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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXLVI, Issue 4286, 22 July 1899, Page 4

TEMPERANCE. I ♦ [This column is published by t arrangement with the Temperance ' party, by whom it is edited and tonducted] . Dr. L. ""orbes Winslow, late lecturer on insanity at Chariug Oross Hospital, London^ write? :— L " Quite 80 per cent, of lunacy in all i rarta of the world originates in B 'habits of intoxication." " The habitual drunkard's children become insane or themselves inherit tbe malady of their father." , i I Lord Shaftsbury, for 16 years « chairman of the Commisbiou in r. Lunacy says : *' Sixty out of every L hundred come to the asylum through drink." We never hear of the advocates of i the liquor traffic bringing any * evidence to dispute these statements.' "Kansas under prohibition has ' one mile of railroad for every 150 of h?r population, against one mile ) for f ach 700 people in the North Atlantic States. While ihe wealth [ Q of, the United States increased only [ n 50 per cent, from 1880 to 1.890 in j Kansas the increase was 187 per oent." or 1 •! Kansas has more churches, if, sohoolhouses and sober men and • fewer drunkards than any other }t« civilised territory of like size on the >n face of the globe." ld "It seems strange that in this 16 day and age of colleges, school - houses, and churches there still - remains any considerable number of people claiming to be civilised and , yet lacking the common renso to \ choose prohibition instead of any form of legislation of, the liquor traffic" "I know whereof I speak when j) I say that even poorly-enforced prohibition is far better than any license Jaw." Thus writes Governor P. St. John, of Kansas, after 80 jl yews' residence in that State on IQ 16th September, 1898, and our j opponents cannot disprove his st'itev £ meats. ;o At a meeting held last week in » Balclutha, Mr D. Stewart, solicitorof d that town, stated " That ten or vr twelve years ago all the ' storekeeping of that town was carried on in four stores, but business | te was so bad that only two of the 3, storekeepers Furvived in solvent circumstances the days of liquor rale 5, Now ten stores *were carrying on profitable bu c iness Formerly there iy were only two stock and station j agents, now there, were six. Two t • blacksmiths then,' six now. Two )t bakers then, three now. *'Two bootmakers in those days, four in ihese, 3 and fo en." j And still we hear that prohibition has been the ruin of Balclutha. si v - THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO "PAUL." I lately have read in the Hawera Stab^ j if A moat remarkable creed, ; i- Its expressions refined, are merely r a blind i To con.ceal the real doctrine of i Greed. r Self-interest, in fine, abounds in each line, 3 And its falsities simply appal ; ,j; Then who'- would expound such a ,t gospel unsound 7 But a modern brewer named J s • Paul." I My though Is turned to Paul, from " ! Tarsus who came, . Whose writings we love and re- , vere, ' Who declared 'tis our duty the I' I weaker to aid, '* j And their path from temptation to clear. ii 3 Eufc this later light fights a different fight, 1 Upholdirg the cause of the strong, !. Tempting the weakling, ignoring the t right, Growing rich on tbe spoils of the wrong. I And, but I get rid of the liquor I 1 brew, ,4, 4 I care not whose son I eutbral. That many must suffer to enrich the s few I Is the Gospel according to " Paul." But his craft is endangered by Temperance Leagues, Who declared that the " traffic " must fall ; a And this stand they maintain, spite of threats and intrigues Or the Gospel according to j " Paul." _ ' So to Clutha he writes to the Mayor '" so bold, The reply we may read in the "Stae." i- Stating more drink is sold and more t falsehoods told s Than was wont with the public d houßo bar. a 0 But the councillor there a motion b prepare, c And make their own mayor look small ; They carry the motion, denying tbe truth j Of his precious epistle to " Paul." Thpn to scripture he turns, and strange things he learns Concerning our first parents' f ill, L " Out own Ead conditioa is due to l ® Prohibition, Lt Says this Gospel according to a " Paul." il For, but for that tree in the centr .c saith he, c Satan vrouldn't have troubled to call ; God made a mistake !1! such. Te . striction to make, Saith this Gospel accordi «» to " Paul." 8 c Then to Eritcns he turns, Rn d this g patriot (?) burns; y Cling fast to your liberty- a jl f t Vote for liquor, and me, aD d you !• shall be free, r Pleads the Gospel awarding tc n " Paul." 8 But he cannot sway;- t&e voters today With euch sopbjgjwes a^ these ] recall ; - 'Tis liberty, we s ay, serves ou r arm* | for the fr.fiy 1 'Gainst the gospel accordi Qg t( H " Paul. *