TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4378, 25 March 1893, Page 2

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Must go into Politics,

Bev. Sam Jones has jnst been giv-' ing one of bis red hot addresses io which he contends that the liquor traffic is in politics now, and Temperance people must go into politioito fight it. There is no other altevmv tive. He went on to say: "Suppose there was a groat big ruffian in my house beating my wife and children; I am outside and I come running up preparing to enter and the crowd catches me, and they say, "Oh don't go in tbe house; there in mau in the bouse killing your wife and children, but don't go in; wait till he comes out and then attack biro. And what does tbe ruffian say 1 .". Why, if he waits till 1 come out to attack me I will stay in the house for ever." That is x bat he would eay. The liquor traffic has carried this whole thing over into politics, and then they Btand at the "You must not And I can' no more get at thrnquor traffic without going into politics than I oan get at the ruffian who. is in my house murdering my wife and ohildren,without going into tho bouse. You cannot attack the liquor traffic without going into politics as sure as 1 am talking this afternoon, and you know it. You know you oan'tget at the Prohibition question outsido of politics, for outside of politicß there is nothing to fight. I am like tho fellow who was going along with the pitchfork on his shoiil- j \ ders and a vicious dog ran out at him / \ to bite him, and the man took the fork) / down a r ,fyabbed it through tbe dog ( ,'jgj and tbe owner of tbe dog <£aid4HH "What did jmi ilu'ilml fm rffifllPF fellow said: " He was going to bite me," " But," said the owner of the dog, " why didn't you take tbe other end of the fork?" "Well, be said, " why didn't he come to me with the other end?" The liquor traffin is coining at us with the death and destruction end, and I am going at it with tho pitchfork end every time,

" Not take temperance, into politics I Why the rum shop ia grounded on, and wrapped about with the protection of politics, No man canopon a r:.w\ shop and make his neighbour drunken, unless he does it by law—by act of Parliament—through politics, The statutes prescribe just what conditions are necessary, the men to whom licensee are to be granted, and the number of liconses that shall be issued. How does our objector hope to get rid of the rum shop, unless temperance is taken into politics, concentrated into votes, and crystallized into enactments wbich shall forbid that nuisance I The only way you can_ orystallize'your temperance oonYiclions is to write them on ballot papers and woave them into public life and legislation of tho country," llieso words aro just astrueand forceful to day as they wero. eight years ago, although the man who uttered them is now Finance ada and is troublod with JOTMS of weakness,