PROHIBITION

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2018, 27 March 1914, Page 8

PROHIBITION

Layo not niflcli tirno for tlie wave of puritanism or organised insanity wanting to pttiivsh society for the wrongdoings of so very few, birt may I only be allowed to ask "A Reader./'' evidently very displeased by tire remarks cf Cardinal Gibbons of New York, if ho prefer, via., those by the Right Kev, D'i\ Stretch, Bishop of N«wcastle, Australia, before- tho Anglican Synot!,. Jtmej ISJX2.: "It was' his''"hops that the Synod would not support No-Mcenso at" tho next election.- 4 , . Ho MiGMght it was the Worst thing .ev&r Jntrodaced, and ba regarded the action of the Lcgislaturfe in i-efeiTing tp tho . people-, tlie qncstion of No-Lkcnse ... a pieco at 'cowardice, falsa' to tho root prin. cirtes flf de.mac-raGy 4 .,. In this State, ho said, you can., haw- ydtir liconsts if yd'ti Build a haftsg cdsthig seven, .or fiiglft, thousand pounds, tat »vo eaii shut ft down at the year's end, .howovcr wo'li .you conduct it." fki* was. Hia tor* slnpc(3nqlu.ded r an ,elaboratf. and disgusting .sivindlo," 'and It' would knock morality "out, of tho trade-." tfho inotiw was refected. Or .what about, viz., Professor 'Sal■mond's: "A moral tutelages fit only for enriffaeu and savages?" etc., etc,, etc. —i, a;m r ote., ANOTtfflR REAPER.