TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14897, 28 July 1910, Page 2

TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

MB. WINSTON S.- CHURCHILL AT • SOUTHPOBT. ;■.■ Bead Charles Booth—and many of you have done it. .. . - : . ' . ' His account of the mean streets ami eonio of tha London slums is like a supplement to Dante's Inferno. The vary poor lead lives in a firmament of despair, unbroken by a gleam of joy. Yes, live where the fumes of alcohol edristitute their sole substitute for hope. Have the Free Churches, have all the churches no responsibility for .that? ("Yes.") Too wretched to murmur, too feeble to cry for help. I say the churches of tie land —with this misery hovering around thoustately temples—unless they can prove that they have spared no sacrifice, no effort of theirs to dispel it, yea, to cleanse' the knd of greed of man, if they cannot .provejtliis,- then responsibility muet ever rest on the altars of their faith and upon the bared heads of those who have bowed before them.—(Loud cheers, during which the hou. gentleman resumed his seat). CHANGE IN 'MEDICAL OPINION. .' They had seen, since the Temperance Hospital was established 35 years ago''»!i enormous change in medical opinion:" Instead of the,prescription "of alcohol for every sort of contradictory state of the body, they now found a general conS3iisus of judgment. /that it must be restricted to special cases. It was some-' hmg to have broken down a superstition to have pricked a bubble that had been-' a tremendous incubus on their. nationallife for so long. To have shown that ;n nil serious grave accidents' and cafes of emergency they had been able to bring the patients round without the use of' stimulants was invaluable.—Sir Thomas Barlow, M.T). r.t the annual inset-in- of 'e Tiondon Temperance Hosoital, March 29, 1909. " ' COMAI ONWEALTH. EXPENDITURE Tho_. following estimates are from tin New South Wales Statist, and relate t< the Commonwealth of Australia :— Alcoholic liquors £14,500.00 Bread ' 7,250\G0 Sugar 3,750.00fea. ■■ 2.000,000 State school education ... ..'. 2,214,81: Railways and tramways 7,769,38? Post Office,' telegraph, and telephones ... ... .-2;576.m DRINKING DETERIORATES ■ ■ • . ' PROGENY. > "That the physiological transgression of the parent should initiate organic ui generation in his family, whose impair ments tend to eliminate his offspring froii the sphere of active life and" torminat .the tainted -stock, is a natural law i which there is much obvious good. Bir it.must not be forgotten that,'in liintermediate stages of ; the process, t! results of intemperance include a ser'n of constitutional imperfections' in pi; teiity, far short of anything, of which !■!■ law takes cognisance, out none the kfat'al to sound conceptions of life am duty, and incompatible with right co duct and good citizenship."—Dr G. T Wilson, in his work on "Drunkenness. PROGRESS IN SWEDEN. On January 1 of this year the Unit? Total Abstinence Societies of Swede opened a bureau of temperance inform. tion at 19 Tunnsigatan, Stockholm. Ti remarkable, thing is that the" Swcdif-' Parliament voted the money for'its mai:tenance. What-a good and statesman]! 1 "thing it would be if the Australian P liaments would do likewise! UNITED STATES" DRINK BILL . .LOWER, The revenue for the' United States fo the fiscal year 1809 was one million 1c? from whisky and £500,000 less from be though the population increased half million. .-; •