TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4263, 7 November 1892, Page 2

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Votes for and against the Direct Veto Candidates.'l'ho prominence of the Temperance question in the recent Gene r»l Elec tion in the Old Country and the intention of the Liberal Government to deal with the licensing system, will make the following proportion of votes given, at the election for and against the candidates who bud pledged themselves in favour of the Direct Popular Yoto, interesting andinstruc tive, The table has been compiled as relating to tho 480 contestants in wliioh one of the candidates, and in several cases both candidates, were so pledged. Tho figures must greatly encourago the Tetnperanoe party, whatever may be their effect upon opponents, VOTES CAST. Conibsis, : ron, aoaikbt, HAJORiir con. London, 49 163,307 108,667 4,640 England anil Wales—--144 Borough ... 607,138 562,795 44,343 218Conuty ... 923,101 865,577 67,524 Scotch- 30 Boro' 143,761 66723 67,041 Scokh-30 County 171,684 80,839 90,745 Totals—lßo 2,008,8941,724,601274,295 Alliance News, August 19. It has often been pointed out that opponents of Prohibition in this country aro exceedingly anxious to keep a wide space between their own j houses and the drinking 'shop. The' same peculiarity is exhibited, it would appear, by some of the largest liquor dealers in the United States. So at least deolares the following paragraph, which carries with it every mark of internal probability : The distiller and brewer wants saloons at other doors but not at liis own. A Ohicago paper says that Mike McDonald, well known'to the saloon frequenters, has entered upon a war against the location of saloons near his tine residence on Ashland Avenue. George Ehrflt, the millionaire brewer of New York,strenuously objected to the issue of a license at a comer storo opposite his palatial resi< dence, and declared be would buy up the whole block of buildings rather than have a saloon near bis dwelling, Thus distance lends enchantment, Patrick Gibbons, who was. exeouted at Liverpool on Thursday, August 18th, for murdering his mother at Oldham by cutting herthroat, mole a letter to bis aged father, in which he said:-' I can tell you there is no one more sorry than I am over this unfortunate affair. Do you think for one moment that if T had been in my proper senses I would have done that to my poor mother? You know yourself how I had been drinking that week.

The Maitland Evening News remarks that," Publicans and peasants in Bussia have reason to hope for a very lively time. The Minister of the Interior has been provisionally autho* rised to order the closing of public-. houses ia agricultural districts if he should consider them detrimental to the material welfare of the country. What a happy prospect, We oan fancy Sir Wilfred Lawson inebriated with joy as he reads the latest resolve of the Czar, the only dark spot on his happiness being that be himself is not Minister of the Interior. What a flno opportunity be would have with such a position, for making people sober, ; He would bo able to olose all the publiO'bousos m the villages of Russia, C and if anyone dared to suggest oom<pensation he could send bim to Siberia for his insolence. Happy Russia, and still happier peasants who never have to worry about tho exercise of the franohise or tbo effoot of Local Option. But for the sake of those serfs who like an occasional glass of foaming home-brewed wo sinceroly trust that the Minister of the Interior is not a Prohibitionist. If he happens to be, we are afraid that the peasantry will not be able to ministsr to their own interiors in the way tlioy have hitherto been aooustomed."

Profesaor Barrett, Belfast, says the misery of Ireland is due in great part to the abominable traffic in strong drink, more money being spent in a year in alcobol than the whole rental of the oountry. He stated that when a fair was held in Ireland publicans bare been known to sprinkle the pavement with whisky to tempt the,* people. \ The Soientifio Amorioan says—" In appearance, the beer-drinker may be tho pioture of health, but in reality he is most incapable of resisting disease.' A slight injury, a severe- cold, or a shook to tho body or mind, will commonly provoke acute diseaso, ending fatally. Compared with other inebriates who use different kinds of alcohol, he is more incurable and more generally diseased." A wine merchant, having forwarded a Bample of wine to tho late Earl of Derby, which ho avowed to bo a specific for gout, subsequently wroto asking for an order. The Earl's answer waß, that" ho had tasted tho wine sent, but-preferred the gout." The use of strong drink is strictly forbidden to all railway servants on the Dutch railways when on duty. The first' breach of this regulation involves the loss of at loast a wagos, whilst a second offence invariably leads to dismissal, A London Liberal parson was accosted by a Tory member of his flock, in high glee over the election of a wealthy distiller. 'Thank God! 1 oxclaimod the Tory, 'our candidato has been returned; and the Church is preserved.' 'Exactly,' replied the rector,'preserved inspirits,'