TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11642, 27 January 1900, Page 10

TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

:The matter for this column is supplied by a representative of the local temperance bodiea t who alone is responsible for the opinions expressed in it.]

The drunkards will never die out— I'll tell you the reason why: The boys, the girls grow up As fast as, old drunkards die.

HOPEFUL WORDS BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

The Archbishop, addressing a garden psirty of temperance workers at Lambeth Palace, said: "The right sort of enthusiasm was not mere emotion, biit wns based on a, great princii)le, which, the more they studied and examined, the more deeply they were convinced of the necessity o"f going on at all costs, and pushing it in every direction. It ira? true tho temperance cause got on'only slowiy, much more slowly than ho expected when first his eyes were opened to its importance. At that time, now a good many years' ago, he did .not think they would have had to go on until now, but the more he had studied it the more he was convinced that the principle was sound, .and that nothing could justify giving up. ' So he was never weary of reminding all workers that though their progress had been slow, yet it was never interrupted, and was still moving onward. Their cause was progressing in numbers, in the character of the movement itself, and in its power over public opinion, and .the public opinion of a great country could only be aftected s.owly. so the very slowness was the guarantee of success. Their cause had on it tho blessing of God, it had behind it all the force that belongs to a great moral principle, and Mas certain, to win, as all great moral principles were. He should like himself to do more for tho temperance cause, but he was obliged to attend to the duties of his office, and these just now were particularly heavy; hut he was heartily ivith their exertions, and he urged them to trust in God and go on."

HOW BREWKR. MONOPOLISTS BLEED THE WORKING- MEN.

It has been reported ,in the Wellington papers that Mr Martin Kennedy sold Bevenoighths of a one-sixth share in, Staplos's Broiyery for £32.000, indicating a total capital value of £220,000.

Meanwhile a correspondent writes to the Christchuroh Press on the price of beer. He says that there has been for some considerable time past a disturbing element among the working men of Christchurch that has, in a very quiet way, become of very intense in-

terest to them—viz., tlio price charged for a pint or glass of ale. The moot point is that the citizens of Chrislehurch have to pay sixpence for a pint of beer, and threepence for a glass, and yet during the past 15 years the brewers can afford to send and pay carriage on their ales to Kaiapoi and other centres more distant ,aud allow the hotelkeepers and v/orkine men's " clubs" to retail v first-elas*

sample at fourpence per pint and twopence per glasa. He'asks the brewers why, while the ordinary necessaries of the working men are gradually cheapened, there has been no reduction in the price of the working men's luxury—a " glass of beer." , ,