A Challenge Accepted
To tho Editor. Sir,— Mr T. M. Smith has issued a challenge to meet me on, a public platform to maintain that prohibition is unChristian and immoral. I am not aware that I knew Mr Smith, but that does not matter ; I slvd. ready to meet him, whoever he may be, ai»d for arranging details, etc., I refer him to Mr J. S. Baxter. But there imust be a definite understanding about what is to be discussed. Prohibition/ is not our platform, as we do not seek to prohibit the use of alcoholic beverages, but only the sale of such beverages. Uo-license is our platform, and I aim ready to discuss that. Mi Smith's second proposition (un-Christian ) is nullified by making prohibitioa nugatory. This reduces Mr Smith's platform . to one plank (immoral), so the question to be discussed should bo the morality of the no-license movement. — I am, etc., T. buxton 30tn January.
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Southland Times, Issue 19265, 1 February 1904, Page 3
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156A Challenge Accepted Southland Times, Issue 19265, 1 February 1904, Page 3
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