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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5730, 27 October 1905, Page 6

A NATIONAL DANGER, DR INGRAM, Bishop of London, in addressing a gathering of clergy at St. Paul's Cathedral, declared that it was impossible for him to describe the dismay with which he viewed the diminution in the birth-rate in England and Australia. The Bishop said it was necessary to summon the forces of the Church to stem this gigantic evil." —(Vide cablegram daily press, October Apropos of this si remarkable article appears in tlie “Pevue Scientilique/ irom the pen of M. Fournier de'Haix. The author presents statistics are' startling in their conclusions. XTauce has for man}- years been ali’lictccl witli the lowest birth-rate in the world, but Mew Zealand is rapidly approximating immoral France in this respect. .Xiats prohibition anything to do with it? M. do I‘laix demonstrates by tabular statistics affecting every department* in France, and also all other countries, and these show that the birth-rate is lower and the death-rate higher where the consumption of alcohol is small. It is further argued from these figures that neither criminality nor suicide is in proportion to alcoholic consumption. In the Seine et Oise the consumption of alcohol is just about half what it is in the Seine Xnferieure, yet the suicide rate is double the former. .In England, again, mere alcohol is consumed than in France, and v«c in France the birth-rate the death-rate, the statistics of crime and suicide are lc«s favourable than in England. The comparisons of all other countries in Europe show analogous results. The conclusion of AT. de Finis is that it is the nations with the most vital powers, the greatest wealth, and’the best morals who consume the most alcohol in moderation. As it is with nations so it is with individuals. Take note of the prohibitionists and of .the moderates among us. We have a high average utandui d of wealth in New Zealand, but wo have a high average standard of comfort, and, rightly or wrongly, I)r Ingram says, “the miserable doctrine of comfort is the curse of the present day." If we become more abstemious we will become less moral.- less vigorous. Let us then abjure prohibition and all its methods.

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