THE USE OF STIMULANTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13839, 27 August 1908, Page 8

THE USE OF STIMULANTS.

Sir,-In your issue of to-day Mr. Goo Co SS on uks replies to the following qu „l tions:— Are public bars a help or a hind ranee to tho country Is this alcoholic drink good or bad tor the subject?" I n renlv j wish to point out that the. use of stimulants in every part of the civilised world, and in nearly all other part,, , 8 the outcome of [ " desire which tho Creator has implanted « human nature, and when legislative measure* are enacted to prevent a natural enjoy,X? men will resort to means that sire m cVfl and which tend, to the demoraif saU on S mankind. The sm is not in the <>. ■■ u\ - the abuse of alcohol. Therefore it it • '" the abuse that our efforts must T,.C "9* in * t Prohibition is no remedy, for it ?W I prohibit, and the closing '„,, of ...' ,e " ." 0t bars would but drive the sin to "Thf *"% more dangerous channels. Thercfe,--. k'i — that the public bar, uad.J.'g^igj-

and whiwfl official* <»-i n!way* enter, »r# absolutely necewiarv- Reform* are necessary, but the aim should be against immoderate drinker?, whoso habit* ■ are *'.-. prejudicial to i themselves, and to the community in general. These persona in not be <$*red by making it, more diffitouU for them W. obt«fe» what tie? want. So long 81 they are determined to get stimnlanfa, get them they will. Men and women can only become pure and self-con-trolled from choice', and not from coercion. i Culture of mind "m& &ml is wanted, _and if men are given something letter to live for, J they will ho longer live for drink.' A* to 1 "whether alcohol is good or bad for the j subject?" what higher authority can man j have than that set forth in the Book of Books—to "be temperate in all things," etc. The gift of the vine is one of God's bjaMtag*. j The. one ia productive of much good: there- ! fore, the proper use is good for the subject. Ada K. Goonsox , * ;