South Australia - Social Matters
- Censorship
- Charity
- Children and Youths
- Dancing and Other Sins
- Domestic Servants
- Early Closing
- Marriage and Divorce
- Men
- Old Age Pensions, etc
- Smoking
- Village Settlements
Gambling
- Card "Sharping"
- Horse Racing
- Miscellany
- State Lotteries
- Totalizator
Temperance and Allied Matters
- Alcoholism and Drunkenness
- Barmaids
- Local Options
- Miscellany
- Shouting
- Sunday Drinking
- Teetotalism and Prohibition
- Treatment of Inebriates
- Miscellany
Temperance and Allied Matters
Teetotalism and Prohibition
A teetotallers" party is reported in the Observer,24 May 1845, page 5c; also see
5 July 1845, page 5a.
"The Total Abstinence Cause" is put in the Register,
31 May 1845, page 3e; also see
Observer,
5 July 1845, page 5a,
Register,
7 and 14 June 1845, pages 3c and 3d.
The Catholic Temperance Society is discussed on
13 December 1845, page 1e.
"The Physical and Social Advantages of Temperance" is in the Register,
10 January 1850, page 2d.
"Text Twisting and Teetotalism" is in the SA Gazette & Mining Journal,
16 November 1850, page 3a.
Information on a Total Abstinence Society is in the Register,
29 June 1853, page 3e,
Observer,
2 June 1855, page 3b,
Register,
9 January 1856, page 3d.
Information on a temperance festival is in the Register,
5 November 1856, page 3b.
Information on the temperance movement in the colony is in the Advertiser,
9 September 1859, page 3c.
"Drinking Customs" is in the Register,
16 November 1865, page 2d.
A temperance gala is reported in the Express,
10 November 1866, page 3b.
"SA Total Abstinence Alliance" is in the Observer,
4 July 1868, pages 4a-13f.
"The Intemperance of Teetotalism" is in the Register,
23 June 1868, page 2d:
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The most angelic-tempered philanthropists cannot for ever be satisfied with the contemplation of their own virtues and good intentions. In an unguarded hour a spirit of darkness enters into the midst of them, and takes possession of their yearning souls. Brotherly love becomes monotonous, and a friendly tilt offers a tempting prospect of variety. So the brethren fall to and abuse each other. They divide into rival cliques and establish rival Societies.
(Also see Register,
27 June 1868, page 3a,
1 and 2 July 1868, pages 2h and 3c.)
"The Total Abstinence League" is in the Observer,
25 May 1872, page 3c.
An annual meeting is reported in the Register,
25 May 1883, page 6f.
"The Temperance Question" is in the Register,
12 and 13 June 1876, pages 4f and 6d,
"Temperance Legislation" on
5 August 1876, page 4g.
A temperance banquet is reported upon in the Register,
17, 21 and 23 November 1876, pages 6a, 4g and 4d,
Observer,
25 November 1876, page 19b.
A temperance drama "Ten Nights in a Bar-room" is reported in the Observer,
4 August 1877, page 5c.
"Temperance Reform" is in the Register,
24 November 1877, page 4e,
"The Temperance Movement" on
8 and 15 January 1878, pages 4e-6e and 4c.
"Intemperance in South Australia" is in the Observer,
19 January 1878, page 11b.
"The Rev W.R. Fletcher on Intemperance" is in the Register,
26 May 1879, page 6a,
"Temperance Legislation" on
28 and 30 May 1879, pages 4d and 1e (supp.) and
3 June 1879, page 6f.
The Temperance Movement is discussed in the Observer,
7 June 1879, page 11d,
Register,
20 and 25 May 1881, pages 6d and 6d,
8, 11 and 15 January 1878, pages 4e-6e, 6b and 4c,
20 May 1881, page 6d,
24 June 1881 (supp.), page 2c,
7 May 1883, page 7b.
"Campaign Against Intemperance" is in the Express,
5 September 1876.
"Nock's Liquor Bill" is in the Express,
3 and 19 August 1876, pages 3b and 2c,
Chronicle,
25 August 1877, page 5f; also see
The Lantern,
25 August 1877 (cartoon),
29 September 1877,
26 January 1878,
2 March 1878, 25 May 1878,
1 June 1878,
1 June 1878,
19 October 1878,
The Adelaide Punch,
27 April 1878, page 4 (cartoon),
Observer,
2 February 1878, page 18b.
A discussion of Nock's Act is in the Advertiser,
21 and 28 May 1878, pages 4c and 4e-7b,
3 June 1878, page 4f,
4 and 14 September 1878, pages 4e and 4d.
