ABSURDITIES RE NO-LICENSE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 556, 10 July 1909, Page 10

ABSURDITIES RE NO-LICENSE.

I /Sir.-rlt is perhaps to be expected;that in | the overthrow of: a system as' deep-rooted as j the, liquor traffic, someone's ■ feelings will bo hurt Uowever injurious that system may bo, but it is unnecessary, surely-to be so extravagant as your correspondent " Janson" in ~tii!s morning's- Dominion.' Besides, he is wrong all through, the drink-bill has not increased per head, but has decreased 4Jd. per head.. He says, ."there is more liquor in Mastertbn. .than ever! thero was before,, and when it is consumed all who desire can get a ' fresh supply." \ >Yet. he;;talks later ■■ of :" hundreds of ■ good citizens being; punished by .deprivation 1 ." He- says of. the : PMplp,_qf .tho figures published in TitE Dominion for .the last local option poll at Mastertoh Were: Nc-'Liconse,;■32B7;.^Continuant;-!-2111:;'-; a majority for. No-License of 1176,*and ; 'to-shbw' that."'the;'pfebple of New Zcalaiid'Vafe"up and' doing, determined once -and,' for ''all -'to put. a stop to tho ridiculous;"performances • now ; - going';bh;-V j :l-might state that -221,471 .voted Nb-Licerise'last -November, "an absolute imajority over Continuance vote, of 1 ami; etc.;' ' .-.;'.•' •' ; . THOS.\ TOWSENDv : r; ! Petoiie, July, 3. ■■■ v -v'..' C-'V'-, -- ; -: ; : f. : '-\: [ .'."'..; ';•■-" --...;"• - : - '■ : !i»i>JVi ff- «•';-''! : Sir,—lt is- npi/usual. to.: take .notice< of.writers; such.,as .•"Jason," ".ijjn« Saturday's 'issue, ..who are ..afraid ... to., -names,, but. ; as'lle^rof.p^s''t6^"cpmmon-sense'. , .-;!folk r 'I; really must ask hinfif anyone outside bed-'lam:-thought- -that—NoJ/icense-meant -Joss drinking immediately. . For thirty years or more,.the liquor traffic, by means of licensed bars, barmaids, and touts, has beon' trying to cultivate a thirst for strong: drink in ,oiir youth and others. It fairly well,-!.and left; many dreds with' an uuquenchablov thirst,,' TJhis is .but", a'.trifle of the fruits of licensed •'bars. Masterton, like. many other places,, 'opened its eyes in favour of the many ■ yersus tho few, and, in a democratic country (I)'polled a three-fifths majority., to clb'so':-.tho ..bars. Not the houses,-bo it;'noted.' fit hasV-becn-left for:"Jason!', to complain'of' : Mastertbii's .vote in its efforts at;*elf r governmen't- ; '«-The seed of a clean, sober,.industrious life is noi. sown at the polling.-'booths,' and, harvest is not yct.-7-I am, etc.,-.: , ■; ■■■;-■::.. 'rr 'i'. n - " •'■... .ItITBIOT.-^ - .Hawke's Bay. .-./.,