The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1886. THE EVILS OF INTEMPERANCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1670, 29 March 1886, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1886. THE EVILS OF INTEMPERANCE.

: Cardinal Moran made' use 'of the f ol^lowing eloquent language when-addres-sing an audience m Auckland recently' ,ou the subject ot temperance :— The, path pf the drunkard waa o^e of material,, domestic, and social ruin. . In New South Wales, he was thankful to say, they had hot as yet poor-houses, ,-bat they had' benevolent institutions. Poverty 'was n'btf a crime, but iratherr >a- virtue,- since the blessed^ Saviour had chosen that lot ; but pauperism was a crime. By "pauper " he meant men who had squandered the means of support given them by Providence. Inquiry into these institutions showed that they were mostly supplied with inmates from drunkards'. In fact, statistics proved that drink accounted^ for 9Q per. cent, ot the case?, .and 75 per, cent J of all the crimes of Great Britain, Ireland, United State*, and Canada, was caused by drunkenness:; Of 28 convicts, .?sentenc r e(H to ideath m Enjfland| for hsinqus'crijiiesi a chaplain |rhojha^ acIhem' to Vne scaffold^wd dia covered the alarming fact that 27 of •them- had been cursed with drunken mothers. So terrible were the effects of drink that it stamped the children of r drunkards with the effects of their vice. I Drunkenness also ruined the man's r«- --' ligion by deadening him to his ancient faith* and rearing: his children m ignorance, and too often infidelity, St. Augustine, over 1,400 years ago, warned his church against the danger of drunkenness ruining Carthage. His prophesy was fulfilled shortly 'after his death by the swords of the Visigoths. He would hold before them the virtue and beauty that temperance gave the Christian soul. St. Jerome said that temperance was,- a mint of gold to the soul. Temperance was a rich mine from wnioh they might, draw every other feature to beautify the soul. It lent, a special fragrance and beauty to the 80hl?'J. giving strength j and discjlplining them to takfe. up the ; cross and retain it until they^laid it' downat tbefeet of their blfesaedvLord.; They all neej^^B;d : iidnlmiiict. of thej virtue .tff <> %mp < &r8^ r ce : ''*ih^ < tEeße great; Australian colonies, not. because they' were essentially drunkards, but because! they^were 'addicted ,tp. self rindulgeYtee m j dreiV, eatdng^drihl^ and aniusemiinls. •