MR FISH SUGGESTS THE BOYCOTT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10236, 3 January 1894, Page 3

MR FISH SUGGESTS THE BOYCOTT.

TO TUE EDITOB. Sib,— ln a recent edition of your paper I noticed that Mr Fish, late M.H.R. and now mayor of Dunedin, suggests that the liquor trade should boycott the local papers because each paper has on their staff one opposed to the drink traffic. Apart from the legality of the subject, Mr Pish is, perhaps, not aware that the men he wishes to deprive of their situations would be a far greater danger to the trade if they had a free hand than they are now. Take Mr Jago, for instance. Where could the temperance people get a better lecturer than ha would make? A most forcible speaker, clear and logical in his deductions. And then Mr E. N. Adams, a man of undoubted talent and of untiring energy. Both these gentlemen are highly respected, and would be far more dangerous to the liquor trade if they were unhampered by their at present official duties, or the papers Mr Fish wishes to see boycotted. Bub what a reign of tyranny would Mr Fish bring about if he were allowed to indulge in his own sweet will. Fortunately —if Ido not greatly misjudge them—the gentlemen cosnected with the Dunedin papers are far too honourable to be dictated to by one who has shown, by the suggestion he has made, his total unfitness to ever again bs placed in power to help to make laws for this colony.—l am, &0., EX-DUNEDINITE.