THE LOCAL OPTION POLLS.
SiR,--In spito of the lavish- expenditure ot the trade to divert publio attention 'from v i 1 wmotselces foe, th'o masses almost, throughout the Dominion gavo the s«%ni£!*f I 3 rty a ma J° rlt y- Provini?. that 11 spite of, tiro parental advice of a num. here ot the. newspapers to study the trade first; and humanity, after, the people voted solid ftgamst the trade. Had we had Xt ju" tice and common sense dictate, and the American people enjoy, a bare majority vote, we would have had the Dominion ataost rid of drinking iiens. It is the quintessence of to talk about regulating that which cannot be regulated ' It never has been, and never will be; pos- ' stole to regulate the trade 6 o as to prevent drunkenness, poverty, and crime. If the opium habit ja. an evil that needs. auohenmg hoiv.muoh more the drink evil? W - ill B * iWe ""I'edaoita. until 1911 for the tore majority and no- ' license.-I am, etc., ExoElsiOß. V
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14380, 25 November 1908, Page 5
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170THE LOCAL OPTION POLLS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 14380, 25 November 1908, Page 5
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