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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13529, 10 November 1911, Page 4

The Day. FORCE NO REMEDY. It never seems to have: occurred to intemperate abstainers that their methods may, be tlljudged. However good may be, thoir methods have invariably done more to aggravate the disease than to cure it. Force is no remedy, and |f .'misapplied,. creates the most strenuous resistance. ' There are thousands,, nay, tens of thousands who would gladly join in any rational movement for the promotion, of; temperance, for they deplore drunkenness quite as much as the prohibitionists and, perhaps more. They do not - gloat over the fall of the drunkard and use him as an ‘ ( awful example” with which, to, illustrate, thejr lurid diatribes for the" conversion of tender-hearted, vfonien \ and children. Rather will they give ‘him a helping hand, perhaps see him safely home and tend him; they will not,, like the priest and the Levite pass on the other side, leaving the despised Samaritan to aid a fallen brother. Moderates have been said to be worse than drunkards although the former dften reclaim the latter when Ministers of the Gospel fail in their duty. If there were only two classes of society; Drunkards and Total there would be more justification for the employment of force.;, there can, however, bo nothing to justify thee enforcing of total 1 abstinence on a very large section of the people, who are habitually; temperate. ■ •*’ PROFESSOR SALMOND, D.D., Dunedin.—“Yes, Prohibition will, work . marvels; The house wiir be swept and garnished. You will have a fine tale to tell of lessened crime, smaller numbers of miserable men and women at street’ corners: and that Is good; But the reform Is from the outside. Wait_a while; the recoil comes, and the old devil is there again with seven other more wicked spirits, and we even know their names: , .The spirit pi falsehood and hypodHsy, the spirit of defiant contempt; of law, the spirit of perjury, the spirit of . meanness : arfiT of revilings, the ■. spirit of subterfuge and contraband trading, and spirit of universal insincerity and moral humbug, and, verily, the last state will bo wonsa than the first.” PRESCRIPTIONS DEDICATED WITHOUt PERMISSION TOiREVEREND WOWSERS. THE REV. CANON tyEST. —“The , . Church of Cod has never declared —because the word of Cod,•; of whicji the Church is at once the keeper apd interpreter 1 , lias .'given no such declaration —the moderate use of alcohol to be-a-sin. This seems to be left, wijjh (jther things,., as open “matters of Christian liberty." ‘ ' THE BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH.—“I do not believe in turning men adrift from well-conducted - public-houses without some compensation." THOMAS ADAMS, D.D., .the Famous Preacher; (Sermon on the "Black Saint.”)—"l deny not but Paul may meet his friends at the market of ARpium, but drink at the Three Taverns (Acts xxviii., 15). Honest necessity must be relieved,, and for this purpose were taverns first; erected—for the necessary refection , ~ , of travellers and strangers. Neither; ■ laws divine* nor rational condemn their use, but their abuse-.” 7 ® 1 REV. SAMUEL R. WILSON.—“The Prohibition ‘Party’s fanatical disregard arid distortion of facts is shown in .the constant assertion, that the liquor trade is the cause of almost all the entries that are committed. Could any fancy W more wild?” DR. THOMAS DUTTON, Author of "Indigestion.”—“All admit that an excess of alcohol does harm; so likewise does an excess of meat, sugar, or even water. The danger here lies in the abuse and not in the proper use of the articles in question, and it. is irrational to claim that their use must on this account be abandoned.” Speaking of medical 'writers on teetotalism, Dr. Thotpas Dutton also said:—“ The overwhelming arrogance of those writers, would lead one to imagine that the entire, .store of human virtue and knowledge was their inheritance alone, and that the remainder of the medical profession were lacking either In common or in moral sense. I will venture to assert that fully so per cent, of the profession at large do both themselves partake of alcoholic stimulants some form or other, and order it for their patients.” Vote For Your Liberty and of better food and clothing, jrf heavier savings at the bank,./of new carpets and hangings, and. of out the on BOTH Ballot Papers,