THE APPEAL TO CESAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11162, 7 September 1899, Page 6

THE APPEAL TO CESAR.

TO THE EDITOR. 0$ Sir,lt was said by them of old time thiipw tho "love of money is the root of all evil." But now Drink has "struck out the top V line" and reigns as the Sin-producer. ' All who drink are drunkards, habitual, ! casual, or rudimentary, differing in degree, ''IS but, so long as liquor lasts, co-eternal. iiM Wherefore it is our duty to deprive each ffe other of the wherewithal' to pet drunk «.pl This is the Prohibitionist faith, which "X- |/ cept everyone do keep whole and undefiied;lf without doubt he shall perish everlastingly, <i) Far and wide on Citizen Sunday was ifci!?j§| Gospel preached. And it came to pass, also, :®! towards the , close of that memorable day,'!! that hundreds—nay. thousands—of men and ; H women were recitinz the 101 th Psalm It- 5 .® is not precisely the kind of hymn to find a.'fl place in the Prohibitionist collection. For Ira a~-uredly between 'he Prohibitionist brand M and , the wine referred to in verse 15 of thal'%] f'l-Lfjff of thanksgiving, there must U'» a large difference, because mo=t of us know "il tS "?Pf" en « that the former neither;! muketh glad the neart of man." nor has it i II plrt of oil" Ctorr hearin ? upon that "'ha & P™l L anatomy, respecting which SiW For th ° anXl - m the case of Timothv. if For the propagation of his creed the Pro- ! upon°force 140 ° W Mnh «»»«fan, refajl He endorses in part that sarins of a ere#ll Austrian statesman about bayonets s. tuts ssS ® '£•'« I Lacking the acumen of that old <tate=nan if'* wni h - ™ I ever Be for = etM ' f he 1 1 even'hino «i-« « J ln deed in almost i'jsS crarinV for „ n °wadave (except virtue) tie We cannot S become a disease.*f?M e cannot make haste slowly. To -often ti 7Z Snne V ? veeten aur morals"instead} J l h m e p oth,n? «*<*»«* of the purling?® potaLf?T. lOn lour Prohibitionist's pel i i flood, force on '^ e mountain torrent in wig Vr/fHiW. course, impetuous, 1 like ttrong drink-raging. M cifcTitV' l Pifteatl y to teach each 5® nolnkSrt v part of his duty towards his 7 temno Ur i!" ''is own body in- fe 2"»«• So ¥"l e?J . and chastity is all that tn ow So tedious, indeed, fMI aid- en a 7 Il . roue to <*-!' up adventitious aids ?me f orcmg apparatus or other, whose 1 operations do but serve largely to discounts® the old lovely influence of home. For M and of Hope and temperance leagues (lite Wi oimday-fcuoois) do wean thousands of chil- W. »en from homes »rher? the atmosphere is +S: not pernicious and make them sit at any #| eet but mother Xar, more, and worse, 0.:®? possible. Am lust the tinsel glare and cusb of Bands o Hope and such-like hot-beds §M they are breeding bands, of pert little prigs. M oo that indeed, one is hard put to it to find fS| amidst their rank? that most delightful of «8 i|S bod creatures, a modest, polite, retiring few child. Every inducement held out to father and j;® mother to shirk their most sacred duties! ,U; every device to lure away the child. then, with Pecksniffian snuffle and most damn* able inconsistency we bemoan the decadence of homelife ! ' "§£s Nevertheless, there are supposed to be vantages. Ministers of religion assure U;, ■- j : \r with great unction, that, here and there, -MJ they "got at" the parents through the chil--dren. That is to say, they have failed to,;|p uphold the old order. And they are not as- j§Jj hamed to admit it. " Foremost in the ranks of these bnrglir».<i|J® Diilce Domum stands your Prohibitionist, But his tools are proving unsatisfactory. ;.,.J distrusts his own efforts. He has even coop ~-,y to doubt the virtue of that great temperaacj'mM society set up by Him who once was called ;;v Salvator Mundi. ' And so, as a last resource, he takes ftjj-'jSjg sword. From pulpit and from platform, wit" strident voice, he bids us put our trust ffl > |j& princes, for there is help in them. AfP«* to Csesar ! He is the Great King upon the earth ! (There was a man once who made the same . r appeal. But the verdict of the Court !r?f§P was that he might have been set at liberty g if he hadn't.) - Well, let the appeal once more be |e| to Ossar. And let the decree go forth ; jgj; all the world shall be sober. Truly the nSj tions have furiously raged together over taß&ga matter. But in expecting large results it not be found that they have imagine" vain thing ?—I am, etc., BcoJO*-