Temperance Items

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 193, 24 August 1901, Page 3

Temperance Items

(Published by arrangement.) The United States War Dspan merit has issued ’'or ie.s abol shing trio aim b-er oi.M'een'/n uccoi da-ice wi h tbc new U e which c* me -inio elf-nt on E-bru'iry 2nd. The order nii-eots the Uiacounnu ancc o? the tele . f be.r, wTne -and other -, it.oxicVoing l.'qu ri on all aimy re-ervi; ions and tr-nspoits, arid holds in-.-u mi ding offi-ma strictly responsible for seeing no exceptions or evasions are permitted within their respective jurisd'crione. The officials state ihat the order includes the hotel at West Point and the resort hotels on the reservation at Portress Monroe. This canteen victory belongs distinctly to Mr J. G. Woolley, and the Temperance women of America, wdro started and carided on & mo»t vigorous anti 'Oautem campaign.

ADDRESS BY MR WOOLLEY

Mr J. G. Woolley, the no ed American prohibition advocate, who ia now visiting the colonic?, delivered a lecture in the Baptist Tabernacle la-t evening to a crowded audience. The Rev. Joseph CLtk, Pastor of : he Tabernacle, presided, and on the platform were gath red a number of mirtTEters and prominent cit zons, among the number being the Revs. H. Kelly, MA., J. Wilkins, H. Bull, 0 C. Harrison, A. H. Collins, O H. Garland, j. T Pinfold, W. Fev.y, C Williams, G. H. Barrett, H. Williams, Messrs A. Rosse- and P. E. Ohea! (members of the L censing Committee), G. Aldridge, A. C. Caughey, C. G. Bill and J. H. Harman.

In opening the meeting the chairman read telegrams of welcome to Mr Woolley from the Alliance Executive and the United Temperance Reform Council (Dunedin), the messages being received wi>h applause. The ' chairman then welcomed Mr Woolley on be -.alf of the city and trusted-that his visit would he a pleasure to hirtuelf and a profit to the colony.

On rising to address the au lienee, Mr Woolley was received with gieat enthusiasm, those present standing up ami welcoming the speaker with continued applause. Mr Woolley said it would be me.e affectation if he pretended not to be moved by their for which 1 h>nked the audience. He had come to speak ou u question that should appeal to everyone who loved 1 1 is country aixd his In me. He did not address them as Brit i-h men and w unen, hut in the name f conscience, and as !• llosv-citizens of his own. Ml 'Woolley then intnVduced the subject df temperance reform. He spoke heart and soul for prohibition, and condemned wholly the system of St .te control of the liquor tr.iifi i. He Urged bis hearers to let party questions go and to vote altogether in the prohibition inicn-Bt. If detea oil, they should keep on hanunei ing away until victory rested with litem, They s. buld not vote for a man because he happened to belong to the pa vy they p.efor ed, if ho were not a prohibitionist, but shou d continue to. vote for the oau e irrespective of any i.thcr question, being neither Liberals nor Conservatives until the drink traffic bad been swept away. Mr Woolley, who js an orator m the 'strict sense of the. Word, was listened to with the deepest attention, his remarks being fiequently punctuated With applause. At the close, of his lecture he was accorded a heattiy vote of thanks.—Auckland Paper,