TWO KINDS OF THEM.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 968, 24 September 1908, Page 22

TWO KINDS OF THEM.

There are two kinds of prohibitionists (says Geo. W. Peck, in the “Pacific Wine and Spirit Review”). One kind has always been so, and he is dried up, diseased, never breathes his lungs full, has a kind of blood that looks like curdled milk, if he cuts his finger, whose eyes shine yellow, whose hand is cold and clammy, who looks, you not in the eye when you talk to him, a man who carries liver pills in one pocket, and laxative pills in another, and takes indigestion tablets after his meals, and gulps wind, and flocks with weak and sympathetic women instead of fullblood•ed men, and thinks he is doing God’s

work in looking after h’s neighbours’ morals. The other kind of prohibitionist is the business or professional man or politician, who is in it for what there is in it for him, who pulls the leg of the dyspeptic dry man, who will proclaim aloud that he is dry, when in the presence of drys, but who will wink and laugh a shamefaced laugh when talking with a wet, take him to one side and whisper that he don’t believe in it, but “you know how 7 he is, we have to stand in with the drys, or they will ruin our business.”