THE EVILS OF DRINK.
TO THB IDITOB. Glr,—During the last two days thore hare rttred accounts of three deaths caused drink. One a nun at Auckland, tree arrested for drunkenness and died in , tho cello; one s. man at DargaTillo, who. I having bcoo drinking (according to tho evi- ' dence), lurched in front of a horse, and was t co wounded that he afterwards died; an- | other a man at New Plymouth, who-died as ! a result oi brain lupture following a fall \ after drinking > The point I wkh to tanphaaise is this; Now that we Lave a Dominian vote, every person who votes Continuance anywhere in tho Dominion ia responsible before God and his conßcienco for ell tho evil that follows on the continuance of liquor-selling in the ■whole- Dcmraian. His vote causes it, and ho must take resjxmsibirity for it.' It is / Jtmiversally agreed that Dominion Prohibij' .lion will destroy mne4enthe. ofc' the drink fciaoL—l am, etA, NTM. ( DecembexS.
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Evening Star, Issue 14534, 9 December 1910, Page 2
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160THE EVILS OF DRINK. Evening Star, Issue 14534, 9 December 1910, Page 2
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