TEMPERANCE.
Clutha Leader, Volume XVIII, Issue 933, 3 June 1892, Page 7
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TEMPERANCE.
The juvenile branches of the Church of England Temperance Society number 3,469, with 416,200 members. It is sairl that the railroad managers of Holland have found it impossible to man the switches with men who can be depended upon to let liquor alone, and have substituted women. Not an accident has occured since as a result of carelessness at the switch. ' It is about time,' says Dr Talmage, 1 for the 17 million professors of religion in America to take sides in this temperance question. It is going to be an out-and-out battle with sobriety and drunkenness, between heaven and hell, between God and the devil.' While the convictions for drunkenness in the Colony last year numbered 8-5 per 1000, the number convicted in Napier alone was 53 per 1000, or nearly seven times the percentage for the whole of the Colony, representing two in every 11 of the population. The astonished Egyptian Governor. — When Mr Benjamin Whitworth was in Egypt, looking after a factory there, there was a dinner presided over by the Governor of the place. The Governor sent word to Whitworth to the effect that his religion would not allow him <o offer wine. When, however, he heard that his chief guest never took wine, he exclaimed with astonishment, ' And he is a Christian !' Prohibition winning in South Carolina — The House of Representatives, by a vote of 40 to 34, passed a Prohibition Bill. It absolutely prohibits the sale of beer, liquors, and wines in any portion of the State, or the transportation of it by railroads and express companies under heavy penalties. It was passed after a bitter fight lasting two days. The law is said to be framed on that now in force in lowa. It is cener- O I ally believed that if this bill becomes a law it will divide the Democratic party in the State and result in the complete enfranchisement of the Negro voters, who will be called in to take jDart in the State and national campaign next year. The price we pay for tippling. — According to the Brisbane Courier, the number of gallons of foreign and colonial liquors, . consumed by the people of Queensland during 12 months amounted, to 4,784,296, or 12gal for every man woman and child in the j country. The people consumed 16,000 gal more whisky and 700,000 gal more beer this year than they did in the previous year; and the writer calculates that the liquor drunk must have cost somewhere about LI, 800,000, or L2O per head for every male adulfc in the colony. Is not this astounding 1 This sum would give 8s per week to ! every family in the colony. No wonder there is poverty with such disastrous leakage. This money has been worse than wasted. If it had been invested in some industry it would have provided bread for thousands ; but it has only spread insanity, disease, crime, and misery. Every unemployed man has something here to ponder, and it is enough to arouse all classes to ' forswear the bottle for evermore.' — Australian Christian World,
