A BETRAYAL OF CONFIDENCE
The confidence of the child hat! been grossly abused recently in certain Sunday Schools, where a leaflet was distributed among the children. This leaflet, while ostensibly temperance propaganda, contains the following example of typical prohibition verbal trickery: “You will find,” states this leaflet, “that neither you nor anybody else can always trust a person who takes alcoholic liquor.” This statement is perfectly true. It is equally true that neither you nor anybody else ean always trust a person who parts bis hair in the middle or rides a ; bicycle. To a child, however, the confidence trick goes over, though no doubt causing much painful bewilderment to children whose parents are not strict teetotallers. Instead of instructing children to “Honor thy father and thy mother,” the inference is given out that mother and father cannot he trusted if they have a glass, of beer or wine. This perverted fanaticism on the part of the more militant section of the prohibitionists has been a very great handicap to true temperance, it is by methods such as the above that support given in the past to the “bone dry” cause has almost entirely disappeared.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18848, 28 October 1935, Page 9
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195A BETRAYAL OF CONFIDENCE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18848, 28 October 1935, Page 9
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