THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC AND LTBERTY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 203, 27 August 1910, Page 9

THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC AND LTBERTY.

(To"tne'Editor.) ~ . -f Sir.-rMr. J. C< .Earl ,is con- *, c troversialist. I asked him a simple per-j.c tinent question, viz., whether it. was.in 'j ,t keeping with "'Tibefty- and democracy" | \ that the-votes of two intemperate inan-'p hers, of the wmimunity, should be, equal | t to those of three sober persons. I,did ] not classify the voters." as, "drunken" or j "no-license/ and he knows,it. "YyTiile I \ believe that the liquor habit and traffic < cannot be dissociated ( from its. inevitable \ regrettable results, and that person- ■, able habit of total abstinence and/the _ community attitude of Dominion Trohi- ( biti'on would 'effectively remove the evil, , and both are necessary, I. also admit, • with sincere regret,' that some people , who are in the ranks bf "the tnoral arfs- S| tocracy" do not agree with that remedy; ; but the logic of facts and the spread bf { humanitarian feelings are winning them v over, as I hope' "J.C.E." ' will eventually. .- Ibe won. 1 His Honor,' the Chief Justice,'has told us that "one''half of'tue charges oh the present Auckland calendar are directly ' attributable to drink," "and"- saidjhat the reason -he made those remarks was" that "as citizens we may'form sbthe society to see why the community may not be saved from' crime." The outlawfy of the liquor traffic by the equal vOtes'-of an enlightened people would be'a great' factor in securing the result desired hy his' Honor. I am prepared to endorse your correspondent's idea of the next poll, 'that it 'will Ibe "intelligence and the dignity- of free men and women against the doctr;.:- and usurpation of af-party''—-pecuniafii -■ ;-.St-r----ested in the sale of intoxicants. .- a-.-ii, etc.', '.•" *R._ : FiM:vUi. ' * . .- ■"'"'