TEMPERANCE COLUMN. LADY CARLISLE AND THE DRINK TRAFFIC.

Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 61, 12 March 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

TEMPERANCE COLUMN. LADY CARLISLE AND THE DRINK TRAFFIC.

Lady Carlisle, who was received in a most enthusiastic manner, said, in the course of a long speech — The Chairman has encouraged me to begin with what I think should be foremost in our domestic legislation — in regard to the legislation that has to be carried out in reference to the drink traffic. — (oh6ers). England might be a fair country, England might be a pleasant place for the workers of England to do well in. were it not desolated by this drink pestilence, find the drink pestilence endures for the sake of those who trade in the liquor traffic. (Cheers.) It is not the will of the drunkards that it should continue. They are the victims dying by thousands year after year in order to make the brewers rich. (Cheers.) The people of England wanj the power in thoir own hands to stop this cursed traffic. Mr. Gladstone has promised at last that he will give us his mighty help to pass thisueeded legislation. But if the men, and the women, too, of England don't realise their duty in this matter, it will avail them little when they get the popular control of the liquor traffic if they have no means to control it when they get it in their hands. Therefore, I put the drink question foremost. (Cheers.) It is a political question, and not a religious and moral question only, because it means we are going to have no residuum left in England, no sunken masses, no submerged tenth. (Cheers.)