TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4501, 19 August 1893, Page 2

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Bat Sir Robert Stout Thinks of the Licensing Bill. Great interest will be felt in the House and. throughout.the Colony as to; the view which is taken of the Bill by. Sir Robert Stout, whose Licensing Act Amendment Bill the present measure is to supplant. Speaking to a representative of tho New ZeHlmid Times last night, he said the Government Bill was a very good one, exc9pt for some points which required amendment, When askod what those points were, Sir Robert Stout replied that one of tlieua was the proviuion in o'ause U requiring a three-fifths majority to validate a poll declaring thnt no licenses shall be granted. Ho thinks that a baro majority will be sufficient. Another provision to which ho lakes exception is that in olause 15, that one half of the people ou any roll must vole before the poll in that district can be valid. This lie ; will strenuously oppose,

These are days when more attonion seeins to be given to the political sped of our Temperance movement ban to the personal or total abstilence side, While Good Templary is horougbly in sympathy with the ffortß nor? being made for Direct feto, it never can neglect the equally mportant work of rescuing the fallen ind, redeeming those who aro the lelpless victims of misery through tho ntrmperunce of others, It is cause or regret that each a largo number of ur most zealous Temperance workers lave in a large measure withdrawn rom rescue work, to devote their nergiea to the moro thoroughly legal, ir prohibitory phase of the question, In Good Templary our first care is or the individual. We dare not forake tho lessons of the Good Saniarian, On all sides our laws Lave terniitted the establishment of drinkng barß, surrounded by all the nducements of amusement and acconodation, and the result is that our ommuuitiee are'crowded with the mmoral fruits produced by those stablisbruents. Not only are there uany drunkards disgracing our oiviisatioa and corrupting our morality, lut there are thousands of young isople and children learning the foul essons which culminate in the full legree of '■' degraded drunkard." While 'our friends of the singlelanded Prohibition line are content o push un' their special side in the conflict, the Good Templars must ontinue their labours to draw men nd women from the snares and the . hrttldom of drinking companions. Ll:ey must seek to restore fathers and nothers who' have, under drink's evil ' nfluenoe, forgotten their ohildrenand spoiled their ■ Lames, to their right minds-«-t6 induce them to resume ' their parental responsibilities; and strive to regain their position in sooiety.'—Temperance Standard. ■ ; . DYSPEPSIA,' ..; ;i

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