Temperance Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 166, 22 June 1901, Page 4

Temperance Items.

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(Published by arrangerae.it.); Extracts from the R port of the Committee of Enquiry on, Temperance Reform. Set up0:1 November 36th, 5897,. a,t the First Session of the Fourteenth Synod of the Diocese of Waiapu (Sap'er),. New Zealand. Presented in OetobeF* 389 a. M'SIBBRS r The Vary Rev. the Dean of Watapct Chairman; Tbeßrv. Canon WpbbTire Rkv. T. J. Wu%s, Hon See ;' Colonel W. Woo©; John Thobn--toj), Esq.; C. H. KOW4RM, Esq. (4). But we have felt that the mo * impo'tant p*rt of the whole of. Temperance Eeform is that of lho history of the remedial efforts and liquor legis'ation. In pursuit of our inquiries ■inder this he id we have availed ou - selves of literature put forth by Engl ih brewers and wine and spirit me chant by the Prohibitionistc, by historians, 3 d informa*ion obtained dinct y from England, (Scandinavia, America, and the Clutha Attention was first given to British fagis'ation 'and experience, then to that of Sweedsn and Norway, then tot that of America and New Realand, la his part of our inquiry information has 'o?en sought ooncerning British regula. cion, Scandinavian regulation under the [ Jothenburg system and its various modi-, iications, Amer can rpgu'ation—particularly under the ays'em known as "High License," aDd the " No License " system in th* varion* forms of LoCa.l Option and State Prohibition. (a).—Remedial Effjrt*. (1.) P?rsnal abstinence, from motivps of self-preservation and aLo from motives of benevolence, has been the chief remedy in the great TemperanceReform of this century. By the acceptance and practice of this principle to Biset the present nepd, &nd by united and sustained effort;, increased temperance among all civilised peoples has been induced, anl the self-denying labours q$ the non-iiS«rß oi alcohol have matfe.Tor righteousness. (2.) From- the re'gn of Eiward Vt. ~here been a long snecession of Licensing Acta and Amendments to regu> late the sale of intoxicants ; bat not. withstanding Parliamentary enae-menta and nearly a century of Temperance effort, and all the activities ol the C iriatian. Gbarch, we find Dr Bum's rigures reproduced in the Brewers' Almanac for 1896, showing that the United Kingdom spent in 1834, £131,737,82 8 jwhilo it is a matter of general knowledge? that a very large fraction of population is impoverished, demoralised and ruined by intemperance. (To b« continued.)