ORDER IN THE GALLERY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 109, 5 June 1909, Page 4

ORDER IN THE GALLERY.

A noted superintendent of the Sons of ■ Tempcrauve was talking at an hotel ! about temperance orators. j "The temperance orator of to-day," i he said, "is always sure of a respectful hearing. In the past it was not so. At the beginning uf the temperance move ment drinking men came to our meetings for no other purpose than to interrupt and confuse. The orator had to be very careful in his remarks. He bad to look out lest he gave his hearers an opening for some opportune but ribald interruption. 1 remember 'when they began temperance <work here. A si'ries of meetings was held in a large hall. The audiences were always numerous, but thev interrupted horribly. In Q )( > ~m i an ( ; x .. lir j ze . fighter w,i H hired to sit everv night in , the übstreperouH gallery and keep order ; there, 1

"Well, one night the orator contrasted the K-lean content of home life -.vju, the «|unloi' < ( f drtsiikornios*. lie s poko Sittiutitvillv, ami at Jiis flimiix lu> cruul, in ringi'tiff, iuij)iis<ion t .|l tunes: " 'W liii t. ilo we want wlU'ii wo rntiU'n from Din- ,l„il.v tuil V Wliat do w,. .H'sirc t" ("Hsu uur biinlPiis, to jflntlclcn our lii'iu ts tu bring muUm to our fo WB um | «)ii"' to our •]i|)h !' "Here it.lic •orator for effect, ami 'tin. conscientious '|>rize-li"'htor tintowl hurriedly to :tiu> front of the «alli'ry, shook his iinirer «t liis unruly i'luir»(w. niid ?u.W, in a tiireatenmij sta"'c whisjwr:

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