Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1891-02-06 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

TEMPERANCE NOTES.  (Fnom A SPROUL CORRESPONDENT).  LONDON Thursday. wh .  The National Temperance Federation, of Aids Mr. W. S. Caine in president, and which comprises most of the national and denominational organizations has issued an important circular in support of the various temperance measures, seven er eight in number, which are placed on the order book of the House of Coninione this session. The Federation urges strenuous effort on the part of all temperance bodice, particularly in renpeet to the national petnion which is being promoted in favo.nr of the English Sunday Closing Bill, and by bringing pressure to bear upon members of Parliament te he in their places and to vote straight for the Welsh, English, Irish and Scotch Veto billa , '5.1.1'16-4; ?AVIA,'"S 51w ..'” The London auxiliary of the United Kingdom Alliance held a successful annual member's meeting in London last Friday. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart., M.P., presided, and he was surrounded by an unusual number of the most prominent supporters of the alliance in London. Sir Wilfrid Lawson spoke hopefully of the movement. lie believed there was more demand now for the direct popular veto than ever before, and pointed out the fact that sixteen bye elections won during this Parliament by one party, had also been won by the prohibition party. He was for the veto because politicians and "the trade" alike dreaded it. He believed the big, brewers would give a handsome donation to every temperance society in the land if the direct veto were for ever given lip. He also directed attention to the two days, March 18 and April 15, when the different Veto Bills will be discussed in the House of Commons, and with reference to the division then to be taken, said the temperance party wished to know "who's who in 1891,"—a point which temperance electors everywhere w.ll do well to bear in mind.  The /Mal/ Netts says :—'The progress of total abstinence in dinner giving circles causes a certain amount of embarrassment now and then. If the I Person invited does not happen to be aware that his would-be hosts are total abstainers, and do not give wine to their guests, he is apt to experience a slight chill of disappointment when the lemonade and iced water are handed round. It may be presumed that emotion the reverse 44 pleasurable has, on occasion, depicted itself perfectly distinctly upon the countenances of diners who are accustomed to drink wine, for it is now proposed that all invitations to wineless dinners ass to be accompanied by a small bow of blue ribbon securely fastened to the card." Tics list of temperance mayors has been increased to 42 who are both total abstainers and supporters of the direct popular veto—aliout one in six of the entire number. The latest recruit is Mr. Alderman Ickringill, Mayor of Keighley. THE New Zealand Alliance for the suppreasion of the liquor traffic, before the recant Parliamentary election in that colony, aAdreesed two plain questions to all candidates for seats in the Colonial Parliament: (1) If elected, will you support legislation which will give to the people power, by direct veto at the ballot box, periodically taken, to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquor in the district in which they reside, without compensation? (2) If you consider compensation due, by whom, or from what fund should it be paid? The result of these enquiries, at the date ~f the last information, is to encourage the Alliance to expect early and satisfactory progress for their question in the new Parliament. IT is a splendid thing to "rescue the perishing," but it is a better to preserve them from perishing. God forbid that we should relax a single effort to reclaim the drunkard ; but it is a far easier and far more hopeful work to take hold of the tendril life, and try to train it before it has run to weed—to mould the child for Christ before it has been thrown into the fire of blasphemy, and drink, and vice, to come out a black cinder. - .  Niwrrx-Intyri per cent, of the men belonging to the Nonconformist Theological Colleges are abstainers. LOW) Chief Justiise Coleridge says : —'• Liquor him either been the temptation before hand to robbery, to get something to purchase it; or it hi the provocation under the influence of liquor that rouses them to quarrel, and perliale fsmiruit murder or it is the liquors upon which the fruits that have been obtained by robbery is generally spent ; and it seenis to me that but for the cases where offences have been brought on by the excessive use of intoxicatine liquors, the Courts of Justice might 14 ;warty shut up.