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TEMPERANCE AND TOTAL ABSTINENCE
TEMPERANCE AND TOTAL ABSTINENCE AT one of the meetings of the North Wales Temperance Federation, held some time ago, Mr. WILLIAM GEORGE delivered an address in which he ad- mitted that in the past temperance people had suffered from extremists on both sides. He made several sugges- tions as to the action of rating authorities, magistrates, and the police with a view of reducing intemperance. We do not expect that our views on temperance will meet with the approval of the North Whales Temper- ance Federation, or of Mr. WILLIAM GEORGE, but we will state our views as plainly and as temperately as possible in order that extremists may see what obstacles stand in the way of the reform that is earnestly desired by all those temperance reformers who fail to agree as to methods of pro- cedure. We no more believe that alcoholic drink is the cause of intemperance than we believe that razors, or poison, or rivers, or ropes, are the causes of suicides and murders. They are means not causes. If public houses were all closed and all the re- forms Mr. WILLIAM GEORGE advo- ates were adopted, intemperance might be as rampant as ever. On the other hand, if the conditions of the life of the people were altered the existence of alcohol would no more tend to intemperance than ropes and razors, poison and rivers tend to suicide or murder. A hundred or more years ago intemperance among the well-to-do was rampant. A rich man who did not get drunk in those days was a sort of oddity. A change came over the well-to-do people and drunkenness fortunately became un- fashionable. The class of people who in the early part of the last century got drunk daily are now quite temper- ate. We need not try to settle in detail how the change J was brought about, but there can be no doubt about the greatness and thoroughness of the change. Before the middle of the last century temperance reform began to spread among- the industrial section of the people, and it is still spreading. The introduction of machinery, the popularising of education, the dead set made against intemperance by medical men, and the removal of the grosser forms of insanitary life made temperance possible. In these days a drunken workman has no chance what- ever of regular employment. The consequence is that intemperance as it was known in the forties, fifties, and sixties of the last century no longer exists. It does not need any argument to prove that men who have to drive trains and motor cars, and have control of printing and other machines and all sorts of complicated mechanical contrivances must be sober. The intemperate workman is quickly driven into the ranks of the unem- ployed, no matter how clever he may be, for no employer can take the risk of having machines worth thousands of pounds destroyed by drunken work- men. In these days working men have A respect for themselves that was prac- tically unknown among them sixty or seventy years ago, and that respect, whatever the dukes mav say, is steadily increasing, and as it increases intemperance will decrease. Much has been: done to promote temperance by improving alcoholic drinks and reducing their strength. They are not nearly as terrible in their consequences as they used to be, and the tendency is for them to become still less injurious. We do not expect Mr. WILLIAM GEORGE or other mem- bers of Temperance Federations to agree with us, but the tendency is to reduce the strength of alcoholic bever- ages, and this is one of the chief indi- cations of the altered public taste in favour of temperance. No greater mistake was ever made, as far as tem- perance is concerned, than to make all beverages subject to duty that con- tained more than two or three per cent. of alcohol. We believe that no tax should be levied on any beverage that does not contain more than four per cent. of alcohol. One of the great hindrances in the way of temperance among the masses of the people is that the poor have no cheap and pleasant beverage equal to the light wines which are now largely used by the temperate rich. This beverage could be found in a light beer of low alcoholic strength, but we do not expect tem- perance reformers to advocate the manufacture of light beers as aids to temperance One of the most powerful incentives to intemperance, although total abstinence advocates may not believe it, is the insanitary condition of their homes. The working man has a small house, the rent of whidb absorbs a quarter of his earnings. He is too often surrounded with filth and is driven to the public house for company, rest, and recreation. We know that great improvements have been made in the dwellings of the poor during the past fifty years, but in many small towns and rural districts their con- diton is still lamentable—disgraceful— and often so (horrible that it is a marvel any decency, or sobriety, or self- respect survives. There are places in this district so abominable that it is marvellous any human being can live in them and retain a shred of moral sense. Until the present Budget was brought in the rule was to foster the drink traffic for revenue purposes. We have urged for many years that the taxes on spirits should be in- creased until the revenue diminished. This has been done, but not yet to the extent that is desirable. We hope the time will come when no tax will be levied on beverages containing three or four per cent. of alcohol, and that no licence duty, or only a normal one, will be charged for selling them, but that the tax will increase greatlv with every additional two per cent. of alcohol and also that the licence duty for selling them will be very heavy:, In our opinion the licensing clauses of the Budget indicate a great temper- ance reform, and if the Budget is re- jected by the Lords the temperance organisations of the country ought to win the elections for the Government. To us total abstinence is not tem- perance, and one of the difficulties of securing- reforms in reference to the drink traffic arises largely from the fact that alcohol is in itself taboo. Total abstinence is not the end aimed at, but temperance, and temperance can exist where there is no total abstinence. What the people require are decent homes, clean surroundings, I moderate periods of rest, innocent recreation, and a strong sense of self- respect. In these days it would be a gross libel upon the working men of the United Kingdom to say that they were intemperate as men were intem- perate fifty or sixty years ago. We believe they are becoming more and more temperate and self-respecting every year. Complaints are often made by tem- perance advocates that the proportion of publicans proceeded against for causing drunkenness is very small compared with the prosecutions for drunkenness. The life-long teetotaler does not realise that a man may not be drunk until half an hour or more after he has taken his last glass. Very often a glass of hot water or a cup of tea will make a man drunk an;- hour after he has swal- lowd his last glass of al-tohol. Drun- kenness. does not follow immediately on the consumption of the alcohol, and it is in thousands of cases impossible to say when a man is disqualified by law for another glass.
