THE COMPENSATION" QUESTION. -ZUMMERSETS'S OPINION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1819, 19 April 1888, Page 3

THE COMPENSATION" QUESTION. -ZUMMERSETS'S OPINION.

TO THE BDITOB. M^istir Heditctk, iSuR, — Hi no your coHnraa his ever open to those who ava the causa of tornperunce at art, and Hi feel euro you will alow me, althoo a unheddickated man, to cay a few words. Our wourthtiy J.P calJa "J,D," a noodle, and all eorta ov names, bat Hi will cay thi?, that thur ia Burnm\t ov the iog^lole no-iddlo about him, an that is wore than Hi can ssy fur our wurthey J P. , on the temperunoa qiestune at any rate. Host on hearth he can be a hahsialner from inr,ookaikating drinks, and then crack ths pubiick houses hup like he does, sjyiag as they are a necisslty propurly konduokted, is a hiDomaly HI kant understand. Hi wou\d. like too hask him does ho know ov any hotelkeeper but would let auy man sop m is home an spend fa laat penny, an if he should be drunk, wioh his pruty certain to be the case, and difficult to remove on aokount ov is helplessness, ho tit the poor retoh as too go neck Bnd croop, with is head sent craehin hup against a verandah post thro the force of a number ten boot from bohlnd. Niw is this propurly kondnckting a hotel ? For the infurraation of our wurthey J.P. Hi would point : to too paragraphs m yoar locals of the aime date as is unkonaistent luoumbratton appears, viz, , Church worship m Kinßas pnnch bovvi m Washington. No*, HI once remember hearing a song birtltled "One thlnf or the tother, oh," and Hi like men to be like that. Hif you be a believer lv tottal habstalnance do your levdl best to hobliterate tha drink baoe from the iatid, not t»ik one wey and hackt another. Why bless yer art, Maister Heditur, Hi herd a man who bowa verry lowe m Churoh enss and Bje&t like a troopar wbea c waß hout, aad Hi knowed a man who sat on a Licensing Bench and Bald that publiok houses shouldent be kept hopen after eleven always used to role ome drink on a Sunday mornln. Now this aim konsi3tancy, and Hi like that above all things, and Hi feels as how Bl could go on and wacka helliquant on this aubject, but Hi must now Btop, has Hi ham rather busey. Hi ope HI ahant give you to mush trooble m eettin up the tipe for my mlspeilln an mlspuackturatlon, Oping to aye a few moor words too aay wen Hi alnt buaey. Meanwhiie, my frends, let your watchword be tottal prohibition. — Yours m the fite, ZtJMMERBBT.