TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 62

TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

— ♦ ■ [The matter for this column is supplied by a representative of the local temperance bodies, who alone is responsible for the opinions expressed in it.] "We'll never yield the cause as lost — It's God's —no matter what the cost 1 Prohibition is God's way of dealing with all sin, personal or political. Liquor bills are often paid at the lunatic asylum. Old men are drunkards because young men take drink. " Drink no wine " and you will not drink too much. The best of whisky will get the best of you. If we cannot make men sober by law, we can at least Btop making men drunk by law. A teetotaller should cany his pledge hook as a soldier docs his accoutrements. The son of Mr H. J. Wilson, M.P.. is an example of what a temperance worker should be. Outside his house he had a notice board: — "Pledges may be feigned here." Hundreds signed at his hoiue, and started thence on the way to a better life. Tho Birmingham Watch Committee find that the various superintendents of police have been receiving Christmas presents from brewers and brewery companies, and have required the superintendent to sign a paper against the giving and receipt of such presents in the future. It is the " first glass " that brings the murderer to the gallows. It is the " first cigarette" that, produces the cancer ou. the tongue and " tobacco heart." It is the " first bet" that results in the financial wreck of the gambler. THE BEASON WHY. President Hait, of the Chicago Ease Ball Club, selected Waycross, Ga., as the_ training ground for his team this year, and. in giving his reasons therefor, concludes with this significant sentence: "Best of all, the town is prohibition." BEER AS FOOD. A saloonkeeper in England advertised his beer as liquid bread. A number of the English Parliament bought a quart and paid a chemist 15dol to examine it. Two per cent, (about a thimbleful) was really food, 5 per cent, was alcohol, and the remaining 93 per cent, water.—From the Popular Science News. FIRE WATER. The city of Brockton, Mass., has for nearly two months been enduring a reign of terror in incendiary fires=. One day last week circumstances led to tho airest of Joseph E. Stoddard, and, under pressure, he has confessed to having started 21 fires. He admits that tho crimes were all committed after he had been drinking. "I HATE THE SALOONS." While riding in a car in the city of Rochester I made the assertion to an unknown passenger in the same peat with me that all Christians ought to hato tlve saloons. With a look that I can see now he replied: "I am not a Christian, yet I hate the saloons. If Christianity does not make a man hato the saloons it is not worth much. What do you say?" "Amen!" was the reply that came from my lips.