TAYLOR REDIVIVUS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 938, 27 February 1908, Page 21

TAYLOR REDIVIVUS.

-After a period of temporary quiescence the eruptive Thomas E. Taylor has broken out in a new place. He utilised the columns of our junior morning contemporary yesterday to inform a noncha ant community that this year is to be a year of bat.le between Heaven as typified by the Prohibitionists, and Hell as exemplified by the Publicans, between Barbarism as personified by the Brewers, and Christianity as demonstrated by those who look' upon manufacturers and dispensers of alcoholic liquors as (in the choice phraseology of Thomas E. Taylor) “callously selfish,” “ ying,” “frauds,” “ intent upon brutalisiing humanity.”. It was said by his friends some time ago that the lesson taught him by the Christchurch elec--tors after the no orious * “ voucher ” expose had had a chastening effect upon Mr T. E. Taylor. It was claimed by those who knew him best that he repented him of* the evil which his unruly tongue had wrought; that he was gaining wisdom with the years, becoming more me’low with experience, more responsible in. the reve’ation that bigotry and suspicion are unworthy attributes * which lead the self-. righteous into devious and foolish ways. Unhappily for the predictions of his wellwishers, Mr Tay’or has not yet reformed. He is bitter, malevolent, and misanthropic as of old, and runs amok with the same unreasoning hatred, the same desire to hurt, to maim, and to annihilate that he has always evinced. His latest manifesto is not only a tirade against the licensing system of the Dominion, but it is an inferential condemnation of all those who countenance that system by the consumption of alcohol or by the patronage of those who. dispense it. The “national folly of perpetuating the liquor interests ” is one of the choice phrases used by this captious demagogue, who also speaks of “a campaign of insolent misrepresentation and fraud.” We shou ] d not be surprised to find that Mr Taylor had culled th? latter phrase from an indignant editorial dealing with the “ voucher ” incident in the House of Representatives at a time vfrhen one young and chivalrous member of Par’iament, who desired to withdraw the false allegations which he. had been instigated to make against an honoured statesman, was prevented from doing so by the influence of another who was keener to infl : ct a wound than to remedy a wrong.—“ N.Z. Times.”