THE PROHIBITION MENACE
'■'; (To the Editor.) Sir,—ln your issue of the 12th you report Mr. Kornot (chairman .of"the allied associations of: the wholesale liquor trade) 'as having stated'-that "the'polling showed the people were beginning to recognise that extremists (reference clearly to anti-liquor extremists) wore dangeipus," — Does Mr. Kernot uso the ■ word' "dangerous" in tho usual 6enseP Surely, oh, surely not I If the people had boon asked to vote on the question, "Is the Prohibition movement, a menaco to the safety of human life?" how many, doe(i ho think, his party.would have boon able to honestly secure in the affirmative? No, Mr. Kernot must be using the term only in the-sonso of dangerous to "liberty" in li'is.-interpre-tation of the term, and dangerous to the monied interest of the trade. Certain it is that approximately onehalf of tho jury in tho hearing of this important caso considered tho trade so dangerous to human life and happiness as to justify them in condemning it to the extremo penalty.—l am. etc., ' W.S.S.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2335, 17 December 1914, Page 7
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169THE PROHIBITION MENACE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2335, 17 December 1914, Page 7
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