... merchant, at two-thirds their former cost, and although our temperance friends will deny the value of these things, there is abundant evidence of their usefulness,' if not abused. Temperance (not total abstinence) will, I venture to think, never he secured ...

... to note, how persistent and continual are the attacks made upon your trade by the teetotal party, I cannot call them a temperance party, their intemperate language does not entitle them to that designation. At the present time, there are no fewer than ...

... that, so far as I can judge of the brain work of different persons, they have done the best and most have habi tually and temperately taken alcoholic drinks.' And May, 1885. certainly, if we compare the brain work of the drinkers of drink' with the brain ...

... h, in having so long neglected this subject. The same journal declares that the zeal and ardour in the temperance movement of those temperance friends who are taking an active share in Liberal organisations are far from being intensified by such contact ...

... shall serve him with liquor under a penalty of £5. This strikes us as much more sensible than the plan of prohibiting all temperate persons from taking drink in moderation. One method punishes the innocent, and the other only prohibit's the use of drink ...

... a spirit of hostility to all classes engaged in the production or sale of alcoholic drinks, and with a view to catch the temperance vote. Beer, is a purely English manufacture, and constitutes one of the greatest industries in the Empire. The farmer who ...

... deceived thereby is not wise. It is, however, a very curious fact, that the worthy people who are so ready to pick out temperance texts from the Scriptures,—in which there are fully as many passages approving of the use of wine as there are condemnatory ...

... whose sympathies they do not and cannot possess—a rule of living which only finds its adherents in the rank and file of the temperance people. Then again, they are incongruous in their mode of procedure, as the arguments they use are one-sided and apply as ...

... ten have their well stocked cellars and their social enjoyments, with which we do not care to interfere but the bigoted temperance reformer must not try to bamboozle the worker by giving him to understand that his duty lies in working out their interests ...

... and, most wonderful of all, Algeria with its strictly temperate people, got 5/. worth last year. A Bishop on Temperance and Politicians. The eighth annual festival of the Truro Diocesan Temperance Society was held at Liskeard on July Ist. The proceedings ...

... of the public-houses in their jurisdiction, with a view of placing them more under public observation and thus promoting temperate and orderly conduct among the frequenters of those places, and facilitating police supervision. They have resolved that in ...

... publican's business, and ought to be by all means discouraged. -0- We notice that our enemies the rabid teetotallers — not temperance men, are working their usual tactics for the coming election, by trying to get candidates to pledge themselves to Sunday ...