The vote of the 6th for Sobriety and Righteousness. (From the Prohibitionist.)

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 92, 6 January 1900, Page 3

The vote of the 6 th fo r Sobriety and Righteousness. (From the Prohibitionist.)

'Though tho returns are iiKjtojripiete,^ 'we e-tiui.ne t!nfiull.> L 20,006 \ltbt£ cast tiu j u bitUuls fur -No Lidbiise. • / That a fall seventh pr the population of the V/ol^J^ (men, women and childrcHi) should have -QWiA their voiesSfor\the abolition J o£ the LiquorlTiavno is indeed ground foi-wfyl ainsmutnal congiacul.uion. w| are\glad, too, of j the iVt .that, o\ sokio 8O).U0t)' in thuVCJolc^-, scarcely 1 moie than one-simh^lokve cast their votes ior Liquor^yitUhonJd be borne in mind, that the young people, who 'cannot \ote, the indifferent, who will not vote, and those who foi vajious reasons were unable to Aote, outnumber the voting thiid our population by two to one--ki education spreads tliose passing 'from the ranks of non-voters may he confidently expected fo recruit •our ranks lather than those of tho fojs of sobriety. The young cannot fail to bring to us the benefit 'of a better scientific knowledge ot the effects of alcohol than then par-nts possessed. They should have broader views as to the duties and responsibilities arising if.-om. growing conceptions of human brotherhood. We may liop 1 , too, that the process ot education will not be confined to the young. The rapid progress that our movement has made, at our own doois and in many other lands, forbids us to fear that it can cease to advance. The grip it has taken here will be realised more iully wnen we say that, if as many people were to vote in ■Great Britain, in proportion to the population, as, "voted here there_ would be over 6,000,000 vote's "for KoXicjgnse,, The number of votes cast at the British election 4a 1895 was a little over 4£

millions. This was for the Parliamentary election, jepresenting every shade of political opinion, ami the wh'> c of Giv.p Bri'ain. If °"'" readers grasp the the full significance of (he-e i'tU'tsit will be seen t lint the Chrit-t cburch -mil Dunetlin pajieismaki theniß Ives utterly ridicuiouwhen they bdlittled our splendid and hopefully significant vote. We are so thankfully hopeful tb.u we mean much more than the words frequently express when we heaitily wish our readers A Happy Xbw Ybah op