THE PROHIBITION QUESTION.
Views of a Melbourne Paper.
The Melbourne Argus, commenting on recent developments of Prohibition in this country, says;—" There is very small desire here to follow hotfoot upon the trail of the New Zealand Prohibition. ists. Victoria i 3 too sober-minded (using the term sobriety in a sense quito ignored by teetotal fanatics) to hurry blindtold to extremes. JJothing else is implied by the coune which tho Prohibition campaign is running in New Zealand. Power has been put into the hands of a .compact, highly-organised minority to snatch' a victory at the polling booth, leading to result, 1 , they can dimly guess ni," According to our
contemporary, the Prohibition zealots view the liquor traffic only as an accursed thing, to bo stamped out graduaally if a summary process is impossible. "This is not," (proceeds the Aryiin) " the temper in which one of the most complex questions of the day ought to be dealt with, and these are not the people to whose energetic but reckless hands the solution of the problem should be confided.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7502, 3 July 1903, Page 4
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177THE PROHIBITION QUESTION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7502, 3 July 1903, Page 4
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