Temperance Column.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 192, 19 April 1902, Page 4

Temperance Column.

f AUVUUTISKM K.\T. 1 (Published by arrangement.)

Waking up the British Workman.

STIRRING WORDS FROM JOHN

BURNS,

Speaking at a meeting of the Stor- | raent Slate Club, in the S torment-road I Lecture Hall, Mr John Burns, M.P, I said : I PREVENTION OF EXTRAVAGANCE. I I want to point out that the proven- I tion of extravagance is the true thrift, I when we have paid our rents and']! disuh irged our da:, es. I regard peouri- I ous thrift as a mistake, and sordid thrift as almost a crime. The mating I of men is h.•.tier laan the hoarding of I money. I THE KIND OF CLUB HE WANTED. I waul a national slate club in th; ! best sense of the word - By these ' societies i here is much to be done, and ought to be done, to inculc-te sobnc y tocuinba drink, to frivolity; l u bauisn lust, and to guarantee leisure I without idleness, and pleasure without sill, and o put an end to self indulgence which has shown such a in irked tendency

to revive. Von may say this is the advice of a Puritanical Killj y. But 1 am fond of enjoyment. lam a healthy man, and want others to be luailhy, The wisest thing a man can make is good health, anil taat eo nes only* trom a rational and dignified satisfaction of our appetites, and the putting under foot rf that which degrades our manhood and reduces some of our fellow creatmos to tile level of the hmte boast. THE DRINK' BILL ; A COMPARISON. .Mr 811 Omu jc ocrcH t p,m,i ~

'i.-rlui ii'um iln-. -;11■ • i uijt .- i.i ~i na’,ii)ii.. 1 drink bill., .H ■; brought. forcible before his hearers .he startling fact that, whilst it had taken the 12,000,000 members of friendly societies fifty years to save £40,000,000, no less than £100,000,000 was spent every year by the nation, in drink. I STRIKES, DRINK, BETTING. They had, continued Mr Burns, heard tirades against the British workman, who was accused of restricting his output. The fault lie had to find with them was their unrestiicted intake. Last year the total amount ol time lost in England from strikes by working men and women averaged half a day per worker per annum. But the amount spent in drink, betting, and sport i epresented from 00 to jdO days per woiker per annum. That accounted for much of the restriction of output, diminution of skill, loss of time, degradation of moral faculties, ami mental incapacity. If they wanted to stop this they must sweep away the bookmaker and the publican.