AN EXAMPLE

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 14, 25 March 1899, Page 4

AN EXAMPLE

Cambiulpe, Mass., is a city of Po 000 v»o»'e Head this extiaet fiom the " Lyttelton Tim°s" ot March 20th : — " YcstenUy a upveseutative o£ the " lyttelton Times" h.vl .xn ex'-eedingly lnteiesting <nnveination with the Piev Dr Abbott, ot Cambudce, Mass., m i-efeicnce to tno subject ot local option and municipal government in his nty 111 1 answer to questions, the (loctoi said he w (ls not peibonaily a total abstamei, and, thoußh stronqlj opposed to the open rlunkinji bus, he took evephim to the position of many psohibitioiusls who tieat-ed thedunkuijv of a'cihol as a sin. He iccogmsacl, howcvei, that tho

liTBPItTY OF \N I\I)TVIT)UVL to clunk might have to bend to the demand that facilities for thinline; -.honkl be abolished, because of the clangeis the> imposed upon liic community. lie wa-. a waun advocate of the pnncipleof local option,but, he iem,ulcp<i, lie peihaps lllo^ically opposed the extension of the principle to a State oi connti\ About tsvohe }cats snu^, he s.uil, the war oa the dunk tiaflic in Cambii'lffe was be;mn, as the outgiowth of a bußer aio\ement to eieate moial foice in munidpal poiit-ic^. The people theie cieate'l a s\sten which became known thioush the Spates as the

" CiMP.'tllX.E Il)i:V " This was an attempt, laigelv successful, to (hsip^a.d paitisan po'iti^, ,iiid to fill civic ofhees with men of e\ccutnc a'n!it> -mcl m-c->utiptible chairictei l'hi.halsx\ol their d^v fumi the houbles which hal \Hired Np«t Voik. It %\as lais;eiv a ehuich iin\p<i.eit. the Piev Di Bieach, ConßiegaUon'\u-,i;, bciuir one ot the chief nioveis in the mnttni. The Pipy Father Scully, of the lloman Catholic ChnrMi, had consistently snppoited them, in spite of the opposition of some ot his fcllowcleigy , and the si\ Wpiscopah m eleiy^mon of Hie city annnalU siotneJ the appeal which was i-,suert"to the citizen*. As a lesult, they had saceeecled in bunging some ot the IW. joung blood of Cimbinlne into its munioipAl politico and had A.vdkened a "public conscience" on the question. Tney had clc\ote,l special stttention to the

i>tjßiLics.Tiov or Tnr, porter mice, which theie lsnmlei mnnicipal control. Twehe yeais ac;o the citizens, by a small m.ijouty, abolphed cveiv foim of hqnoi license, except tor le^isfceied sales by chemists. Since then an annual poll on the question of License oi No License hal been taken, always with a maionty toi No License, though that nmjonty fluctuate!, but in l.^f)7 tho maiouty took a piodiqioub leap. They att.i-liuU-l tins to the fact that vounq peoule, taught in the school, cluiinß the jvereriins dozen yeais, the phy^iolosral elfocts of tilcohol," had lp.icheil the votincr ,\%<? Us be'ieved that Cambudge. on thib question, WOUL!> NI'VUR OO IWCK. The mci eased sa\ ings, ot the people, the "ieater vahie of piopeities, the tlociease of uime, and tho enhanced safety of women mid chikhon, made it impossible foi any imj.aitial man to doubt that Cu.ibndge had benefit ted bv the abolition of licenses. Theie was consideiable "le.ikaqe." Rlv r'io«-siiops, which veie theie ca'lcd '•kitchen bats," weie inn bv loose women in the low quaiteis of the city, but the police weie vigilant, and the penalties ve\> seveio. The whole " Bobton boulei," the line between Cambridge and Boston-a license system pievailed in the lattei—was 1 UINRKD WXIH SU-OOMT, so that men got chunk in Boston and were aaeeteil in Canibndge, cadsing the statistics ct anests tor diunkennesb to be misieadino. The system of sales by chemists was an.loubtelly abuse.!, but the police 10-rulailv ins i je2teJ ths chemists' legrbteis, and checked the' abuse ab far ab possible." To "Anglican."--Thanks. Your cuttings —punted below—aie to the point; om ie,non 10l abtneviation is want ot loom. The Archbishop of C.mteibnrv the Eight Hon and Most Uev PwdeuHc Temple, D D. — "Thewoik of lempeiance has been vciy neai my heait and is neaiei mv heait now than evei it was, because the moie I have looked into the mattei the moie convinced am I that ihe weltaie of the class that lives by manual laboui -and I confess I caie more for them than for any othei class ot society - hugely depends upon oui chiving out the teiuble temptation ot intempeiance that now besets their path at eveiy turn." The Yen \rchrlcacon Jnhus (now Bishop of Chustchurch) at Ballaiat T34. "He had been t>ld that the evils of clunk weie ex.aggei atfd ; but if those who said so could only have seen the squalid sheets and squalid houses he ha (1 they «juU say the tongue of man could not ouiogeiate tlnseevi's. Thousands of peisons *eie pomning fiom drink, and he thought that wftnanted t-veiv Christian in tiying to umpifecwit trom God's fan eaith? 1