THOSE PHARISEES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1006, 17 June 1909, Page 21

THOSE PHARISEES.

In this age of intemperate intolerance one is scarcely surprised at the daily happenings or the daily doings of those intemperate folk who can see no good, no redeeming virtue, in the man who gains his livelihood in the pursuance of a legal and respectable -calling—in other words, the licensed .selling of liquor. To them his name is Anathema. He is to be hounded down and branded in the sight of man as vile. Why this should be is not easy to discover. Taken as a body, the holders of licenses are by common .consent a liberal class. None are more ready to dig—and dig deeply—into their pockets at the call of distress. None more ready to respond, at the call for help, in the promotion of manly sport. None more ready than they of the licensed brigade to assist when appealed to in any cause which makes for the uplifting of humanity. And none more reviled. And why? Simply because we have in our midst a few of those curious beings who term themselves “ temperance ” people. “Temperance!” What a mocking! “ Intemperance ” people would more nearly fit, and would certainly be more appropriate. They are temperate—as we understand the term—neither in thought nor in action. Summed up, they are a crowd of meddling, interfering extremists, people who think they can see the mote in the eye of the other fellow, but who cannot see the motor in their own.—“ Tasmanian Licensed Victuallers Gazette.”