NO-LICENSE FAILURES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14355, 27 October 1908, Page 2

NO-LICENSE FAILURES.

Sin,—Your readers are being served ad nauscum with figures relative to the quantity of liquor taken into no-license districts and the number of convictions for drunkenness within and without sucli districts. It is said that figures can Ik. made to prove, anything, and they are certainly sometimes very confusing, 'in any case it seems | & mo thnt the argument" from figures ami statistics on the question of no-liccnso failures may bo safely left on one side to make way for what, to my mind, is a much more weighty argument—viz.,- the undisputed and significant fact that wherever no-liccnso has been fairly tried the people have become 'so satisfied with the results that they vote to continue nolicense, and not only so, hut people in other districts, with tho object-lesson of the nolicense areas before them, are so convinced of the good resulting that they follow in tho wako and vote no-license too. Witness the increase in the number of uo-licens<3 districts and tho steady growth of the aggroga.t/i voto for no-liccnso in the Dominion. And with regard to Maine, about which' wo hear so much, how is it that with such an example before them so many adjoining and other States and Provinces have adopted prohibition and no-liccnso? Surely for no other reason than that a condition of affairs similar to those in tho State of Maine appears to them desirable and worthly of attainment These considerations aro sufficient to convince mo that no-licenso .has not been proved a failure, but a decided success, and thercforo lead me to striko out the Dune-din, October 23. Top Line