The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-18

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House OF Lords. which has atwa.s
contained a number of peers interest,"
in the liquor business Two eenef.9
licensing bills restricting the tran
were introduced. one in 1892. and ana
two years afterwards. but both VIZ.
withdrawn. In 1903 a licensing a.,
was passed c~onCedinc the right
compensation upon the refusal Ia 20
new a license.
In 1903 Premier Asauith i~ntrodue.a
the third government bill. by far tn
most advanced legislation dcahn..
with the drink evil ever b.
the British Government. This maa
| ure passed the House Of Commons y,
the large majority Of e37 votes, but
| was once more rejected by the Lords
The position taken on this and other
government measures brought about
| constitutional crisis. ended IN 1911 bv
/ the curtailment Of the powers Of tn.
| peers.
| was held in london. IN November Il
1912. with representatives from All
over England. Ireland. Scotland. and
Wales. The Prime Minister received
the deputation. but declared NJ had
no power of putting through a general
temperance
Meanwhile. the annual per capt,
| OIAS IPlIOII III III bfttiS1 Isles nlH
been given by the United Kingdom
Temperance Union as 28.17 gallons or
about 80 per cent. larger than that ~
the United States. The figures Of 1913
show an increase Of IS 900, 600 over
those OF the preceding year. A writer
in the london Daily Mail. noting the
fact that E~ngiishmen are spending on
drink a sum equal to four-fifths the
entire national revenue. says. by way
Of encouragement:
"Macaulay eckOn hat in 1888 tho
English people consumed ninenty ga
Tons of alcohol per head. They now
only drink a little over twenty-eight
In 1850 there was one public house -
every six homes and to every forty
seven people. Now there is but one
public house to every seventy homes
and $50 people Drunkenness, too. be
sides having virtually died out aS 4
social accomplishment. has steadily dl-
minished among all classes"
A strict licensing bill for Scotland
passed in 1918, granting to that set-
ton of the British Isles complete local
option for 1920.
Smaller Countries OF The
Continent.
The same story OF the keener re1iI-
ZatiOn Of the economic waste occasion
ed by intemperance and the tendency
to crystalline opposition to it into law
comes from OInoT sections OF FsUIopH.
, In April an order was issued by the
Austrian Minister OF War, directing /,
searching and sweeping investigation
. of the eeCtS OF alcohol on the tightlnE
strength OF the Dual Monarchy The
: associated WOmen's clubs of Hungary
! have begun a campaign against intern
perance. demanding new laws. The
: international Prohibition Conference
Of 1911 met at The Hague, as did also
Z the international Alcoholic Congres-
+, OF the same year. From that time on
4 the clergy Of the Netherlands began
to take an active interest in the tenn
q perance movement. and they are nos
demanding local option The Social
list organizations or Belgium have de-
, manded that hereafter, during strikes
u the men must remain strictly sober
In Spain there is practically fre'
, trade In liquor. An enormous quaint
z ~ of the native wines is consumed Ar
Q Anu-A1cohOliC League has been estab
: lished. and, in 1912, a Temperance pa
per known as FL Abstemino. WI
founded. A number Of Spanish scipn
II lists, headed by DR.. Montaldo. hav'
e recently announced that "alcohot ]
greatest curse Of the Spanish PEG
pie In Portugal, Switzerland an.
y the Balkan States there are popu9t
: temperance movements. SwitZerlan.
q has recently adopted the unique plai
d OF making the liquor business itsei
n support propaganda for its Suppres
- sion. According to Information sen
n out from Berne, a large part Of tn
,i 100000 obtained by the Swiss Gov
n eminent from it's alcohol monopoly 1
IS 1913 is being used by the various can
tons to fight the spread Of intempeT
8 ance. There are laws in Buisaris
q Rumania, Greece. and Servia. recent
IS enacted, restricting the public scale
n liquor.