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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 246, 17 October 1928, Page 10

PROHIBITION IS NOT TEMPERANCE. It is a very significant thing that the majority of the bishops and tnio* inters of the Protectant Episcopal | Church of America should have come out | in favour of modifving the prohibition Ksw. They have found by experience that it i~ the enemy ami not the ally of true tcmperance, and they hare .-a net iniieil a national campaign for altering it - repre-nve features. 1 Q " crea-0.l ilrunkcinie-an aiarmiug development of the druz habit, political corruption. and a h\ pocriiieal attitude towards the whole ion are the outcome. th.'y declare. of an impracticable law which time ha; proved to he inimical to the life of the nation. True temperance, they add. i- an educational rather than a legi-'.at;\e problem. 1 hat conclusion j, -;r..-:ig;y supported by the report of the 1: .\a! Army Temperance A-»<»c;al ion. Although our >taiidin j j. rcc- :t' 1: *rue and abroad number over there were fewer thai! 2<>ii magisterial '.-'in:.—ions f° r drunkennc-s on the part »-f armv rfefl- \ et there i< no prohibition in the Eng-TL-h army, out soTne?h:n<* far more Talnable—sobrietv. An.l tl.i- .-obrietv has been attained by teaching the men selfre?pect. self-c mtroi, «elf-knov. 'edge and by pro. ;iling theui wi*h healthv openair Tb.it is true temperance because it is fout:'led "n character. A -ncir.il reform that j- e.xved from within stands some chance of pernian* ency.— (Ad.)

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