The Hawaiian gazette., 1885-07-22
Z Tempefanoo Items.



Elizabeth Stewart Phelps. the author of Gates
Ajar, Beyond the Gates" ETC., has very decided
views regarding the traffic in strong drink and is
not afraid to express them. She says: ~
The grog shops must be shut. The power that
viii do the thing, Whatever it be- is the power that
must DO it. So long eighty-fve per cent. Of our
prisoners owe their incarceration to drunkenness;
so long as there is in our city licensed place
for the sae of liquor to every l7O inhabitants; so
long as sixty thousand a year die drunk or from
the effects of drink. there is other side to the
matter. The Rrog shops must be shut. At any
Iate-vhether of public inference or private self
denial, whether the law goes on the statute books
or the wine comes off the dinner table-by some
means the grog-shops must be shut He is either
crlminally ignorant of the facts, crminally in
different to them who can deny this"
The mothers, wives and sisters of the volunteers
in the Canadian service, rejoice over the official
actioh IN parliament as to serving out liquors to
the troops. Upon the question being asked by
Prof. Foster, whether intoxicating liquors are
served to the volunteer troops in the northwest,
as any part Of their ratons, or are allowed to be
taken with them as private supplies" and "wheth-
et cRnteens are allowed under the SUPERVISION of
the commanding officers for the sale to the troops
Of Intoxicating liquors of any kind" the minister
Of militia Hon. Mr.. Caron, replied emphatcally in
the negative to every part of the inquiry. ~
For the first time in the history of the oity Of
Worcester, Mass, the Catholic clergy appeared
recently before the aldermen to demonstrate
against granting liquor licenses. Rev. Thos. Grif-
nm, of st, Johns church., stated that there were
eight applicants for licenses on the street where
his church is located; that there were 6OO0 people,
including LOO children, the street every Sun
day. Only the evening previous little boy eleven
years old had been brought to his residence intoxi
Gated. Rev. Jno. j. Mccoy said the saloons IN
that street sold to the children as well as the men,
The street Is honeycombed with saloons. He pro
tested against license in the name of over 700
temperance people, because he knew that the souls
Of his peoplewere going down to ruin because of
this curBe. II uiflH t##II..| t.tI -H.NHf
Address of Kings county On. " Prohibition
committee "Ihe drink bill of the nation last
year was nearly one billion of dollars. Save that
and hard times and panics would be immensely
lessened; and there would be no threatened reign
of anarchy. The hot-bed of socialism is the grog-
shop, and the ground upon which its seed is sown
is prepared by wretchedness which would be i'm
measurably lessened If we could free the land of
intoIicants. Those who at the bottom in soci-
ETY. feel the full weight of this frghtful waste Of
the nations wealth."
A temperance guild was organized in a barber
shop among young men waiting to be shaved, in
Troy. N. Y, by Rev. Father Dolan He induced
twenty-five to sign tho pledge, and the organiza-
tion was formed Immediately. "
Some years ago, says an exchange, we had in
our employ man who several times a day ran out
Of the pifice to buy q drink of whisky rEyers
time he went out the cashier was instructed tU
drop ten cents in the drawer TO our credit At the
end of seventeen months the man who had gone
out SO often haddrank himself out of a situation
aud the drawer, when opened, was found to con.
tain four hundred and nine dollars, which We
loaned TO young mechanic at per cent. interest
He used IL to purchase set of timers tools. Or
the 18th of November, 1876, he returned it to us
with interest, saying i'll his letter that he has
n wife, two children, and property worth five
thousand dollars. The other fellow is a hummer
hunting for food.