No-licence.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11729, 2 December 1905, Page 7

No-licence.

Sir, — I think injustice is being done, by writers and speaKsrs, to the No-licen&o party. 1 would prefer a trial of State control, but I like fair play. Ihe temperance party never advocated absolute prohibition of liquor, but only the sale of it. In 1895 tne Government brought in a Bill which had four issues for the electors to decide as against the present three, the fourth being "That no licenses be granted in the colony." This Bill contained provisions, in case the fourth issue was carried, which, inter alia, allowed any -person to manufacture alcoholic liquois lor home use, as our grandmothers used to do, but not for sale. This was supported by the Teinjjcranco partj', but was thrown out by the Upper House, then mainly composed of Conservatives. There has been no change of front, for all this was long before the famous clause 9. The manufacture of alcoholic liquor is quite a simple matter. I would ask your Christian readers, and all electors who love morality, , to bear in mind that all the drastic reforms of the liquor traffic, including tli« above Bill, were placed on the Statxite Book by the present Government, and that, as a body, Conservatives have fought tooth and nail against every moral reform, including the protection of young girls. — I am, etc.,

J. W. KENAH.