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We also do a large business in' Repairing all kinds of Waterproof Garments. Shops in this district :— Aberystwyth. Dolgelley. Newcastle Emlyn. Barmouth. I'astiniog. Portmadoc (Bank-place). Cardigan. Lampeter. Pwllheli. Carmarthen. Machynlleth Newtown. n:I ALL THE NEWEST AUTUMN NOVELTIES S. N. COOKE is showing New Lace Blouses, Silk Dinner Blouses, O Flannel and Viyclla Shirts, Knitted Steamer Coats, Wool Golfers, Warm Dressing Gowns, Winter Underwear, Winter Skirts, Children's Wool Dressing Gowns, Chil- I dren's Pelisses, Coats, Millinery, Art Needlework and New Fancy Goods in great variety. 12, PIER STREET, ABERYSTWYTH. AND AT 20, NEW STREET, BIRMINGHAM. J. HYWEL REES (AGENT FOR BURBERRYS), Has an immense Stock of Pyjamas, 111 I |ri dressing W&wk Itllilli Gowns Injfem And all he Best Mlllf Makers in It 1/ |||j |!jij|||Under-Wfear I Gentlemen's^ Tailor & IM|| ||1 |:VjM CITY HOUSE, pill ||t 4, North Parade, » §8 §|\ JSf Aberystwyth. 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Watches from 53, Clocks from 2:1 6d Personal attention to all repairs or mail orders. Eyesight tested free. p675 4Ucet»ngs, CEntcrhnnntcnta. ttc. nrlae RIIK Is now comp'eted and is one of the Largest and Finest in;Great Britain. THREE SESSIONS DAILY—10-30 to 12-30. 2 to 5. 7 to 10. SKATfNG 7 TO 9. DANCING 9 TO 11. Admission—Morning Ladies and Gentlemen Free. n Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, 6d. Evening 6d. Skates all Sessions, 6d. n The Management reserve the right to alter admission without notice. 0479 J. T. PERKS, Managing Director. ROYAL PIER PAVILION THE TWELFTH ANNUAL CHRYSANTHEMUM FRUIT, VEGETABLE, AND PRODUCE $JH # W WILL HE HELD On WEDNESDAY. Nov. 10th, 1909. I The Attractions will include an ENTER- J TAINMENT by MR LESLIE HARRIS, The King cf Entertainers. .-rts—rm :Selections will be given by the Orchestra, The Show will be nppned »t 2 15 by the President, Mrs CRAWLEY BO^VEY, Birch- grove, Crosswood. Chairman d Committee—Mr H. E. W HEATLRY ADMISSION From 2 p.m. iill 6 p m, Is. From 6 p.m till 10 p m. 6d. For further particulars see handbills. Any other icformation may be had on anpl'catinn to the Secretaries: H SHK%ATON, Hon. Sdu* E J DAVIES, Secretary. pt!94 A SALE OF WORK Will bo h- Id at the NEW MARKET HALL, ON NOVEMBER 21th, 1909, In connection with SHILOtl CHAPEL, Presided over by Mis D. HOWELL. Cwm. Opener Mrs T. E El LIS. p726 I.O.G.T. Jumble ale. PROGRESS HALL, Saturday, November 20th, 1909. Contributions of Cast-iff Garments, etc., etc., ete, will be cratefully receivf d. Send post card to Jono G. Styles, Bethshan, 46 Bridge-s'reet, or to Mrs. Isaac Hees, tCraigwen. Brifigu street. p722 —- —
ABERYSTWYTH MUNICIPAL ELECTION
ABERYSTWYTH MUNICIPAL ELECTION AT the municipal election, on Monday, the ratepayers of Aberystwyth did all that it was possible for them to do in the way of showing their strong- dis- satisfaction with the course of conduct pursued by the Town Council in refer- ence to many important matters. We have had too long an acquaintance with the Council to believe that the election of two new members will ensure reform, or that the re-election of an old member, who has secured first place, mainly because of his support of what we consider to be retrograde tactics, will tell in favour of progress. The new members may protest against apathy and vote against wrong courses of action, but the inert majority will most likely overpower them and make them feel, what we feel, that effective reform is impossibte until the ratepayers them- selves back up those of their repre- sentatives who take determined pro- gressive action. We wish the new members would appeal to the rate- payers for support when they find themselves beaten down by tactics which ought not to exist in any public body that professes to represent the ratepayers. It would be still better if the ratepayers would call the inert members to book and demand sound finance, the open transaction of busi- ness, official assiduity and carefulness, and the prompt and efficient carrying out of those principles which are embodied in the byelaws and in numer- ous resolutions which have been passed by the Council, but are not acted upon. We need not tell the rank and file of the ratepayers why they have re- jected Mr. MORRIS and Mr. WILKIN- SON, nor need we explain which side will be the weaker for their absence. The ratepayers know as well as we know, and it would be to the lasting benefit of the whole community if the remainder of the section could be also got rid of. The reforms that are necessary cannot possibly be accom- plished by the two new