TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5399, 3 August 1896, Page 3

TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

The Prohibition fight must be getting pretty lively in Christchurch, Mr O. Lonisson, the brewer there, haa challenged the Rev, L. M. Isitt to discuss prohibition in Kansas. The champion has accepted, and there will be a warm time,

The people of Kansas are largely afarming community, andso wedded •are they to prohibition, on account of its actual and lasting benefit to the State at large and to the individual in particular, that the various changes in the'party government of have never had the slightest offect in abolishing the Prohjbitpry law.

Says the New York Observer: — "An item is going the rounds of the press to tho effect that whisky is now manufactured out of old rags. We see nothing remarkable about this, Every one knows that nearly all the old rags now in the country are manufactured out of whisky, and there is np apparent reason why the process of conversion may nqfc work as well one way as another; from whisky to rags and from rags to whisky, What a beautifol business it'isl

Speakingat the Army Temperance Association gathering at London, Field Marshall Lord Roberts, V.C., said: —"l think yon will agree with me that 1 am justified in using the words ' happiest results,' when I tell you that before I left India, three years ago, and just five years after the Amy Temperance Association had been established, out of the 69,000 British soldiers in that foiintry, nearly one-third were members of the Association. One andjll of you are, I know, jnst nflgKsious to see crime in the diminish, and one and all of you aro as well aware ns I am that crime and drink go together, If there were no drunkards in the army thjsre would bo but little or no crime, let p assure yon, officers and comrades, that after many year's experience of this particular subject, that the only way to lessen crime in the army is to oncourage tho Army Temperance Association,"

Speaking at Melbourne, Archdeacon Langley I said: —"Drink wa Jinked with nil jforms of evil. Gambling, the social evil, the growth of materialism, find infidelity were •all linked With it, This was a view of, the question which shoold be urged np<m the attention of all Christian ministers. He hoped that if there were ministers who were not abstainers they would form deputations to convert them. It was sometimes very difficult for a minister to act independently, especially if a brewer happened to be an elder, deacon, or churchwarden. (Laughter.) If they wanted ministers to act in this matter tlCjiwperanco friends must bo prejaiwto back them np."