The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-04-30 00:00:00

LECTURE TO THE Doaszr KILITIA
RECRUITS.

On Friday evening there was • large gathorby at the
oar roose at the Corn Buhaage, •Iro the Rev. K.
Paul, of liturcraster, gave a Ireton on tomperanoe.
After gaging the hymn rionuosnoing "Of t in danger,
oft in woo," (accompanied on the hirmonium by Mrs.
Bingham), the rev. geatioassa temusensed his address
by ober-ring that he waa mach phased, on the invite
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doe of Mn. Bingham, to come there and say a few
words to Sham on • aubjeet which lay so wear to his
heart; and he hoped they would give him task attn.
dos for a short time while he endeavoured to show
what they were to do to remedy the evils caused by
' the nee of Intoxicating drinks. S3Olll people said that
teetotallers were nothing but a set of fanatics, but all
Orthat drankannos wen • bad thing, and the urge
ttland. As rainest man at Liverpool, not himself
• teetotaller, bad rosently sold that it wee quite impos-
sible for any temporises admire to exaggerate the
evils caused by intoxicating drinks Some antagonists
to the tropersue movement saki that in days gone
bye then was mush more drunkenness than at the
present time • but he maintard that such was not the
car, for vial...boner were spreading and insrosaing,
and the revenue returns were larger now than they
bad ever been; sothat, making allowance for increase
of population, there Will more intoxicating driek *on-
Famed at the pretest time than there had ever bee.;
the oommittals for drunkenness were more numerous;
and he was sorry to say that so-golhd moderate drinkers
often took more than was good for thus Teen was
marooly ea evil of which drunkoorriss WM not the
cease, and one of these was poverty. Many parsons
after work* hard all their lives, had often to end their
lays in thole workhouse, and drink was the chief cause
of it. Bore would say that low wages were the nue ;
but he found that in the Midland counties when the
men resolved good wagers they were not • bit better
off, sad that an increase of wages genre/1y brought
more beer for the men, but no addition to the funds of
the household. Theo, again, drink was the source of
mime. A year or two nines he preached in St. Patsy's
church adjoining on the erasion of the Arises He
subsequently asked of the Judge ta what WU odor
generally attributable? and the answer he received was
that if it were not for drink the judges on the criminal
side would have nothing to do. Drinking hoofS. were
also • prolific course of disesse. A surgeon of a London
hospital had told him there were two classes of lain.
victuals which they found, in ease of suldent, extremely
difficult to cure—one was brewers' draymen, and the
other gentlemen's inenservants--persons who generally
drank a quantity of hoer. If either of those mine into
the hospital suffering from • severe scratch or other
saddens, the su:geons knew that the ease was nearly
booster. During the time that Paris was encircled
with • girdle of iron, dootors had often to turn their
attention to wounds, and their A:porters* was that in
proportion lie the salient partook of sleoholio bowery*s
now proportion were his wounds difileult to heal
—those who drank most standing the least chance of
recovery. Lunacy Ins also directly ineroseod by the
sr of strong thinks, and dr question therefore was—
who were they to do to remedy those evils? Boum
poisons said, 'dinar • but oduatlon, although • great
thing, would do nothin of itself, for some of the most
learned had fallen. oth... said religion would do it;
bat how were they to bring religion to bear on a man
who was a drunkard? The only remedy was—let alone
thri drink. Some teetotalers affirmed that moderate
dziakers were as bad u drunkards, but that, he eon-
-00111401.0d, 1,1111• II nonsense. He daressy if they called
• hundred of thus recruits together, and asked them,
they word all say they were moderate drinkers, but he
maintained that out of a like number of any permits
professing moderation some would be found who during
a twelvemonth had taken more than was 'matron
With their principles. Although it might sum like •
rentradiction to what he had jar stator', he thought
that moderate drinkers often cud more harm than pro-
fessed drunkard-I. In training up a child, did they show
Its &word, would it be likely to follow rush an
sample ? Neither would an abstainer help it to to be a
drunkard. A child saw its father take a little, and it
followed his exempt*, which often, in later years was
the of its brag • drunkard. Crime was not gene-
redly oommitted when a mu was thoroughly drank—
it was dame when he was verging on the border land
between moderation and drunkenness. In a like man-
usr as thy got rid of drink, would they get rid of
@Time. What were the arguments brought forward by
moderate drinkers? They said if they have up the use
of alsoholle drinks they &Wield entirely shin their eon.
stltatious. This was entirely • fallacy, as had bun
upationsed, and which doctors now admitted. It had
also been sild that hard work could not be done with.
out stimulants, and so the dooton used to say. Among
the recruits present there wore many engaged in yd.
enharal pariahs and they knew that an abettloor
wild do as good a day's work in the field as theme.
who used stray drinks Men who worked at Lugo
sad whose work was of Ur most laborious kind,
tiatotually to abstain altogether from gray drink on
the days they were forglog, and drank nothing but sold
water, with • little utmost in it. Ah I some will say,
Int how about thou who work with the brain? lio
not they require a little to kw up the strain on their
loastal powers? He had the Oruro of knowing the
Attoesin-Gueral, Sir Jobs Oeleridgs, and was present
In soon duriarobtx.dof the days on whirl he wee
his ee By Uwe side of the
goatiewma be noVhsoiso brown Raid in a
tusliiir, sad thsnght to Mira it was evillest Mx
his woo sot s breheteflsa, sod tooottod somotidog to