LAW OF THE IRON ROD
MINISTERS’ PROTEST. Here is an extract from “The i JiV 1 "? Monthly” for September, • 1 1 "ml he interesting to see how the- professional Prohibitionists try to dam this particular outlet of truth:— “This paper is unalterably and absolutely opposed to anything that God in Heaven would call evil. Blit it - has never been able to make itself believe that' a drink of good pure claret or a glass of good cool beer were objects of divine wrath,” . New Zealand should be warned in time. This Prohibition sham cannot be perpetrated without the help of force. Tactics of the mailed fist will always end in self-destruction, whether that fist belongs to individual autocrats or to feverish fanatics. The rule of the rod of iron will prove fatal to the sanctity of New Zealand’s constitution. -X-
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10139, 27 October 1925, Page 2
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