THE I.O.G.T. VOTE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 875, 28 August 1879, Page 2

THE 1.0.G.T. VOTE.

THE 1.0.'G.T. VOTE. The Good Templer order is coming to the front in the present political opportunity. We have received a printed manifesto signed by the C.W.C.T. and G. W.S., which is to be read in all lodgerooms, and which is a trumpet-call for united action. The order in Napier, we are informed, commands a respectable number of votes, and will probably unite on this question. The following is an extract from the circular referred to : — ( ( We must seek to impress the candidates who ask our suffrages with the earnestness of our convictions, and the determination of our purpose. What to us — . what to the moral and social well-being of the Colony— what to our children and the future— will be the moßt satisfactory adjustment of political parties, * and the, settlement of the .many question by which politicians are so much exercised, if the gin fiend is allowed still to prey on society— wasting its resources, crippling its efforts, desolating its homes, .blasting and withering the character and reputation of thousands of its children ; if that traffic, which Senator and ex-Go-vernor Morril, of Maine, fittingly denouncedss "the gigantic crime of crimes,' is allowed to run rampant through the land every day and nearly |every hour of the day, claiming yet another victim to be added to the interminable "Devil's chain V t During the past five years this Colony has direatly spent or lost on intoxicating liquors and their consequence not less than fifteen Million Pounds Sterling !! ! Who shall estimate the suffering and sorrow, the want and woe, which this ruinous expenditure of our resources has induced 1"