Temperance Items

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 138, 7 December 1901, Page 1

Temperance Items

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0 " i ({Published by arrangement.) PiUS FTt©M THE PROHIBITIONIST, The "’Christchurch W.C.T.U, 5s ift receipt <of .‘£2, which was kindly contributed by Lsdy Ranfurly to the land of the luncheon and ten tent, at the Show Grounds last week. The letter which 'accompanied the 'cheque 'expressed sympathy with the enterprise. The Dunedin, -correspondent of thfe New (Zealand Times telegraphed nm October 26 h, saying.:—lt is reported in Dunedin that a publican., niter reading Bishop Seville’s speech on public honee reform, sent ten guineas .to the Cathedral Fund.

•L is believed by many of the TnembefS of the House that one of their number, who his pulled himself together and kept soh-r during most -of the session, was deliberately made drunk during fits closing days, and bo prevented delivering a carefully prepared indictment of the Premier. ALG JflOL POISON, NOT A POOR, Dr. Howard'S Anders, of Philadelphia, says -.—“ I hold that our modern knowledge of alcohol in t.V human body justifies the belief that in health it is never a food, in any sense, la the cuantity large -or small, but always a poison, biologically or physiologioally .epeakin#’; that in disease it da neither a food or a poison, but may be a suitable and healthful drug, and that 'neither in the last analysis nor fuller -synthesis, in health or disease, is it a u partial,” food in small, so called moderate, or excessive quantities. -Let us call it what it rights fully is, a drug, and not a drink, a narcotic, and not a tonic. -It may take a "genera ion cl two before -this view becomes ns universal as one might wish, but I hope and believe that 'then it wit! so become—Philadelphia Medical Journal. ' ■FACTS ON PROHIBITION. We clip the 'following ‘from the New Era, U.S.A.

The official census bulletin, No. 'BS, which has just been issued, put*?* quietus on some wild assertions that the defenders of the liquor traffic have been persistent in making. They delight to say that in prohibition territory there is more liquor sold and drunk than order a license system, that the liquor is of « worse quality, and that'it produces mere vice, crime and murder thetn licensed whisky in licensed territory. This census bulletin puts Ut rest that assertion hy showring that the dedth rate dlrotn. alcoholism in prohibition States is 1 62 per 100,000 of population,. whilst in licensed States It is 3 78. For homicides it is 1.75 in prohibition States to 2.42 in licensed Stares. But notwithstanding these official figures, showing the false ness of the claim made by the license advocates, they will go on telling the same old story, because they have nothing else to'telL The census .bulletin reveals the fact that a prohibition law, even poorly enforced, does more '-to suppress the liquor traffic and the evils which 'remit from it than the best system of taxation or license. This, too, is in accordance with reason and common sense.