THE WAYS OF. CONTROVERSY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, 10 November 1910, Page 21

THE WAYS OF. CONTROVERSY.

Thus Bishop Mercer: —“Some people said, ‘lf you are going to put down drunkenness ’you had better put down gluttony also.’ Well if it came to a toss-up between drunkenness and gluttony, give him gluttony, because, beastly as that was, it was not so bad as the other. He was not going to throw mud at the publicans. It was the system that was wrong, not the men who administered the system. Many of the publicans would be glad enough to get out of the business, but they could not afford to.” Doubtless many grocers would be glad to get out of the business, or bakers, or fruiterers, and cannot afford to. But there’s no great argument in that. As to gluttony, it has its bad side, like excess in anything -excess in “temperance” advocacy, for example.