PROHIBITION.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8737, 26 November 1896, Page 1

PROHIBITION.

I TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — I write thia for the thoughtful reading public. lam sorry to say I have had it forced upon my mind for this long time pa9t thab we are degenerating, bo'n m mind, body and stature, for one of the noblest and best points of human nature is lost sight of, and that is honor, m place of which is prohibition, and why ia it ? I will give you my reasons for it. The world is the stage, the people are the actors, and that is where the mistake is. There are too many comedians. We are too much on the laugh, and have no fcimo to think. Now just let us think whab honor would there bB m it if the prohibitionists gained the victory. Let's strike the top line ont of our minds, or else we shall be committing a sin,. and transforming our faces into shapes like sagarloafed hats. Now. whab are the prohibitionists doing ? I will tell you. They are keeping the mind In the state of an intoxicated whirlwind, so that you won't have one clear thought m your mind, and that's where the comedian comes m. In fact, I am one of them myself ; but I like to keep up the privileges of human nature, and always step up and not come down. Therefore don'b touch the top line, but let us try and put one on top of the top line, if ib will benefit us ; if not, let ib stop where Ib Is, as the darkey says, and let her slide. But don'b let us be like the woman and the ciickeb ball, or we shall have all the fight, and they all the fun. Only fancy how horrid ib would look to see all our young men going tn church or anywhere else ou Sunday with their top lines shaved off. If they did, Ib would only show how hard the disease had struck them. I am going to find out some other amusement, for being a true born citizen, and therefore a free voter, I propose that we, one and all, turn one side of Thames Sbreeb up to hide the green grass, then hy down acinder track. It will give work to a lob of the unemployed, and the prohibitionists can ride up and down with pleasnre, and speed from one bouse to another, and under the auspicious eyes of the police standing On bhe elevated bank, jusb to see thab they did nob take too much ef the sour grapes '. as refreshment, and as the darkey would i say, "Dear Bisters and brothers, and 1 shopkeepers, and fellow lunatics, let us ! hie bo bhe poll with the firm determination to leave the top line stand, and give the boy a chance, and wo shall never re--1 penb io, for he is the coming maD." j Take my tip for it-. Shake yourself by , your own hand, and wink over your lefo shoulder, and let them see thab you are not all bubtermilk yeb, for I am one of i you for liberty, freedom, and honor. — I am, etc., Chloroform.