Cæsar or Nothing.

Southland Times, Issue 12767, 28 November 1893, Page 4

Cæsar or Nothing.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—A very decided attempt was made in this morning’s issue by your two correspondents “ South Invercargill Elector” and ‘‘Elector,” and also by the leader, to draw a red herring across the trail, and so lead temperance voters off the right scent. We know all about Mr Kelly’s short comings, but we are hardly so foolish, I think, as to vote for a man who has announced himself a believer in compensation, and who, in other ways, touts fo. 1 publicans’ vote. I hope all temperance electors will remember one thiug, and that is that we must have the liquor traffic p'aced under the direct control of the people. And the man vyho refuses to trust the people with this traffic, is guilty of the grossest piece of impertinence, when he asks them to trust him. The temperance question has been befo.’e the public for at least 20 years, and the man who has not yet suffic’ently thought about it as to know how to give a straight-forward answer to a very plain question had belter stay at home a little lougtr, until he has made up his mind which w.iy he ought to vote when the subject comes before the House. With the temperance patty it is not a question of Stout, Secldon, or Rolleston, but of being trusted with the control of the liquor traffic by bare majority, and we vote for the man who will vote for us. Temperance men and women disregard all side issues, and trust the man who will trust you.—l am, &c., Another Elector.