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TEMPERANCE NOTES.

Archdeacon Farrar remarksr " Cruickshanks offered £IOO for proof of a violent crime committed by a total abstainer, and the money remains unclaimed to this day. I offer as much for proof of any one case—either in the Church or out of it—where drunkenness has been cured without total abstinence." The Leeds Mercury observes that "another question ia being brought to the front by the present agitation in respect of ' |j> is $ question on whitfh it behoves rating authorities and ratepayers to be on the alert. The letting value of licensed houses is admittedly increased as much as three, four, and even fivefold by the holding of the license which the public authorities have granted. To what extent and with what consistency and regularity is the rating value made to bear its due proportion to this letting value ?" ' Br Andrew Claik hag said; Thq nonsense—for I pan call it nothing else —that people talk about letting the drunkards down slowly is mrVt perilous. For some years I h; a been referee in the case of Government officers in cases of this kind, in which men had given way to the abuse of alcohol, I never meet with any success whatever until I say to each man, *'¥ou are now in*>u road which divides into two—one goes back to life again, and the other to death. You must stop at once, fo>: if you take ever so small a quantity, the desire wilj return, and there will be no safety for you."' That I feel mosl strongly. The Rev. Professor Randies, at a temperance meeting at Cardiff, in connection with the Wesleyan Methodist -Conference' dealt with the absence of beauty in any shape or form in connection with the dnuk traffic. The only pretty thing that was associated with the business was occasionally to be found in a barmaid. When he saw a handsome young girl standing behind a refreshment counter, even at a railway station, pouring out beer or whisky for young men who tried to flray hap into silly talk, he felt that he would rather see his daughter a scullery maid than a barmaidWriting to Mr W.T. Stead, General Woigeley said:—''To mo London is a pet house of infamy, of terrrible immorality in its worse sense. I cannot go a hundred yards in any direction without seeing a public ' house where large placards tell you that' Cream Gin' is soid cheap within. Qutsjdp I seo a dozen or so of the persons who haye now voices in the management of our public affairs more or less tipsy. Take a turn in the Strand or Piccadilly at 9 or 10 p.m. What do you find there? . . . Look at your thieves'quarters ! The horrors and abominations of London would not be tolerated eveu in Cairo for a day. We only make ourselves ridiculous by declaiming against what we style sins that we sanction around us. When I see strong measures tal Q i in England tQ prohibit tho _ -sale of poisons in the form of spirits of all sorts, then I shall believe in tho now British Reformation. It is to me in f qe present state the most monstrous

imposition and humbug to preach abroad what we dare not carry out at home."

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3742, 21 February 1891, Page 2

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TEMPERANCE NOTES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3742, 21 February 1891, Page 2

TEMPERANCE NOTES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3742, 21 February 1891, Page 2

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