A Tip to Teetotallers.
Licensing elections and Local Option polling, which are to determine for three years to come the control of the liquor traffic, are nigh at hand, and what do we find the temperance leaders of Auckland doing ? Buckling on their armour, furbishing up their weapons, and organising their forces for the coming struggle, of course. Nothing of the sort. They are assembling nightly, and listening, open-mouthed, to flowery orations in denunciation of the drink devil, from the lips of a long-haired, peripatetic pence- gatherer. Are any of the Alliance or Gospel Temperance people aware that within a month the great battle of Local Option will be decided ? Poor fools I While they sip their Smith-and-water, or Gough mixture, the enemy is stealing a march upon them. The children of light are euchred every time by the children of this world I
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Observer, Volume X, Issue 603, 24 January 1891, Page 3
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144A Tip to Teetotallers. Observer, Volume X, Issue 603, 24 January 1891, Page 3
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