NO-LICENSE CONDEMNED.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1063, 21 July 1910, Page 22

NO-LICENSE CONDEMNED.

WHAT EMINENT CHURCHMEN HAVE SAID. The late Bishop Doyle, of Lismore, N-S.W. —“I am not prepared to accept your No-License campaign. My reasons are, briefly: (Ist) If you have absolute prohibition illicit traffic will soon follow. (2nd) Some 15 years ago I travelled much in the United States of America, and I wish to inform you that I found more drunkenness in the prohibited States than in

the free ones. No-License simply means illicit traffic.” Tire" Very Rev. Samuel Reynolds Hble, D.D-, Dean of Rochester. —* in the cause of liberty, hospitality, customj and common sense, I desire to protest before this great congress of Churchmen, against the intolerance and extravagance of certain extreme, < partisans, who, having a zeal, but not according to knowledge are doing far more harm than good in the cause which they profess to serve.” The Rev. W. Garr Smith, St. James’ Church, Sydney, said in the course of a sermon:—“We are all, I suppose, familiar with the evil wrought by the abuse, not the use, I contend, of alcohol. But I want to say this —nothing would induce me to vote NoLicense. Much of this literature—literature, I believe, absolutely pernicious—is issued in the name of religion of Jesus Christ- Now, you cannot, without closing your eyes to much contained in the Bible, condemn the moderate use of alcohol. By all means let us denounce the abuse of alcohol, as of everything else, but let us distinguish between the proper use of . God’s gifts to men and the abuse of them.”