DOWNRIGHT DAWSON.

Free Lance, Volume XIV, Issue 720, 18 April 1914, Page 4

DOWNRIGHT DAWSON.

Queer Developments of Prohibitive Mania. THE Rev. J. Dawson, well-known secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, is a prohibitionist neck or nothing. He holds that if national prohibition is carried it should become effective fh six months, and not in four years. He holds that liquor should only be sold in public bars open to the street. He urges that hotels should close at six o'clock on five nights in the week, and one o'clock on the weekly half-holiday. And so forth. Mr. Dawson is at least honest. He cannot see that individual traders or the great crowd of moderate drinkers have . any rights whatever. Otherwise he would see the absurdity of suggesting that places of refreshment should close just when the public are free and inclined to resort to them. Mr. Dawson cannot understand the simple truth that in common justice any man should be free to drink in moderation at all times if he wants to, just as he is_ free to change his trousers or b ,- ush his tseth when he.wants to. Well, we shall see.