"GOOD CAKES AND BAD CUSTOMS OUGHT TO BE BROKEN."
To the Editor. Sir,—The correspondent whose letter appeared m your Monday night's issue may not be a "Good Templar," but he is evidently a good logician. "Actions speak louder than words," and it is futile for any man to pose as being impartial by declining to append his name to a document expressing certain opinions, while his influence, if not his habits, proclaim m trumpet tones which side he favours. It is improbable that there will be. a repetition of the scene of debauchery said to have taken -"lace at a recent function, and of which "Not a Good Templar" hints. Old-fashioned customs, especially when they .appeal to the baser appetites, die . hard,; but public opinion, as the result of increased knowledge, will not tolerate much longer those pernicious conventionalisms which spell physical and moral degeneracy. A better day is dawning, and the shrine of Bacchus will spon ; 'f disappear from every festive board. j "For right is right, since God is God, , And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, I .To falter would be^sin." j i ' • ICONACLAST. <
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7825, 18 June 1909, Page 4
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