, introduced cither his Permissive Bill or the resolutions embodying the same principle, and never before succeeded in obtaining even a numerically respectable minority it its favor. It was only on the sth of March last, during the last days of the late Parliament, the House divided on the same resolutions, and then they were defeated by 134 to 248. The recent election, however, was a most disastrous one to “ The Falling Cause,” and the increase of 169 votes in three months indicates " the handwriting on the wall” eo significantly that the knees of the Belshazzer publicans may well tremble. This grand victory is the splendid result of years of earnest agitation and hard work on behalf of the temperance people in Great Britain. In England reforms of all kinds move slowly, but none the less surely on that account. The “ beginning of the end” begins to dawn on the mightiest and most iniquitous “ Trade” with which England is cursed. Thank God for such a victory ! - “Canada Casket.”

For. Against, English iberals .. 142 37 English 'onaorvativea 1 155 Welsh Iberals 23 1 Welsh Cnservatives 0 1 Irish Lferals ... 8 1 Irish Ooservativea .. 10 7 Irish Hmo Rulers .. 10 12 Scotch iberals .. 42 1 Scotch lonservatives 1 4 Tots votes and pairs 245 229 6UND.Y CLOSING- RESOLUTION. Votes and Faxes. For. Against. Libeils 154 33 Consrvatives 12 99 Ham Rulers 10 8 176 140 Eoglih members ... 125 125 Seota „ 28 2 Irish „ 23 13 176 140