TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LIQUOR HABIT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10469, 6 November 1911, Page 6

TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LIQUOR HABIT.

Lot us lift our kinds and loose our ■tongues, and tell itlhie. truth about tflnVfo© of humankind.

Let us te!ll the trutili about it, aye, tell th© truth!

Tell it until it® wickedness shall be laid bare;

Tell it until the poverty it creates shall oeas© to tbg;

Toil it unitiiil tine pauperism it produces sibaill disappear; Tell it until its w.rongs to womanhood, and its injustice to chald'hbod >sh!a(l!t be exposed; Telil it until the alraustenses aij hospitals shall be no longer needed to house tli© dtelfeetiveis it create:-;

Tell it until gaols and prisons shall ■be emptied of it,S' victims; Tell it until the insanity it begets shall cloud the intellects of men no more; i Tell it until the crime it impels stall no longer be latid upon the souls lof milen:; Tefll it until murdiar shall si-' p its riot; mnd atrison its cami;\ul;

Toll it until mato shall see it wiuli the Hood upon its milked, k ottetJ band;

Tell it until fathers shall cease to neglleot tllileir offending;

Tell' it until mothers nieed fear r.o more for the chiMren thiey boar; TeiH it until childhood, robbed mo longer of its ibirtihright, sJiiall receive a fiada* ohlanicie aoki a "square dieal" from every mam and woman oeinieatik the flag; Tall it unitil tihis corrupter of 'iovs, tlliiis iravisliielr of girls, thiis despo ; l<.r of Lomeis, i&liaP .stand condemned, witfli sentanee of dleialtli pronounced againisifc it, arrayed for execution.

Tell l it .until the nation' shall, hc-ar. and hearing, b& convinicved. Tell it aintil the 'public rotiscienco silva.l cry out. Tell it until dumb tongues speak and dead feet start.

Tel it unitil ram shall f(!ol an?w tire CromwciU fi.ro, the Lin :o n con-

secration. Tel it until the nice shall ■fctard for ever JUreeid of its' curse--- FxcSutnigfe. —(M>vTj