Sir Wilfrid Lawson, on Wednesday, received 10,000 Good Templars in
his grounds, and made them a speech whiph, if not wise, was, at all events, amusing. The Templars' "Regalia," he said, which were so much laughed at, amounted to nothing but a uniform. The clergy wore a uniform, and "Parliament passed most of its time last Session in settling what it should be." The publicans, like the schoolmasters, were "paid by results." He had heard all sorts of suggestions for stopping drunken- ness, and one of them was that people should only drink at meal-times, but his opinion of that was that "there would be a great many meals in the day." The only way to stop drinking was to stop the temptations to drink All history is, however, against that last statement. American women, as a rule, never touch liquor, and live as near it as other people ; and so de clergymen in the Eastern States. Reputable Hindoos never touch it, and can get drunk anywhere for threepence. Mohammedans in Arabia never drink, and have the palm all round them. Tuscans never get drunk, and have wine at every meal. And finally, Sir W. Lawson's own audience, the Good Templars, do not drink, and have just as much access to liquor as other people. If moral suasion has taught them, why should it not teach all ?
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