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The origin of Nock's Act is purely Sabbatarian. It is preposterous to say it was introduced in the interests of temperance; this contention is inconsistent with the speeches of its leading advocates. If the object were to check drunkenness the soberest day would not be selected for closing public houses.
(Advertiser, 29 July 1880, page 4e.)
"The Founder of Local Option [David Nock]" is in the Register,
8 October 1904, page 4a,
Observer,
15 October 1904, page 25a.
"Almost Persuaded" is in the Register,
21 May 1880, page 7a.
Also see Frearson's Weekly,
21 September 1878, page 233,
Advertiser,
4 and 6 August 1880, pages 1f (supp.) and 5a:
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Messrs Colton and Simms, whose alliance on any matter affecting the liquor laws must have astonished members of the House, urged that as a man might get drunk on a quart of wine it was most desirable that in the interests of sobriety to compel him to have a gallon or none, but this opinion did not seem to commend itself to the intelligence of their fellow legislators...
Also see Express,
7 July 1880, page 3e,
3 September 1880, page 3e,
Advertiser,
24 August 1880, page 1e (supp.) and
3 September 1880, page 4d:
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It is strange that the Nockites of the Lower House, none of whom are satisfied with the simple fare that sufficed for John the Baptist, or see fit to shun entirely, however they may anathematise the sparkling cup or the flowing bowl, have not a more kindly feeling towards the poor man whom they endeavor to rob of his Sunday beer, or the poor publican whom they love to persecute, It is, however, so much easier for great moralists to preach than to practise rigid abstemiousness.
"Local Option and Sunday Closing" is in the Register,
10 September 1880, page 4e.
Temperance and abstinence is discussed in the Advertiser,
31 December 1883, page 4f,
2 and 16 January 1884, pages 7a and 4c,
Register,
19 July 1884, page 5b.
A lecture on temperance is in the Register on 24 April 1886, page 5b:
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In [my] opinion more men went to the public house because of badly cooked dinners and disorder in the house than for the sociability of the place...
"Giving Away Sunday Liquor" is in the Observer,
26 March 1887, page 25b.
The first annual general meeting of the WCTU is reported in the Express,
26 April 1887, page 4f.
The first convention of the WCTU is reported in the Register,
14 August 1889, page 7e.
Its new quarters are discussed in the Register,
14 May 1895, page 7c.
"The WCTU and the Elections" is in the Register,
1 May 1896, page 6g,
"The WCTU and its Work" is in the Register,
12 May 1896, pages 4g-5b,
24 September 1896, page 4f,
Advertiser,
31 March 1900, page 6g,
Register,
2 May 1911, page 9d.
Photographs are in the Chronicle,
5 September 1908, page 32,
Observer,
13 May 1911, page 27.
"Intemperate Temperance Advocacy" is in the Register,
4 and 5 June 1894, pages 4f and 6f.
Information on the South Australian Alliance is in the Register,
20 March 1895, pages 4f-7a,
Observer,
23 March 1895, page 24e.
"Brandy and Socialism" is in the Register,
19 March 1895, pages 5f-7f.
Biographical details of Mrs E.W. Nicholls of the WCTU are in the Observer,
28 September 1895, page 16a.
A photograph of a WCTU conference is in The Critic,
6 June 1903, page 5.
"Thirst and Temperance" is in the Register,
4 February 1898, page 4e,
"Teetotal Drinks and Drinkers" on
5 December 1898, page 4f.
"Temperance Reform" is in the Advertiser,
20 March 1894, page 4d, page 6e,
"The SA Alliance and Liquor Reform" on
26 April 1894, pages 4f-7g,
"Temperance Reform on New Lines" on
5 July 1899, page 4f.
"Temperance and the SA Alliance" is in the Register,
17 March 1896, page 4g.
"Kill or Cure for the Drink Traffic" is in the Register,
24 March 1899, page 4f.
A lecture on temperance is reproduced in the Advertiser,
4 January 1900, page 8a,
"The Drink Question" is traversed on
25 May 1901, page 6c:
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Like poverty, with which, indeed, it has a good deal more than a casual association, the drink question is always with us, surviving empires, dynasties and creeds, and every change of habit and custom which humanity has known since Noah "looked on the wine when it was red".
