TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4417, 13 May 1893, Page 3

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Alderman Collery, a well-to-do pub- 1 lican, speaking at Siigo to tlio united trades and dqclt ltiboiuerß ; said,.: "He should have apologised 'for appearing : before them, as lie was neither it laborer nor an artisan, but bo belonged to a class that be bad no liesi* tation i.u. sitj'i'ng were in' a sense the enemy oftbewdrkngnun. Ho wbtild not hesitate, to say, after many years experience*, that tl'ie greatest enemy of the working man was: drink, liowould, therefore, say to them, that whether tbeir "wages were largo or 'sniall; to avoid drink, for the drunken man nevec liad, and never will, have, a happy home,

Mayor Dodds—" George Dodds, tlio man you know "-was especially happy in one anecdote,. Many years ago liewas speaking in Northallerton, and a doctor thcro said it was a very daujjeroua thing to teach intemperate ,people to .leave off all at once—'.hoy Ought to taper off. Be said" Is that your opinion, doctor?" The doctor answered, " Yes," During the day lio was in a. large building near Northallerton—the gdol—and he saw a number of men upon the treadmill. He inquired amongst' all the drunkards that came ttieio whether .alcohol, was taken away altogether, ;The gaoler said; "This is a teetotal dispensa' 1 iltogfithcr. 1 ' He put the question, 1 livha't is. tb.e consequence? Do they tiifn ill ?" l'lie gaoler replied, " No, every drunkard tbat cotnes iicii) goes out. better than .lie cauve in," He put the doctor and the. gaoler against each otber, and they could' take their choico. That is an unanswerable argument, and valuable counsel to (how hesitating to aßsiii'ia at onci-.

Dr Gamier, .a specialist in lunacy, gives sonio curious inlbi'mation iespi'ciingtheinctcaso of insanity aud ..its. causes in Paris, Ho say* that' during tlio past lo years tha Erench tbe soberest people in Europe —arc becoming much addicted to the use of intoxicants, and that alcholic insanity is another potent factor in ■filling Ohflfonton and similar aQy> lutns,—Exchange,