THE LIQUOR TRADE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11481, 14 January 1903, Page 9

THE LIQUOR TRADE.

M THE EDITOR OF THE rR£S3. J™£- T-here is great danew that the full of the recent local option vot- "*»»>• be forgotten, as the next poll is 7»My three years away. The dispute will ?*•* he settled by the prohibitionists or the trade. "The one demands too J*! the other will concede but little ** yalue. but dings to a delusion that the -?•» Toting *.;;i be different. Tile hope fr , ™' u nJ«SB supported by action. The are putting forth increased r*^* , ' The other side seem dazsd and JJJWyied. The Kolution of the matter ,«?** rest with the great moderate party. 2» Prohibitionists will do utmost to **e»te and capture all on the border land * their views. What will "the trads" * They should endeavour to ascertain ***'i*t term* they may hope for the supf"* «J the moderate party. The latwr *U1 not be silent and inactive spectators of » w tii c |, riow practically or.T.v fWameiKring. This fact mus-t be apparent *•" wiio do not shut their eyes. It Jeew be intolerable that the colony should IL.** ,1 ** J'* Bl " iier.ee plunged into tie -wrder Tesultiny from a snatched pTo•wticw victhit "of a general kind. It •oj come unless the moderates intervene ffiake their voice and opinion f?lt. It Sjk be done and if "the trade" be wilSpto co-operate, good will be the result |yte continuou* action be taken and radi«

cal alterations be not made, in the manner of cam-ing on the liquor trade the destruction of* property and the taxation resulting therefrom will make people open their eyes in 1905-6.—Yours, etc.,

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