An address was delivered by Mrs. K. 'J*-, '',..-. Stevenson, a representative of the Women's •;.;! Christian Temperance Union from America, in the Baptist Tabernacle last night. The ; Rev. Mr. Kompton presided. Mrs. Stevenson said .financial' considerations prompted many to support the liquor traffic, but it had been asserted by an expert that for every . four dollars paid into the till of tho pub- ; ;;; lican 19 dollars had been drawn from the ] pockets of the people. Boston had been, / j well nigh made bankrupt by the liquor j traffic. The assertion that prohibitory laws 1 could not be enforced was, the lecturer ;, maintained, a confession that the com- • muni ty was in a, state of anarchy. LaW was only a tool, useless unless used. \ A li« > conso law had always proved : more difficult ;\« to enforce than a prohibitory law. The s right of the sober people Jto bo free from ;.;.? the annoyance, loss, suffering, and wrrutf ; engendered by the liquor traffic was pari' ; mount, ; - : % ■ . Vil
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14142, 18 August 1909, Page 8
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