TEMPERANCE.
(Published by arrangement -with the iflr.O;T.U.) A STUBBORN FACT. Life insurance societies have provided the Temperance advocate with many splendid arguments and illustrations in favour of abstinence. They have clearly demonstrated that 1 ' the teetotaller lives longer than the' moderate drinker of alcohol. Yet, little over fifty years ago, insurance societies looked on abstainers as they now look upon publicans —as hazardous cases. Mr Robert Warner, an abstainer who died the other day at the advanced age of eighty-one, wds refused insurance, unless on payment: of an extra premium, simply because he was an abstainer. Convinced that the insurance company was ignorant of the true position of matters, he refused to have his life “ loaded,” find Conferred with some friends on the subject. The result was the formation of the United Kingdom and General Provident Institution. Mr Warner held the first policy, and acted as chairman to the Board for more than fifty years. What progress has been made since Mr Warner was treated as “an extra risk ! ’ Truth marches slowly to victory, but gets there. — The Good Templar (Glasgow).
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Southern Cross, Volume 5, Issue 30, 30 October 1897, Page 11
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181TEMPERANCE. Southern Cross, Volume 5, Issue 30, 30 October 1897, Page 11
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