“CHARLES LEWIS ON PROHIBITION.”
[to the editor.! Sir, —Some wise man said years ago that “Brevity is the soul of wit.” Evidently Mr. Lewis does not agree with him, (I do) or he womu not have written the three columns which appeared in your issue yesterday. I have carefully read the whole of those “three columns” and the only distinct impression I can gather from them is, that all supporters of Prohibition must be either fools or rogues, or both. Should I be out of order in suggesting that, possibly, liquor trade supporters may be open the same charge—of course excepting Charles Lewis 1 Personally I have for seventy years been a steady consumer of beer, wine, and spirits, I am to-day a firm supporter of Prohibition, not because I hope to convert an “Imbecile” into a capable person, but, to prevent the possibility of the RISING GENERATION providing a further supply of “Imbeciles.
Now Sir, if “Brevity is the soul of wit,” I claim a greater wit than ‘‘C.L.” though I am a Prohibitionist.—l am, etc., W. NELSON. Tomoana, March 22nd.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 83, 22 March 1919, Page 3
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