LIQUOR PROHIBITION

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2142, 7 May 1914, Page 4

LIQUOR PROHIBITION

; * MR. WESLEY SPRAGG'S VIEWS i. - j . s SENfIMEKr IN OTIJER LAJJDS u Bif. Wesley Spragg, for in&ny : y. CWS eI , Prcßjdeut of tho New fcrfafld AlFsiiUco. I. aud aue of the bftst-teiq-wn PfejiMsiiwiis -ists in. New ijoaland,' nytUei iii \\ r e \. n faigton. after a toiir in EUgtimd .an'd fl, Amorica ; by the Rtelljne ycste.KJny. ; _ "IJ.iin'O b'.e.en most iiltercsted m'loci.ifing into tho prpgross nintte Jiy i\q\wr o sbbbtkiu .seiitimoiit tbrougltoii;t the 0 world,", stvid Jkv Sp:ra.gg in eoiyefßjt- '• nan WLtU 3, PoMiNios-.ttepprtef. £i I did «-' suppose that New ZeaJa.iid. Jfcd'..«io 0 world lit. this jiaTtictiian a:nd in a mnv o tins is true, lit no other coimtty ha.s ■•• tliero beeji |i. more i.radi.ciil. iMeasnfc c:iiflfted i/lia.i! is -comcS. h# oUr fe&mkigfi s. alwhtioji .proposals. Apart ifcri) -tivo ■■■ ndißiiloMS, Sjnjiist, ■ai.iiuMdemgc.Faiic i:B-. iimrof.nm.it of three, reform votes to cfips sec two. liquor wites, aur New Zeilaivd 0 to .Jcads. |h0 worijd. -Wi.teik wo t: wtot is {air .and juiit .a.ud get a Jrfctlft rj: more gcnei-al ctimmon. ■■seij'so w.o sliijii y : put top wrong riglijt. fn the meaiitiriio ,f. eveii 'tto British, lionse of .pos.siljt.v Mm most lfqaor-tiqiaou. y hi tlio which stands most m<L !5 Jy lw propci'ty and pjivijogo agiiiiißt Hio of h S s f in the fecotrJ; Act» apprgvod of a ; raagwif of 135 pev cent, to .catty local veto ot tj,e liquor treffie, II it Wer.o sometlltig aliaui which Hew rZeslanders sbojrld. bo imuseij, it Svould % scre.ame ingly fanny tf think of our enfelitenea s aem?Gra.Gy beiug oiitdone by ifee Land ~ Lord.% .Urdwery .ferds, and D.istille'rv U tordsof the : ljr!:t(sh "' , 'A measure similar , to the gcattiiili 1 bo.oal Veto Act is urajccfcl .for Ensi: l3>!il. Sfc AsquitJi ha* fitomijea. to j lwroduce it during t]io life of tlie prc- , sent PsfUmuenij. w\& npart :frbin >ti le ' . J 1 ™ 18^ 0 ! rotes .and mtt . i i'flf'WL °1,.-nian3' in.cnvber.s of. ..tljS J3"i-j_ tislv ParlfaimeSt tlio pfec&deiit ' *i tho [: hetiim Act J3HI ,p, w tWly Qkuxes'ltf t being,carried, •' '-:.'■ ■■. > . "In Anicrotu tho scjiti-' , men.t of tho .people is ai least a.s great ; as rt is here, Their laWs for ■ ; yiomajoj-ity ruling, aiid in spito of the . Pnnic zfial of tiliff .liquor sßliers, fcreat , a*cl small, «. fcSHfojft-tf , neoDlb, ;tfvej m m t irt . of tiro. Uititod fjiatos, are JijW un.de'r . |J.iVO fem fer .fltlicr :of liqiio^afclit/em, , : Witter local anti-isalooii Iws, but iiow ■ Mio ctfun.tfy.iis a wlvole is demisndiiic'a we.asuro as .drastic as-ffflr oivu, Tlirv Coj)s#tntjonai : PjWHbdiion to inn, whblefcnd from North to Smith nnd from sealiotod t<) sea.|joa.ra..a«£l tho pi'psbftt promise is tl>at . te will not it. As tto rcwjjii af wiiat ( f:-«ft»y: sirtiiosfd on my tjip' I .consider tlifonghflirt; tlio civilised world is ino|t promijiiig the aooK- ; won of th© Ijcjugr traffic."