HOW TO ADVANCE OUR CAUSE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43103, 11 June 1907, Page 1

HOW TO ADVANCE OUR CAUSE.

By Rev. T. H. Hunt. Author of “ The Christian Citizen and Temperance Reform,”

etc., etc. . - : ;A1 Temperance reformers may | ' congratulate themselves at least upon this; that the facts for. 4 which they have contended' are now well confirmed, and their 4 principles are proved to be sound What is necessary atj;|| this juncture is to spreads-know; ledge of both facts and principies, so as to secure an applied .■ tion of them by . individual, citizens and responsible . legisla'r tors. How to spread that know- . ledge is the question. Physiologists are pretty generally agreed that alcohol. is not onlv unnecessary to health, but injurious to it. Phychologisls at.'eert that alcohol is injurious to the mind, and that users oX - alcohod neither think so quickly nor so .accurately as those wlio .4 abstain. Facts are abundantly ; ! proving that the use of intoxi-’ A | eating liquor undermines the Q ! constitution and .shortens life, 4 not only when taken to excess, but when used in moderation.: These facts are valuable, and all 1 the more so because their attesr' .4 f’nrs are scientific experts of the ? first rank. ' . - - ■ . v i • .* ' ■ r - -.v

1 be Continued.')