The Efficacy of Local Option.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4725, 19 May 1894, Page 2

The Efficacy of Local Option.

, The local optionists, of N.S.W. • 1 especially, are making elaborate pre- , pactions for securing a larger legis-. '"1 . lative representation at tho next I ! elections, in order to bring Parlia- | i ment to the consideration of tho ! liquor traffic, It is exceedingly : doubtful if these measures will have . any appreciable effect in decreasing « j tho.long roll of drunkards, who are , being increased and manufactured • [ every day, _ The drunk, as a rule, - E does not drink of the. barmaid, or s because of the company he is in, Ho i drinks because the peculiar wearing I effects of life in a civilization have ■ caused the desire for the alcohol which was a disgusting vice yesteri day and is an absolute indisponsability to-day. The capacity of the , average man as a consumer of alco- , bol is say tho pathologists, about >' Gozs, All above that quantity » stays in the stomach iu its crudo | state. It rages most fiercely on the [ grey matter of the brain, and its , continued use so hardens the'nerve \ centres that they refuse to per- ! form their functions without the aid . of a fresh stimulant. iTliai rnnmn , tho craving for the mofSflpMl <vas. 1 steady the nerves, make- an artificial 1 appetite, and tone the flaccid muscles. 1 Religious sentiment objects to our [ condoning the liquor habit by cal- [ ling it a disease Whot a crime." , Once it was a crime, nowstvengthened ■ by time it is disease and crime both, i In the majority of cases all tlie resolutions in the world, all tho signing of pledges, all tho struggles ohvDttk | nature against the old habit are use- : less unless backed up by such 'a" i material help" as 'Warner's Sake 1 Cure, ' Safe Cure and resolution ; win absolutely:destroy", tlie'liquqc i habit, That has been proved in < numberless instances, ' 1 ' MrWijfiam'Pattewoii.of Cairns, ; Queensland, vwitos thus;-"I com- ; menced the use of your Safe Curo some years ago when it was first introduced into the colonies, I was a very heavy drinker in my cady days, and with the excessive uso of spirits - my brain became softened and my reason nearly gone."'rbeeami ■ (flqrniqtl at (ho state I ws In, and' would gladly have taken anything thatl though wou|t do me any good, I had a wife andftmily to support and was in a fair way of business, btit could not attend to it'ns'formerly._. Reading one day soriiethinff about W,aiuerls Safe Cure, I defer* niihejl to give iU trial, l'manngi; afterSQmedijEqnrty,toprocureftfew , ■• b.qttlesqndcommenced itsu,se, keep,' : \ "jjUjMy |o tho directions and not '.•;•■ J strong drin); i n tho-'.;•,•■ using afekiKrtt!jr