The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-11-06 00:00:00

WIMBORNIL
"A GREAT CALAMITY."

On ?rids, last the first meeting of the Wirnborne
Tempernoce s ciety warn held at the New Town
Hall., when • very fair audience assembled bear
an address by lir. Lowdown, of Bristol, on ' A Grease
Calamity' Tips chew was taken by Dr. A. J. H.
Unapt. After singiug en i prayer by tie Rev. E.
E. Deal, the chairman in • few opening remarks
referred to the work of the coining winter, and thee
called on Kr. L ans.:lowa to deliver his addresa.
Lananowi c Homewood an eloquent mid
effective address by referring to the late calamity at
Sunderisod, and the sympathy which was universally
umoifeeted on that occasion. He had however tome
to speak of another calamity, toe one that wee going
on every day, one that was not no accident but the
mutual oonsequeooe of • legalised, feshionebls, and
well-patronise.l system, t.lne groat calamity a internee.
awe. The speaker then went on to deal with
I tilt• monetary lie of this question. He knew that
it was not fashionable to do so, but it was import-
ant. He pictured some of the misery of the people
of Englaud during the last ten years, the lack of
proper two immodation, the need of proper Mat/lice
Lion, and the want of good foot, and yet during that
time enough money had been spent upon int .ixicante
to keep the whole of the United Kingdom in breed
for 30 )ears. Every year there was enoti4h grain
destroyed for this traffic to keep the whole Dation
in good for four months out of the year. What wee
the rseult--paupenarn, degradation, and death. Our
warehouses are over -stocked with goods. Many mills
are either on half time or closed from want of trade,
and yet the children of our large city run beirefoot,el
and nearly naked for the want of thew thing.. What
stands between the two; between the need of the
people and the supply ; between the empty hut..
and crowded warehouses ? and we etiotores to say UM
whilst other censes undoubtedly operate, the
chief o',stacle is the drink traffic; the money
is turned into the wrong channel. He (the
speaker) then dealt with the objection that if pot
spend the money in employing the mill bands, the
coopers, and maltaters, nod brewers would have to
suffer. He showed that for every hundred men
employed in the drink traffic, five or six thousand
would be employed for the same money in the iron or
cotton trade. For example, a distillery lo Edinburgh
in one year turned out whiskey to the value of
£1.500,000, only one hundred and forty men being
employed, whilst to turn out iron or cotton goods to
the same value you must employ from six to eight
thousand haada. Where, then, does the money got
Way, Lord Derby, the other day, said to • large body
of working men: " You talk of being overtaxed—you
tax yourselves far more than any Government does
tax you. Out of every sixpence you spend on whiskey,
Beeps's°, goes to the Chanoellor of the Exchequer.
Can you afford to drink to the health of the Army and
Navy at that rate ? " The speaker then pasted
on to the social aspect of the qiiesti in, and
drew a very sad picture of Lb. terrible *facie
of intemperance upon the home life and hapidows of the
people. The best way to realise it was not by talking
of the hundreds and th osands that perish, but tot .ka
one case in all It. horrors, and multiply it by tens, by
hundreds, by thousand., and tans of thousands, and
then you can get some idea of the thing. A fee very
terrible instances were given that had recently
occurred. Lastly, the speaker dwelt upon the ruin of
the eon!; one hundred thousand died annually through
drink, and yet our L ird said "No drunkard cam
inherit the Kingiinm of Heaven." Mr. Landoes
then went on to deal with the remedy. He showed
that moderation c mid
physical impossibility for the drunkard to be moderate,
asides moderate drinkers had no influent)e with
drunkards. To ask a man to give up drink, whilst
you emulous, to take your glom, to ask him to admit
that you are • better man than he is, no man cores to
to that; but If you go to him and say "my brother this
drink is diatomic's, you and I had better have nothing to
do with It, you may expect to prevail. What then is tbe
remedy? We answer total abstlueo e for the
individual, and prohibition for the State. We
must do away with the Irm oil ant cot ..fl
the supply. dome soy we arr extreme. Well, we
ask, in It right or wring? øi, they say, you are right
enough, but so extreme. Well, then, we mu.t be
extremely right, and it is better to be extr m-ly right
than even partially wrong; an extreme evil ..emands
an extreme remedy. Haying urged chid p tint upon
hte audience by an el qiient and forcible appeal, the
lecturer concluded by ...king them to do amething.
either Li adopt the remedy he gave, or suggest and
apply a hatter.
Rev. E. E. CLIUL proposed • vote of thanks to
Mr. Lowdown for his able addrwa, and Li Dr. Creep'
for presiding. Mr. Lanadown had come from Bristol
at considerable inconvenience to himself, but bad been
most ready to come.
The vote was seconded by Mr. RCSSILL, and rip
ported by Mr. KillaIDGI, and, having been duly
acknowledged, the meeting came Li • close.