members, but they will both bring influence to bear on the right side. What is needed to begin with is that things should be callcd by their right names, and the first essential step in that direction is that the ratepayers should no longer wink either at wrong action or at the continued abstinence from right action. There is much that should never have been done, but that has been done without protest. There is still more that is not done, and the omissions are covered by a silence that the rate- payers ought not to tolerate and would not tolerate if they knew all the cost in many ways of the neglect. We have given up all attempts to argue with the Council. The members are either led by the nose or are lured in wrong directions by red-herring scents and are laughed at by their masters. Monday's election results have inspired us with hope that at last the ratepayers see through the game which it is not for us to explain in detail and are determined to put an end to a system that is costing them thousands of pounds and is endanger- ing the position aitd prosperity of the town. When the two new members have got into harness it will make for the salvation of the town if, as soon as they come across the tactics which tell against right action, they speak out boldly in the open and ask publicly for the support of the ratepayers who have elected them to fight their battle for what is best and noblest in munici- pal life. We know, by bitter experience, how long and fruitless the battle for right action may be, and if Dr. BONSALL and Mr. II. DAVIES fail in their efforts and are even censured and ridiculed we shall not be surprised. Nor shall we be surprised if they are petted and coddled and made the recipients of all sorts of good advice which it would be fatal to follow. WThat is wanted is brave, independent action and that sort of persistence which is not deterred by one or two or more failures. The Council at present is a sort of abode, of atrophied creatures who are waiting for something that they never get, or get and cannot enjoy. They are afraid that some injury may be done to their precious reputations and they cannot be taught the lesson that all renown worth anything is won by courage and sacrifice and at the risk of unpopu- larity. We were a long time in realis- ing that the members of the Council to whom we looked for wise and courageous action were unwilling to enter into conflict, but at last we have realised that pitiful fact, and now we turn to the ratepayers and ask them to be wise and courageous in their own behalf. There are men in the town who are not afraid of truth and who cannot be deterred from right action by threats or lured to wrong action by bribes. It is the duty of those men to do whatever lies in their power to purify public life and to increase munielipm prosperity. The danger is that now the election is over no mote interest will be taken in local affairs until next November when the rejected of iast Monday may again offer themselves and be returned, like Captain DOUGHTON, at the head of the poll! One of the great reforms most urgently needed is a thorough reorgan- isation of the administrative system of the borough. For many years it has been admitted that there is need for this reform, but the officials are stronger than the representatives of the rate- payers, and nothing has been done. Probably, nothing- will be done until the present lax methods of adminis- tration bring about catastrophe in forms that even the most stupid cannot ignore. We have dealt from time t; t'me with finance, with insanitatior. with the need for an additional \vat! supply, and for improved drainage. Then there are all the questions which, the Council have pottered over for years, including borough extension, the enforcement of the byelaws, the provision of an isolation hospital, the cleansing of the harbour, the improve- ment of the markets, the carrying out Z-1 of the Council's resolutions, and other matters. There is a well-known wrong condition of things in the town which only members of the Council can deal with. Until that wrong- condition of things is altered there can be no real progress and no right municipal life. The ratepayers are, fortunately, at last awake, and we look to them rather than to the members of the Council for reform, but if the new members, or any of the old members, set about the rectification of the wrong that is known to exist there will be hearty co-operation from many quarters. It seems to us that a better state of things is at hand, but the work to be be done is neither easy nor pleasant, nor will it bring praise and personal gratification.
