TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4627, 20 January 1894, Page 3

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Addressing a gathering of pablicans the other day, Lord Barton said:— "Gentlemen, what I feel is this, that we are very much like the inhabitants of a ship. We, the wboleeale trade, jnay be compared to the passengers, who are supported And kept in safety there by the exertions and labours of you the sailors ; but come the hoar of danger, when tho safety of the ship I is threatened, we all have to take the end of the rope and give a loDg pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether.

The Westminster Gaielle writes What historical authority has Lord Salisbury for hie suggestion that the reform o! the drinking lmbits of the well-to-do classes wits due to the in* Btitution of clubs ? Clubs, he says,, are a thinof the last 150 years, and that is tire period during which the reproach of bard drinking has been 'washed away.' Washed away is good. It suggests a liquid process. Perhaps Lord Salisbury means to imply the Butatitution of gradual 1 nipping 1 for the less hesitating methods of the' sis-bottle men.' We fear that it is the only way in which the club has fought on the side of Temperance reformers, and we doubt whether the reformers greatly value such aid, Their argument more generally is that drinking is fostered by every increased opportunity for it, and that a man who would not drink for his own satisfaction is often led into it by convivial company. Notoriously the so-osM political working-men's club is often nothing but a drinking saloon, with a little billiards and the IllwIraki Polite Newt thrown in."

The LeqU Mercury:— 11 There will be much'satisfaction in Temperance circles over certain decisions which have been arrived at by the IndepenOrder ot Foresters, a body whioh haa a large membership in Canada and the United States, and is making considerable headway in this country. The that no "Court" of iJßrder shall hold its meetings in a public-house; second, that wherever held no intoxicating drink shall be introduced into any Court meeting, and third, that no One in any way connected with the manufacture or sole of intoxicating drinks shall be admitted to moaibership in the order. These decisions Will do much to commend the Independent Order of Foresters to the members of a'l Temperance organisations, as will the fact that the chief official of the order is Dr Oronbya. tekba, of Toronto, Canada, 1 a fullblooded Mohawk Indian.' and chief of of the 'Six Nations.' He was seleoted by his people to present an address to the Prince of Wales on the occas•eicftl of hM first visit to Canada, and educated in England. He is a medical man of great experience and high standing, and has been for many years one of the most prominent Temperance reformers in America." .The Northern Duibj Telegraph aflbs—" Why should the drunkard be punished and the manufacturer of his drunkenness go unpunished ? The Darwen magistrates have felt the force of that query, aud like sensible men put in operation a custom which publicans in their own interestsought |to bear in mind. Every person ari 'rested for being drunk is interrogated ;bb to the public-houße at which, he "j was supplied, and the reply is entered :op,the book being regarded as a black book;. When publicans understand : how. .atrict a vigilance;,is kept over ' their acts by the authorities,they will •abstain from supplying liquor to the individuals wbo plead for orly