“AUTOCRACY.”

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 13948, 3 January 1906, Page 5

“AUTOCRACY.”

TO THE EDITOR. ' Sir,_Tn regard to your sub-leader oa : the above. You say Sir Seddon is absolutely pledged against every reform that is advocated by the liquor party. Ho cannot extend the time between the local option polls. He cannot eliminate the reduction issue* ho cannot- interior® with the present method of elective . committees. He cannot, in short-,'.do ' a single thing to impair the people- • : control of the traffic. Having made these statements, will you bo good enough to tell me when and where tlie Premier made this pledge of which you speak? Will you also tell me if it * nob a v fact ■that the Premier has unsuccessfully to alter each of the three issues mentioned? We have each of ns onr own. way of thinking, . but one has only to look over the pages of “ Saints and Sinners ” to see where Mr Seddon stands in the trade s estimation. He who lives longest willsee most—l am, etc., DURHAM. ' January 1, 1906 (Mr Seddon has repeatedly stated that ho will not attempt to weaken the tkk)pie’s control of the liquor traffic.— Ed. “L.T.”) ■ 1