THE NO-LICENSE CAMPAIGN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12418, 30 July 1902, Page 7

THE NO-LICENSE CAMPAIGN.

Another good audience greeted Mrs Harrison Log at the Garrison Hall laet evening, Vfheii she delivered her lecture on the " Battle with Bare." In the course of lior remarks Mrs L?e dwelt upon the subject of the South African war, tho misery arid death that had resulted, the methods of tJie Boora in fighting from behind kopjes and boulders, and the fraternising of Boer and Briton when pt»ce wa-3 declared, and said that South Africa would become one of the grandest possessions of tho British Crown. In New Zealand, she continued, there was a great battle to fight, and that was the battle with the open bars. Those men behind the oars were the sworn foes of the people, and the disputed territory was "home, sweat home."—(Applause.) These men were dealing; blows at happy home life, and now tho adherents to tho-Teonperano® cause had declared war upon them, and it would be a war to tho death—(applause),— for Britons never spelled the word defeat. Referring to tho barbed wire entanglements used by the Boers, the said sometimes there were barbed wire entanglements used in the battle _ with tho bare, and theso were municipal management; but they would bo cut away and every defence broken down. In Isaiah would be found the words "In falsehood havo wo hid ourselves and .made lies our refuge." Those words might bo put into the mouths of tho men behind the bars; and it was a lie that God had mado alcohol for human use. In the Garden of Eden, wlffiro man had dwelt in innocence, the only drink had been pure water, and in the last book of the Bible were words referring to tho river of tho water of life, but, there *v.'a 3 nothing about strong drink. God had chosen a total abstainer to 'go before the Messiah, and she believed the workers iti the Temperance cause werc'boing used to prepare tho way for His second coming. Alcohol had its uses, euoli as providing motive power for motor cars and preserving dead bodies, but it had 110 uso in tho.human body when alive. Its friends said it was beneficial—that it was a creature of God. It was not. It should bo kept in its proper place, confincd to its proper uses, and dealt out by medical men. The argument that alcohol was a good gift of God if raed in_ moderation was another kopje behind which the enemy sheltered themselves. After dealing with the subject of drink in moderation. Mrs Lee sought to refute tho argument that liquor was nourishand to combat tho statement that prohibition was interference witl) the liberty of the subject-. -She-exhorted-the peoplo to take care .lest that liberty became «i stumbling-block in tho path of tho Saviour of men upon His coming. Regarding tho loss to revenue by prohibition, she contended that, it would be made up in other ways, for tlio money would be spent in better thing's. In Liverpool, during ijw la?t II y6ars 370 licensed houses had beon closad, Mid as a result crime hod' so- decreased that L o £i P° !ioemo » were dispensed with and £*501)0 saved to the ratepayers. ■ Tnis afternoon Mrs Lee will deliver a loctiiro to women only in the Choral Hall, and will speak again at the Garrison Hall at ■8 p.m.