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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11727, 30 November 1905, Page 4

THE Follow up their usual " Bed Herring across ffie Scent " Policy. 1 The Editor of the Mataura Ensign, a pro= hi bit ion sympathiser, published a letter on the alias HERE IT IS. This loltor is fioni the Mataura Ensign. July 4th, ]903: — .Sir, — \Ve ca22 tlda a prohibition cllsbic-fc, biiti it is only so in name. Why should wo prohibit drink being sold lioro, when the law allows it to come into tho district likeany other commodity? Take this town (Mataura) for instance. S'Hii3 say it has clone good to several "old topers." I grant it has, to a certain extent, but even they may be soon now and thon the worse for liquor. But what I deplore most is the number of young men who have gone- in for drinking hoavily tince prohibition was carried, raining themselves fast, body and soul. There aro many in tliis place who band together and get liquor and then spend a night, year, two or thro? nights, in debauchery, in huts or out of the way places. Were tho paivnls — r-espectablo people — to be told this they would not behevo it. To-night I had occasion to go to a, Government office on business, and though there was a light in the office the door was locked. Before the door was opened I was questioned as to who I was, when 1 was admitted -to an atmosphere, thick with smoke, and there was the unmistakeable odour of liquor. As no one seems inclined to say anything publicly and try and prevent the ruin of these young fellows, I beg that you will grant mo spact' iv your columns for the above. — I am, etc., 11. N. MACGIBBON. THE NO-CONTROL PARTY PUBLISH WIRES FROM A NUMBER OF THEIR SYMPATHISERS NAMED GIVING THEIR OPINIONS ON THB SUBJECT OF NO CONTROL. NOTE THAT THB SUBJECT OF THB ABOV-.- LET'IER HAS BEEN CAREFULLY AVOIDED BY THESE MEN WHO WE'RE AND ARE ALL PROHIBITIONISTS. THEY DID NOT REPLY TO THE LETTER 813CAUSE "EVERY ALLEGATION IS TRUE." THERE IS NO MENTION MADE OF THE 7000 GALLONS OF LIQUOR RAILED INTO THEIR DISTRICT LAST YEAR, WITHOUT MENTIONING WHAT WAS SMUGGLED IN. THE STATEMENTS OF ANY NUMBER OF RESIDENTS IN A SMALL COUNTRY TOWN THAT THEY ARE SATISFIED WITH (> NO CONTROL," IS OF NO INTEBITST OR VALUE TO RESIDENTS OF THE FIFTH TOWN IN NEW ZEALAND, WITH A POPULATION OF 11,000. "NO CONTROL" MEANS A EETUEN TO THE DREADFUL CONDITIONS EXISTING IM ENGLAND, WHICH BROUGHT ABOUT LICENSE. LICENSE MEANS CONTROL. ELECTORS OF WANGANUI, THE NO-CONTROL PARTY CONSTANTLY APPEAL TO SENTIMENT BY QUOTING THE ABUSE! OF LIQUOR, BUT THE- IJYILS, WHICH XJNDISPUTAfcLE EVIDENCE CLEARLY SHOW ALW\Y3, AND MUST NECESSARILY FOLLOW NO CONTROL, HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY KEPT IN THE BACK G ROUND. STUDY YOUR OWN INTERESTS AND KUEP THE LTQUOR FROM YOUR HOMES BY LEAVE THE TOP LINE UNTOUCHED. STRIKE OUT THE TWO BOTTOM LINES.