FOLLY OF PROHIBITION.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12842, 27 November 1905, Page 7

FOLLY OF PROHIBITION.

WHAT EMINENT MEN SAY. VIEWS'OF MINISTERS AND tHE ; . ! . PRESS. • The Philadelphia North American (Rep.) A careful discussion on this subject (Pro-, hibitlon)'has revealed the dangers in replacing an active legal provision to control the liquor business' by a. provisibin which would make *fiie contest one against a contraband traffic pandering in concealment to the worst excesses of vice. i

Springfielji, Mass., Republican (Indepen- ; dent.) If..Prohibition could only abolish intemperance, it]-w&lli j |fe-a? sitamary -way of doing it, arid save .Biuch time,.- and trouble. time and the everlasting ful hum ai\ \p'a s s rotf Qr drink. Waep, ye the matter,) "the, jem&Jy. ./ : for.. intemperance rre 3n ! "ifatufo.ry * Prolubi.tion, but 'in thkt > moral which, makes every man a law unto himself when he has been educated, not- by thestandard of ari enforced abstinence, but- by the loftier.;ohd of .a voluntary...and treason- ] able self-control",' and "a benevolent regard i for-the welfare'of as influenced by his .character - - Sun. •> • i. Liquor legislation: Lriever made - -a Temperauce:?gain.Education; and public sentiment; are the; only: things that .can- ■ advance the cause. When the right plane for both of these-is reached, there will be -rfo need prohibitory law. c->. •' >r . Providence Telegram . (Dem'.,} : J - The - honest in., way,, but they have ~tned; . to- *acGompJislv an impossible; feat,, bTing' about a is wrong." Tliey' hre'*;trj;ing.' .'to j stop-i-ilie use'iof rum in 4 a r body uses it"' including 'i.tiieni~seives- ? -'whfm'' they feel like whichis a sham and jah&isbkaip because it ds full of' Tioles', and an injustice .because tit punishes one party rto'-a? misdemeanour and lets the other paityv gb ; free. ... •' '. . - j-