TEMPERANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42750, 20 July 1905, Page 1

TEMPERANCE.

By Reformer.) DRINK EXPENDITURE ;| Now, when money is spent on intoxicating drink, it is not re-1 produced. No real benefit isj returned to the purchaser *; thd money yields no benefit. It id true that these!? feotkis may] under medical prescription in times of ill-health, be of servica and then money spehton thetn money spent on theitf) of. coursq reproduces But : thj cold facts of science now shoJ beyond contradioation that in state of health the human bod J is injured rather than helpedbj the use of alcohol. So ordinary drink expenditure is wasteful! It is idle to talk of the pledsur 1 drink gives aS represeritnig'’ thJ value of the money expended! for this is caused at the cost ol injury to both mind and body! and cannot, therefore be jus til fied. I When the money has passe J into the Publican’s hands, hi may spend some of it usefulll in buying food, clothing, -etc! but what he does is a new transaction. The truth remain!

that is the first turnover of th the, money in buying drink in value was not reproduced. Th money will, of course, pass iron kumi to had in trade circulatio and as often as it is spent reprq ductively will be beneficial u the country. But it cannot b| said that its expenditure ol drink was other that wasteful

POINTS PROM MEDICA: AUTHORITIES t

Sir Frederick Treves, th King’s surgeon, speaking of s ei ious operations, says the morfca ity of these operations amon alcoholics is, it is needless q say, enormous. Many indiv duals who say they “do nd drink,” and who, although pel haps never drunk, are yet alwav taking a little stimulant of { nipl and an occasional glass, are oftd as bad subjects for surgical treal iiieut as the acknowle&gl uruuKarub. I Sir Thomas Barlow says: “I you have any cases of alcohol! disease among your own friend! I beseech you to get doctors ail nurses who are teetotaller Don’t let them fall into tl hands of those who order stinr lants for them.” 1