A Canadian newspaper says Gradually the most advanced temperance (not Prohibition) advocates have come to regard the habitual drinker as a victim rather than a criminal. Drinking is a disease. Once in the grip of liquor,' some men are no more able to resist it than man can holdback when the death angel* beckons, Tetolalism is decreasing with inebriety, and for the same reason that" sober reflection fails to see why those who use liquor moderately and beneficially should abstain because there are some who cannot indulge without over-indulgence. • Dr Mix undoubtedly speaks common • sense when he says that mere jailing for drunkards is pitiably ineffectual. As a nmishment, it degrades reforming; as a corrective, $9 effort#, of the method are ail,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3597, 14 November 1905, Page 2
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122Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3597, 14 November 1905, Page 2
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