Temperance Items

Southland Times, Issue 10142, 19 April 1889, Page 3

Temperance Items

(Inserted by arrangement with the Bouthl*nd Branch of the Women's Christi&n Temperance UDion.)

"THE TRADE'S" BAMPLE3

What other Irade can show the like ? The Agony of Best Lcndon, Coming home we see eome'hing lying ia the road : — 1 It'a only a pooF woman,' said two or three voices out of the darkness, ' Only a poor woman !' replies the helper. ' There lie you and 1 bat for the grace of Gkl. She was not always a drunkard. 1 'She's been like tfei» the last seven weeks,' aaid one of the meu. ' Unfortunately, she is my wife.' We cannot fail to be impre?sed with the awful character of the pubiic-houseß. The drunkard, reeling out -a laughingstock to his companions, who linger by tbß door to wfttch his attempts to walk. Bagged boys and girls waiting for their parents, Men and women mad, and rolling about tbe streets plunging in wildly through the swing doors into tke bars, and coming out again drinking from large pewter pot». Tbe children shiver md, poor things, how they hide from those wretched, furious people t Then come vile words, foul imprecations, angry blows, bitter tears and wails, Howli and shrieks from tbe drunken and foul broke the qniet midnight and early morning. If only our leg alators and great and good men would see the sigkts of poverty, misery, vice, and all other horrible consequencea that come from tae u«e of strong drink, «ure they would ri«3 and dare and decide for the prohibition of this traffic 1 Sure Gol's curve must be upon if", and those who tempt and cause others to sin shall not escape, What honest Christian can doubt it ?