THE CURE FOE DRUNKENNESS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2552, 12 March 1877, Page 2

THE CURE FOE DRUNKENNESS.

( Co the Editor of the Evening Star.) SiE,—l was led to the folkstffe " thoughts by reading your leading arftofo on Friday night last.; ;We;have an evil among us cr'led dirmkenness,;.. and as.it' is admitted to be so by all, we need not spend time to prove it. A.many people appear to be very anxious tofindontTa remedy for this fearful evil; but it jj a difficulty, to be so charitable as to" gfve, a many of them credit for sincerity, for we have a remedy for it;, a plaster large enough for the wound ; a cure that'never did fail, nor ever can fail; thousands have hied it and in no' case did it - , ever fail, and that is—teetota'ism.-.: When . this is a simple fact without exaggeration, why try doubtful remedies such as amusements, light wines, education, &c, while we have the very ona that meets the case that no one can doujbt? The remedies presented remind me of" a story of a ser- v vant girl that placed a bucket to the tap and set the water running until sHe^jtist went over the way to see how Mary liked _ her bonnet since;she had got it altered, she would not be a minute, but the water appeared t« flow, quicker than usual, as . though it was doing it for spite and malice. The bucket was soon full, andjthen .it flowed all over the kitchen and down the passage, and into the parlour where the old and young ladies .were sitting. The young ladies jumped up and commenced -moving the chairs, the pianoforte and the carpets, moyingjeverything, but leaving the water running from the tap. The old lady made her way along the passage and looked in at the kiichsn and saw at once the state of affairs, she calls out: " I say,, stop that tap." That' was the first thing wantel" doing; and ■ that, is just-what-.we say, stop the tap and give over drinking ; and that is the certaiij cure for the fearful-evil of intemperance—nothing could be more simple. This is an evil-of large proportions; and \ like no other evil. A monster parent that • has given birth to many ugly- monster ' children. One of-' those children is Poverty,' another" is- Crime, and another .is .Disease, and each one of these is a mighty evil, and all this can be cured by this one remedy, teetotahsm, or in other words by stopping, the tap and ceasing to drink the poison. I thing , no one can be found so insane as to say that England owes her,:greatness t) drunkenness; no other single thing hat been such a clog to stay her in her onward march in progress, in goodness, intelligence, and happiness.—l am, &c,, - ■- -J. Horn. , Upper Albert street, March 12th, '77.