THE NO-LICENSE MOVGEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND SOME SYDNEY COMMENTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 November 1908, Page 2

THE NO-LICENSE MOVGEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND SOME SYDNEY COMMEN TS.

Coniirienting on* the possibilities of j losed; hotels throughout .New : Zealand n tho^nca'r future as the reßult ppf the idyance 7of the no-licenseT sentiment, ind the probable f utiife attitudeTof - the . no<lerate drinker,, the. "Sydney "Daily" relegraph" says i— .;.*. .*'.*;. -•- : . "This; in fact; ; is one -of .-.the greatist' danger* ardent temperanco" reformers -_ * . iavtr to7 reckon Twith. 'Easy *.."cbmep 7. >asy go.'- Wjh'aOan- be.' done politically - »n b6 '.undone, by -the same.riieans, andthe "enthusiasm: that votes "a'•revolutioniryYpblicry : this: year- may,^ wipe ..it out aext_year. Seldom. if 'cyer-'^ave'great problefijjs been;Jfinally solved 'at one .;*. move j^and how big . a one this ;is may . '__„ be appreciated by .anyone who :*eflectS'. an the^groMrth o|,tha-J>Nsw"jZeala4d Jij juor/biflj in: the::;fSc^_-f0 -"" - campaign: of^earsicj^'^'.it^-the logi-. cal' : conclusion '• from rsiHieli 'iivlhat ihe bill would have been7yastly;. bigger Bad there .'beeH- iio systenfitic Hostile .'.effort .. to keep : it down." That;Both;restriction, ancl regulation are necessary goi?8 without 'sayirig-. What "is -f herbest Method: "Is - the . question* which --New: Zea- .■- --[and 7-experience ought' .to -' illuminate. - ~ The'dvil of the thing-;is being, kept well ■-* •jrider^the .. limelight, Wsmayy be:. sure,*; where the . cominjg7 generation, 1 - in whom bnr.BOpesin tHis;arid -all* other phases - ... of human betterment : _re7Karik'ed; can "'" see its every angle arid 7 *i ieet; •■; "' It is a fair therefore, that ': much in the same,: way as' we ; ex.- ■ pect 'to: discourage iopiuni-risirig-iii -the" ■ future,^ by withdrawing; the drug itself; .; f rontrftf^ victims ;ribw,->the'next 'genera- * . tiori-'/of- New7Zealandeis7 ; :wjll , * be; .com- ;. ; pa'ra.tively7sober;;:lf; : 'they are not,, then"**:, an par6ritly , temperance .will have to try y badk-senriewhere;,-. if' the;*bill-:*continu*My;-j: to gr-pw ' proportionately: with the people, a -prohibition could-, qnlyvbo expected as .either -an : act7of 'hypocrisy or onb- of thbso7"s_aj3iriodic'^ resolutions -■ which' rib one trusts 'iri. - -iln:the. meantime the attrition; ;of: education is. liavr ing .its.:cffect;''7>-If the truth •rould bo got. at we should prbbably^rid that; this * ageT drinks 7pro^rti_onaUly .I^^tha.n. ; its forbears did." ■:, ;7 '• -. :•' "prs -.;■: ..-■ ..*•■-.. "Nominally ,oreven actually, it may. 7 figure 'out otherwise, but the proportion . : of dr|nkers> is: riot -as great- Jas -when . sbm*e7fpriri of cliquo'r -was" a general "j beverage ; and ;whcn ;; were ; the mass of peopio.so: wellv.able.i to ■". indulge therii- .*'-. •selves : arid ; so. w'cU": provided asinowj With'* facilities -lor enjoyment?!; -Anil "-. witH'temptatioris, -it: may •be added ■-.;- corfepfly.enough; The/often jrr«sistib» 'sight 'Poi means to ydb "ill deeds' is .certainly .capable of reduction;; which v.ia ..- ait argument: '"f or - . curtailing .-" the .: bars, always: provided- tbatalbrig.with, it :gbes a "dnhuintioh.'of bad example, which;.is independent of environment '.arid can be . shown at home as effectively and easily a3 at the bar. Whether* this latter, con-.: .; dtfionV'is being' fulfflhdjjis" a\ matter <m A^hidji'-'evidenoe jconflicts: 7 And -it needs ;: scarcely be said; that if more drinking ■ goeg-ibn athoirie .because the; hotel -flas been closed the' reformer is ipnly stopping up a leak ori one side; with plank*ing i torn out 'of the other, and the ship, instead of getting dry, is as W9t. v _ as ever." *7 V;7 ; *.' ; p.. .; PyP