How Lord Burton Sees It.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4471, 15 July 1893, Page 3

How Lord Burton Sees It.

At ft great meeting of the ■■ trade" to oppose the Liquor Local Control Bill, now before the House of Commons, Lord Burton, of brewing fame, in the course of a lengthened and very denunciatory speech, said: "But, gentlemen, I maintain that there is no need for a drastic rneaauro of this kind. The condition of iho people has improved; their education, their conduct has improved and is improving ; the consumption of oonalcoholio liquids bos increased in & far greater proportion than that of alcoholic liquids; crime and pauperism have decreased, more money is saved, and drunkenness is on the decline. Depend upon it, such Bills as these are beginning at the wrong end. You will never cure intemperance by stopping the public sale of drink, by suppressing liberty, or trying to prevent peoplo from doing 'as they like, My dearoldfatheronce got into terribly Jjptwater by jestingly saying to his conahents,' My advice is to cat less jfliai drinkmore,' Well, you know 'after all, though it was jokingly said, there was a good solid substratum of truth in the remark, especially as rogards the well' to-do classes. The old poet sang; ' The life of all mortals in kissing should pass, Lip to lip while you're young, thon tho lip to the glass.' That, I grant, may be & somewhat fanciful and romuntio view to tab of life, but Ido say thip, and experience will, iu tho end, find no fault with ine for leaving a track, which, though it be beaten very firmly and be very wido and smooth to traverse, may not, after all, bo the surest and soundest path to the golden gate of ftji—Temperance Standard, 7/Pw TaH MO HIS dm, Look on This And on Tins I Picture— Star, April 5, Telegraph, April i Mr Wynne Bax. "Tho people of ter, coroner foi England are really East Londonjielu 1 in no need of any no fewer than 10 grandmotherly le- inquests yesterdaj gislation. They nearly all beinj; havo shown before brought nboul and tbey showed through drink throughout this The evidence re memorable Easter vealed a dreadfu timo, that they state of affairs.tln under- coroner in, ouo in srarauow to look slanco 'asking i after their own there were an; properties, and are sober people at al none the more in* in the neighbour temperate because hood. When on they like a glass of man was asked i ale when they are his wife was a so t'jtafljJlow mon- ber woman, he n strouß tfthing it plied, ' She wa is, therefore, for like all the other statesmen, in the women always name of morality, had a drop of beer, to try to clap a She got drunk just Far lia mentary the same as other muzzle upon a women.' Another whole nation, and witness appeared by such a wrotch- in court in such a ed piece of Pari- state that the tanio tyranny as coroner was forced this Local Veto to observe, ' You Bill, aim at cur< seem so sodden -tailingtbe perfect- with drink that ' ly natural and you are unable . iphocwtpleaßures to put two ideas ■ together/"' : ;.. j