TEMPERANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42772, 31 August 1905, Page 1

TEMPERANCE.

Byk Kefobhes.) OUR DRINK BILL. Three millidfis io worse than wasted! As millions sterling; and laugh at it, hut we canhbfcdffbM tßetloss of character, the Regeneration of men, the^miseicife^of'women and childthb '- corruption of youth, the disease, follies, and crime which this expenditure has pro- ( duced. Medical science, life insurance Btatisticsjnodern commerbe;- and military ;med*of the; jfirst tank, mustbeapalKng to “The trade,’ that the modern drinker, he he ever so moderate, is less of a man than the totalabstainer. His length of Mfe iVless, he is less easy to heaL,, i£ hurfc.or diseased, lie seypre?bl§Protracted effort, he and ' self-pbssefesed 4 in Rmetgeßi V cies, he is less dependable than the total abstainer. 1 This consensus of verdicts 'from many quarters" is th| “ the traded T IntoxicanKr:are to be relegated to the • sphbfcyfrf f . other poisons. -.v, If slow, they are too sure- finally in their disastrous effect tolerated in open sale." • 08 And last year we had over three mOßon^Tot^^-. this stuff poured down men’s throats—three 1 millions spent in huulhtf defebrbfcidh P* - M77 _ .. ... i- ”> -.v It was. as! much , a waste, as if it had beeh a vast hole on the sea-shore which a very few tides woißcfMr up® It money got; into circidatioh;' tainly, loss. A " , ■ ’ . It was more than a waste! We have had to spend hundreds of : thousands of pounds repairing the damage done to human beings and;'property asia result of drink. In gaols and asylums and hospitals, in police ibrce, in magistrates and courts of law;, in pensions and charitable; and benevolent aid, money was spent that; would; hot need to be spent were it not that‘ drinking men ahddirhnken^ihenfillupa con-, siderable 1 part r of'the "room and time'ahd attention of these public itfstitutions Tecahse of their drinking habits. - What; then, is to be done ? Two things, certainly . We must educate our boys and girls: in the : effects of'alcohol 1 ■ If they then take t6;dmikj ? pr countenance it ipf 1 it will be with full knowledge'- of the insidious detelrimatibh 4 th&f will result in the dnnker. The other thing is that we must stqipF supply of intoxicants as a beverage.