The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-05-31
Temperance Reading.
INTEMPERANCE IN ENGLAND.

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Oakley Hall, in a London letter to tho
Brooklyn Eagle, says: "No place so
much needs the Temperance movement
as London. Almost every corner build
ing is-a public, and as one walks the
streets, whether at midday past tho
crowded Poultry Lane or at night in
the suburbs, he hears everywhere the
clink of glasses alternating with church
chimes, which everywhere ring the
quarter hours, making the needless
take note of time by its tone "A drop
of summit is eteffiaIly in every En-
iglish mouth, from the -aristocratic Pail
Mall club room to the denizens of Fox
Court and Saffron Hill, made so famous
by Dickens. Apropos of drink, j. E.
Murphy, who returned to-day to Amer
lea, had grand send off last Thurs
day at Mission Hail. Waterloo street,
ST. Helen's in the East, where thou
sand people, under the joint patronage
OF the Vicar and Congregational preach
er of the parish saicl. goodbye. Mr..
Murphy's native and characteristic
eloquence has made great impression,
and clearly his field of usefulness is here,
where quartems of gin and brandy on
the top of cheap beer muddle brains and
inspire crime, rather than in the States,
where bourbon, that honeycombs the
kidneys, can be left to the medical fac
ulty. Even Sir Charles Dixie has taken
up the Temperance question, and, in q
recent speech in the Commons on the
dwellings and public house question, he
charged that the local rulers, as in New
York City, were directly interested in
the tenement house and drink evil He
charged that member of the District
Board in Holborn owned in PortpooI
lane ten suspicious houses; that in St.
Pancras place condemned by survey
orS belonged to q member of the vestry
whose father and grandfather were also
members of it, and that in Clerkenwell
. two joint dictators-if Sir Charles had
been in Brooklyn he would have used
the word bOsses-who controlled the
leading committees of the vestry, were
the largest owners of doubtful property
in Clerkenwell. Observe that in En-
gland the words parish and vestry are
words in civil government, and not, as
in America, of exclusive ecclesiastical
Specification. As a consequence, Sir
Wilfred Lawson's movement for local
option is making much Roadway; but
it would seem that the brewing and
house proprietary interest will be too
strong for years against the proposition.
However, as the lamented Lincoln said:
"Retormers must peg away until the
hardpan crumbles."
Meanwhile this advertisement APP
pears in several London papers: The
want of a good Temperance drink
which shall take the place of the cheap
intoxicating liquors to which the public
are accustomed has long been felt, and,
none of the many drinks hitherto in use
having achieved more than temporary
popularity, two prizes-the first of
f7O0, and the second of f300-are now
offered for the two best Temperance
drinks under conditions a copy of which
may be obtained upon forwarding to
the secretary stamped envelope bear
ing the name and address of the appli-
cant intending to compete. BY order
of the committee. w. Hodges, secre-
tary March. 1884. Victoria Chambers,
90 and 56 Chancery lane, London"
81 believe this offer is not geograph-
| ically bounded The prizes So, 500 and
$1,000 are open to Brooklynites."