CORRESPONDENCE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5708, 8 January 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

CORRESPONDENCE.

[To the Editor of Good Templar Columns.] Sir, — In the " Good Templar Columns," of the ISth, a Templar elector -writes, " I shall be able to legister a few votes hi the coming elections ; it I had a hundred they should all go foi the Templai ticket." Does "AT.E " mean to assert that because a man is a G.T. he must be the most suitable candidate to elect for the coming Paihament .' Is it in cumbent on G.T. electois to vote foi a candidate bccau'io hr> in -i brother, n^vi'imind how imich moie fit some one else is ? It is hettei to have an honest cnemv than a, deceitful fiiend (01 one that [nofessus friendship) ; foi the foinier Mill do you the least h.iiui, and \ou know fioni mIioiu to expect mjuiy. Theic aie many men who would not bcinplo to bec(tine Good Template if they thought such a collide Mould seouio their return to the House ; many inoio mIio would make vague pi onuses that tliey Mould suppoit a Pel mibsive I'.ill and pei'haps be faithtul to then- Moid. Eut is that 10 coimter-balance the evil they might do the countiy in other ways V What 1 say is, elect the best man 3011 can get, if lie is a Good Templar so much the better ; or if lie will promise to suppoit piohibitne legislation— goo 1 ; 1>ot a >,ood, honest, stiajghttOMwud "man, tun that will be tine to A\]),it In say* —I am, tVt

?\ v l'i Mir. | \\ e t'i> not suppose thai " iUmil Templar Khctoi ' meant tli.it Weausc .1 man was simply a <iood Templni th.'t ncLc-ss.mly lie imi^t bo the "most suitable candidate to Lieut." Those who mo niembeis of 0111 Oidur and mow the dunk question in its pioper light, cannot consistently, we tlunk, voti for an j man nnlcsb ho is Uvom.iblc to yn my the people, in some M.iy, ])o\\ei to put down the Liquor tiailiu when tlu'y shall think ltnylit bo to do. The Liquor tialiiu ih wasting the wealth, ile^tio^iny the ho.ilth and lnesof the people ; this places the dunk question, we think, immensely abo\o e\ti\ other question, and <-o it ought to be viewed and ai-ted upon by every nun who has the welfaieotlns country at lie.vi t AVe know of no legislation liUely to he inaete.l that i-. auj thing to bo eompaied to the e\ils which wesullei undei the prosi'iit license 1.1W& — IhiTC |