PECULIAR TACTICS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 669, 31 December 1902, Page 23

PECULIAR TACTICS.

A correspondent of the “ Australian Brewers’ Journal ” writes ;:—“ The peculiar proclivities, of certain people we meet in-this world, are hard to understand, and the most mysterious of all are the peculiar tactics of thre teetotaller. He cannot “see one inch before his nose, and his diving blindness has to resort to abominable falsehoods. This has been proved at the recent local option poll at North Melbourne, ' when one of the extremists coldly and calmly traduced the character of. the licensee of a well-known house in the district. This manner of advocacy is not new as regards the fanatical party, who would run Victoria into a home of deceit and hypocrisy. More may be heard of the matter in the early future.”