THE REAL TEST OF NO-LICENSE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 236, 29 June 1908, Page 4

THE REAL TEST OF NO-LICENSE.

Sir,—l really cannot pursue any further a controversy in which fair argument is met by intorminablo evasion. Not one of my antagonists has had tho hardihood to. contradict my statement, based on official returns, that drunkenness and crinio have been onormously reduced in tho No-License districts. To overybody not blinded by financial interest these figures are proof po'sitivo that tho experiment has made- a magnificent contribution' to tho sum of human happiness; and this surely is the ultimate and decisive test.

Tlio paid agent of the Now Zealand liquor traffic ivlio recently confided to a West Australian audience a proof of tho failure of No-License largely based upon the wild, general statements of another paid agent was wiso both in the place and the authority which he selected for his speech. Why should your correspondent seek for more impartial authorities? Tho Mayor and 100 leading citizcns of Invcrcargill, many of them not.teetotallers,'and some of then) for•morly opposed to No-License, testify to tho blessings which it has conferred upon their 'town; and tho like testimony is to hand from Oamaru. If tho liquor traffic is still unconvinced, it is likely to receive a rudo awakening at tho Local Option Poll. —I am, etc.,

A. R. ATKINSON. [As this controversy, which has already made enormous inroads upon our space, threatens to stretch out to mi infinity of irrelevance, wo must now declare it closed.— Ed.]

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