Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-17
TEMPERANCE REFoRM HERE AND IN ENGLAND

The present situation of the local temperance
ment, which seemed to start promsngy, recalls the
occasional experience in shpbuilding where vessel is
swamped in the act of launching The temperance craft
evidently top-heavy Certain prominent promoters
abandoned it Sunday, reported in The Herald,
but whether it will right itself turn turtle"
completely is question of absorbing interest to all
friends of the temperance cause
The chief trouble in getting this movement started,
appears from the reports, is radical difference of
opinion among members concerning the objective point
A secondary of trouble, but always formidable
in reform efforts of any kind, is the crowding of
leaders for places at the very top In regard to the
primary difficulty class insists that the fight against
the liquor traffic should be confined at least for the
present the saoons while the other class will
for nothing less than absolute prohibition, to the
stoppage of Cafornia's native wine industry
Unless all present indications fall the new temper
crusade will be ineffective the Baldwin
airship recently when the motive power gave No
reform movement have any reasonable chance of
when ambitious leaders quarrel the places
at the top and the rank and file agree on the
general method of procedure.
1t might be we'll for the Jealous friends of the tenn
perance cause to note the experience of their fellow
workers in Great Britain who laboring toward the
same general end The latter do not believe that abso
lutte prohibition is possible. Their aim is to eliminate
the features of the liquor traffic by systematic
three or four years ago.
The temperance aim in Great Britain is to place the
liquor under public control by what called
public house trust companies. This plan has spread
already such extent that semitemperance public
houses in operation in nearly every county of Eng
land and to extent in Scotland. An idea of the
plan is given in this quotation
1--WE do not pretend to regenerate the individual;
seek raise the habits of the Go to such and
such houses and you will for yourself what
we are doing You will find manager who is doing his
very discourage drinking and to raise the
of the house You will find that he has closed his doors
to the habual topper we'll to the who from
long habit cannot control his language. You will find
that all advertisements and expedents for pushing the
sale of drink have been banished You will find every
encouragement given to the trade in non-acoholics
You will workmen drinking mugs of tea coffee
and If you speak them you will find how much they
appreciate being able to refresh themselves in rational
way instead of having nothing but beer spirits
turn to. You will find that sales credit have been
stopped and you inquire at the neighborng bakers
and butchers shops you will find that they have felt
the change the increased sale of food to the wage
earners wife family. You will find the whole tone
phere of the ordinary public house, You will notice
that this pervadng tone has the effect of putting a
salutary restraint the behavior of the rougher
TONER'S You will find by inquiry in the neighborhood
that this plan of management has conduced temper
ance that there is less drinking and that the rowdness
and quarrellng which used to take place of evening
have ceased since the tenant who conducted the trade
for private profit has made way for trust management