Till MINSTER CHOIR.
710 tAt Mister.
Sir,—lf it was with considerable interest, and rid a.
little pleasure, that Mr. A. Fowls., the prefewo
" Lover of the Musical Art,' t‘ok up the " Non.
umaical, conceited Criu•chman'e " remarks in you
previous issue, it is with equal pleasure this " wronkllP
judged Churchman " would pen • few m, re line, on
the shove subject, and only • few, for the tine has
now arrived when the congregation attending oar
services at the Minster and the Governor. must
cospen.edipoodeoly set
°ea? insoatthter:t Poquarepormitrilel
interested
thmi•
concerned in it might not in any way feet aggrumie
annoyed, or humihated.
There are many ideas, which this Mr. Fowles has
most wisely thought fit to adduce, with which I
entirely agree' but when he thinks fit to strike out
right and left in anything but a way calculated to
tales himself in the estimation of not only your man/
readers, but of the congregation of which we boia
form a part, I think it quite beneath my notice to
attempt to Maniac, any of his 6ro.sasmartioes. I have
no reason whatever to doubt the musical training he
han received, or his ability to train.
If Mr. Fow'ei choose to accept the office of choir-
muter, I hope be will have the opportunity of nrOViVir
himself worthy the honour conferred on (and toe con-
fidence reposed in) him, and thereby soon raise the
musical poition of our nth!. service in the estimation,
not only of reeidents, but visitors also.
"Harmony" is moot cettainly a "nice old Msn.
when he has the audacity to any I am an adept a
evadon. It is all very well for one person to write with
a certain meaning; yet another when reading the
same will put quite a different aspect on (or, oiessior
to) it. Such is the case with friend "Harmony." I
mean one thing, and be takes the revers* idea. lly
Your permission, Mr. &lit I would at this Vail
re•Pootfull7 Inform him that my intentions have been
to endeavour to bring before the minds of our Farina'
loners, and hays cleared up, the why and whored re
• of goulash dimension about our choir, that swans to some
so mysterious, and I may my to many of us. I can
fully assure" Harmony' my NSW of frantic,' is not so
Blunt as he imagines it to be, neither am I so dull of
comproiteasios but that I con perceive his wood with

th.cip4tli B, which was Isnot iwieleadioli to Dome,
t ,hi. omitting to place the Litter u, between
he L mad the U.
el certain by hse moose of judging me twit b.
•• t! iota I would sot only be. sa 'Wei it, Blunt,"
I,itt e-JOyell also. Be it far from we ; v only eh. ~,ad
•ire is t • hare our services soon as will beer favour-
.),l. emparison with any in the di, 0•01. There are
, or two things which •' Harmony" his th,m4ht
, t. throw *Pule very valuable lei ht on, for which
.1
would hers thank him, • d I am sure many o:here
oleo. Thanitiog you, Mr. IC like, for your most
,„1..b1e sperm for ibis " Muster Choir" correepek.
d ece, I MI. Sir, Yours truly,

OIPMONIIAN.