TEMPERANCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42787, 5 October 1905, Page 1

TEMPERANCE.

(Bt- ®BFowam^-~!%'rfesf| ; &YAL NA%g§ |v . : ITS EISE ~ . 71 .:'■ V.'; V; /4I „. t. '♦ • ' ' of weakness, is surely anj^&guThe philanthropic, chivalrous lover iof to those, ?but for hir *friendly *aid; woji|4 go under id j il£ certainly* no sign of jWCak--jiaMdbdness. We may cs£tlif| man, may %ets his faee against any ;Ousiojn f na> fanajtic, butiw&ido mot consider Mr | weakjobecause xfjhe< j pulls against the stream instead of with it. When strong dijink ia clearly seen tobe a luxury, and a dangerous;’ ihxury, no necessitypf^life—when the bear* ings of the question,- nationally and politically, as are looked into, ance, if npt. fpyftonete owmsake, at any rate dor that of i others, is felt, of inaking- n elear decided stand,— all ranks ot life will front against <mtght; nu&wiuehawjthat. the luxury; than in; old custom, breach 'than in tbe»'obsemnqe) 5 - This short Naval; Temperance,Society’s, work, t watddK hotp bbif’oopaplbifce without the flic Naval " Periodicals, arc counteiby huirdrOdfei;; t|iere| fore, in issuing, the* first number; of the Nayal it is the editor’s dutyjto submit to a little catechising. What good will it do ? Why launch another ship on the troubled, waters of newspaper life ? Id answer, wpwoulttsay, necessity of having some regular medium of communication, some bond of union, between the head- centre ” and-the- large! body Of scattered ;in»mbers conuected with the Temperance Society, a has Mg been felt. 11 Our Paper has a-greaWant, and :been /received vwith kOpem arms and general acclamations Yearly subscriptions of. eighteen i penny stampshave comein and plentifully, and have said, “--It- is just what wfl iwanted.” thtepubiieation will indeed-fulfil its mission; wy it be liiik ” f #eU fitted in, atth&right time and its the right way,.androids .great and good. worlc for ,tHe Society in and.out of the -Service 1 will for the future •be,.ah&s> write reproachfully, and say, “'I have heard k nothing*about what has i-been .igoing on foi months. The Naval Temperance Npws'J is.: to; bo every monthlto all “the sSip| committees jifot isale^jand;‘free circulation.-