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Evening Star, Issue 16988, 10 March 1919, Page 6

A SPLENDID FELLOW, BUT ! Have you ever heard this said: “ So-and-So is a splendid worker ii he could only leave the liquor alone,” or “ What a splendid chap So-and-So would he if it wasn’t for the one little weakness,” or “ Ho has onlv got one enemy, aud that is himself”!' There is scarcely one family in tho whole Dominion that can honestly say that drink has not injured it in some shape or form. And the “good fellows” are so often the first to go under. “He is a good husband and father when he is sober, but when he is drunk he is mad." That is a common saying in the Police Courts, and it is a general experience outside the Police Courts. And yet the “Moderates” and trade advocates are always carping of freedom. Why not let us have freedom ? Why not free these poor chaps who are their own enemies from the liquor thrall? Why not free their wives and children, and friends and relations? Why not free the brewers and publicans from the constant stigma of injuring their fellow-men —‘for profit ? Let us have the splendid fellows without the “but.” I 1 ellow-voters, it is in your hands. — -£Advi.]