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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12397, 12 November 1908, Page 4

[ADVT.] , NO LICENSE.

A DECLARATION.

! WE, the; undersigried Ministers of. religionj knowing; that the traffic in liquor : as -at present carried; ori; throughout the Doiniiiion is -attended; with continuous" ; social and 4 iriordl. evils to tW community, feel it:. our; duty to app6al'.;tp the variopsFcongregations we represent, andStq! citizens generally to consider their responsibility as electors on -tho great question which they are called upon to decide on the "17th inst. Without making any affirmation for or against the present '."Licensing Act as tho only legislation capable of •dealing with the liquor problem, we desire to say that as the only alternative which the law of the land permits us at present to take is to vote either for the continuance or discontinuance of the open bar (for reduction is a form of continuance), WE ARE BOUND TO VOTE FOR ITS DISCONTINUANCE, and respectfully urge our fellow citizens' to join us in striking out the "top line." s CHARLES O. NELSON. \j. P. KEMPTHORNE. T. A. MEYER. J. ELLIOTT FOX. ARTHUR J."CARR. JAMES H. MACKENZIE. ' JOHN CRUMP. C. H. GARLAND. ■' S. H. T>. VERYMAN. STANLEY W. JENKIN. B. L. THOMAS. : IIV. 1 CHAS. COOK, Adjt. WILLIAM L. JONES, (Evangelist.) 4625