MAGISTRATES AND THEIR APPOINTMENT
MAGISTRATES AND THEIR APPOINTMENT WE are glad to see that a Royal Com- mission has been appointed to consider and report whether any and what steps should be taken to facilitate the selection of the most suitable persons to be justices of the peace, irrespective of creed and political opinion." It is to be hoped that the scope of the enquiry, which is urgently needed, will be wider than the foregoing words indicate, as there can be no doubt whatever that the whole system of magisterial appoint- ments in counties and boroughs and of the local administration of justice, where there are no stipendiary magis- trates, is as unsatisfactory as It well can be, and is a never-ending subject of deserved satire and ridicule. Four new magistrates have just been appointed for Aberystwyth, apparently against the better judgment of the LORD CHANCELLOR, who says that hi-, will not appoint any more for a long time to come. If the Liberal Govern- ment went out of office, however, and a Conservative Government were appointed in its stead, there would be a new and large batch of magistrates made for Aberystwyth, in less than twelve months. There is nothing to be said against the last four Aberyst- wyth appointments that could not be said with equal truth and force against previous appointments. They are all political appointments, or worse, and always give rise to feelings of con- tempt because of their obvious and even notorious partiality and grotesque- ness. Let anyone compare the rela- tive merits of the present score and a half of Aberystwyth magistrates with Z-1 the merits of five or six score of in- habitants who have been overlooked time after time during the past forty years and the conclusion is inevitable that magistrate-making is a political, wire-pulling, and altogether unsatis- factory business from first to last and has many positive and negative un- satisfactory results of a personal and public character. In centres of large population where Z. there are stipendiary magistrates the present rotten system of appointing local justices of the peace does not prevent the impartial administration of the law as it is prevented in small towns and rural districts. There can be no doubt whatever that in the interests of the people some equivalent should be found in small boroughs and rural districts for the stipendiaries of large towns. This equivalent could be found by making existing county courts courts for the trial of all sorts of cases, the deputy judges or registrars having, as at present, power to hear and decide undefended cases. Under the present system justice is fre- qently deemed to be on sale, or does not come into court at all, as the writer of this article knows from experience as a magistrate. At the present time, as we have pointed out over and over again, breaches of the law are allowed at Aberystwyth, and not only bring- the administration of the law into utter contempt, but inflict the worst possible form of injustice upon those who are not privileged to r, ,| break the law. It is fortunate I that Sir OSMOND WILLIAMS is a ber of the Royal Commission. It lV1. be possible, through him, for to get a hearing in reference to many sides of the subject that might oth^f' wise never have come to the surface- Conservative, landowning, Church of England Lords Lieutenant are no going to nominate Liberal, Noncon- formist tenant farmers and shop" I keepers to be county magistrates, Perish the thought As for justi it is practically impossible to be had in the rural districts when once a Per' son has become known as disreputably There are individuals in every sma borough and rural district who have no chance of fair treatment before the local magistrates. It is a mere farc5 to pretend to try their cases. -f be police know the accused. The mag trates know the accused, and the decision is practically decided before- r\' hand, any hearing that was necessary having taken place before the maglS trates met and elsewhere than in court- We do not believe that Members Of Parliament, or Lords Lieutenant, or even Lord Chancellors ought to ha\' the power to nominate or appoint local magistrates. The Lord ChancelIof himself is practically in the (hands of Members of Parliament, Lords Lieu- tenant, and other persons holding fluential positions. I he member Parliament is frequently in the hands of the local busybody who has his owt1 ends to serve, and the person of infll- lantial position, of coursie, uses his place and power to serve his friends and dependents. The ratepayers, It seems to us, should have the power to elect from among themselves those wjnom they deem to be worthv honourable .and administrative pos" tions. For instance-, suppose the ratepayers of a