LIQUOR AND LYING.
TO THB EDITOR.
Sie,—ln your issue of to-day is the report of a case at Kaitangata before Mr Hawkins, S.AL, which says:—"His-Worship-re-gretted exceedingly to have to say that it was a very rare thing in his somewhat - wide experience to find any persons who had been implicated in o. were parties to a breach oi the licensing law giving holiest, evidence." _ It is surely, an. unbearable .thing- in a civi-. Used country, that a trade should be allowed to flout and defy the law and the administration of justice! Justice is polluted at its very source and held up to. open shame -by and in the interests of a trade which is evil —and only evil. Sir, when a democracy allows such things as these to pas's umioted and unpunished, the doom of that country is not far off! •' ' ■ '
AVhen will the mon and women of- the colony realise the position? AVlien they do, the liquor trade will have a short shrift.'— I am, etc., ■ '
Patbiot.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11401, 19 April 1899, Page 5
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