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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1293, 23 November 1911, Page 6

ALCOHOL AND POVERTY. ALCOHOL AND POVERTY. T\lD you ever use your reasoning jl} powers? If not, pass this by, it is meant for the man who thinks. THE POSITION STATED. 1. A man has only a limited amount of wages to spend. If he 6pends his wages on furniture, clothes, food, and in making his homo bright, HE is benefited, and his WIFE AND CHILDREN with him. The furniture seller, draper, and grocer benefit also. 2. If lie spends his money on liquor, the man himself gets temporary' pleasure and a sore head the next day. His wifo mid children do not share his pleasure, but thc.v,will have less clothes, loss nourishment! fewer bonis comforts, and troubled minds. The furniture seller, draper, and grocer suffer also, and tho brewer alono gains. 3. When a man drinks excessively, the blower gains what the wife and children lose. Drink, thou, robs wife aud children, and home, and poverty begins. ■WELLINGTON AUTHORITIES. 1. The late Mr. Charles Ilulkc, a Wellington schoolmaster, of largo cxpc-ricneo, e>taled publicly, in 1895, that whenever a child came to school insufficiently clad or shod, he knew that the cause was, with hardly an exception, to be found in the drinking lubits of one or other of tho parents. 2. REV. n. VAN STAVEREN, exChairman M the Wcllingtcn Benevolent Trustees end Member of the \\ eiiinqtoi Hospital and Charitable Aid Heard ('.Sill! and 1911), in ISSG attributed SO p«r cent, ol Wellington pauperism to iiuei.,peranco, 4iiul in August, lfllli wis stM ol tliw .same opinion. II !•' \f,"L'S. —V late chairman of the Southland Charitable. Aid Hoard toilfirms thin ostiii'fllc when ho snys unit if all Southland followed the example of lnvurcnrgill, a reduction ol Hi pel cent, would be effected in Hie board'b outlay ou Charitable Aid. Alxdish poverty and brighten the homos of the people by STRIKING OUT THE TOP LINE ON IiOTII HALLOT PAPERS. Look out fur reply to attack on Mrs, Barton To-morrow, . -Advt