TEMPERANCE NOTES

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13934, 12 July 1919, Page 1

TEMPERANCE NOTES

(By "Ajw") ' i Tihe oaiitetoud'itoG 1- PrphiibitiQ.'n .item :his we«k is the, liiqour cladra thn.ti alcohol -in a> foiod- This elation is so* absurd that all fair mind'ed'citizens reseniti ift. The buildems a,nd merchainte, also the cMsuimets., object ' toi the. necessities of life bciing barred while the barrel ii-s taken. Wo were fir«sit told 'tihafc -spiiitsi, beer, and wine would 3?-ot be carried >oa fthe~ railways. \ Now .we a'-r© informed 'that they aire being forwan'ded as food Scdemitistis haive told u^ time fMid-again : ttoa* aicwhcl i s not a. food. ("That it is in tik> sense a food and daainolti i'epaai* tihe tfetsuesi.") Whfitt. -can we' do wiiillhi ■& titad© rtilialti s?&tsi a,t' Ban.ig'hiti riiieis and regtiliafeionis ? which acknowledgea no law'but its owti §weeb will —exoeipt to aiboiish it. t4 Viipe it OUifc. " ■ As loyai Britisherg we rejoice at the cioimino; .of Peacie. Now, hia v rfa'jr cvea'cioaTiß the effi'eauy .o^ttsiide. it is up to us to deal effecitlively with- the en emiy withim ■ouir gates —the Oiwe ■whom ilr Lloyd George declared to be more daoigfia-otis to us than either Germany or Austria- It is -now. uip^ tons to exfilmiiine" tin's driaik question, from its iKJOib to iltis frtuilt. Amd if it is against tiha AVell being of the State, lot. xis cut iit. dofw-n and oast difc omt. During (the late camip'aiiign we welconaed and echoed tiie ho,pe of F'aitiher Ci-icmfißi, - that with the carrying of Piohibitiioini x miucih of tilxe reiiigious stirife would be buried, so tliat as ai united peopil© we coiuld facer and deal with the rproiblemis' of the day in saioh a m-anrnieir Itiualtl New Zealand would truly lead the woirld. Bdeihbip Cleaa-j', R.C. Bishop' of Auckland, ■recemitly delivered the foil--lowing 1 st'aJtemienit which sihtomld make for tihe true vsnihy of the ohurchetsi in. tiheir aititiitudei to th© liquor trnde. He says "We aire ciooy.i'nced tihaifc for ;the wider iwiblio welfare, ' the electors of tlhis Doamnioai: would be' aiuipiy ! justified in trying 1 the experiment of ending a .traffic which lies' beyond 'their - poiwer of reasanable amd proper reistmaiinit atid control. s'*5'* Aiso in. regard to coimipeaitsation that the Ti-adi© had forfeited amy right .toi it by beseeching" the electoais mot to burden the Doanindom "with compensation on Apui'l 10th, a® they couikt have PrdhabitHom' for ■jioithciiig 1 at tdi'j " general' elecibiooii in' •a. few naoaiiths timie. Ome of the greatest trials of being; engageid in. a reforixu niO'Veiiiiienjti if thafti it <se>tig ■ its adhcii'caite in. opposi: • tdoni to ' €>thca4 wlio m:;.y ,sii p.icei"ely think they are j'ipjh-b: In regard to the Lriquoii- .pn-cibleni' Proihibttioiruiai-is :are able to reisiponb end esteem; maiy -ftho' aa--e engag'eid in the Tvad.e, as? they a.re of oipiawn the irraiioir civil is in the a.v'tiicilo'Aiciohol.. Wo detsa •© i t-o record • !O'Ui* condioilancio with. : tftie '■■friends of the lo.te' Mr J. T- Ittgilds. He waig a man.