DISGRACEFUL BEHAVIOUR.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9584, 26 November 1896, Page 2

DISGRACEFUL BEHAVIOUR.

TO TUB EDITOR OF THK PRESS.

Sit?,--The prohibitionists are df ten L_i-niacl with according itbfair fcreattoent to their opponents; D_fc I think t-ie. exhibition of liquor tactics which occarred at the EraSt belt and * Cashei street prohibition meeting will disgust even the .most bitter of the auti-prohibitionists. If tho opponents of prohibition expect to win support by the showering of the rottenest of eggs indiscriminately amongst men, women and children, and thus fouling the clothes of friend and foe alike, they must be of an amazingly sangniue disposition. They-only showed what cowardly and dirty tactics they are capable of stooping to when they threw what was apparently a stone as big as my fist at one speaker, a Christian minister, which, fortunately, did nothing more than displace and batter his hat; had it .struck a little lower down, or struck one of the many children near by, it might have caused a serious, if not fatal, injury. If these are the liquor party's best arguments, they as was then* remarked, very rotten ones. The same clique tried to disturb the meeting by boobooing and giving cheers for Mr Collins. That gentleman will doubtless appreciate his party's loyalty.—l am, &c, Spectator.