THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT AND THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 337, 7 March 1884, Page 2

THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT AND THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

TO THE EDITOB. : Sir,— l read ,wit^ great pleasure '- ! Teetotal'^ " letter, not only because of its matter, but its literary merit, aud I went to tl^e licensing meeting to-day expecting a i deputatiqn treaded fciy an oratoy of "no mean power to a4dre.ss the bench, and, so, also tq furnish an audience to Enable the. new chairman to give utterance to the lines to be followed \n the ensuing year. Judge of my Uisftppovitinoat yvhQu I f'jund. the audience to b« two lawyer"*, appaFciicly 6ti business beut. What a climax to the recent contest between lire and water. Of course where there was no audience there was no oratory, and X am left tq write my mqan to you questioning ev'jQn |^ you will sympathise so fap as to insert it. 'I haye, 4 ho\yev6r, hppe in ' another way. t was acco3i ed by' a person' some- j What Jn liquQi 1 the other day, when I thought I saw a teetotaller come oijt of an Jjotel. { Strange place to come from ! Did he move off! in double quick time ? No, not be ; on the contrary he hovered across the street and then forgathered with the victim, took him home, waited with him till he was sober, and there admonished, comforted, and encouraged him— so I heard after. 1 hava begun to think that he took U)§ figb> «GV>7S3— platform platitudes and newspaper writing have not the merit ; of -this 'pri'vate enterprise, ; though it has less glory.— i 'am, &0., Outee. Waterside, 6th March, 1884.