NO-LICENSE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1272, 30 October 1911, Page 6

NO-LICENSE.

. » LECTURE BY PROFESSOR MILLS. At tho Concort Chamber' of the Town Hall last night, Professor Mills delivered a lecture on "Personal Liberty and the Liquor Traffic." Mr. A. R. Atkinson presided, and when tho lecture commenced there was an audicnco present that practically filled tho hall. In tho course of a lengthy address, the speaker said that tho argument against No-Licenso took a great many forms. The one he proposed to deal with was that wliic.li said that prohibitive legislation was a movement against personal liberty. It was said that not only would prohibition in the liquor traffic interfere with the personal liberty or natural rights of the man who wanted to drink, but also with tho commercial rights of tho man who sells. Professor Mills went on to declare that lie denied in toto the doctrina of rights, and even if the doctrine were true, and this one right had never yet bfcn surrendered, it was going to be surrendered at the coming election. There was no natural right to anything without a corresponding duty, and anyone who refused the duty forfeited his natural right. Drink had no right to existence, for its I'fi'cct on health and morality and in business was deleterious. In regard to Maine, tho speaker said there had been there as .in other places a tremendous fight against monopolies, and the drink traffic had sided with tho people of Maine against tho other monopolies to secure its own monopoly.