THE DUTY OF THE TEMPERANCE LEADERS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,-The elections are beginning, and I should like to know what the Temperance party are doing, or if they are doing anything. What preparations have they made for the impending struggle ? They lowered their flag, and made a very meagre effort at tho licensing election. Has the lesson then tai ght them roused them to lift their standard ami make a more determined fight over the election of those who control the law for the Licensing Committees ? Especially I would ask what the ladies of the Temperance Union are doing, or going to do ? They have built their Sailors’ Rest, and built it clear of debt—God bless them !—in a space of time when a male committee would have spent nine hundred of the public money in champagne suppers, and have just come to the point of passing a resolution that the thing was needed, and they must see about it. Now that is off their minds, are they marshalling their forces for the present election? The drink curse will never be checked, much less abolished until they do. Ladies of the Union ! rouse up your brothers! Push them into the battle at the point of the sword, and make them fight! —l am, etc., Peter Gbeei’HE. Dunedin, June 27.
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Evening Star, Issue 7250, 29 June 1887, Page 4
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219THE DUTY OF THE TEMPERANCE LEADERS. Evening Star, Issue 7250, 29 June 1887, Page 4
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