PROHIBITION IN CLUTHA AND PERJURY. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10902, 8 September 1897, Page 3

PROHIBITION IN CLUTHA AND PERJURY. TO THE EDITOR.

Sib,—l quite believe that the clergymen, the storekeepers, *nd others in the Clutha would tell your correspondent T. E. Taylor thai; there was less drinking in the Clutb.* under prohibition than undtr license. And it is also correct that where there used to be no liqaor in private hoaseß tbere is now abundance of it. Private psople who voted for the stoppage of the bar sate buy wholesale from Duneriin brewers for their own private use. . Private drinking is more largely indulged in under prohibition than under license. That there is drunkenness in the Clutha is not denied. Anyone whose judgment is not warped by fanaticism and falsewitness couid havo seen three men intoxicated in the main street, Batclutha, on Saturday, and another yesterday (Monday). A prohibitionist remarked to me " That is the c-ffieets of the sly grog-selling that the polic t won't pnt dqma." T. E. Taylor desires us to believe that prohibition is not responsible for the'psijury that is going on in the CluthK. "Perjury," he says," is always practised for the defence of the publican." T. H!. Taylor is the-person who was mulcted in £50 damages for slander, and he knows of the charge of perjury against a prohibitionist, and allegations of more in regard to the Goorge street ; bar of Coker'a Hotel, Christcliurch. -This, may have nothing to do with the Clutha, but it shows that even, on the surface, there are slanderers and ptrjurers among tbe prohibitionists ; and as regards the perjury, of the Clutba it is safe to say that tbera has been.more perjury under prohibition than bafore. . Therefore • prohibition has created conditions under which ; per jury grows:* large and luxuriant crop. ■;'.' - ; There is no possibility of letting the public know how prohibition v working in the Clutha unless a Koyal commission is appointed to take evidence without incriminating the parties aa to the quantities of liquor sent into tho Clutha, say, three years during prohibition and three years prior. Merchants' snd brewers' books and invoices would tell a tale. • -

T. E. Taylor says, " The bulk of tao testimony available shows that prohibition haj been , productive of much good." Ha musb have evidence that is not available to the gancral public. Assurances from clergymen, T. JB. Tsylor, and other prohibitionits, counts-for vecy little as Rgainstfche testimony—-undeniable—nf ten times more convictions of sly jrrog-seliiag during prohibition than during license. Ana we only know of the convictions. The undiscovered cases are probably legion. Yot in face of s,ll this T. E.Tftyloi- tells us prohibition is successful in Clutha. His assertion is. on all fours with the liquor m»n's—that "npfe a drop is to had in the Clatha for love or money." While the prohibifcioniiitSiiire'assertion the success of their fad in Clutba, hundreds of letters reach tbe. authorities in Dunodin and Wellington calling attention to alleged 6)y grogselling.—l am, &c., • September 1 , ' ■■ - ■■. ' ,: G. W. S. Hoixoway's Pitts "and;, Ointment exert a rapidly favourable eliect in all those diseases which tire induced by exposure, to damp or by great changes in temperature.- They" will therefore be fouiid eminently serviceable tb.tkoae who work in iron foundries,, copper mines, ana collieries. These well-known remedies present manifest advantages'in respect of use and effectiveness, being entirely compounded of vegetable drugs selected with the greatest care and regardless of price. When used in accordance -with the ample printed directions which accompany them, they act surely but mildly, and do not interfere with the daily work. There are but few diseases which are not capable of cure—or, at all events, of great relief—if Holloway's remedies are perseveringly used. ■■■,'■■ ' 40