PROHIBITION.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16516, 7 May 1919, Page 7

PROHIBITION.

TO THE EDITOR OF "THS I'RESS." Sir, —With reference to your correspondent. W. J. Williams, in your issue of May 3rd, no doubt liis conscience pricks him, and so it should, and nil the other clergymen who so sadly ti6ed their efforts to bring on a sex war, for it was nothing else at tills end of Canterbury. lam speaking of Timaru. These clergymen should bo classed with the Semples and severely ostracised for an unholy attempt to get prohibition through in the absence of the sanest part of our population. Surely the vote of the soldiers, who had to pass ft severe test at the hands of our doctors, was pre-eminently of moro value than a lot of impossible women, who were -worked up to tho pitch by a reckless lot of clergymen who, if they were doing their duty, would bo fighting the greatest blot on civilisation, vie., race suicide. I cannot help thinking that a high state of civilisation is turning the world mad. Thank God, we have still some sane women left, but I am sadly afraid of the balance. And these clergymen traded on the fact that, as we had lost 15.000 or so of our best sons. I now know what, is tho meaning of the term, Whited Sepulchre.*— Yours, etc., VERITAS. May Gth.