NO-LICENSE COLUMN.

Waikato Independent, Volume XII, Issue 1020, 3 June 1911, Page 3

NO-LICENSE COLUMN.

(Published by Special 'Arrangement.)

TRADES AND LABOR COUNCIL AND DRINK.

Tijl .5 5 r ,d u Dfc o£ the Southland Sl2?i d t abor Council « Mr Jacob Alsweilor, has made a strong pro- ; nouncement in favor of No-license. His experience of Invercrrgill under Nu-hcense led hjm to wiite as follows; bince No-license has been carried I am more than ever convinced that this remedy will work wonders if only given RifnM fie d n nd n ° favor ‘ As instant traveller on the Bluff line, I am simply, I may say, astonished at (he reformation it has effected in the conduct, language aful good order ofStne crowd going home on Saturday nights. Travelling m the trains is now an altoge her different thing to what it was before No-license came into effect. Then nobody was safe from insult, disgusting language and disorderly conduct. Now these things rarely if ever happen. lam only too eorry to think that some of the working classes are w , 5 B l tb,B . reforfn ' which to my mind is for their interests.’* STATESMEN AND^DRINK. If I could destroy the desire for strong drink in the people of England what changes should we iei? We should see our taxes reduced by millions sterling a year and we should see our gaols and workhouses empty we should, see more lives saved in twelve months ti a i are consumed in ?« Cfin . tu T. of bilter an(i Ravage war. We should transfigure and transform the lace of the whole country.—Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain. I don t chrS what kind cf dnpipnmnty it may attract, but (he first stage in-social reform is temper, ance. John Morley, June, 1898. Whether we succeed or whether we fail, to (he cause of local option lam irrevocably pledged.—Sir Wm. Harcoprt. Undoubtedly it would be a happy thing for our country if such a law (Maine prohibbory law) were sought for by the people themselves, and enforced with their own concurrent * ;. • * The struggle of the school, the library, and the church all united, against the beer house and gin pilacc is but one development of the war between heaven and hell.— Chas. Buxton, _ M.lV(a brewer) in North British Review, Feb., 1855. The trade” I hats and blights human happiness, degrades and pauperises, shames, the the purity of W u^ ar ! , .. darkeils lhe home . and makes chi d tifq miserable, teirible and hor.iu ~£ ,r Thoma 3 Whittaker, M.P. the friends of the saloon-kepeers denounce their opponents for not treating the saloon business like any other. The best answer to this in that the business is not like any other business, and that the actions of the saloonkeepers themselves conclusively prove this to be the case. The business tends to produce criminalityinthe population at large and law-breaking along the saloonkeepers themselves. , Whan the !>quor men are allowed to do as they wish, they are sure to debauch not only the body social, but the body political also. The most powerful saloon-keeper controlled the politicians and the police, while the latter in turn, terrorised and blackmailed all other saloon-keepers. if the American people do not control it, it will control mem.—Theodore Roosevelt, 1910. JUDGES ON DRINK.. Public-house are just so many allurements and ambushes, so many traps and pitfalls, in the path of the workmg man. There is not, in my opinion, any question which so deeply touches the moral, the physical and the religious welfare shd the world. Earl Cairns, Lord Chancellor. After forty years at the Bar, and ten years as a judge, 1 have no hesitation in saying that ninety per cent, of the crime of this country is caused by indulgence in drink.—Lord Alverstone, present Lord Chief Justice of England, August, 1909. The case at the bar is the seventv--B!xth murder ca c e ! hßve tried, either as state Attorney or as Judge, during the past nineteen years. I have kept a careful record of each case, and 1 have to,say that in 75 out of the 76 liquor was the exciting cause.—Judge Butler, Cairo, U.S.^. Before the sovereignty of the people m.?il a VV, op . er sway * people must get rid of the sovereignty of the M-bouß e, -Sir Wm. A’Beckett, First Chief Justice of Victoria, ; FCLUB HOI EL, MASTERTON. (By Telegraph-Special to Pahiatua i Herald). Masterton, May 10. This morning Mr T. J. Porter disnf"ti r. , l in^ ereßt and the goodwill ?L th i C , ub Hote1 ’ Masterton, to Mr DougJas, late of Feilding. The latter gentleman is very well-known there ti w!n P ropr,etoir of York Chambers. ItwiUbe a matter for congratulation i to the residents of Masterton that this hostelry, which has been established so long and bears such an excellent reputation, is not, after all, to be closed