TEMPERANCE FACTS

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 6, 1 July 1948, Page 3

TEMPERANCE FACTS

Given at Brooklyn Union Meeting: “if England could he rid ot the drink for 10 years, she would become such a Paradise as men could hardly recognise."—John Bright. “Alcohol is coveted by many Governments for the revenue it give*, them, notwithstanding the fact that it consumes more wealth than has been spent in building all the homes, the railroads, the steamships, the schools, the colleges and the Churches of every nation. “Alcohol is the costliest inhabitant in every country and demands the expenditure of unreckonable millions for prisons and police courts, for insane asylums, almshouses and orphanages.”—Extract from “Confessions of Alcohol.” Given at Kobi*St. Heliers: "The age of reason lias no place for alcohol a> a beverage. Alcoholic liquor clouds the intellect, degrades and destroys the finest faculties of the brain, and produces contentment with undesirable conditions. It is the handmaid of ignorance." Brooklyn: “Alcohol acts by destroying conscience, self-control, and the normal functioning of the body.”— George Bernard Shaw. Given at Papanui: “Public health has not deteriorated as the result of the beer strike in Sydney, only that .U),000 drink addicts have suffered from being deprived of their drink. ’ Auckland Diitrict Executive Meeting: “Eighty per cent, of the cases of Y.l). are due to the influence of alcohol. Alcohol and Y.l). go hand in hand, there is no doubt about that.” Dr. Ashton Evans, F. R.C.S. • New Plymouth: “The liquor traffic is commercially our greatest wastrel; socially. our greatest criminal; morally, our greatest enemy.”—Albert Schweitzer. Takapuna: “AlcollOi is one of the greatest enemies of the home; even the publicans, in certain moods, have expressed anxiety to keep our homes free from liquor.”—N.Z. “Methodist Times.’ Given at Brooklyn —“ Canada is spending S3SO, (XX), (XX) annually on beverage alcohol. “Never did so many pay so much for so little.” y —“Vanguard." 1946. Given at Dargaville. —“A total abstainer cannot become a drunkard except by first becoming a moderate drinker; A moderate drinker is ahvaw a potential drunkard."