18 MARCH 1916, Page 2

The Government Should 'not, of Course, hate listened to the

presumptuous menaces of those who claimed to represent, 'but do not represent, the great Temperance -movement. Happily there seems reason to 'believe that they are beginning to realize that there has been a great change of recent years in the Tem- perance Party, and that by far the more important element, both in principles and in good-sense, is as strongly-in favour of purchase as it used to be against it. It is only the " Bourbon " temperance man and woman, who learn nothing and forget nothing, who refuse purchase. They are like the French extremists of whom Burke wrote that they would rather domineer in a pariah of atheists than rule the whole Christian world.