TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4291, 10 December 1892, Page 3

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

The Hospital, referring to the Hospital Fund movev ment which has been inaugurated says: " The sight of strong men, in full work, drinking beer and smoking tobacco when well, and then flying to the hospital at the first sign of illness for the aid of oharity, is, if we would but think of it, both a scandalous and a dangerous sign of the times." | You cannot make men moral by Act of Parliament. Such iB a common enunciation of principle, which, like many others of the same kind, is in one sense a trtieism, and in every other sense a fallacy. It is true that __ neither health nor wealth, nor knowledge, nor morality, can ho given by Act of Parliament. But it is also true that the acquisition of one and all of these can be impeded and prevented by bad laws, as well ae aided ' and encouraged by wise and appropriate legislation.

Sir William Harcourt, whose adJfa dress closed the debate on the late Goveranient'B compensation scheme, wound up his address thus: " When you havo carried the second reading you will not have advanced very far . upon your road. You are only at the commencement of this struggle, and depend on it, we mean to fight it out to the end. The consequences are too tremendous, the stake is too imrnenso to bo settled by a single division, We Bhall offer to this Bill, at every stage of it, most persistent and determined resistance. We are resolved that the country shall have time to understand the whole question," The proposals were withdrawn,

A transatlantic paper Bends the following passages—one about the Land of the Morning, the other about domestic economy versus selfish drinking : Gojumra, in Japan, is a total ab« stinenoe village, and each house has a motto on the door, " Frugal in all things; liquors prohibited." iL Two drinks of whisky cost a pound and a half of beef-steak; two beora, a dinner of mutton chops; ono cocktail, an egg plimtor head of cauliflower. "What will you take, Charlie 1" stands for a nice oyster stew for the whole family on Sunday morning, "Set 'em up again" moans sugar ia the coffee for a month, This is a bit of practical domestic economy, furnished by a working man for the consideration of his fellows.—Homo Guard, William Henry Harkness, 88, a retired captain, giving as his address the Junior Constitutional Club, was charged at Marlborough-strcet with aftaulting Constable Hulbert, and also Frederick Bildyard, manager of the Garriok Public-house, GreenStreet, Leicester-square, and with reiusing to quit those premises; James Wbitelaw, 46, who refused his occupation, but gave an address in Cam-bridge-street, Pimlico, was nlso charged with boiug drunk and at- . tempting to rescue Harbcsß from -Jjh-. custody; and William Jones, 60, an agent of Temple-street, St. George'sroad, was charged with being drunk and also assaulting Police-constable Hulbert, —Mr Hildyard said that tho three prisoners entered the Garriok just before 10 o'clock tho previous night. A few minutes after Harbess began to abuse the barmaid, and finally called her by an offensive name, to which she replied in her indignation by throwing water over hiin, Harkness thereupon sprang forward and struck Hildyard on the right eye and blackened it.—Policeconstablo Hujbert said that when ho was called to tho house. Harkoss bit him on the right chock and on the loft leg-Mr Hannay said that the conduct of Harkness was too sorious to be met by a lino ; he would have to go to prison for nine weeks. Jones would havo to pay a fine of £lO and Whitelaw 40s, both with the alternative of a month's imprisonment,—Daily Chronicle, Aug. 3rd. ■I To show how little the manufacture of drink benefits tho working classes, the Scotch distillery companies, with a capital of £10,000,000, employ only j .2000 men, while the Scottish rail-, ways, with a like amount of capital, provided employment for nolesß than 52,000 hands j and Guinness' brewery and the Ulster linen industries have each a capital of £10,000,000, and employ 8000 and 100,000 men repectively. J