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Evening Post, Volume LXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1903, Page 6

LICENSING ELECTION. THE' POSITIO*N~OF PARTIES, i ' A S tho Eloctors of Wollington will bo -tX called upon to-morrow to voto for ilvu candidates to roprosunt tho Wollington lioonsing distriot for tho dinning tlm-o years, it is woll that tho position should bo oloarly undurslood. Thoro aro two sots of candidates ,in tho fiold. On tho ono hand lliero aro tho nomiuoos of tho tomporanco party—sworn proliibitionistß plodgod to a epooifio oourso of action in consouanco with thoir prohibition sentiments. To thoso mon tho brovvors and publicans aro aliko haloful, and tho abtiso that lrns boon lovollod at all who aro engaged in tho liquor traffic, tho nccurations brought against thorn by tho men who aro biting put up to control thoir affairs from tho Bench, should convince, all right-thinking pooplo of their Unfitnoss to sit in equitable judgment upou holders of liooriHoa to soil formontod nnd spirituous liquors. Projudico is inimical to justico, nnd who ran imagino that tho tompornnco candidates, each nnd nil pledged to wipo out tho li(iuor trafilo from tho colony at tho local option polls, will bo nblo to ontiroly aubmorge that prejudico when on the Licensing Honch? On the other hntul, there aro roputablo candidates in tho 'flold who aro not oxtremists, nnd who may bo relied upon to lenn to noither ono sido nor tho othor; who will pormit no laxity in tho obsurvonoo of tho law, nor strain its obvious intent to gratify porsonnl predilection of party aims. It is nluiost insulting publio nilnlligenco to doubt whioh sot of cuiu'idntos tho oloolors will return in tho oircuinstancos. PROHIBITION MORALITY. "Evil bo thou my good" is tho principle upon which ProhibiliomtTtg nro working. Somo of them may not soo it in that light, but it ii> nono tho Ichk a fact that they aro striving lo do n great wrong in orcW to do a liltlo right. Thn Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain said, .ifter bring thwarted by temppraneo extremists for a quarter of a. century in his efforts at licensing reform (not annihilation) :—"Uu-' lil wisur counsels pravnil ninonget tho tomperanco party. I fear tho history of toinprmMxc »«iut".<ju will continuo tv be