Prohibition in Ashburton.

White Ribbon, Volume 9, Issue 98, 1 July 1903, Page 7

Prohibition in Ashburton.

Prohibition has at Itngth reached Canterbury, and Ashburton may always feel proud that it was first in the province to join in the march. There is, of course, the usual wailing and self-commiseration on the part of the liquor confederacy and their supporters,

The Press newspaper, in its leading columns, speaks most pathetically of those who may suffer pecuniary loss through the closing of the bars. Strange to say, it is only the publican and brewer and their clan for wdiom the Press has pity. We suppose it considers them to have been living for so long in the lap of luxury that they will feel a little shiver when they come into the fresh air of an average income. As for those poor creatures whose comforts have for years been bartered to provide the luxury—well, they are used to being out in the cold, and so, of course, don’t feel it.

And another great wave of pity surges up in the heart of the 1 ress as it thinks

of the bar tenders and brewery employes who may be temporarily thrown out of employment. Mindful of its reputation for consistency, the Pre*s will naturally, from this time forth, unflinchingly oppose the introduction of labour saving machinery, or any other reform in business or industry that may temporarily displace the worker.