TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4406, 29 April 1893, Page 2

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

The following ii a will left by a drunkard ofOawego. New York State: — ,r I leave to society a ruined character, a wretched eaWple, and a memory tbat will soon prot. I leave to my parents aa muob sorrow as thev can in their feeble staie bear. I leave to my brothers and sisters as much shame and mortification as I could bring on them, i leave to my wife a broken heart—a i life of shame. I leave to each of niy children poverty, ignorance, a low jobaracter, and a remembrance tbat their father filled a drunkard's grave. For drunkards do read when they have time. rm.„ .1; r •.-... . ...

The close connection between drink and crime has been strikingly illustrated by Lord Napier, of Magdala, who caused a return to be prepared of the offences of about 28,000 soldiers, thei result showing that the total abstainers in the number had no crime, the partial abstaiiiers practically none, the whole bodyj of crime being amongst those ;who drank freely! "Itis impossible for me," wrote the Bishop of London about strong drink, "to escape from 'the memory of the fast that I have found myself very much better able to work, to write, to read, to apeak, add to do whatever I may have to do, ever since! abstained from all intoxicating liquor." Mr BberiffWhJte, of Norwich, saw in the Hertford Record :—«I hold ra my hand.the balance stheet of a bw>w» ery company, and I-find that that brewery earned in one year a gross profit of L 50,088, asd a net profit of L 24.460.. On the other side 1 Sad that they paid for salaries and wages L64Q2, that ia to [say, their net proita were foar times as large as the iragag they paid. No #rj I compare that frith my own mannfaciqring husine&f, trni I find that*my wajjes, on an average, ere five times as gnat as my promts. On the one band, therefore, yea have profits four thasa as great a* w*ges, and on the other, wsget from fiva to six times m great aspsotaj or, is other words, wb«|re a brewery pays is round noaibera j £6.000' in wages, I ahouldparfromSlSSOjOOOto £ 380.Q0C5.Therefore, you Be |s at once that every pound that i« tfkm torn the drink iraffia means a eertaiu assosai of essploytneai&cunsjof 0® Bassmjjksyea, and the fctcsay k mine &<ha sp#3& lb?