TEMPERANCE NOTES.

Western Star, Issue 1577, 8 July 1891, Page 1

TEMPERANCE NOTES.

Published under arrangement with the New Zealand 'i'cmp.uMiico Alliance.) About half l!io members of the House of Lords him; :i vested interest in the Liquor trade. Progress. —The Groat Eastern Railway has just opened at Livorpco'-street Station handsome new suburban wait-ing-rooms. attached to and opening from which is a nicely tilted np toaI room, where ivui-alc'dioi’c refreshrani' "V‘.in! sir": - a , | 'ea, coin e, and Caov.ol;ue, La per oup ; J glass of milk, 2d; foil and butter, 2d-

Chemical Beer.—The Australian Brewers’ Journal quotes the following from An English contemporary. ‘lt will be clear if tho cupric oxide reducing powers and opacities are the same before and after the hour’s digestion (hat there can have been no degradation of malto destines; for any such cl ©gradation would inevitably be to - lowed bv an increase in the increasing power, and a corresponding decrease in the opticity.” The Australian Brewers Journal thinks wo are getting too scientific nowadays. Certainly the beverage in whose interests it is pub« lished is getting too mysterious. ; Cannon Manning on the Drndc Traffic.—Cardinal Manning, in a letter to Mr Caine designed to help him at Barrow, says ho looks upon the drink trade as “ the greatest antagonist ot the people of this country, as the pestilence that destroys men, women, and children, and the domestic life of millions.” lie denounces compensation as an endowment of a trade which will, he believes, bring down a blight on our national prosperity. The Washington Sentinel (liquor paper) say the "Washington Soldiers Home Prohibition Bill, recently enacted, which covers altogether, including the grounds of the home, no less than six or seven square miles, is undoubtedly the work of real estate speculators. Commenting upon this the Voice (tho Prohibition organ) exclaims :- — Impossible ! Real estate speculators must known that prohibition ruins property, and drives away all desirable inhabitants.

The English Drink Bill for 1890 ; — The Lancet has a short but scathing notice o£ the Drink Bill of 1890, with its increase of seven and a quarter millions sterling’ over the Bill of 1889. It says :—lt is appalling to find that the drink bill of 1890 amounts to £139,495,-170, an increase .of £7,282,194 over the sum of the previous year —all common sense and medical science notwithstanding. It said to be equal to one-twelfth of the estimated income of all persons, to onefifth of the National Debt, and to be eight times more than the income of all the Christian churches. It is not our business to moralise on this expenditure. To us it means so much cirrhosis, Bright’s disease, gout, insanity, &c.—disabling employment, taking the pleasure out of the life of families, and bread out of the mouths of children. The drink bill for last year is larger than for any year but that of 1878 when it was more than 142 millions of pounds.