The Waimate Advertiser. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916. WHERE IS CONSCIENCE?

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVIIII, Issue 451, 20 November 1916, Page 2

The Waimate Advertiser. PUBLISHED DAILY.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916. WHERE IS CONSCIENCE?

“ Multum in Parvo.

"Trust t!i,at nphii in riqihing who? lias n,o! a conscience in everything." Ebmcono has writfxm this, .ntl<l if sends g0.M.1, How, 'docs if, apply in die rHL'.eu wlu>, knowing Dip£ Llio law of Die land forbids. 'blS'cmling' resnji's ]o ('astpistry jnpU humbug to “justify" his continuance! of. Die practice,? It is freely, alleged Hi it "sboulfatg’' goes on, alnfast as uiuvs.irictrd fts before;' that tlie law is bein,A honoured; ir/jre xn the broach than llij‘ ebser*. yn.ncc. In effect, it bias fiallbn int,o; diQietude- although only enacted last session! Matty people lacked’ faith in the efficacy oft 'the ‘Tei form'- win a it was proposed, hind' it is dfo.ub f .1 if the House of Red pres’cnta.fives was, sincere in beToying tha.: it wfluid d|o pinch Hut there arc iUoso in high posh I, Jon s .who do pegard the law ft-s a, thing ft) be ip spectral and obeyed;., purl if is a gefod tlifog for society, thpat it is no. In imposing a finfe bf £2O last Tuesday uppjh a publi-i can ’..who lead pleaded guilty to (achange of permitting shoutjmg, ,MtJ V. G. Day, S.M., remarked: t

This law has boon passed hjr fliic Ibrpusc of Rcprml.-mhV'VCA—-iman whp Tcprcsanh the whole country. ft was passed wiftf a good object, and -film whole cfountry knows about if. If a( licensee allows aborting ho be done, be is culpable, add life of-! fence carm'dt bo fpiatsso'd ovqf lightly.

That is quite right, Public ophiionl ,siTpii(orts ilqat AttlUilo on the pant pf those whose 'ditty it in to so-p Shat the haw 'of the land is enforc. qd. S(0 much foil flic B.ult what c)f the. custo>riep ? Is he mot held to a, acnscicnce ait, kfaist as shQirp as thiait ,qif the publican? .We should like to. sec on example mjadp ojspine “shouter” now. After all is q’aid and dope, tho pub 11 dan Is largely influciuce'd by his public./ and if he were to hind a whole community, “winking.iiie other eye” hi regard! tp a, now .Jaw infenddd tjq affect hfs thaide, he might ho held*, on m.o'ra.l grounds to be only light* ly culpable,: Alnd! it miay .cnjne tsn. this if the leUieli eye is winked' wifh opt regal'd to conscience—the Bri* ish Conscience thjolt is shdltpened' by a; aqn&e, ».f the individual’s pity* ilege anidf duty in influenejing the making of the laws of the lantj** Let ;qufl citizens, 1 then/ be loyal, and exercise a conscience jit this Inat'-i tell 'Otherwise t(h l e anti-sh'o.utingf staitfutfe: will be;cfo|me a, byword isn’d a reproach'.;