"JASON'S" REMARKS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8479, 10 May 1893, Page 6

"JASON'S" REMARKS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir, —Jason in your issue of to-day has fired off another shot. Like his other performances, however, it has injured no one, and donbtless frightened bnt few. It may amuse Jason to practice with blank cartridges, bnt unless he puts shot in his gun he will never become a marksman. Now, Jason, next time you load put a ball in yonr inkpot, and try a shot at the real question. Don't go about like a spoilt child, ■«hhiing about your God-given or natural rights, as if you expected . which of course you don't — that the teetotallers wished to deprive you of any one of them. H«-i_ are one or two questions which I have no doubt to a philosopher like you will appear very simple:—lst. Do you contend that it is by virtue of a God-given or natural right that you sell whiskey ? 2nd. If so, by what right do you hinder mc from trafficking in the same commodity ? 3rd. If on the contrary you sell whiskey by our (the people's) permission, have not we (the people) a perfect and natural right as a community to say, " You shall sell whiskey no longer r" I await your simple answer. Here's the bull's-eye aim at it; hit it if you can. Pray enjoy your God-giveu or natural lights to your heart's content, and if God or Nature has conferred on you the right to •bespatter clean paper with bad philosophy, take your pleasure, but don't be disap--pointed if some, at least, of the community look upon such effusions as the overflow of a Whiskey-besotted brain. —Yours, Sec, J. LP.