A CONVERT TO PROHIBITION.

Evening Star, Issue 7449, 18 February 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)

A CONVERT TO PROHIBITION.

TO THE EDITOB. Sib,—The ‘Defiance,’ of Atlantia, Georgia, which has had two years’ experience of Prohibition under local option, said recently:—“ We have studied the wholesome effects of Prohibition, handicapped as it was and is by the wicked designs of those bent on showing that it would not prohibit, and we desire to see still more of them when untrammelled by these underlying counter currents. Prohibition has not had a fair chance, and everybody knows it. Everything that could be done lias been done to bring the law into contempt and to cast obloquy upon its advocates. If it has accomplished good, promoted morality and order, decreased drunkenness, and increased sobriety under these adverse circumstances, what will it do when these hindering causes are removed ? For these reasons we cast in our lot with the cause of Prohibition. We mean to he as earnest in our advocacy of Prohibition as we were of the opposite cause. We espouse the cause of law, order, sobriety, and virtue, in opposition to the cause of lawlessness, disorder, drunkenness, and vice. From an honest conviction of the rectitude of our determination, and from a desire to advocate what we conscientiously believe to be for the best interests of our people, we shall be found doing and daring all that can be done and dared for this righteous cause.”—lam, etc,, Temperate. Dunedin, February 13.