TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11398, 15 April 1899, Page 8

TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

£Th. matter for ** Xc^V ™"SoS^th..opuiiou. expressed in it.] . .....-■■

Wb'll never yield the cause as';lost--iT's God's -/o matter what the cost I

WHEN ROGUES FALL O^T. The druggists of Frankfort, Ky., were rt. cently indicted at the instance of the saloon men for selling/liquor without a prescription and fined heavily in the city court. , In retaliation the druggists are keeping an eagle eye on the saloonmen, with the result that neither a : drug store nor a saloon is ofcen on »undajr. ' ii.. '

AN IMPOKTANT OPINION.

'f ho Assistant Attorney-general of thft United States has rendered aft opinion in which he holds thai, it is the duty of the various boards of education to enforce the law passed by Congress May 20, 1896, that makes the study of alcoholism with reference to its effects upon the human system a .compulsory branch of Btudy not only in the public schools of the territories, but in the various Indian schools wherever located, and in the naval and military schools of the United States. Teachers also must pass a, satisfactory'examination on this special subject if they have not already done so.. ■ ■-,-. ::- r: ;

HOW TO SUCCEED. . ; ''■ ~ Mr E. J. Nankivell. Is writing a series ol articles in the " Roporters' Magazine "■' (of which he is the. editor) on " How to Succeed on the Press," and in the September number says.»n reference to the formation of. a library:—"The rising journalist or student who does not waste his shillings on drink or vile tobacco can pften afford suoh luxuries as the swiller and the smoker have to deny thetrtselves of." ■' . ■' ■■'• ' • ■' .

WHEN AND HOW THE MAINE LAW - ' WAS ENACTED. ;

"The first law to suppress the ialoons-r* passed in 1849—was vetoed by the, Governor. The next year the bill was passed.through one House of the Legislature, but failed in the Senate, in 1851 the irresistible Dow—then •Mayor of Portlandr^-went tip to, Augusta with his bill in his pocket, and although the Legislature had a Democratic majority, the pill ,weht through the lower house by I vow of .81' to 40, and in the Senate by 18 to 10. Governor Hubbard signed it promptly, and' Mayor Dow at once gave notice to the liquor sellers of Portland to hurry their " pizen '■ - out' of town, or it would be seized, arid confiscate forthwith, fhe wholesale,- trade ceased i'i1 stantly ; the retail shops soon closed. ■'■-~

DOCTORS,—ATTENTION r

u«o.of, liquor as,a medicine is discountenanced more. d.nd more, by reputable, physicians. One of the leading, physicians of. New York, Dr. A. Monae Lesser, head surgeon of the Red Cross Hospital of New York,'was in Cuba in'the hospitals at arid near Santiago. He says.: —" The results pf non-alcoholic treatment were very markedly favourable. As an experiment, and a concession to the general irieaical opinion that prescribes alcohol, on our first arrival I allowed alcohol to be given to six whose condition was suchas, in' the judgment of most medical men, to make the administration of alcohol desirable. To my great sorrow, four out of those six died. Afterward in treating, absolutely without alcohol, 63 cases of those same diseases of which so many thoußands ;have died, we lost but one patient, who died on the day of eritrance." .. '.''"■ .'• ; ,-V>Y .'-,,'

i'KJSNCH VIEWS OF TEMPERANCE,

The French Minister for Public IristructioJk issued last-year a deoree imposing" on' all schools,whether for boys or girls, the necessity of giving lessons on the evils of intemperance. Le Signal says that the policy of. this decree has been actively forwarded by the' University of Toulouse, which is at the head of'education throughout a district which contains overlo,oo.o teachers. It has.divided this district' into 40 sections,, and summoned all the teachers in each\tb hearan address on temperarioe teaching. A University prize: will be annually awarded; to the schoolmaster most successful in his temperance lessons. ' Last year one schoolmaster at' Toulouse, ;Mr Jilbaut, enrolled as pledged abstainers 1008 young folks between the ages of 12 and 16.