town were empowered to elect a certain number of leading citizens, say two per cent., as person? qualified to become magistrates, °r town councillors, or members of other local governing or administrative bodies tfyere would be about a hundred and sixty of these honoured citizen?' men and women, in a town of the size of Aberystwyth. Those selected citi- zens would be so limited in numbed that the honour of the position Avoidd be considerable, and the position oug-vt to have some sort of recognition be- sides eligibility for further office. It is mosj) desirably that :theJ should be some wav of sifting and distinguishing those citizens wÙ1° render public service and manifest worthiness from the mass who do nothing whatever for anybody except themselves. If something of this sor were done, then the degraded politics' tool, or the justice-seller, or the spite' monger, or the vote-buyer would be greatly restricted in his operation?- He would have to deal, with the how au red citizens and not with tbc mass of the electors. It would thes1 not be possible in times of agitate and turmoil to pick any sort of wretch out of the moral gutter and run hiol into office as a Town Councillor, or Magistrate, or Member of Parliament- in order to do some dirty work that be was willing to do for a consideration. It is wrong in all sorts of ways tblt a Member of Parliament, or even the LORD CHANCELLOR should have the right to make magistrates withotJt the people having any sort of power tO restrict the choice to those whom thev deem to be worthy. In centres large population the tendency of public life is to keep itself clean, but even If it is unclean the evil does not permeate the whole community. In small town and in rural districts the tendency of public life is to stagnate and to beconle corrupt, or unduly timid and sub- ordinate, and whatever evil there Jj: permeates the whole communitv with its bad influence. As far as the admin' isti ation of justice is concerned loc^ magistrates should certainly nothing whatever to do with it, a,¡10 whether the name of magistrate retained or not ma-jstrates s):iou!d he chosen from a number of citizens w'h'J have been selected as fit for that and other places by the rank and file of the ratepayers.
EDITORIAL NOTES. --'e
EDITORIAL NOTES. 'e We do not see, why the Conservat-* should be so bitterly opposed to Sor-ialisi11- The Socialists have just given them Bet" mondsey. If a Socialist had not made A three cornered election the Liberal wou) have had a substantial majority )fr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN Isays that )fr- LLOYD GEORGE in his wilder moments taI¡.9 claptrap. The difference between LLOYD GEORGE and Mr. AUSTEN CHA}IBj;W LAIN is that Mr LLOYD GEORGE only tn]};' claptrap in his wilder moments and Mr, AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN, pc-or man, H8fer talks anything else. Mr. J. D. REES attended meeting last week which the Newtown Association wished to be private. "ø (f have therefore abstained from printIJli' the "supplied" report. We think W: Liberals of the Montgomery Borough. WJII work their way out. Like tbeJ, MEMBER, they are beginning to ask tions. { In Southern Germany, at the end. 0 July, as much as 64s. 6d. per 48011). 0 paid for Bavarian wheat. At the time in this country English wheat selling at 46s. per 4801b., and Aiis r J. off the coast, at 45s. per 4801b. There t a tax of 12s. a quarter on imported eo in Germany, and the result is that people have to eat rye and potatoes bread substitutes. » < The North Wales slate trade is imprOt(1 ing. The improvement is partly dill to the fact that quarry proprietors b-il" some extent abandoned the very supef^j. attitude which drove builders and &tC^, tects to seek other roofing m; t rom the Jestimog district it is rep°x that larger numbers of workmen are employed. A good deal can be done workmen to increa.se prosperity. cannot be worked at a loss, a fact tb8 jo often forgotten by those who pretend be the friends of working men. D At the last meeting of the Pol £ e Board of Guardians two cases in ref01" j to maintenance orders came up. 11 .Ii, instance an order had been made fljl1 man for sixpence a week towards the 1 tenance of his mother. In anotlier an order had been made of a sh'lh week against a man who was arl1J11 ø- seventeen shillings a week. There discussion in reference to the °r<- sixpence a week and the matt adjourned. For the shilling a ceedings were ordered to be take "tf many of these instances the forced to maintain the poor. Wh3 gin can a man have who is 8ar^1^rg seventeen shillings a week ? great need of reform in 0 Poor Laws. Hundreds of tholl6al people ought to be ciiligrated. would emigrate, but they °dTin0 the necessary funds. i