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SEVEN REASONS WHY.

Does anyone ask why the New Zealand Allianoe Instate on a Direct Popular Veto 1 The question ia a fair one, we will reply to it.* j (1.) We demand the Popular Veto * power, beoauao we know of no other way | , of gotting a full and fair expression of the will of the people. When anyone can find or Invent a better or aurer teat wo ' will adopt It. J (2 ) We ask for a Direct Voto because It is a fundamental Constitutional right, Inherent and inalienable. (3 ) We|dem»D«l the Direot Veto booause Boaids, Benches, or Committees, whether Grown appointed or popularly sleeted, • can always be "got at" by the liquor power, with its enormous money Interests, and the Ugal *nd illegal appliances^ o*n purchase and oomoaand, for cajolery, briber y, corruption, and intimidation. Ik li not, however, easy to cajole, corrupt, or intimidate a whole community aotiDg for the eoEimon jreal. ] (4.) Another reason why we oling to our < demand for a Direot Popular Veto is beoaose "It is understanded of the people." The oommon people can at onoe oomprehend it aa by an Instinct ; and they respond to it gladly whenever and wherever It Is put before them. The anomalies, perplexities and inequalities of licensing systems and license amendment Mhemea they do not understand, and can never bf «ni'ed upon or enthusiastic for them. But a Direot Vote on a simple and direot Issue — Lioense or no Lioanse t •—Liquor Traffic or no Liquor Tr&fno t— this they can and do understand . It Is •n issue io manifestly just, so reasonable and urgent, that their enthusiasm is aroused, and conscience and oommon tense respond with the swift lnetitiOt of ■elf preservation— for the protection of Rome, with all Us endearing and sacred Interest*. (5.) Again, we demand the Direot Popular Veto, but not as a substitute for other machinery and methods of regulating the issue and limitation of lloonses. Let oar ablest statesmen and oleverest license reformer* frame the most perfect and ooavenlent plans for dealing with the licensed liquor traffic, whenever the public are so blind and perverse as to wish for la existence. The Popular Veto power will not binder but will vastly aid the lioenalng authority to restrict and regulate. It will be a reserve foree — a possible and potent weapon to be ÜBed whenever and wherever the people feel that the traffio is not a blessing but a curse— not a needed convenience but an Intolerable nuisance. The Direot Veto is, therefore, merely the complement of •ny and every possible system of license And regulation. (6.) We stick to our demand for the Direot Popular Veto power because we want an effectual measure. We have waited long enough, until our patience has ceased to be a virtue. After all this Immense delay we are not m the mode to be put off with an unworkable and inefficient measure of so-called Looal Option, which will not let the real will of the community prevail, Sir William Fox and his fellow -workers have always demanded some " efficient measure of Looal Option," and do not mean to be baulked or betrayed by a sham measure, not Intended to grip and throttle the traffic, but designed merely to " control," and "-regulate," and perpetuate it. (7.) Another and urgent reason why we deem the Direot Popular Veto not only essential but of paramount Importance, is that so/oh a Veto would be regarded as a settlement bo fair and bo conclusive that all good citizjna and lovbib of taw and order would accept the decision as the will of the community, against which there can he no appeal. — v New Zealand Allianoe Pamphlet," No. 12.

Cardinal Manning on Sunday, April 1, at the Pro.Cathedral, Kensington, performed tnother ol thoße astonishing teurs do ford which render it difficult for his flock to believe that he really ie an older man than Mr Gladstone. The Cardinal, attired m full pontificals — cope of gold of cloth, and jewelled mitre, held m his left hand his gold crozier or episcopal ataff during his long sermon, which lasted exactly fifty.fi ve minutes. He held his •ODgrcgatioo, also, whioh waa oven more; remarkable than the holding of his crozUft Another old man, Prinoe Bismarck, nan celebrated hiß aeyenty-third birthday. It J&. npt, however, until men get into the eighth that they are really old. Since the Qerman Emperor died, Cardinal Manning.ia the oldest of the illustrious elders of our time, and yet m sympathy, m intelligence, and m active interest m the affaire of this, world he puts to »bame the youngest amoqgst ua.--'" Pall Mall Gazette." " "

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1858, 4 June 1888, Page 4

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SEVEN REASONS WHY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1858, 4 June 1888, Page 4

SEVEN REASONS WHY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1858, 4 June 1888, Page 4

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