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MRS. HELEN BARTON (THE N.Z. ALLIANCE ADVOCATE) A PROHIBITION LADY UNDER CROSSEXAMINATION HER ASTOUNDING- DECLARATION (BY JOHN PLOUGHMAN) Mrs. Barton makes a feeble and quibbling attempt to refute my statements of the case referred to—a case in which Mrs. Barton sought £2000 and obtained £5. ' The case was taken before Mr, Justice Pring in Sydney, and Mr. Shand, K.C., had Mrs. Helen Barton under crossexamination. MRS. HELEN BARTON'S EVIDENCE Mrs. Barton said she had been a Prohibitionist all her life, and would go as far as to say that liquor of any kind should not be taken under any circumstances whatever. Mr. Shand: "Bat the advocacy of Prohibition does not necessarily involve abstinenco at all times in those who follow it? ' Is that your view?" Mrs. Barton: "I believe in Prohibition out, and out. Mr. Shand: "I suppose you will admit that those who advocate Prohibition do not all go to the extent you go and refuse to admit the use of liquor under any circumstances?" Mrs. Barton: "I have nothing to do with what other people think." Mr. Shand: "Answer my question. I am asking what you know." Mrs. Barton: "I don't advocate it even as a medicine. Mr. Shand: "If a doofcor was treating your favourite child, and ho said: 'I can save tho child's hie by giving iff.brandy,', would you give it any brandy?" , *» Mrs. Barton: "No, I would not." "~ Mr. Shand: "You would let it die?" Mrs. Barton 1: "Yes, I would." MR. JUSTICE PRING TAKES A*HAND His Honour: "You would not give brandy to a dying ohild when brandy was recommended by ii doctor?"' Mrs. Barton: "No, 1 would not." His Honour: "Are you married?" Mrs. Barton: "I have been a widow for fifteen years." His Honour: "Ha,vo you any children?" Mrs. Barton: "Nine children." His Honour: "Well, I might inform you that if you rofused to do it and tho child died you would be guilty of manslaughter." sHIS HONOUR'S JUDGMENT Mr. Justice Pring, in the course of his summing-up in tho case, said: "The plaintiff, Mrs. Barton, advocates not only total abstinence, but prohibition. Sho would not oven use brandy to save it person who would otherwise die. I hope there aro not many in the community who hold the same views. A very large mass of thinking people in this community do not; believe in total 1 abstinence, and are wise enough to believe that everything giveu (o us by_ tho Creator may bo put to a good use. Used properly, these- tilings aro beneficial, and the ovil lies in their abuse. I ■ hear }>eopl« proclaiming loudly against liquor, and I often wonder whother they aro not abusing some other gift of the Creator. It is just as disgusting to gorge food as it is to follow intemperance in the drinking of liquor. Wo_ find that Mrs. Barton, has come out hero for the purposo of taking part in a No-liconso i campaign. Apparently sho herself iu her public addresses is not aboyo attacking other peoplo. Sho has callod every hotel in Australia a den of infamy and iniquity. That is language ono cannot excuse. It is going too far altogether. By accident, as she says, she called down God's ourso on a bishop. Accident or no accident, she called down a, curse on Bishop Stretch. We find that slio is a woman who is not above slaudoring other people." MRS. BARTON'S ADMISSION AND QUIBBLE In Court, she says the liquor agent (that is her way of desig- , nating Mi% Shand, K.Q.) asked her if sho would give brandy to her child. Thus Mrs. Barton confirms tho fact, and sho repeats, "No, I would not." But that was not the question. It was to a child "that would die" if she did not give it a drop of brandy. And her answer was, "No, I would not." EVERY SENSIBLE WOMAN'S PLAIN DUTY Mrs. Barton was brought to this Dominion by tho Now Zealand Alliance. Tho Prohibitionists' organisation is responsible for her. Thoro are thousands of mothers favourable to Prohibition who will repudiate Mrs. Barton's attitude and determination. Their abhorrence of Mrs. Barton's expressed views should induce all women to strike out tlio two bottom lines on Election Day in this way:— / 1. I VOTE FOR NATIONAL CONTINUANCE O ~» l ii£ni^»^«lT?»ii'y^~l~\n^'r * T<-r<-\-vr a T

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