THE LIQUOR QUESTION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10217, 11 December 1893, Page 6

THE LIQUOR QUESTION.

TO THE EDITOK. Sik,—-As a supporter and well-wisher of tho present Government ever since it took office, I am waiting with a good deal of anxiety to see what action it will fake with regard to the liquor question, aud I believe my feelings are shared by a large number of the staunchest Liberals throughout the Colony. The Government is placed in a position which will necessitate it either sinking its own wishes in deference to The pronounced wish of tha whole country, or vice versa, exalt itself above the best principles of true democracy and override the voice of the people. Which it will do is hard to say at present, but I do hope, for the sake of other great reforms,that it has in hand, it will not risk the splitting up of its own party to avoid the imaginary humiliation of giving in. The Government now has an opportunity to make a noble precedent, and that is to allow itself to be guided and governed by the wishes of the people rather than to guide and govern. Instead of jaoiifioing its dignity in the present crisis, it would only reap honour and renewed confidence, and cement together the strongest party the Colony has ever seen.—l am. &c., DAVID VINOEY.