SOBER CYCLE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 42, 11 March 1899, Page 4

SOBER CYCLE.

At a little after nine o'clock on fiatuiday evening lstst, ft radii lode into Wai mate on n bicydle ; less than two hoiirs later he staggeied homewaid so helplessly diunk as not to be able even to lertd his" machine. "Well,*' lenUiked an obseiver, "if that tnan's son is not warned off dunk by the state of his father, he haWt sense dnougH to cftny tucker to pigs." T^he son is scarcely ydt at man' 9 estate* bnt to dur deitain knotfle'dge has more than Once! reeled home clrtinki

" The drinking habits of young men in the piesent day are appalling, and threaten the physical A<i well as nloial deteiiotation of outf race.'' — T^he tianoetj " Drunkards beget drunkards.'' Plutarch.

Dr Lewis D Maisden in his " Alcoholic Insanity," says of the heieditary diink ci'ive, "it is an inesistible impulse that dilves u person to alcoholic intoxication at stated oi ii regular peiiods." "The inherited deque for chink ofte 1 ! remains latent, till by sevftie, uciite, 01 chronic disease, 01 mental excitement, tl c neivous system has become weakened, when the alcoholic impulse leaps suddenly into activity. — th l^aer. " It is remaiktlble that all the diseases from di lnking spuituous 01 fermented liquoi** aie liable to become hei ed itai y, even to t.hethii <l generation, gradually incieasing, if the causp be r dntinued, till the family becomes extinct." — Entsmus Darwuii "If a sound knowledge of the laws of heredity were a sine QtU Ison qualification in the law-maker, might we not hope thnt Curative measure* would supersede the ptinitive, and inaiiguiate a noblei and raoie effectire moial code than we have ever known."— Gustafson.

How does this style of Slimming up touch The children of chinkeiy inheiit a ciave for liquor- Licensed liquor bais tempt people to become drinkers. E'ectois who do> not vote no license cieate licensed liquor b.irs. Voters for license call down a cuvse mental' and physical oil chilcben vet to be boi». Are yoil going to vote license or thiow in your lot with the Prohibitionists ?

" What do Prohibitionists want iyrr Total abstinence for the indiYtdu«»l r Prohibition for the State. \Ve ask that alcohol should only find a. pLice on the bhelves of the chemist, to be sold undei the same safeguard* atr other narcoticpoisons. We ask from the Labis' fiturfr the iltfht that a niajoiity of the eleetois may veto the importation and manntftotuie for sa'e of alcoholic bevei-ao;es thronghout the whole colony. — Colonial Option,

Falling Colonial Prohibition, we claim the right foi the people in each eleetoiate to decide for themselves the question of license or no license. We detest the hypoeiicv attending in the giantiag of the pieient so-onlled no license vote, which lequiies a three-fifths' majoiity, and may be bulked by the gianting of numeious wholesale licenses by the S.M.. as at Clutha ; or of club licenses by the Colonial Secietary. Under the piesent Act all that is affected by your vote is the letail grog shop lieensp. We claim a thoiough straight out issue, a fair field and no farouis. While we ask for legislation as indicated, we intend to do oui be&t with the poweis we have.

The abolition of publicans' licenKea in Clutha has been of such immense benefit to the district, that eveiy well-wisher of the colony should in December next vote no license. -,

If you want to hear about Clutha from a man who has been there come round to the Temperance Ha.ll on Thuisday evening at 7.30., when Mr W. C. Woodward will iljustiate a leetuie with limelight views, which aie spoken of as magnificent. There is no charge for admission, only au expen&e-ilefrayine; collection. Mr Woodwind will be at Hannaton on Wednesday in the schoolroom, under the auspices of the Band of Hope.