THE PROHIBITIONIST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4046, 24 February 1892, Page 2

THE PROHIBITIONIST.

TvklUUd by the courtesy of J/te, Editor of WairaramDaUy mukr.the auspices . of IlieNmZeak'iuLAlUtitieefortk prohMwrioftkUipmtrafficiMM- , terlon Aiixtthry. When ratepayers demand ih>. entire kc> '• Unburn' of all jkm for Wie rate of liqium, IhirprayirsliouU begraM, — Charles Bmtm, Brewer. [Communications tor tms column rauat be addressed to" The Prohibitionist," care of Editor of Waibabapa Dam/| At a Liquor Traffic .Conference at Wellington on Tiiesday evening at which a number of'leading oitizenß were present,'tho following resolutions' were adopted :-l. This Conference regards with profound gratification the-publio awakening which has taken place as to the urgent need of radical reform in respect._ofthe liquor traffic, as indicated> 'bmhe. changed attitude of the press, the- results of prohibition contests last year in mauy parts of the Colony; and the growing recognition ot.the fact expressed in the resolution of the late Houso of Representatives that the. enormous expenditure on intoxicating drinks in this colony "oonttibutea largely to the existing depression, adds materially to crime and to poverty, and reduces the capital available for reproductive industries." 2. This Conference is convinced that the liquor reform party in tho country, including thousands not identified with any temperance organization, and people of every religious faith and political oreed, is now sufficiently .numerous, if united, to present an irresistible demand for a legislative enactment to confer upon centres and separate areas of population in the colony the power to locally veto tho liquor traffic at the ballot box; and urges that the friends of this reform throughout the country give their support to no representative of any political party to which they may happen to belong unlesß this relorm be given a chief place in hii political programme; and urges the liquor reform party to present the stoutest residence to any professed friends of tho cause, or others who would blackmail the public in the interest of th*e liquor monopolists by the legislative creation of claims for compensation which arenot recognised by the existing law. 8. As this movement specially contemplates" the general welfare and material prosperity of the masses to which the liquor traffic is the chief obstruction, this Conference appeals to all labour associations to give their support to no labour representative who does not cordially pledge himself to this reform; and, irrespective of political parties, appeals to the New Zealand Alliance to be prepared to suggest a candidate on local veto lines to any constituency, or party in a constituency, where in any Parliamentary con- : tesb the claims of this reform ate not satisfactorily represented in the ; oandidature. i, This Conference also appeals to the New Zealand Alliance to bring in a local veto bil in the next session of Parliament, t and appeals to the country to give j its cordial support,

In the Queen's sppech to the Canadian Parliament, read in Ottawa the other day, Her Majesty said: —" The question of the restriction of the liquor traffic has also been occupying the attention of my Ministers, and a Commission will issue during the recess to inquire into and report upon this important subject,"

Let into the wall of the vicarage garden at Kiodfard, in Sussox, is a tablet of stone, which contains the following inscription;—" There is no sin which doth more deface God's image than drunkenness. It dis* guisoth a person, and doth even unman him, Drunkenness makes him have the throat of a fish, the body of a swine, and the head of an ass. Drunkenness is the bane of nature, the extinguisher of reason, the shipwreck of ohastity, and the murderer of conscience, Drunkenness is hurtful to the body, The cup kills more than the cannon, It causes deafness, catarrh, apoplexy. It fills the eyes with fire, the legs with water, and (urns, tbe body into an hospital."

By means of its widespread system, of county, town, and district unions, and with the cordial co-operation of othef Temperance organisations, the United Kingdom. Band of gope Union have secured the services of over 80,000 men and women, who have undertaken to visit a million homes, with the object of securing the adhesion of the children (of course with their parents fall consent) to theßand of Hope movement. Every visitor is armed with a brief, attractively printed appeal to the parents, signed ny the president of the Union, and containing on the reverse side a number of facts and illustrations relating to tije adpontsggs of abstinence. I/»Bt 'Saturday was toe day appointed fur this g'feat work, ' jj.'h'e visitors will jn a few Jays gall ogajn, and receive the signatures to the pledge of all youH" Deo l'l e ff h° w ' Su to J o ' ll ' nfl •ranksVftheßauuCfHope, Already there are upwards of 2,000,000 people Mpngjng ft) such societies, and the Union apo (a enfoj at least 1,000,090 more before the year closes, ~