A MISERABLE BUSINESS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16801, 4 April 1919, Page 7

A MISERABLE BUSINESS.

Prohibition Leaders' Fall. EF.FI.C.IENCY, PROFITS, AND BOODLE. A SORRY CANADIAN. A'short time , ago JOHN lIENRY ROBER/TS was. advertised'by the' Prohibition Efficiency Party as the •'Secretary to the Canadian Alliance,"v and the Anti-saloon Champion of -Montreal. ■ He was announced by... public notice .TO SUPPORT on the 'Auckland Platform ■■>■■■ "»..■:■■ ' MR W. D. BAILEY ' (Tho Soldiers' "Friend") ; . and PROFESSOR- NrCHOLLS : ;>. (The "Sizer-up of Audiences'') ' who spoke in the Lyceum last : night. This, gentleman has been inquired for, but though he states to New Zealand under engagement, he departed.hence before tlie night of his advertised meeting. ' f- '' THIS MAN " THISI ORATORICAL IMPORTATION, ' ' ' is a black-mailing, . hypocritical founder. who came to New Zealand a, discredited man,- who had Ifet -go';liy., default tlhe followng changes :—i ' - (1) Taking money from : a. disreputable source. " • (2)■ Using his;position" as - Zionist to extract money '*' from SLY-GROG SELLER^ and KEEPERS OF, -GAMBLING DENS.

Is It any wonder that CanacUf'cairied Prohibition if the leaders'gf J the movement were only- a tenth 1 as • unscrupulous as Mr Robteris t It must have been »; treat,;listening,.ito j V: this high-chief of-alleged descanting, on the -horrors'- ;of- 'drihk-! -. "WHY will the Efficiency persist.; m holding up Canada, as an;, ex- f ample i for .us to follow ? / 'lt! ia-. not- ; the -Police Courts but the Supreme Caurj-s that are having a busy'time. '' ' ' TO THE CLEAN-LIVING-, TOlklk ANT SOUTH' CANTERBURY' PUBIJC:, TVe feel very much being compelled to place matter before.', you; :/; It vis^ , incumbent upon us to do eoy in 'order 1 ■ - that you miiy. more fully- realise to ; what. depthsprohibition will ' reduce. men, and that you may see that, hirelings such as St Roberts do not\advo-. ■\, cat© prohibition for God, for Country, or 'for Humanity,-: but for reasons . which :Mr Roberts' - trial ■ teied broadcast to the world. , • Men . occasionally suffer • froin !) itit6m- : per&nce. and wo deplore: the excesses ■Which provide the Prohibitionists'-rhor-rible examples, more so than the' Prohibitionists themselves.

• But when passionv is :: eliminated.. and REASON: ONLY CONTROLS, Jcatl' jjoii imagine- a T v commercials canrubSf "/so obld-bloodod-'as to be the Sir "Lancelot •o* • Prohibition, :and then LIVE BY SLY-GROG&ERS ? How would you have felt, ' felloV South -Canterbury Electors,;, wolf had been conducted throughg*jour oountry■■■■■■■under the aeeis eft ance, and you had/ believed hisi',wellspun fairy tales and voted , us. out of our. livings and your -'fiellow couiitry-: men .and women out of tllieir moderate, favourite glass,: only to find outixtfterwards the true character of the charlatan? ■ -

THIS IS OUR APOLOGY fot placing these unsavoury. details-bofore;:you. . - X

■ v - ;f' > MAY WE ASK YOU TO EXAMINE ■the issue in all seriousness,, into consideration the CALM, Jj3DlCIOUS ; STATEMENT on the "essentials of CIVIL LIBERTY by . . SIR ROBERT STOUT, CHIEF JUSTICE, - ■> in a letter to the "Timaru Herald'' on the. occasion ut. its . Jubnce:"Let us strivo as good citizens : to see that we have Liberty. "Whenever in the past, there been, an, attempt to bludgeon, people into conformity with-the * majority evil has resulted. r*\Ve need to remember this to-day,-Tfor there seeuis to be inculcated? in the Dominion by many of our Citizens that whatever the majority says should be done ought to" be done. It is the nation that ;_lias recognised that minorities have rights, and that the oppression;, of those non-conforming to the' Majority is wrong, that has led, and will lead the way of progress, of civilisation, and of peace. 5 ' RUSSIA is the outstanding example of the results of the sudden stoppage of tlhe people's liquor. DON'T BE BLUDGEONED! Your right to leave drink alono if you wish to is not questioned.' but there is PERIL of encroachment on YOUR LIBERTY of choice, unless you Blue through the BOTTOM LINE on the Continuance-victorious - 10th. (Advt.)