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Southern Cross, Volume 7, Issue 36, 2 December 1899, Page 2

The Latest Sensation o MR ISITT BLESSES COLONIAL BEER. The Rev. F. W. Isitt is reported to have said, addressing a public meeting last week, “ People have as much right to drink beer in their homes as milk.”—Spectator, Christchurch. What’s up ? Is Mr Isitt or the Prohibition Party providing every working man with a cask of beer and a cow until the elections are over ? For “No License ” should mean NO BEER for Tom, Dick or Harry who can’t run a keg much less a beer cellar, my dear sir. Why don’t you try the Gothenberg system ? It has one advantage —you could convert Prohibition orators and lecturers into teetotal bung starters ; pulling long sleevers for Smith, Jones and Robinson, would “ make the penalty fit the crime.” But, my dear sir, don’t demoralise a law-abiding people by “No License ” I shall imitate “ the parietal wit of Punch ” and say again DON’T. It has not stopped the retail trade in Liquor in Clutha —not a bit of it. Why 1 within three and a half years after its adoption in Balclutha there were 79 (seventy-nine) prosecutions for sly grog-selling in the district. Prohibition is sauce for the goose as well as the gander, but “No License ” is a bid for the support of those who can keep a celler —to close up the working man’s Beerhouse. It’s a mean trick, my dear sir. DON’T—do anything that encourages perjury—for it is inseparable from sly grogselling, just as sly grog selling is inseparable from “No License ” ; under it lying becomes systematised, '• the points to be protected get clearly defined and the difficulties of prosecution are increased.” Three years of “No License ” would do for the colony what it has done in Clutha—undermine the foundations of Truth and Justice throughout the country. To the Roman Oattiolics of Southland. o READ WHAT HIS GRACE ARCHBISHOP IRELAND SAYS ABOUT THE DRINK CURSE. “ Ireland sober is Ireland happy and contented ; Ireland sober is Ireland so strong that no power of oppression can keep her down, or prevent her people from leading in all the works of civilisation, and intelligence and social advancement. Because I love my countrymen, I am prepared to tell them of the ONE OBSTACLE in their pathway to happiness. I have asked the cause why many, TOO MANY, of our people ARE MISERABLE, ARE IN ASYLUMS and POORHOUSES ; everywhere it was said to me, there is but one cause : DRINK. I say it with the deepest conviction, that if Irish immigrants coming to America had brought with them the pledge of Father Matthew, and had adhered to it, there would be now in America no element of the population more powerful, more wealthy, more respected than the irish-Ameriean people. And when I recall these things—when I remember what ought to have been, and then remember what was the cause of misery, I feel the strongest indignation arising in my soul, AND BECAUSE OF MY LOVE FOR THE IRISH PEOPLE speak forth anathema to INTOXICATING DRINK, and I swear before the living God, so long as my hand can be raised, it shall be raised IN OPPOSITION TO INTOXICATING DRINK (applause), and so long as my tongue can move it shall be moved in praise of SOBRIETY AND CURSING INTOXICATING LIQUORS.” Tbe Roman Catholics of Southland are urged to rally around His Grace the Archbishop, and vote thus for both No License and Reduction. STRIKE OUT THE TOP LINE ONLY— I VOTE THAT THE NUMBER OF LICENSES IN THE DISTRICT CONTINUE. I VOTE THAT THE NUMBER OP LICENSES IN THE DISTRICT BE REDUCED I VOTE THAT NO LICENSE BE GRANTED IN THE DISTRICT. —PUBLISHED BY INVERCARGILL NO LICENSE LEAGUE.

CRITERION 'HOTEL, DON STREET, INVERCARGILL. Wm. HINCHEY ... Proprietor. AVING taken over the business of this well-known Hotel, Mr HINCHEY solicits a continuance of the liberal patron age accorded to his predecessors. Every attention will be paid to the require inents of town and country customers. Ales, wines and spirits of the best brands always on hand. Excellent accommodation and good stabling. TERMS MODERATE. CRITERION HOTEL, GORE. Immediately opposite Railway Station. T. LAURENSON Proprietor SINCE taking possession of the above well known and favourite house I have made many alterations, including the addition ofthree private sitting rooms. Every accommodation for the travelling public and special attention' paid to tourists and their families. WINES AND LIQUORS OP THE BEST QUALITIES. A Quid Fire on a cauld nicht mahs a Big Fire-end. TO SECURE THAT COMFORT CALL AT Martin’s Coal Roe LIDDEL STREET Where you will find Coal of all kinds at all prices, also a big stock of Good Dry Firewood. Black Pine, Manuka, Mixed Wood, and Slabs (in 9inch Blocks. .and 2ft lengths) at Prices to spit everyone. All kinds of Carting done. Furnituremoving a specialty by practical men. Goods forwarded to all parts of the Colony. Cartage contractor for N.Z. Railways. General Carrier and Coal and Firewood Merchant, Liddel Street. Telephone, 133. Charges Moderate. Wm. Martin,