A PROHIBITION COMPROMISE.
Tho ■Welling^bm cor»eq}(Mident,,'Qf the Auckland! Revald vrifcest— **l un^grstand that thottormiu6Bdite,dßS(U!ilbe the^psition of the extrem&tia of the.> tecnperaHQ*) party has bsen reconsiilßsad^aauS the definition amended. The word 1 •' paolkibitio^u'^ is con--BiderQd!to,ooinp)tiiß*)too.ianiicli in q»q direction, and.tobemißteadii^! in othwia,. It has, accowlmg; to. the cMel& of ti^,. "water party|"' contribuiod to> disunion» among the temperance bodies. I am inflamed that Sir Robert) Stout understand^ by pro- . hibition nothing fuaHtJuej tha3n«' <i local or - naisijaall (jp tJion^ upooa ttie deioafld of the , people.- of the: localities, or of^tJi« whole , colany;. TJiG' Bltt brought in lijirMfr Seddon , ig^descrHied as " unworkable,*^ sucih provi- . siona as- that compelling' che#)&tsi to make ... the liquor nauseous feeing ra^re; quackery. Mr A. R.. Atkinson, who is ; rega«ded > as a temperance enthusiast, has^given a similar defi&iiMion,. viz., colonial op J jjoUi io be de- . termjjaedl by the referendum. Practically j it comes to> this, that a "truu&**has been,,, sounded on this question aad that at\ u K ar-Biistieß" has been pr^isioßally agreedj upc©. I learn that a lqa^inQf man amongthe Prohibitionists has ax^rASsed the vio^ic ths* a "let-alone policy "'ifrttfcebeßtpolicyon this subject for somo-time, to come.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5730, 25 November 1896, Page 2
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189A PROHIBITION COMPROMISE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5730, 25 November 1896, Page 2
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