TEMPERANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42766, 17 August 1905, Page 1

TEMPERANCE.

Br Refjrhsr,) OF|LIGBNSE AND REGULATION IN ? our*, colony ' FOR,THE YEAR 1903. '-•What are wp going to do M about this? It isCa report whoso- horror grdjws ?upon one. JFigirfesXre but we temefUbeP' that these 8,000 odd represents the partial or complete degradation of a htimah r being. Ihiagihh a town a A B.;oott-adults, andSgfyery soul of them drunk ih one night! What bestiality, what loathsome obscenity would fquOSppcf to fine! in streets and that town whose 8,000 adplts were’drunlc ? What dan - gers Of fire wouldj be incurred; ing children would drunken ders and ‘ mitted ! , And yet all this happened, ' but spread, pnt nver New Zealand, and over -a twelve month. es that thisAsr.even Tone*tenth of the actual Zealand- 1 all should have required, five timesaß many police in our cities; RL If • the 7 police had M been done tKeir had a tale of i of more than one hunfifed thonsS .. j i " ■ --.*J ? -,~-Z ■ i.tt

• This steady,. ceaseless production Of drunkards 'ph; day by dayr y that appalls one. ; Absolutely nothing worthy of note-Ms been done to reclaim the drink victims. For eyeryonp,^;thaf 1 saved, the trade has produced a dozen fresh victims. It is becoming clearer every day that as a rule a drunkard cannot be reclaimed. Even the magistrates and the police have ceased to profess their faith in prohibition orders as an effective -remedy. And day by day this steady production of drukards goes on; and night hynight they stagger, foul and degraded, tOv; their homes, to inflict upon . innocent wives, inoihei®, apd ehildfen the avrful cruelties, shame, and heartaches ' of drunkard’s home.- ---- •. are: we going to do about it ? What can we do about it ?; The trade is evidently not going to;! reform itself; neither is it; goiog to bow to public imliguitiou ami abate its crimes; = i; WE MUST STAMP, IT OUT OF EXISTENCE!