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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 27, 3 April 1891, Page 31

Th<3 Imperial Tribunal of Lcp7.ll:. G-rmnny, has decided that h?nref'>rth a refu-al to rise aid pirticipate in a toast to the health of the Kiiser shtll co mtitu'e \v:u treason.

There is sjtne talk <>f w ir with Gn'it Britain in connection with the Behrin^ Sea liistmte. In the event of it, England would have the best of us at the start. Oui coist oinos wml t b> laid urder tribute in a month, add th Capitol and eve-y public buildin? in Washington be '■helled.

James R-vlpath, th' famom Iris i national \ lurnalist and lecturer and iho Vice-President of the Anti-Poverty Sjci^lv, was knocked down by si s.ieet car in New Yoik rdcontlv, and died at St. Lu«£ 's Hospital frjm the efE'o's of his injuries Mr. Redpath was h- r iin Ktu'land in 1833. ll>* went with his piren's to Michigan in ISIB. fie beenme i pi inter, newspaper cortespo dent, and editor. He wis emigration u^ent of the Haytian Government in the United State", and ia;er was Consul ..t Philadelphia. Lie was a war correßpindent, ani after the war became Sup'iintrnd^nt of Education in Chaileston. S (J., where he foun led an orphan asy.um and public scb.ro h fo: coloured children. In 186S he esiabHshci in Boston the lied pi h Lvc"i'.m Bureiu, Uter e'diled Red path* Wctkhj, and during the lat er put of hn lif<! was an a^soci ite edit >v on the North American lier'n>n\ Tn 18SS he wa« mime It> Mrs. Cirn>; Chorpenning. of Washington, who bad nursed him through a severe illness.

We have frequently written on this subject ani told of the ruin drink whs woikuig amnn? <.ur people. Few dare to question the truth of this, but tie difficulty is, h >w is the evil to be grappled with. The Bishop of Salford in his lettor to the Manchester Guardian, and again o.i Sundiy nij;ht ut Salford, boldly admits this ami ihe unquestionable tiguies of Mr. Austin Oat- s confirm it. "Drink was the mnn c iuse," — h s might have alni'M s-ud ttiu sole c ius % , •' of the loss and destitution of b > many children." " Out vi seven thousand children dealt with, hr> did not hesitato to say that m'emperance w s the ciuse of sur thousand. The Rescue S >ciety has only led a bn<f exist'TCP. Wh.it Ins become if this class of children during the las' twttity y-.nis? II 11I 1 tia n'nl agrricu'a — vigilant, x;>alous, and well supplied with funds — have been actively at work in London, Liverpool, and M inchest er since 18GS. wh'cu have pano iically taken humiio'ls of children to Cmad i. Who can tell the thousands of our children that have been lost to the Church I The Bishop of Silfoul may weep and lament; Mr. Austin O Ues may work and draw his terrible life pictu.es ; but drink will on destroying the souls and bodits of our people until there U some ornbined ncuon among the clergy themselves to practicu as well as to preach abstinence. This is the plain truth. Vlost people believe it, though few venture to Bpeak it.- -Liverpool Catholic Times.