MORE WOOL PULLING

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 819, 16 November 1905, Page 24

MORE WOOL PULLING

In George’s Hall, me night , last week,'Mr Geo. Fowlds, in answer to . a question, said that no prohibitionist wanted'to shut up hotels, but, merely to stop the sale of liquor, the inference beinothat the hotels can keep open, but can do so without the aid of the sale of liquors. Now, Mr. George Fowlds is largely credited by a number' of people as being a man who knows to a considerable extent what hie is talking about, and the writer takes it that he has now joined the sixteen-pints-in-your-own-house partv, who are by much pulling of wool trying to obscure the vision of the free and independent. Being somewhat of a traveller, the member for Grey Lynn knows full well that up-to-date hotels (as insisted upon by licensing committees) cannot be conducted in anything like comfortable style on the profit that is made from feeding and housing even a teetotal M.H.R. If as he wishes us to infer, it can be done, how is it then, that the majority of teetotalers < boose a licensed house as their temporary quarters when away from home. Mr Fowlds also knows full well that the stopping of the sale of liquor and the closing of hotels are one and the same thing. The latter would follow the enforcement of ..he former so closely as to be except, of course, to those who allow themselves to be blinded by such nonsense. or those who are wiJfnHv blind. As for not wanting to close bnte’s. it is the opinion of the majority of people that the prohibitionists vbo have got prohibition, bad would not only close up hotels, but everything else that did not bear the brand of their approval.