THE PROHIBITION PARTY.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 148, 23 June 1904, Page 5

THE PROHIBITION PARTY.

jREPLY TO MR. W. W. COLLINS. (By Telegraph— Own Reporter.) • PALMERSTON NORTH, This Day. A public meeting in connection with Hie tenth annual Conference of the Prohibition Party was heid here last night. A feaUtro of the meeting wna the lengthy Teply of the Rev. I. Jolly, Moderator of the Wnnganui Presbyter}', to the antiProhibition speech made in Palinerston la«t week by Mr. W. W. Collins, of Christchurch. Th© Rev. Mr. Jolly, who had nttended Mr. Collma's meeting, said — "After listening most patiently to his lrgumeht in favour of clause 9 of last Tear's proposed Licensing Bill, and against Frobibition generally, I was forced to the conclusion that I had seldom listened to a more unsatisfactory speech. It would not bo possible to impose on thoso who are familiar with ihe facts, bub it was .ilever enough to mislead those who have not studied tho question. Clause 9is dishonest. It may be called a clever move on tlio part of the advocates of iiqnor. It i<* a kind of political thimblerigging that must offend the moral sense of every honest man." Mr. Hawkins, of Pahtatua, and the Rev. Mr. Porter wero the other speakers.