A FOOLISH BAIT.

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

A FOOLISH BAIT.

The attempts that are being made by the prohibition party, under the guise of the No-License League, to fool the working man voter, are most laughable. To the man who takes and enjoys bis pint of beer, the bait of two gallons in his own house tickles him, but does not hook him. He knows, that is, the working man knows, that there is no intention on the part of the prohibition party that he should be left to the enjoyment of his keg in his own house, lie also knows that the ways and means of getting that keg into his own house would be made exceedingly difficult for him, and that it would only be a question of time, and a very short time, too, if the “ probe ” party had their way, when he would wake up to the fact that the source of

supply of that proposed adjunct to . his household requisites ; would be so far away as to be beyond the peach of .his means. 'To his better off fellow men the source of supply being further rwijuved would mean a little more expense, but would not prohibit them ‘rorp indulging in their glass of liquor. To the working man it would mean absolute prohibitions so that let the pill be wrapped up as it may, there it stands ; no-license simply means prohil it ion for the poorer classes. Another point that appeals p-«»re strongly to manv working men, and that is. that however free he may feel be is to indulge in a glass of beer when bo foe>>- s - o inclined. h.« is not free to take it into his own house and thereby place liquor within the reach of those who are too young t<> understand the no!>len<ss of that wor I 'operation. If. t’»e no-Krense party hope to gain their ends hv the keg indecenont. then it does not say much for the’r nowers of discernment. anil thov have sfnrto'' a herring across the path that will prove their undoing.