LETTERS CONDENSED

Evening Star, Issue 12666, 21 November 1905, Page 8

LETTERS CONDENSED

'• Rango-thider" thinks that Mr Brinslev should apol-jgiso to Constable Hiekey for the expression used at Mr Bedford's meeting at Howe street Halt and adds:-—"I don't know whore the" Uuzy part of the. business came in. The constable, could not keep order, he being the only member of the force present at the time in a packed room, with not even room to turn round." "Mother' uiges voters to vote No-license and "save the boys," :ui(l adds: ■' For tbe rdd drunkards die and tho young ones coerce To keep up the traffic in beer and mm. Is it your boy or mine? Say. fat he's and mothers, is it your hy or mine.' " Another Young Colonial " replies to tho president of the, Cnited Temperance Reform Council (Dr B. K De Lautour), and, inter alia, stales : —The doctor asks " Why should the people be deprived of rights which they now enjoy?" The doctor's opinion is "that tbo wrongs done to some stould be claimed by others as their rights arwl rnjoved; the enjoying of those rights becomes a question of conscience. He also savs : "In order to preserve a wealthy and hurtful monopoly.'' As a "wealth monojolv" I do not think licensees can vie with doctors and other professions ;.r trades. As to tho word "hurtful." there are in tho hotel trade, as in other professions or trades, a few black sheep, so tho doctor's whole profession, as also other professions and trades, must not be. condemned for the ffcw. If the doctor is bent on reforming his brother m;ui. and is conscientiously of the opinion that liquor in any shape or form is bad. and that the sale of it in any shape, or form is detrimental to the welfare and well-being of the people, then let him bo true to himself, to" his Council, to his people, and strenuously, in and out of season, ave. from the liousp-tops, advocate " total' Prohibition throughout the whole colony."