THE NO LICENSE PARTY AND CLAUSE 9

Evening Star, Issue 14214, 13 November 1909, Page 8

THE NO LICENSE PARTY AND CLAUSE 9

to thi. Minor.. bin--.Mudi nonsense is being wmimi .mil spoken about the Mo-license parly now accepting clause P. They have dune im such thing. "J lie clause now accepted in regard to nonunion Prohibit ion js as different to danse p ns sunshine is to moonshine. The danse f) proposed hv Mr Seddon tn.aiie ii a ( riminal act l'i possess even a l!ad; o| whisky in a local Mo license, area, ami gave the right, to the poliep to inim-.my private house without a warrant/ and search for li<|nor Tims, on the limpi dries helwecn Dunedin and South Dunedin. if c, lie .v,pried Mo-license and the oilier did not. il would he legal for all the houses ou one side of tin- cirri to slope liquor and a ciinie "ii the oilier side. If a man, going home with a flask- of spirit* in his pocket, kepi, to the right-hand side of the street his action would he legal and proper. If he happened, absent-mindedly, to go on to the lell-hami fool path he would be liable to six months in gaol. Such a law would have made a laughing stock of the Mo-license party, and we have l|n intent ion o: becoming a laughing-stock. That, the Dominion vote should prevent the importation of liquor fur personal üb« by pr iiibiting ihe public act of importation has been the phi (form of the parly flora the very beginning, and we have presented Hill after Hill to Parliament asking that this he enacted. One of such Hills actually went through the Lower House, hut was thrown mil by the Legislative Council. This is a pract’cable proposition, the n’t her is not. V\T had not intended to ask for this mi th’ present occasion, hut we were actuated by other reasons than fear that the public would not vote for so drastic a law \V“ know that the great, i omnion-ren.-e public want. :o settle this thing dually and successfully, and we know- that io do tnis uhoy must bo cdu eau-d to vote il out, lock, stock, and barrel. However hard or long the task may he, to get, them to this point, it, is the t-ark we set onrselve-s when we put our hands to the plongm In mv opinion, the sooner we pet at lids final phase the sooner will the final result he achieved. As the question of sacramental wine has been raised, it might be well to say that in all oar former Dominion Prohibition Hills specific allowance was made for sacramental use, and 1 cannot conceive that we should depart from this now. We have no intention of running counter to the religion- convictions of any sccliv.’i of the I'hiirch.—■d am, Ac.. Ski ki-.i ac,r Mo-l.icitv; t. Party. November Id.