MISSION BROTHERHOOD.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1296, 27 November 1911, Page 9

MISSION BROTHERHOOD.

ADDRESS ON NO-LICENSE. At the Central Mission Brotherhood meeting yesterday afternoon; addresses on the subject of No-License were delivered by a nuniber of University students. Dr. Whyte acfed as chairman,. .TJiCj first-speaker,-Mr. Kennedy, M.A., LL.M., indicted the-drink -traffic as a. fruitful cause of poverty and crime. Stato control meant, ho said, that the State, which condemned crime, became itself tho eauso of tho crimo which it punished. Mr. Taylor, M.A., confined himself to the economic aspect of tho trado in liquor. He admitted that alcohol had been shown to possess a certain food value, hut contended that its action as adrug counteracted its-value, as a food. Alcohol militated against efficiency in work of all kinds and if its manufacture were terminated any incidental loss would bo more than balanced by tho opening of new fields of useful .'employment.' .- Mr. Morieo dealt with the success of No-License in Now Zealand and m'oro particularly with its effects in Masterton. Ho criticised statements that have been made as to tho pulling away of business in that town and stated that riioro bankruptcies had occurred • among its tradespeople in 1908-a year of license -than m any succeeding years. The only thing killed in Masterton-by-No-License, said Mr. Moriec, was the Dorcas Society, ivhich had disbanded because tho benevolent ministrations of its members wcro no longer required. • • ■ • Solos were contributed by Messrs. T C. Newton and C. 11. Olds.