Temperance Column.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 274, 25 October 1902, Page 1

Temperance Column.

(Published by arrangement). i PROHIBITION IN CAPE COLONY. The following extract is from the letter of a lady residing in the western province of tbe Cape Colony. It is a striking testimony in favour of total prohibition, and should convince the opponents ot Prohibition that'it i* indeed the “ Master Method.” The lady refoired to is the witof one of the resident magistrates of the colony;—“This is a wide farming district, and intemperance must have iKcn very had amongst the coloured people before chick «ns prohibited under martial law. My husband was very ! much astonished when he found what the difference was, as in a period of four months before martial law was proclaimed there were 200 eases of drunkenness and crime. In a like period after maitial law was proclaimed there were only foil: teen cases. The miasiona'y told us that the coloured people themselves acknowledge that it is belter for them to have the drink kept away.” It all d< j i-n.li upon ! ow the law i,s eoiorceo. T-m ultimate hand b-hind that prohibitory iiw was the hold of Loid/Rnhurts, not uf.Rich-ird dedfton. “ Tbc-vt’s a little rcd-faced man, Inch Bobs.Rides the tallest : ofse’o‘c.in; ' I r, ‘ t yer, Bobs ? If it bucks i)v kick- or rears, ’E can sit for twenty years With a smile round both ’is ears, Can’t yer, Bobs ? ” Evident ly not to be moved by a liquor seller. HE ■ OULIJ, BUT CANNOT. He was one of the fcl tins That tan drink or leave it idem*. With a fine, high icoin for common men, Who are born with no backbone “And w by,” said he, “shoo'd a nun of strength Deny to himself the use Of the pleasant gift of the warm red wine Because of its weak abuse ? ” He could quote at a banquet, With a manner half divine. Fully fifty things the poets say About the n sy wine ; And he- could sing a spirited song About the lips of a lass, And drink a toast to her fair young woith In a sparkling, generous glass; And since this lordly fellow Could drink or leave it alone, He chose to drink at his own sweet will Till his will was overthrown, And the lips of his lass are pale with grief, And his children shiver and shrink, For the man who once could leave jt alone Is the pitiful slave of drink. Mrs Georgk Akchibat.d.