THE "PROHIBITION SPLIT."

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11368, 10 May 1900, Page 3

THE "PROHIBITION SPLIT."

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— your issue of April 27, you giro si detailed report under big hoadKues of a meeting . of the Auckland Prohibition League. What I wish to ask is, whore wore the signs in this meeting of a split in tho prohibitionist camp? A few members of tho Lenpio differed on the relationship of Mr. Richardson tc their order as a candidate for Parliament, awl theso few mon allowing their angry passions to rise, did bocomfi personal and direct in

their remarks, but there was no discussion at all as to the question or merits of prohibition itself; and even. had there been a, dispute on this matter, that v" dispute ' between .a dozen Auckland citizens would .not have split the prohibition ranks, nor in " the slightest degree have hindered their onward march.. There is a mass of quiet yet " vital prohibition life in the colony, which does not. often ruffle the surface of things, but yet as surely as it lives, it lies behind the signs and wonders of tho late local option vote, and as it has life in itself so it must grow and expand until it fills its predestined place, and finishes its work. The rowdy few in tho election meeting of a wellknown Conservative do not imply a break-up in the Tory party; nor docs this rowdy few touch the existence or advanco of prohibition. —I am, etc., E. 0. Cahr.