LIQUOR LEGISLATION

Evening Star, Issue 14225, 26 November 1909, Page 4

LIQUOR LEGISLATION

NOT DEAD YET.

[Fkoji Our Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, November 26. Humors are circulating Hint “the trade - ’ are prepared to agree to the compromise as amended by the recent No-!icenso Convention. [Special to the Star.] CHRISTCHURCH, November 26. Referring to tbe deadlock over tbe Noli cense compromise, tbe * Precis’ save: “If the Moderates who vote No-license want to stop other people from obtaining liquor they should be prepared to rest under the veto themselves. Any attempt to enforce abstinence from alcohol upon the people by legal coercion is the wrong way to secure real reform. The only right way to induce the community to become more temperate, and to check the undue consumption of liquor, is for the temperance people to educate the public in temperance. The Prohibition party, however; while apparently able to command thousands for war, cannot spare any appreciable sum for rational and constitutional methods of gaining their way by education. The only thin;: that justifies in any degree their policy is the fact that ‘the trade’ places so mar.v weapons in their hands that it would bo expecting too much of human nature if they were left unused.”