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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 112, 7 November 1908, Page 2

NO-LICENSE TACTICS. fTtflE No-license people aro giving New 1 , -■- Zealand a foretaste of their quality. They want not only to close tho hotels, but also the mouths of their opponents.They are so anxious to prevent tho other side from getting a hearing that they howl down the speakers who convena meeting& to place facts and figures befora the electors ; and they misrepresent tho actions of those associated with tho rrado at every point. Nobody is deceived by tho cry for a Royal Commission at Auckland. It is part of the campaign. Nobody Is deceived by Mr. Isitt's querulous telegram to the Primo Minister complaining of the piling-up of trade literature at tho central post offices. It is part of the campaign. The idea is to prejudice tha liquor party, and to leave the impresi sion that a portion of the State machine cry ib being used to facilitate the trade propaganda. But euch tactics must de« feat themselves, because the public, which; [ in the main is just as well as generous, is able to appraise the motive and resanfc the methods As our contemporary the Lyttelton Times points out, the arrangement between the Licensed Victuallers'' Association and the postal authorities ia perfectly reasonable and legitimate. Tha former desire to send out some thousands of circulars setting out their sido of the case, and in order to facilitate distribui tion and prevent public inconvenience ifc has been arranged to deal with the matter in instalments. It is not true that" the oirculars are being held back by arrangement; it is not true that the postal authorities are allowing themselves to be used for the convenience of the liquor party in its opposition to so-called "social reform." The Postal Department is merely carrying out the instructions of its clients to distribute certain circular matter on given days. It would do tha same for the No-license League, or for any other league or organisation that was prepared to pay for the stamps. Ara the prohibitionists afraid of an appeal to public opinion? Are they apprehensive of the effect on the public mind of the contents of the circulars of which they so vehemently complain? It would really seem so. The object-lesson is a valuable one to the community. It discloses with vivid emphasis what the public may expect if it allows fanaticism to prevail; if ifc permits tho No-license Leagues to exert the power of their organisations to inflict the gag upon all with whom they happen to be in disagreement. Every moderate elector who at tho coming poll exerts his vote t6 strengthen the hands of these immoderates will do his share towards placing the halter round the neck of freedom.-. N.Z. Times, 6th November^ 1908. FROM MR. ARTHUR HENDERSON. M.P., CHAIRMAN OF THE LABOUR PARTY IN THE BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS. AN APPEAL TO THE ELECTORS OF / NEW ZEALAND. AT the request of the Council of the - ca " Evangelical Churches of Wellington, I venture to appeal to all* good citizens of New Zealand at the approaching election to use their votes for the promotion of the moral welfare of their fellows, and for the overthrow of the injurious Liquor Traffic. You have a great .advantage over us in the Mother Country. You have the power, by your votes, to sweep your own neighbourhoods clean, and to remove from your pathway the greatest stumbling-block to social progress. The Liquor Traffic everywhere is tho enemy of tho worker. It takes his Sardearned money for that whioh does not benefit him, and deprives his wife and family of lhat which is justly their due. It dulls his brain, reduces his power to earn, weakens his will, and depletes his resources both physical and mental. And it involves the community also, which HAS TO > BEAR HEAVY BURDENS CREATED, BUT NOT CARRIED, BY "THE TRADE." IT IS THE MOST PERFECT MACHINERY NOW EXISTING FOR THE WASTING OF NATIONAL RESOURCES. Its effects upon politics are bad, and bad continually. It corrupts law-making at its iourco. No democraoy can be truly freo and independent so long as it is controlled in any degreo by a gigantic trust whioh makes its own interests the guiding motive of its politics. Industrially, it is bad also. It employa a very small proportion of labour for tho quantity of stuff produced. If the money expended on drink — whioh is not a necessity of life — was turned into other channels of industry, a great improvement in trade would take place. Morally, I believe it to be indefensible. It blocks tho path of progress. It strengthens ail reactionary forces. It destroys the desire for improvement even in in its victims. A VICTORY FOR SOBRIETY IN NEW ZEALAND AT THE COMING ELECTION WOULD HEARTEN THE FORCES OF REFORM THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. AND I EARNESTLY TRUST SUCH A VICTORY WILL BE SECURED. It is as true to-day as it was fifty years ago, when the late Charles Buxton, brewer, wrote that — "The struggle of the school, the library, and tho Church, all united, against the beer-house and the gin-palace, is but one development of the war between heaven and hell." Therefore I repeat my appeal to all good citizens to use their votes against the Liquor Traffic at the forthcoming election. Yours Faithfully, ARTHUR HENDERSON. ZT^WTN if Depot, 907 Willis-street.— • Notice — No. 1 superior Invalid Port Wine, 25s per dozen; No. 2, Wine, two gallons (guaranteed full strength), 18s 6d per dozen, formerly 3s bottle. Wine, 3d per glass. J~OHN~HOPWELL, Cutler, next St. Peter's Church, Willis-street — Lawn Mowers, Hedge Shears, and other Garden Tools ground and repaired. ; __ A POLLINARIS, Apollinaris.— Profos- ■£*- sor Virohow says: — ''Its richness in pure Carbonic Acid favourably distin. guishes it from all other Mineral Waters."| DEVELOPING and Printing for Amaleurs. 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