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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13736, 28 October 1908, Page 7

Local Option Campaign. The Cor feet Way e Vote . AT THE FORTHCOMING LdGAL OPTION POLL : THE RIGHT WAY TO VOTE: Score Out the Two Bottom Lines. ! Vote that the number 01 Licenses existing in the district continue I Vote that the number of Licenses existing in the district be reduced i Vote that no Licenses be granted in the district THE NO-LICENSE EFFUSION'S A PARCEL "OF LIES SPICED WITH A LITTLE- TRUTH; TH'i' REDUCTION ISSUE—CRUEL, PERNICIOUS, AND INIQUITOUS. WHAT THE INVERCARGILL MEN DID NOT TELL US. AX O'AMARU RESIDENT CHASED BY mE BLUE DEVILS. 11 HE- NO LICENSE DEMAGOGUES are endeavouring to make Ms M«e tliab all the principal Chui-ehes have unreservedly adopted their Prohibition fad. THIS IS CONTRARY TO FACT. The discussion on the subject at the Anglican Svuod now sitting in Christ church gives the lie <liiect to their statement. The most intelligent of the Presbyterian ministers would sooner discuss ihe Rabbit Act in their pulpits than. NoLieenso, and the Roman Catholic clergy .iie seldom, heard even referring to the matter. - IT IS TRUE that they all preach Temperance, but not by the coercive method of No Lieei.ee. As iutemperau -e i s a moral evil, they prefer vising a inond force to suppress \it. Even Father Hayes could not bring himself altogether |»l» line with the No Licence movement. H e preferred Temperance bv moral stuvon THE BRAND OF INSINCERITY was placed on the No License Party ; «he'moment they iosi> .'is ono'mari and lepndiated the No-Lieew»','Xo-Liquor clauise of the Act "of 1904, aud they ltn v o«mt be dishonest in their tactics ever "since. -■ ■■ :- : " " "'-•''"•■■'■" -' -*--'- v '•> '-■ :"- : ' - ~-\ -. -- • ''.""-.,"'' THE .REDUCTION ISSUE, with which they aw-trying to throw dust hi the eyes of the unwary Elector, is both cruel anil unjust. The English Licensing Bill, which is a" eort of, a reflex n £ the Reduction issue, is thus described by an eminent divine (Canon Knox Little) : _lt Is obvious that if this 1 Bill were to pass into law (which God forbid) ib would not promote. the virtue of Temper.anoft, but betome an Act- for. Ihe promotion, of secret drinking. -Even, if if. were calculated to promote Temperance (which it is not), it would be morally wrong to give it support, because it is based on injustice and dishonesty, and is a robbery . Bill.. All sorts of sophistry, casuistrr quibbling, declamation, .and clamour, have been brought into play in the hope of weakening this obvious. faqt, but. in vain. Ido not believe that .>Englishmen have no lost tbeir moral sense as to j)ermit such a monstrous iu'quity. WHAT A HOWL OF INDIGNATION would be raised if one fine morning M>me of the leadcm of those l mushroom schisms of the. Church—the' dissenting bodies—were told., that their particular brand of rebgion was no longer required. That by the vote of the people it was suppressed. "Oh!" they .would .exclaim, ■'the other -isms will grow, fat, and we'll starve. That's not fair." Yet they consider i't quite fair to take, the bread out of the mouth of one licensee and fatten another. , THE INVERCARGILL CITIZENS who came here to tell ns the truth about that town a»d its Mate under No License, carefully refrained from telling us the specific incidents from Court records- and other official sources which proved conclusively the failure of Prohibition to prohibit. They mast have studied the science, of Homilectica upsde down—minus truth and logic. INSPECTOR MITCH ELL TELLS US what Parson Mitchell and his tipsodates could not. ox would not tell us the other, night. The . sly grog sellers who were -sent to gaol on August loth for "the'second offence within a few weekm, received thiough tlk? proper chanuel a small portion only of the beer eoissumed on the premises. ...... THE INSPECTOR ADMITS "twice or four times the quantity might have been'sold "than he knew of." Yet the gentlemen "who came to enligWeu u« hero, armed with all the facte about In vercarpill,. had no knowledge °f ."f^ 1 ncidents as these, made public through the Police Courts— and one of Uwfcn a lawyer. This is survey a trenchant exposure of how they, tell -the truth, amt tho* whole truth. 5 „..,„„„,, THEY:"ALSO OMITTED to tell us of their own close affinity to s>L\ i..l«Jt«SELLKRS, HOMICIDES, and MURDERERS, or the permanent benefit some ot them . received , from •t he brewing industry, THE AUDACITY OF SOME PEOPLE IS AMAZING. " AN OFT-REPEATED ASSERTION of <he No License faddists is that Uie drunks arrested in No License : Districts invariably get their skinful of grog in the suiround r ng License diitricts.NVE HAVE A COMPLETE REVERSAL of that ordev of matters to-day. An Oamaru resident was chawed'bv the blues, and all *ort» of queer -things, tiu'tt he found fiiendlv shelter in the■ Timaru lockup. This is a of »«e "SERPELL ANTIDOTE" for intemperance, i.e., "Drink till alls blue -in your ■own howe. but close the public bar." >

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