MRS. HARRISON LEE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 262, 29 July 1908, Page 8

MRS. HARRISON LEE.

The last, of a; series' of'addresses by Mm Harrison Lee was given at the Y.M.C.A. Rooms,last, night-.. The, Rev.; AV., J.,Comrie presided. • Mrs.. Lee. dealt with' the liquor question from ; various points of -. view j-; and in regard to! the question-of Bible'wines sho quotod -information she 'had - gained < during' a personal- visit - to - Palestine,;- was oonvinced : her that no fermented liqufir was- associated with.weddings in' Palestine, either. in the'days' of; Christ or now. . Sirice her last visit, to'; Neiv' Zealand, Mre.'Leo has been to America, and ...she -tqld'h6r: audience -how- Vermont, 'after:fifty.-years,of State,prohibition, had decided to have licenses-restored,' but with: tho proviso that they : should be allowed the power to '/Vote them out- . by. local option. >Th'ey .thought, v she; said, that . tho ; liquor trWe, allowed, to'.return after so long an; absence, would be on : its best behaviour,- but: speedily found it 'had'resumed its old tactics,; and now it was being voted out of nearly-overy town, and .country district in the State. .Mrs. Lee made-a.strong.appeal'to:her audience to become .total .abstainers, to try - to . influence others to'abstain,; arid to voteNo-Licenseas' the best taeans'of securing 'a'' sober '"com-, munity. - • ' v.--/," • Considerable . interest . was , taken by ' the audience in a display.; of.-'large placards arid cartoons,.which have just been received from Englaud, and which represent some of .the 'most".interesting. and'' clever.: efforts 'of..the rival;"contestants in -the Liquor. Bill war .now raging at; Home to, advance their respective arguments and' pleas.- Mrs. .Leo explained their salient^ points".* : ;