PROHIBITION.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIX, Issue 3005, 17 December 1896, Page 4

PROHIBITION.

TO THE EDITOR. Sm, —Your correspondent “Moderate in this morning’s Times makes many mistakes, prominent amongst them being his declaration that “ the truest sympathisers with tho temperance cause ” endorse bis opinion that ** to carry Prohibition withoirt compensation would be to coniuiit an act cf injustice.” ** Moderates ” may, but men With well-balanrfed.mmds accept the Chief Justice of England’s ruling, that a publican has no claim whatever to oquipensatioq, apd if there is anything dead in temperance matters -it is tho cause of compensation, “ Prohibition has boon defeated at tho polls,” bo says, but omits to mention that in every electorate in the Colony the Prohibition Party has greatly Increased in numerical strength, that; in fact, In throe short years our little army of 4-8,000 has grown to 90,000. Does this look as if the dulse is losing ground ? Why, the growth of Prohibition sentiment has been astonishing in some of the country electorates that Cannot bo said to havo beon influenced by ** extremists* persistent oratorical efforts,” .'flake Hawora, NoW Plymouth, Wairarapai. fttastorton, lliccartom WTaitAlf,!, Haugitiflei, Irjiy of Plenty And Waxrau electorates for instances. The most optimistic I Prohibitionist could scarcely expect such splendid records from - districts so little visited by the leaders in this reform. “ Moderate’s ” compensation schomo is so Utterly ridiculous as not to warrant more than this reference to “Moderate” may rest assured that Prohibition tactics in the future will bo Identically on the lines of the past, with perhaps tho alight difference that the fighting now will bo hotter. And at closer quarters, .thali, beforfy It would be.well for those piitflic ihon whp are inclined to block the march of the people towards this reform to remember the fat© of Collins, Willis and MoLachlan, of stonewall fame. The country will havo none of them.—l am, &0.. A PIiOHiniTIONIST. [Our correspondent says that in tho future the tactics of the Prohibitionists will ho the same as in tho past—only hotter. It is only accessary to point out that In the past the tactics referred to have included slander of the living and dead, falsehood, spying, sneaking and informing. It wo aro to havo anything “ hotter” than those, tho powers of Shool itself will surely need to bo invoked.— Ed.]