;-'s^ prjohibitiqn; iiji^ Vermont. ; :■ '^As apropos to., tHe. miErepteeeniation thai is abroad with regard to thie; views of the people of Vermont - int thei matter, of. their prohibitory; law, we quote the following from the Free Press of Burlington in that State :-!- .'■•" Everywhere the traffip has .been driven behind closed 'doors'. ' Np" signs"' of.' liquors for sale, or arrays of whisky bottles in the windows, have tempted. the man who was endeavouring.to control' hie appetite. The .person who wanted liquor, has had. to go in search of it.-.. It has not been offered to him uniought.' Moreover, when" told, that, it ; was a' 'foolish; l^w^.'.^Kis ( i.yMmontefß' likve iqoksd outside "their.; Staii"fo.;se6;;hpW."'.licenße''liiws were working elsewhere., :i have noted more evidences'of prevailing intemperance in States and cities having,license laws than in Vermont. They have Beeathat high-license laws are elsewhere as extensively, violated as the prohibitory law is here. They hive, in cities where the granting of licenses depended on the board of aldermen,' seen' such boards constituted, as in Chicago, almlost'wholly of liquor;dealers. Where,' as in Massachusettß, licenses have been alloted by boards'of special license commissioners, they have;seen .local politics run up the rum issue, and boards; composed of men who sought the office of commissioner for the money there was in it, wno gave out licenses to the greatest number, and to the dealers who >ybuld piu up the most money to go into the pockets of the oommiosioners^tho,dealers recouping themselves by indiscriminate sales to minors and.drunkards, on Sundays and week days, and of the cheapest, poorest, and most maddening liquor-. They have seen places, such as some of tne Canadian cities, where the license system has been under as fair control as was deemed possible, so suffering from pauperism and crime fostered by the saloons thai, strong iridvements in favour of- prohibition have arisen in them. Influenced by such practical considerations, as well as to a large.extent by principle, the people of.-Vermont have suitained the law.;1 no attempt to repeal or weaken it having come within Mauser-rifie shot ot succeeding.1' ■ '_ ;■ • -''■'■,:,

A. LETTER WORTH ATTENTION.

310UU iHOM LAUV UAKMSLU XU BAYJS ««■ -" .I/- :. •'-' ' BOYS ■' "- ]' Naworth Castie, ;,.■,.,, Carlisle, September 21, 1898. Dear.Mr Hayler,—t send to the league, 'with this letter, a cheque of £500 (five hundred pounds), to be spent during the next few years on special Band of Hope work, according to the scheme lately under the consideration of the committee. '.I give this money as a thank offering, because I have the blessing of knowing that my son Hubert, whom I have just los><. in the Soudan, at the early age of 27, was,. during his short but eventful span of life*. faithful to, the total abstinence pledge, which lie took when he was 10 yours old. It ■ was in the Lanercost School at a C.E.T.S. meeting, in the latter end of 1881, that my boy joined the temperance ranks. I enrolled myself after the meeting wa? over (for though a life abstainer I was nopledged before), and I then turned to my children who were beside me, and asked them if they would like to join. Hubertanswered, " Let me first think, .a little while." I did not press him; 1 let him go out into the still night by himself,' and I waited, and after 'a while he came bac': and said, " I wish to sign.";.'.He loved tna Band of Hope and temperance, meetings, and in those boyish days he was a gresS recruiter for the. Band of Hope force Steadfast he remained as he grew older, and steadfast he .died.. Wi|th. such steadfastness and staying power in the young men of this generation, we should soon wivi ouv temperance battle., 1 know 'that- .fc'l the boys in our north of England (whsra Iks the work of our league) dearlj loy» generous daring, and splendid courage on fields of battle, or in the world of adventure,' and would' that they might learn to honour and to follow, even as much, tha-t greater courage which belongs to those who have striven in everything to be true to righteous manliness, and who, fighting '.heir good, fight and winning their victory, show us how glad and glorious a thing i* foung manhood when blended with innocence.

There is something better than meTe gne.< in a parent's heart, if the soul Un&j has flitted from our earth has kept unspotted the white robes of infancy even ;t« tlw last. —Yours sincerely, ; ■

Rosalind UAKirs..

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