NO-LICENSE AND PROHIBITION.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14239, 4 July 1910, Page 6

NO-LICENSE AND PROHIBITION.

To the Editor of the."Timaru Herald." Sir, —Tho following paragraph, appeared in. a. reoent issue oi your paper : | Mr T. E. Taylor, speaking at Wol- | li'mjton on 'Wednesday evening, said j I tliu Temperance party could make no j further progress under the local option I policy, and they must go in for DoI minion Prohibition. Local option liad j been, a steppiug-stone and an education to this larger and final stand. j I did not say what you attribute to I me. 1 said that 1 believed the educational cU'eetiveiicss of no-license, was I almost exhausted. I know tho sub- j stiintiai advantages secured by no- j license areas so far ax the decrease in drunkenness and disorder is concerned,! but in view of the persistent defiance'! of the no-liceuse law by the liquor interests, by moans of sly grog-sellers, and the partial nature, of local option as a social reform, I have always urged that tho power possessed by the people to secure local option should be supplemented by the power to enact Dominion prohibition,—j arn< etc.,

T. E. T.AYLOii Wellington, July 2nd, 1910.