TEMPERANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 22734, 16 May 1905, Page 1

TEMPERANCE.

(By Reformer.) THE NO-LTCENSE iQTJESTION ■ I Speaking at Nelson the othei 1 evening to a large audience Mm Harrison Lee, lectuiing on M)'i no-licence question, dwelt strongly on the fact that moderate drinking led to drunkenness, ai;id that no moderate drinker wjis really sure of himself. It w/as far better to stop people fr(im drinking at all than to build asylums for them after their lives have been ruined through drink Drunkenness could not be el iminated until moderate drinking ceased. There were three ways by which they could succeed in stopping drunkenness, viz., moral suasion, education, and legislation. By moral suasion it ffieant that they must try earnestly to convert everybody they crime in contact with to their way of thinking that no-licence was the best remedy for no-licence was the best remedy for the drink evil. Eaith in God, and love to man, must be their text, and they must be always awake and and on they, and never/ missing an opportunity of furthering their end, The people must be taught that their was iiomething higher and nobler in life than just to drift on in any way that seemed natural to them : . If they only looked at the mclney these so called moderates spent every year they would be astonisded at the sum thrown away. A 1 working man could not afford to drink. Instead of only keep- _ ing one family he was helping the distillers, brewers, and publicans and starving his own family. Much was said about the revenue the country would loose if public house were closed but if the matter was looked into it would be found that the liquor traffic took more out of the country than it gave back. In regard to voting for contir.uan simply because some tliougt that the might require a drop now and then for medical purposes. The lecturer said such an attitude was absurd. The chemists would keep alcohol along with their other poisons. It was a mistake to think alcohol was a sovereign remedy in time of sickness. In conclusion Mrs Lee urged that the women hero who had the great privilege (f voting, seeing all the harm the drink was doing, both to the individual and the nation, would when going to the poll, cast their votes in favor of no-license.