A POINT FOR TEMPERANCE WORKERS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 16

A POINT FOR TEMPERANCE WORKERS

Speaking recently at Westminster Ohapel, Buckingham (jate, at the annual meeting of the National British Women's -'Temperancel Association, Mrs? Wjntrjngham, M.P. (the second woman M.P. in the House of Commons) said she did not think the present outlook so far as temperance legislation was concerned was very bright. She went on to ,gay the friends of the movement were not asleep by any means, and she was optimistic enough*, to believe there would be temperance ■ reform, and that before long _they would have the joy of closing the public houses. They would, however, have to offer something in their place. Living in the country, as she did, continued Mrs. Wintringham, she could see "the attractiveness of .the rosy country inn, and th,ey in the temperance movement wanted something equally attractive. Here surely she draws attention to a. fact very often lost' sight of, or not even grasped at all by temperance reformers, even the moat earnest of them. If the something equally attractive ' could be forthcoming and offered in the place of what many people wish to take away from peopley-surely then temperance workers could be more optimistic and. reasonably expectant of accomplishing their laudable aims in a reasonable manner. People who sold drink, remarked Mrs. Wintringham, recognised that man was "a social animal.'1' .Temperance reformers must also, s,he said, recognise this fact. And here again surely she hits the nail right on the head. When tins fact is grasped by temperance reformers, and that of giving something' in place of what they want to take away, surely then the temperance movement would present a move hopeful outlook in different parts of the world. • .

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