An obituary of John "Temperance" Williams is in the Observer,
22 November 1902, page 38c.
"Consumption of Temperance Beverages" is in the Register,
21 November 1903, page 7c.
"A Blow to Teetotallers - Local Option Polls Invalid" is in the Register on
28 and 29 January 1904, pages 5c and 4c,
6 February 1904, page 6d.
"Temperance Campaign - Raising the Sinews of War" is in the Advertiser,
28 June 1904, page 9d.
The editor of the Register expresses some thoughts on "Temperance" on 21 January 1905, page 4e:
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Though weak mortals may be unable to maintain a happy mean between total abstinence and drunkenness, there is no more harm in some folk taking a glass of beer or other stimulant than there would be in their drinking a cup of water, and medical testimony has shown that, though intoxicants have slain their myriads, they have also brightened the lives of many.
"Temperance Question" on
11 April 1905, page 7i,
Advertiser,
1 May 1905, page 4b.
An obituary of a temperance worker, James Fountain, is in the Observer,
2 November 1907, page 38b.
"Brewers and Temperance Reformers" is in the Register,
27 December 1907, page 4e.
"Temperance Reform" is in the Advertiser,
16 June 1908, page 9e,
"The Drinking Habit" on
8 August 1908, page 8e.
"A Temperance Victory" is in the Register on
10 March 1909, page 4c,
"Temperance Orators Under Fire" on
3, 4, 7, 9, 22, 23, 24 and 25 March 1910, pages 13e, 6e-10f, 3e, 3e-5h, 5c, 9h, 10c and 10g.
"Local Option - Result of the Campaign" is in the Register,
6 and 8 April 1910, pages 10g and 7c.
A photograph of a Temperance Alliance Committee is in the Chronicle,
26 October 1912, page 30.
"Temperance - Who'll Buy?" is in the Register,
26 and 27 March 1914, pages 6c and 5f.
"Publicans and Teetotallers" is in the Register,
1, 2, 4, 8 and 10 April 1914, pages 8c-11d, 5e, 19d, 4g and 5f.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union" is in the Register,
8 May 1915, page 8c.
"Prohibition Referendum Refused" is in the Observer,
22 and 29 September 1917, pages 20a and 29d,
2 February 1924, page 61a,
"Prohibition" on
16 September 1922, page 43b.
"Prohibition" is in the Register,
6 June 1917, pages 6b-7b,
9 and 11 August 1917, pages 6g and 16b,
18 and 19 September 1917, pages 5e and 6d,
1 and 27 March 1918, pages 4b and 9c,
25 September 1918, page 9c,
10 February 1919, page 3g,
14 November 1919, page 7f,
11 August 1921, page 9e,
3 and 5 May 1922, pages 4f and 5e,
19 September 1922, page 9c,
"Women and Drink" on
15 March 1918, page 4c.
"Burn the Hotel Bars" is in the Register,
26 September 1919, page 7c.
"Prohibition - The Referendum Question " is in the Advertiser,
8 and 18 September 1922, pages 11d and 12h,
14 November 1922, page 12b,
7 March 1924, page 13d,
5 April 1924, page 15e,
22 July 1924, page 13d,
6, 14 and 25 August 1924, pages 9h, 15a and 13e.
"Hotels and Prohibition" is in the Register,
25 September 1918, page 5c.
"Temperance Reform" is in the Register,
22 February 1924, page 14b,
15 March 1924, page 10f.
"Labour and Prohibition" is in the Register,
22 and 29 July 1924, pages 8e and 10f,
15 and 21 August 1924, pages 10g and 10d.
"Prohibition League and Mr Hunkin, MP", is in the Register,
20 November 1926, page 12d,
"Facts Against Prohibition" on
28 February 1927, page 11a,
9 March 1927, page 9g; also see
23 March 1927, page 11g,
20 September 1927, page 10b.
"Temperance and the Clock" is in the Advertiser,
31 October 1935, page 16d.
