THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13662, 28 March 1908, Page 5

THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.

BRITISH ALLIANCE MEETING.

VIGOROUS DEMONSTRATIONS.

MINISTER'S. SPJS3ECR ON THE LICENSING "BILL.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. LONDON, March 27.

The United Kingdom Alliance meeting at Qnoo«*s ttnn* was marked by uproarious procwnlings-. -Numerous opponents of the Lice»tfeii!2 Bill and suffragists wore elected* Mr D. Lloyd-Gt«orge, President of the Board of Trade, urged his hearers to examine tho situation carefully. The Government, ho said, was not in the least daunted by the result of the Peckham election. * The- Government was ready to stake its existence on the stand between tho liquor traffic and the homes it desolated. Tho Peckham result was" more than a political defeat. It was a social portent showing the demoralisation thp liquor > traffic, had wrought. Unless Britain's virility was sufficiently strong ■to throw, off this hypocrisy the nation 1 was fated to the squalid doom of the drunkard. If Ministers knew they would be. expelled from power a fortnight hetico when the division bell came, they would rather fall, and on that fall stand up and begin the fight 'again, for they were only beginning and must see it through. He recognised t¥uv -nobility of the Archbishop of Canterbury's attitude. The Church ought to^ unite on this question. If this great Chwrch. which , was the official guardian of the people's moral interests, took the lead, every no-con-formist church would follow..