SCHOOLMASTER MEASURES.
Local option and Sunday closing must be regarded only as a means to an end. Sunday closing was a method of coercion to be adopted if education failed, and local option was a remedy when a locality could not persuade its inhabitants to be temperate. ‘‘l welcome the fact/' Cardinal Bourne continued, ‘that the question of Prohibition does not come within the purview of the council Whatever! may be said for Prohibition, it is certainly not educational. It is, after all, equivalent to the action of the schoolmaster who cannot hold the attention of his pupils, still less lead them to imbibe his teaching, and so he is obliged to resort to measures of coercion. To my mind Prohibition is the very antithesis and contradiction of temperance.” J "
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 16, 26 April 1923, Page 21
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130SCHOOLMASTER MEASURES. New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 16, 26 April 1923, Page 21
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