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Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 116, 13 November 1911, Page 8

JOHN BRINSMEAD AND SONS, LIMITED. , i By Royal Warrants Manufacturers to THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN. • BRINSMEAD PIANOS! BRINSMEAD PIANOS! CHAS. BEGG & CO., LTD., SOLE AGENTS, 118, WDLLIS-STREET. LABOUR AND LIQUOR. FALLACIOUS AND MISLEADING STATEMENTS. INCONSISTENT ARGUMENT. TJROFESSOR MHJjS stands for Labour ■*• ■ and for Temperance. It is remarkable that Prof. Mills's plea for Temperance is not for Temperance at all, but for Prohibition, which is , not Temperance. Temperance is based on moral suasion; Prohibition on the power of tho law ; and Professor Mills confuses Prohibition with regulation, seeming to think if hotels aro closed after 10 p.m. they might as well bo closed altogether. It is one thing to be free to buy under regulation and quite another to be prohibited tho right of purchase altogether. Professor Mills's argument, applied to drapers' shops or any other places of business, stamps it as ridiculous and absurd. If that i 3 the best tho Professor can do he should leave it alone. Professor Mills cays alcohol is not a food; it isn't even a stimulant. Yet beverages charged with alcohol as a preservative have boon used by the sons of men since the days of Noah. Later in tho ages Paul said to Timothy, "Take a little wino for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities," and good people all over the world havo continued to do so ever since. Those nations who uso alcoholio beverages stand among the foremost of the time ; those who do not are tho most backward and immoral. All great men have used alcoholic beverages as stimulants in health' and in sickness, and how often do tho doctors of to-day order women" and men to take a' glass of stout as an appetiser? In sickness, alcohol,- being easily absorbed by the system, is often the only food invalids can partake of, and for weeks they have been sustained by alcohol when the system was so exhausted as to be incapable of absorbing other foods. Professor Mills is seriously behind the' lime in his scientific authorities on the influence of alcohol and raco degeneracy. Dr. Pockloy, at the recent Medical Congress in Sydney, showed that alcohol had no affect upon race degeneracy whatever — for nature, ho said, eliminated ' drunkenness. And it has been demonstrated among the foremost scientists Of the day that the reproductive faculties of men and Women are not deleteriously affected by alcohol. But if it were so, Prof. Mills himself gives a direct contradiction to his theory, for all his ancestors users, not abusers, of alcoholio beverages. But Prof. Mills says: — "Personal abstinence cannot reach that evil." How weak is this. 'If every man and woman wore, personally total abstainers we might be as Turks and Hindoos, but wo would bo,' unaffected by alcohol one way or the other. Again, the fallacious methods of tho "learned professor" aro exhibited when he says :— :"Every scheme of regulation im•plied the right and wisdom of Prohibition." No; the right and wisdom, of USE. " • Wo license travellers, we license vehicles, we license clergymen, we license hotelkecpors, we license cabbies and expressmen, and it is all for USE under regulation — not for prohibition. Under license we have regulation, and within reasonable limits license under .regulation implios tho right of use, and safeguards the right of uso. But Prohibition would destroy that right to use under licensed regulation, and it is against this violation of the principles of democracy that oven Labour must revolt. Prof. Mills declares tho liquor trade to be a monopoly. If he is right the Prohibitionists are to blame*. ■ They have created it. Gladstone once said, "I drink good wino and' bitter beer every day of my life. Why should I seek to take away the right of the working man to do tho game?" And the working man's right will be left open to him by voting against Prohibition and No-License. Tho way to do that is by STRIKING OUT THE BOTTOM LINES ON BOTH. BALLOT. PAPERS. Professor Mills is a clever man, no doubt, but he does not understand the liquor question. WELLINGTON GAS COMPANY, LIMITED. GREAT GAS COOKER SALE! ■ GREAT GAS COOKER SALE! MAGNIFICENT AND INSTANT SUCCESS! .NONCOMPETITION HERE. WE STAND ALONE. A- £3. 10s COOKER FOR OQ» OS !~ And »<« A FIXED FREE OF COST. THE DEMAND IS PHENOMENAL But THE SUPPLY- IS LIMITED. There is a time in domestic affairs -when the possession of a Gas Cooker leads on to Happiness. , THAT TIME IS NOW I BUT -YOU MAY MISS THE OPPORTUNITY. DON'T MISS IT! J.H.. HELLIWELL, Secretary. COLE'S CASH DRAPERY CO., Manners-street. EXTENSION OF BUSINESS. • ff\HE . Premises lately vacated by ■*- Madame Siegel in Manners-street, have been taken over by Cole's Cash Drapery Co.. and will he opened when necessary alterations havo been effected — which will be in the course of a few days. \yATCB FUTURE AKXOUNC)£»IENT.