"PLAYING WITH EDGED TOOLS "

Evening Star, Issue 10767, 31 October 1898, Page 3

"PLAYING WITH EDGED TOOLS "

so sax SDITOB. Sla,—l notice in your columns that the Aoglioan Synod recommend the formation of a league In New Zealand to be oalled the Pabtlc-houie Reform League, to educate the people on the sale of alcoholic liquors withoat private profit, and to encourage the initiation of public-nooses of refreshment on the tinea of the above principle. From this it would appear that theae worthy gentlemen do not aa yet recognise the fact that alcoholio battersgei have an evil tendency, no matter how tbey are sold or where they are sold, and this recommendation of theirs Is merely playing with the accursed traffic. If they Would cease this foolery, and turn their attention to the abolition of this ancient but obnoxious custom, and educate the people on these lines, they would then be accomplishing some good in their day and generation. them look away to England and take an example from His Grace Dr Temple, who is a strong opponent of all drinking habits, and who was for many years a vicepresident of the United Kingdom Alliance for the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic. Ministers of the Gospel, no matter to wha; denomination they belong, should, of all men, be the most whole hearted on this subject, and should scorn the idea of makiog any compromise with the enemy. —I am, etc., LIBEBTAS. Dunedin, October 29.