TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

Evening Star, Issue 11068, 21 October 1899, Page 4 (Supplement)

TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

[The matter for this column is supplied by a representative of the local Ten.perapce organ! sations, who is alone responsible for the opinions therein expressed.—En. E.S.] We'll never yield the cause as lost— It's God's—no matter what the costl READ WIHAT SIR WILLIAM GULL, , M.D., SAYS 4 " All things of an alcoholic nature injure the nervous tissue pro tempore, if not altogether.", "Not even the temperate would benefit as regards the intellect by even a slight use of alcohol." " Alcohol is a most deleterious poison." " Typhus and other fevers may be cured without alcohol." "I hardly know any more potent disease than alcohol." " A very large number of people fall into the error every day of believing that alcohol gives strength."

STOPPING THE WORKHOUSE TAP. Mr John Mann, of the Lambeth Board of Guardians, speaking in that borough recently, pointed to what could be achieved in the intrests of temperance on boards of guardians. When first he became a member of the Lambeth Board over £I,OOO a year was expended in intoxicating liquors, but mainly through his efforts now scarcely anything was spent. SHINE WHERE YOU ARE. Would you have" the world better and brighter? Then light*up the way as yo.u go; Make some little part of it lighter Wiih beams from your life's steady glow. Make the world you live in your debtor, As through it yon journey aloiiif; Be t;ood, and the earth will grow better; Do right, and the right will grow strong! ELECTION COURTESIES. lii his early days, while a struggling breadwinner. Abraham Lincoln had for a time been a barman.. In his contest with Judge Douglass, in 1858, for a Senatorship, he was twitted with the fact before a popular audience. In his reply, he said: " Judge Douglass has accused me of having been a bartender. It is true. I cannot deny it. But the only difference between Judge Douglass and me is this: I tended the bar on the inside, he tended it on the outside. I soon quit tending the bar; Judge Douglass hasn't quit vet." SUGGESTIVE-VERY. A lovely place, within easy reach of London, and undoubtedly one of the prettiest spots in Hertfordshire, is Bricket Wood, near Watford. The owner of a good deal of the property is a son-in-law of Sir W. Lawson," who is turning some of the mns into public-houses of the right sort. One of them bears the significant sign of the •: Old Fox with his Teeth Drawn." A DRUNKARD'S DESCRIPTION. (Published in 1646.) 1. The Annoyance of Modesty. 2. The Trouble of Civility. 3. The Svjoiler of Wealth. 4. The Detraction of Reason. 5. The Brewer's Agent. 6. Tavern and Alehouse Benefactor. 7. The Beggars' Companion. ! 8 The Constable's Trouble. 9. His Wife's Woe. 10. His Children's Sorrow. 11. His Neighbors' Scoff. 12. His Own Shame. 13. A Spirit of Sleep. 14. A Picture of a Beast. 15. A Monster of a Man. 16. His Country's Ruin. PROHIBITION IN KANSAS-EXPERI-ENCES AT TOPEKA. The enforcement of the Kansas Prohibitory Liquor Law has undoubtedly fallen far short of perfection in the days gone by ; but everv year brings valuable experience to the aid of'reformers, and a determined effort is now being made to secure a more efficient administration. A powerful pamphlet, setting out the voluminous and elaborate provisions of the law, and the best methods of putting them in operation, is being widely circulated. A few points from the prohibitory statutes will prove interesting. Before a druggist—who must be a registered pharmacist—can obtain a permit to sell he has. amongst other things, to file a petition, signed by twenty-five reputable' voters and by twenty-five reputable women over twenty-one years of age, setting out that the applicant is a person of good moral character, and does not use intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and can be entrusted with the responsibility of selling the same. The applicant has not only to prove the truthfulness of every statement in the petition, but he has to advertise notice of it in the newspapers for thirty days before it is considered, and any citizen may appear and cross-examine the applicant, and call evidence against his application. What an excellent provision this would be here, if made operative in all cases of applications for licenses! All places where the prohibitory law is violated are declared to be "common nuisances," and the offenders are punishable bv fines of not less than 100 r.or more than 500 dollars, and by imprisonment of not less than thirty nor more than ninetydays. Section 40 of the Prohibitory Law provides that "one who takes charge of and provides for any intoxicated person may recover reasonable compensation from the person who furnished the liquor causing intoxication, and, in addition, sdol per day for each day the intoxicated person may be kept by hiiii in consequence of such intoxication." Here the drunkard-maker is made liable for some of the responsibility which our Acts providing for inebriate asylums, and so forth, cast upon the whole community. The following section provides that " every wife, child, parent, and guardian, who is injured in person, property, or means of support by any intoxicated person, or in consequence of the intoxication of any person, may recover actual and exemplary damages the person who furnished the liquor causing intoxication." A very valuable provision is found in section 59. It says: " When a relative or guardian of any person notifies a drugigist that such person uses liquor as a beverage, and forbids the druggist to furnish him liquor, it is a misdemeanor for the druggist thereafter to furnish such person liquor on any terms whatsoever."