NO-LICENSE TACTICS.

Evening Star, Issue 14625, 22 July 1911, Page 8

NO-LICENSE TACTICS.

TO TUK KDITOR. -dr.—''Anti-Xo-lieensc'' nourishes out a irrandiloquont passage intended to floor people in their adherence to No-license, and says lhat "no effective reply ha.s ever appeared."' Well. lam n plain man, and not ;i learned philosopher, but I think I '•an knock "hit* flourish endways ivithoirt strainin"' my brain capacity. Wo will take it a sentence at a time, lie say:; : "the .few drank. and pave its monotheism, the highest, form of religion.'' All my experience shows that the dews drink very little to-day, and I think that history show? that they were, mainly, always a sober ra<e. However, they did not oive us monotheism because they- drank. That is a. black blasphemy. God is not an invention of a wine-soaked brain. ('ted is :■ reality, and He cho.se to reveal Himself (o His chosen people---the Jew?. That ia why we have monotheism. The second item is that "the fireok drank, and o.avo us literature and art." Then, he went on drinking, and finished up by playing a, barrel on::;!) and leadm',' round a performing monkey. The f.j'i is the literature and art were nivou out h l .- tore drink had time to utterly deh:u;cl; :t fine, hardy, temperate, and con racoons people. By and by the drink v.x-n. a:id the Greeks went down. Then lie says : " The Roman drank, and cave us law." The idei of "law'" lif-irj: the result of unlimited drink is surely oriental and hnmoraus, but it is i">t arcurate. Th-e fact is thai the Roman? won their crreat Empire while they v.ete trr'nwater drinkers. Afterwards, wh'-n corrupted bv luxury and drink, t iit-y vent down before the hardy barbarian.-. Then he says : " The Teuton drn.rk h"rd. aco cave, us our love of liberty." '' is by. cause we love liberty that v fr.'ht Ihi>battle. Wo hate to sWe men tic l slaves of a vile narcotic unpetite. and are prepared to pve uv> some of our ticnis to h.e!n ih-"se slaves to liberty ncain. Even "A'tts-\o-litcnse'' himself hints piainlv that unless he cti indulge in tint dri'" ha.bet that _is hnrtiivr his fellows he wol not. stay m New Zealand. What do-s tv;.-y no'nv to? 1 read a piece in to-ni-'HV Column that fits the bill here. The writer of that article, after j-howin? '•mv elnsivoly that, over l n o tV/)r-nm"s. sideid. -. deaths, c.ssaiilfs. ae-idenis. ft--., are cause;! bv drink each three v-r. Zealand, nays : " fs any indivvlici. alle-'cOlv Christian or otherwise. r.r n Tared to st-rd mi and say that his own nors-ivd rich!, to drink is more imr>orf'>nf +W th i<* i l '' l "' r, J woe? No man can do more than rive it up for himself, hence it is hi- own r.> wt.itc against toe total of fa-> cabndiv. Knowing thp.se things. T rWllv a/ove with Bishop Julius, of (''hrisiehnre'i. and syv ; ' I woukl i-ather di« than vole f'oniimianc?.'" That nuts the question clearly. It " Anti-\'i-l;ce"p Q '' r-nnnet see it- l' lr e that, then his whole mind is \vrivd bv his drug habit. Al/vhrn science* has ni'-dc it oh in that, ah«oho!-r- ; n.'r deoreay'? Kr-in an.-] nerve power. Hnrf- ve iiave one like the fiermau Ennvror sav ; r-' in eff'■■•(: that the next \vm- will 1- w-'-n bv tVneoole with the best nerves. thcyWe >i will be won by the that drink lea.-t alcohol. Tf aloohol-driVVip." sol,b>-= -"re better, why do Lord RoVim-H an-d f l ' o v 'tvj ••■ed rl! r/enerals so 'stroivdy riraisc t-lie Army Total Abstinence work?—T am. etc.. FI'OC.KESS. July 20.