TEMPERANCE NOTES

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13966, 16 August 1919, Page 6

TEMPERANCE NOTES

(By "Aja«.")

1... Wlia* is the mask .powea*fud force in. the world? This quesitdoin wa6 asked more than two thousand y^ars ago> by lam Eastern) potenitiaite. rlhe firsfc ajnewer wao "Womem, btcaus© by their guile they can, miaka 111 em> do aaiything. 33 The second aioswer was ''Sfcrong| drink, because ■ when; uindea 1, ifts iniluenoe miein would do tixe will of anyone." The third answer was '.'The^KfiDigs, because he wa,s all poiwelr 1 ful over 1 tiie acition. of his bUibjeotls," The fourth and' stuctcesslul answer was "The truth, because the King! and ail others miusifc give way toi it, and' it muisib be the foundiaitdoni of all power.' 3

The weaifcnieise of the Liquior tara.^& is that it is ikepifc going, by miisr stateiraen't'sl aaiid eubitieirfugieig.' Ovst sdi-

di«r boys were tbld the Prohibitdopiiisitis ■wanted tiostieai a> miardh.and get tiheir fad by a oatcih vote, bulb the "Wojwseirs" were the ixnsifc to insisltj that tlhe eoldder eifooaiild haive tihcdr vote.

Mr J. 'H., Wajtlts, Maycw rof Hamdlteaai (himiseilif ta returaed soidiecr) reoenutly stated tibait th© r'etumeid mem would make tiiedr influeinice feib in ouadxeddonal polittdcs. This would be ai di&itiiniciti ganm ta tihei ocymiaunity even to tthe eactemft o(f having a. majority of ouf iuemibeirsi of Pairliaimeiiit reit^iinied saldiens. These meax have "been br-oademed by; tbnaivei in other landsi and cami look aiti the lairgw probtems dHspaiSßiionaitely. Thei eleotrificaitiwm of our i-ailway^. The coint'iy>l of our siliippng, locial and oversea. The poiioy of roiaiS-miaMngi, and waterways. Eduicarbdooi and technical training 1, beisiidesi mafny ortihers-

Oanada 'is to spend tihe huge sum/ of ome hjundirfed and sixty miiUkuzi: ipouinds on repaftiriaitiiion. She seems to be doing the job tjhoiroiu,gjhly. Are wer going 5a do likewise. The money now sjpenitl oni our. lßquior' bill would pay vh& linißeresih om -tibia amount.

When) asked whaiitt is the drinik Ball We say, beitweetni foiur a>nd five mdllidm pounds per year, biuitl tlh,aifc is only tihe wiholesale cositl. TKe retail, whiiicih is the real ooßti to' the peopile, has beens putt dlowm at beltweeni ten, and fifteen. mdllioni poiundsi per yeajr. •

The money oosb of this trade ifif grfeaiti, but .the loss to us iia braini power' and mioirai force cannot "be estinaiaited. We knoiw the best and brightest gio down befox'© its insidiousi power. Thene dis only .one "force that cam onrarooanei llti, airid tihaitf is, puiblio

opinion exipiresKed at, the ballot box. I® youa* namfe: oni th© roll so you can help vote tilxls demoni omt? If you ano not isuirei see to it now.