TEMPERANCE CLIPPINGS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9343, 6 February 1892, Page 5 (Supplement)

TEMPERANCE CLIPPINGS

j . What Man* Men Cannot Do.—Tiwre'wapS a young man who badbegan to drink wine,. wmT?! was fast becoming a drunkard. -.; He said' to;»s^ Band of Hope" boy, " I can do soniething:t]ii»fc«^ you cannot do," " What is that ?•': asked'iilie rili I3and of Hope boy. "lean," repliedthe wine %ik drinker,''; "take wine and :leavei it alone;'' ?o "Ah"!" saidthe Band of Hope bo^->a:can;<fe:§i something that you cannot do."' \"WhaVig:3 that ?" asked the drinking boy. "I can leave^ -wine alone, which you cannot do." - - ;•/ ftrf _ An Aid that Some Chukcj/bs Discovnlaa Dr How, •; Bishop of Wakefieki, said - at1 i public meeting a few weeks since: "If thereis-S one thing _I care not how often: I protest against, it is the identifying of a church Vith V political party. Temperance is not religion,i*£ but it .to. a vast aid to religion. I thinkthe i * church has been too backward in this matte^v) and has. allowed others to outstrip her to no < small loss of strength and influence. And every effort should be made to withstand the grow- "' ing- passion, for betting and gambling, which is so morally injurious to those who indulge" W-ifc, and go frequent a cause of niiserv to ' others,"..'.■". ■-.-■. ■■■ .■ ..-■•. .■ ■. .:>■•■.■.:"/;..^^ '.-.'■ .Woman's Shade of:PLEAsnnE.—oMrs::Ormi-; •- ston Chant writes.—"l have been a good deal '? of late in some of our remoter villages "and - ;; recent experiences are bringing to :conseioug-;; memory the sad remembiauces of other years H ■:' of;what life means in them. ' Then!- ;;- again, a certain village 0f:,250 souls all told has " ■ hve pubhehouses in it. .'Well, you see, they. S ■ are really.tbe only pleasure places, so to speak; we have,'^Baid one intelligent, careworn-looking woman whose husband spends five out ofhw eleven shillings a'week on drink; , 'it doesn't all go down his throat,' she continued, 'hehas to treat his friends. He isn't often the worse. 1 for it. _And men must have some pleasure in .All their hard -work.' 'And what about - ■ women?' I asked. The first and only smile ; she gave me came then. ' The women aren't "-' supposed to want it. They've to putrup witt^ seeing other, people pleased.'" ; .-./;---- ; •■;:••>; .'%. .' T^ipebanceVßefokm inNokway.—Writing' -ff to an English paper, the Eev; Carl Eltrhbttli >'?v says.:—"The temperance movement inNorway^fe has for many years been a grand success In- ;; ' August'lß9l'the Norwegian Total Abstinence' :;- Society held its twenty-fourth, annual general '"'■' meeting, >at which about- 200 delegates were -;', ■ present. The managers of the society said, in '■■-' '! their annual report :—','At the close of 1889r- ; there belonged to the society (according to the -;" - reports) 801 local unions in 20 districts, with a ' membership of 95,000, men, women, and- .? children. According to the reports from the ' :V managers of the" districts at the close of 1890, ■'* the society had 843 local unions, with a mem- 7 bership of about 98,000, of which about 41,600 '-> ■ are men, 41,300 women, and about-15,000 children.?' This is indeed avery encouraging -■ statement.-1 .In connection Arjth these statistics .' I wish; to call attention to the 'fact that there ■•<; are several other temperance organisations in • Norway, so that there must be many more than' :;-; 100,000 total abstainers in that country at the . present time. When it is remembered that' the . ' pppulation of Norwayis about two /millions - ; strong, it is easy to see that a very large proportion of the Norwegians are totalabstainers r " , EvKft-Ho?EFOrj.-—The Wairarapa Observer of '■- : " the 28th ult., in the course of a lengthy, report. ; ' of a meeting conducted by the Rev. E. Walker ■• v of. the/ N. Z. A;, reports -Mr Walker to have ■ r" * said:—" A larger numbei- than ever of members A .of Parliament are pledged to local option; the ' •' Alliance, measure. passed its second -reading ' ? last sessions and will bo brought in again • the ; Women's Suffrage; Bill was only, lost by two i: * Maori ; votes in the Upper House, and, will again v'^ be. ihtfoduced; the: late" lice:is>mg~ flection '/-^O showed larger polls for pwhibitioii than had :' : ' ever been recorded before; .tho attitude of the press was greatly changed towards ther move- -V' ment; and the prohibitionist newspaper bad a, ,' v more extenisive circulation.; and distribu- ■ ■'■: tion than any; other; newspaper of any - " sort; in,> the y colony, ~: the fortnightly;: issue being upwards of 25,000, and the s/" readers probably /upwards of 75,000;, VThese. vS ; were'-signs of the; times most encouragingly v\ significant. ■' So far as what Mr Walker called ::' the 6tupid argument about prohibition inter- ■••• fering with tfe.liberty of the individual -was' L.;. concerned he said there might be; something in C it if those who did the drinking coulined to ; : ■ themselves, and ' absorbed in themselves • the J ■; consequences,; but as this was not the case, and ' ': never had, .been; and -never could be, but - the ■: ' restiof ,the;cbmmuuity had to pay the cost of •.■!; the pauperistn.and crime, share the commercial : depression aiid>l6ss, alleyiate the misery,'.arid ; -:>? endure the social demoralisation which sprang from the drjuking, they had, in sheer senodefeiice,; a right ?tp a voice and a vote respecting it." . 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