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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4232, 1 October 1892, Page 2

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jOn Jnne 29th, at Carlisle railway station, Mr Gladstone, speaking from tho carriage window, on his way to Scotland, saidl hope Sir Wilfrid Lawson will get a lift iu the next Parliament. I can tell you that lie got a very great lift in tbo last Parliament, a very great lift, when that plan for compensating all the capitalists who bad made a speculation of the liquor trade was thrown out. (Cheers) If that plan had passed, Sir Wilfrid Lawson's occupation, in my opinion, would haye been gone, (Laughter.) He nover would have been able to put one foot before another again, (Renewed laughter.) But that plan is out of the way, (Cheers.) His prospects are as bright as are the general prospects of the country. 1 cannot bo here, gentlemen, after another election—(crit'a of "Oil, yea")—lifter another six years, but I hope that he will be hero, and I feel confident that lib will be here, and that great progress will bo achieved in the cause of which lie lias been so excellent a champion, (Loud' cheeis.) At the conclusion of Mr Gladstone's remarks the right lion, gentleman shook hands with Sir Wilfrid Lawson and others.

Sneaking at Stowe in Mid-Lothian on Monday, Mr Gladstone in naming " other vital questions for workers," -paid, " Let me remind you also that one great suhject which we know lias a defined and broad position in your minds and hearts is also a Labour question-the question of the liquor laws, and the importing of the new faculty and power of jmlges.into our legislation which will enable the labouring people of the country to become in a large degree, where they desire and where they choose it, controllers of their own designs in the matter of the liquor laws, (Cheers.)"

The following is the constitution of the Masterton Prohibition league;— President—Mr Jus. McGregor; VicePresident— Rov, J,. Dukes and Mr E, Feist; Secretary—Mr F. H. Steel; Treasurer—MrT. Dixon; Literary Committee—Rev, R, Wood, D. McGregor, Rev J, Dukes and Mr, W. M, Easthope, Electoral CommitteeMessrs R. E. Horn blow, \V, Blinkhome, C, Holdaway, T. Collier aud G. Wyetli, The platform of the League is as follows:

1. Tlmt it is neither right nor politic ' for the State to afford legal protection and sanction to any traffic or system that tends to increase crime, to waste the national resources, to corrupt the social habits, and to destroy the health and lives of the people, 2. That iho traffic in intoxicating liquors, as common beverages, is inimical to the true interests of individuals, and destructive to the order and welfare of society, and ought, therefore, to be prohibited. 3. That the history and results of all past legislation in regard to the liquor traffic abundantly prove that it is impossible, satisfactorily to limit or regulate a system so essentially mischevious in its tendencies,

4, That no consideration J private gain or public revenue can justify the upholding of a system so utterly wrong in principle, suicidal in policy, aud disastrous in results, as the traffic in intoxicating liquors, 5. That the legislative prohibition of the liquot traffic is perfectly compatible with rational liberty, and with all the claims of justice and legitimate commerce.

C. Tlmt the legislative suppression of the liquor traffic would be hiehly conducive lo the development of a progressive civilisation. 7. That, rising abovo class, sectarian, or party considerations, all good citizens should oombino to procure an enactment prohibiting the sale of intoxicating beverages, as affording most efficient aid in removing the appalling evil of intemperance. This League lias been instituted (1) for tho suppression and prohibition of the liquor traffic in Masterton and throughout the Wairarapa. It aims at Colonial Prohibition by means of Local Prohibition. It seeks to unite in this eJort tlioso who arc not abstainers as well as those who are, there being many who, though tbey themselves are moderate drinkers of alcoholic liquors, deplore the waste and misery caused by their legalised sale.

2. The immediate aim of the League is to secure for the people tho legal direct power to veto tlie liquor traffic. 3. To attain this result the members of the League are expected to use all the influence they possess to secure the election to Parliament, and to all other positions of power, of such candidates as are favourable to the principles of the League. The acceptance of these principles, with annual subscription of not less than One Shilling constitutes membership,

Mr Frederick Treves, the wellknown surgeon of the London Hospital, in his " Manual of Operative Surgery has some striking remarks on the risks attending operations on the body of drunkards. He says: " A scarcely worse subject for an operation can bo found than is provided by the habitual drunkard, The condition contra-indicates any but-tbe most necessary and urgent procedures, such as amputation for sevejre crush, hernoitomy, and the like, Tho mortality of these operations among alcoholics is, it is needless to say, enormous. Many individuals who state they " do not drink," and who, although perhaps never drunk, are yet always taking a littlo stimulant in the form of' nips 1 and an ' occasional glass,' are often as bad subjects for surgical treatment asaro tho acknowledged drunkards."