Temperance Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 175, 13 July 1901, Page 1

Temperance Items.

[ADVfi CTIS ?lf iiNT.] (Published by aiVß.igeme it.) IfoLraci-'s froth the lb-port of the Committee of Enquiry oa Teiupecoce Reform. Set up on November 36tb, r 897. at the First Session of the Fourteenth Synod of the Diocese of Wa’apu (Napiev), New Zealand. l?fese J ted ia October IG9&. M 1!OERS: The Very Rev. t<»e Ukax of WAup& Chanmaiv; T +tc R?.v. Ca nOS Wl3B Tub Rev, T. J W-lls Hon See.') Colonel vV. Wooi); John Thorit■Ton, Esq.; C FI. Eow,ißo3, Esq. Pxiotlt mtio.v. This system is one of “No liccn o, 1 ’ either applied lo the S'ate or to defined ar as within the State. It allows tin "sale of wine and spi its fbr medicinal purposes, for In ly b nonunion, and for the arcs and sc eric a. Your Committee have obtained most Valu ible information from reliible »■ urces, which d'scKses the following facts : (V.) That there is much sly grogselling in some places under prohibition, notably in some seaport town-:, and on the borders (tf prohibi ion a.'. - as contiguous t 6 districts where liquors are legally sold. (b..) Tint sy g og selling in prohf-"bit-ion districts is carried' oh main’y by ’hose who have been in the lie rised trade. This has been the -case in the Ciiitha. From America we l;arn t hat 50 to per cent of ihc violators of thfe prohibitory I lWs are people who have not grown up in the prohibition States, and are mainly of foreign extraction. Seventy-five per cent is the estimate mentioned by the President of the Rank of Topeka in a letter to thfe Committee.

Letters from the President of the Bank of Topeka, an ex-Judge of th& District Conn, a prof> ssor of law in the University, and many others show that Am rioan prohibition experiments have been perfectly in some Stated and districts, partiaMy so in others, and in some have pra ticaMy f i ed. Letters rec ived emphatically assent, and print' d matter forwarded to us by correspondents e’ea dy shows, that p. - bib't’on by the will of the owner, as in England and in IroUnd, a id by the vots of the people, as in N.cw Zealand, has been a triumphant success, diminishing intemperance, poverty, crime, and all other evils so much associated with the liqubr traflic. [The End.]