THE PROHIBITIONIST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4022, 27 January 1892, Page 2

THE PROHIBITIONIST.

Published by f/ic courtesy of the Editor of Wairarapa,Daily wider the aiispices of the New Zealand Alliance forth prohibitum of the liquor traffic, Masterton Amilhry. When ratepayer! demand the entire extinction o;«!( places for ik sale of Uywsihir prayer should k g*anttd, —Charles Bmtm, Brewer. [Communications tor tine column must be addressed to " The Prohibitionist," care of Editor of Wairaiupa Dam,] 4 , True worth is being—not seeing j hiking each day that goes by Somo little good—not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and bye, For whatever men say in blindness, And spite of the fancies of youth j There is nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as truth. The Washington Post says of a section of land within one mile of the Soldier's Homo in that city:—" The abolition of the liquor traffic throughout all that section of the city made real estate investors eager to get possession of property there," _ Kansas City talks of issuing a license to each man who drinks, such license to be issued only on presentation of an application countersigned by the man's wife, The Voice, the organ of the prohibitionists, wishes it amended bo that if a man is unmarried, let the law require that the license be countersigned by his mother-in-law!

The following is what Sir Andrew Clark, physician to the Queen, says, in reference to the use of strong drink: —"As a hard worker myself, and from my large experience of others, I am prepared to lisk all I have upon the back of the statement that alcohol, however pleasant, is not a helper of work, bat that it is a certaiu hinderer of work."

At a politioal meeting recently Sir Wilfred Lawson was questioned is to whether he would advocate compensation to brewers and publicans for loss of license upon its non-renewal from no fault of license, In reply, he stated when a man had a license one of three things must happen. Either he was making money or losing money, or else be was neither making nor losing any thing, If he had had the license and hod lost or was losing money it would be a great pleasure to him to get out of the trade—(Laugh* ter and oLeeis.) If ho was neither losiug nor making money then it was no matter one way or the other, but if he had made t lot of monoy let him go and carry his money off, and God bless him.—(Laughter and loud cheers,)

A recent number of the Lancet contained the following flattering allusion to teetotallers:—" Whatever may be said of total abstainers from alcohol, it can never be alleged truthfully againßt them that their peculiar habit interferes with tbeir industry, their energy, or their perseverance. When an aspiring member of Parliament is about to contest a district, one of the first things be considers is the strength of the teetotal element, If there be many teetotal organisations, he is sure from the first that he must reckon with them. They will have their own ideas j they are likely to combine in many ideas; and perfectly certain it is that, should they set to work, their physical powars will fully compensate for any shortcomings of an argumentative kind. They will be aggressive, patient, vigilant, and of long endurance."

The prohibitionist who fancies that the battle.is won before fought, has (says the Rescue) a bitter awakening before him, The campaign before us involves a struggle which will try our very souls; we must pass through the fiery furnace of trial, and exceedingly hot'wi|l it be; but before CJod trusts us He will prjve us; the dross must'b» burned away before wg can giye the true rjng of genuine metal, Are w ready for tbp test ? (jod will not force it upon us, but Sis time is now if we are ready j scorn, hatred, persecution await us; contempt, slander, alienation of friends, poverty, are in store for us; threats, abuse,' bodily pain—yea, death itself will be tho portion allotted some,. Shall we hesitate, shrink, falter? Let us calmly count the cost, and then each for himself or herseff deoide for retreat or advance,

•Sir Leonard Tilley in a speech at tlip reioeui oP))yentiou of tbo Bone of Temperance ■in ifew Brurigiyicjc, alluded to a 6re in'St John,, which destroyed property valued, ab 17,0C0,000d01,.and for that property the owners had received from the insurance companies sums aggregating§,!joo,Co(|dol,. Surely no sensible maft would wac "aavantageojia to (jestroy''iy,o()pio|s|i;tfql>brilh of property jn pjntytg gist 8,00p,0d.0 dot insurance, ?> flgipjpjflp Government was receiving fram the liquor trade about 7,000,000d0l of revenue every year, and that great 2!)iQunt of money influenced the thought ofmaTiJ people; hut on the other hand, it was estimated, at t !mvcalculation, tjjat to get this 7,000,000 dol the people paid annually to'tbj? trade 25,000,0p0'd01, which was siu> ply thrown 'to"naught, And' when tho waste and ravage inoidentttllyby lj/e trafljj} were' considered, the desolation anil poverty that it brought into the homes of the people, and the turbulence and crime that it occasioned in the community, the question was not Does it pay ? butDoesilbr-gintopay? i