TEMPERANCE BUDGET.

Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 6 November 1890, Page 31

TEMPERANCE BUDGET.

[Published under Arrangement with the New Zea-

land Temperance AUiauce.J

Moving On —After years of hard fighting the Walruff brawory, at Lawrence, Kansas, which employed 12 men, has bean closed. It is now occupied as a shoe factory, employing 100 men and women. Nobody hurt by the exchange, and the community blessed with more shoes and more employment. The breweries must go 1

Don't Ruin It Very Much.— Prohibition may not be much of a success, but as long as Prohibition States show such a record aa the following, it can't be aaid that Prohibition ruins a State :— ln the S L ate of Maine 20 years ago 19 out of every 20 farms were mortgaged, while now not more than one in 20 is so encumbered. In 18G8 about 1800 writs of foreclosing were issued. Last year not more than five. — Wisconsin Prohibitionist.

How to Lessen Dbonkennhss. — In his Blue Book for last year Captain Munro says he is struck by the beneficent effects of the early closing of public houses throughout the country, and regrets that it is not more general, "as it would also have relieved the polioe in large citioa and boroughs aarlicr in the night to attend to the very important duty of patrolling and watching." The effects of the measure in the county of Aberdeen he characterises as " moat satisfactory." Where it is a Luxury to be a Policeman. — "While at Topaka for throe days, including Christmas, I aaw but one drunken man. A coloured policeman, who hag been in the force nine years, gives conclusive testimony in favour of the law. _ Formerly there were frequent calls from pitiable wives and crying children for help to take a drunken husband or father from the saloon. The destitution, sufferings, and wretchedness in the homes of the rumoursßd were eaough to melt a heart of Btone. The policeman's shrill whistle calling foi help to carry a ' drunk to the cooler ' was almost constantly beard. Under prohibition it is a sort of luxury to be a policeman. I interrupted this flow of praise with the query, • Then you can really perceive a difference between Topeka under the saloon and Topeka under prohibition?' 'Yes, sahl' How much difference?' ' As much difference, aah, between whisky Topeka and prohibition Popeka as there is between a mean, skulking Binnah, and a bright, shinning Christian."— The Friend. American Correspondence. Why Hobaoe G-beeley Became an Abstainer. — " One day, in answer to my question when and why he became a total abstainer, he very pleasantly narrated that in his earliest boyhood he had eeen enough of the effeots of alcoholics, and especially in the form of rum and oider, to make him very decidedly resolve, though he had never heard a word about temperanoe, never to let a droD of that vile Btuff enter bis blood, and tho>-e never did. There was not a family in that neighbourhood, ftnd be believed not in the town, that did not drink, at leaßt, the liquors he had mentioned— with the result, a toper in every family. On his twelfth birthday his mother, who, with half a dozen women in town, never drank any kind of alcoholics, addressed to him privately the first temperance leoture that he heard. She pointed out the e\ile suffered all round them from the use of intoxicating drinks, and asked him if any sensible boy would allow such a habit to fasten itself upon him. When he told her that he had noticed and thought of all these things long before, and had fully resolved ne\ er to taste liquor, ehe caught him in her arms and hugging him to her kissed him repeatedly, bathing his cheeks with tears ; then reaching for the Bible she placed his right hand on it and awore him never to taste any intoxicating liquors."— Dr T. S. Lambert. Wanted the Prevention of the Introduction of the Cause — The Tomperanoe Chronicle publishes a letter from the Bishop of Melanesia (Dr Selwyn), who says that among the islands of the Pacific what is wanted is not bo muoh the repression ol intemperance as the prevention of the introduction of its oauße :— " As yet our islands have Buffered very little from this curse, and the natives have, curiously enough, displayed but little predilection for ardent liquor. But here and there a few unprincipled traders have used it for barter, with the ÜBual results, though I am bound to say that, as far as I know, most of those engaged in the trade have steered clear of the temptation. .... Something may be done, and haß been dope, by the Governments of Queensland and Fiji, by legislation, and it is the voteia at the poll who legislate. We do not want grandmotherly laws which restrict enterprise and hamper intercourse. You cannot put peoplea ioto bandboxes wrapped up in cotton wool. They must learn to stand against ordinary temptations if they are to stand at all. But some things which are known evils, which have been tried again and again, and have always brought ruin in their train, which from Queensland to New Zealand, from the coast of Guinea on the west to its newer namesake on the east, have ever been attended by demoralisation and decay ; these, such as gunpowder, arms, and drink, the English peoples everywhere should declare contraband of trade. But legislation itself is powerless without publio opinion is behind it ; and it is to the formation of this that I hope your efforts will be more and more direoted. For this will he no mean aid to your own special work at home."

THK PBOHIBITIONIST'S FLABK.

i I've shot more I tigers and grlz- | zly bears than ever infested cinons or laiis; I've ctught mure ftehes than all my confreres, broken more heads than Thomas and knocked out Sullivan ; I've Inßp : red more fervi'nt prayers than yonder deacon, who puts on airs and wouldn't touch me with the hand that prepares the sacred wine for the sacristan, I •. r.idnat'i young mw in r>\irß. Masters of Vice, from loathsome Ja!r3, prineip Oly furnished with bottomless ohafr». whpre the Hnifcp m-efc» fc he man and enters bis soul unawares. Tlipu the tongue Is blistered with swears and the bosom, whern dwelt the Penates and Lares, a gmwing snake with a vulture shirßs, and whenever the folio wing legend glares stands a pit- Hi victim fowirig tares • ' : till the lip thatcluigto -IPUItB OLD RYRJ Beauty's dsros only •„. : mine own tn press, that " wears a stolid grin, whil^ the youth declares I have a sweeter month than all the fairs, and they were many, that gave him theirs. Then the soul iwakenn and turns and stares on its horrible gupst and. seem)?, detpiirs, wailing ever: "Too late! Who csires ? Another glass 1 " whi'e the gas-light Hires 38 if a spirit had crfpt down-stairs, and fought with Death at the barriers to cry aloud : "My BOtil Mv son I Thy mother cares 1 ' — OHATHVHB 0. LOOM.

A whale 45ft long has been stranded op the bpach at New Plymouth, and secured jby the Maoris,