ARCHDEACON FARRAR AND THE WORKING MAN.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)

ARCHDEACON FARRAR AND THE WORKING MAN.

In the January number of the British Workman Archdeacon Farrar has a first ?aper on "Drink and the Working Man." v this he shows why working raon should become total abstainers. He says, " Men are never long derided for doing right. In the long run they are respected for doing it. Working men have before them the oxample of great tribunes of tho people like Richard CobdenandJohnßright, who were abstainers when it was far more difficult to be so than now it is ; and of living leaders whom they trust whose abilities and energy have raised to n high position, such as Mr. John Burns, M.P., Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., Alderman Ben Tillett, and others of their foremost representatives, who are, I believe, ardent total abstainers. For one' man who would laugh at his mate because ho has taken the pledge or wears the blue ribbon, there are a hundred who would admire and imitate his independence and faithfulness." Touching the habit of indulgence, the Archdeacon points out, among other things, that there are 20,000 prisoners in England who, so far from suffering from total abstinence, improve in health during their incarceration. The Archdeacon, in beginning this series of papers addressed to working mou, wishes to state why it seems to him that they would be acting most wisely, and in such a way as to help the amelioration of their class and to increase their chance of individual happiness if, at once and without hesitation in present circumstances, they form the resolution to be total abstainers.