THE FAIR "DOMINION"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 253, 13 July 1918, Page 8

THE FAIR "DOMINION"

* Sir,—lf you will allow me to say so, I 1 desire to compliment you upon the fair- ;" ness of your journal in dealing with tue J liquor question. Just take _ to-day's I issue: You have a paragraph in which , some reverend person goes out of his way J ' (o scarify the drink. Then you have an i° article glorifying tho übo of rum in tho Navy, with deference also to tho use of 9 "Nelson's blood" in the Army. Then have a summary of the three- committees' reports on the purchaso of the drink tnido in EngUnd, Scotland, and Ireland, at something under five hundred millions ;- sterling. Then there is a criticism of [. the drink bill of New Zealand, whicli 1- .some Prohibitionist calculates mute 1- erroneously, it seems, at four and threeV quarter millions. I turn to the "Bap--0 tist Times" (an English religious panel-/, and T find that this journal approves of purchase as the first honest step to prohibition. Now the Prohibitionists in NeW Zealand are making an effort aiong the same lines as the "Baptist Times advocates. But it is. the fairiic.'s of The Dominion in presenting all tho»o t views of tliie much vexed question that I I caused me to take up my pen in com- '* mendation. Whm the parson refened '! to mixes his politics with his relißion- '! for Prohibition is not 0 moral or leigi,d one but a political ■natter-then he B ' himself wrong and the cause and the 1 Ki for wliich he. primarily f stands: a d great ami grievous wrong. My friend, '■? Dean Inge/speaking at the. Upper How* J 1 if Convoc'ation in I*ndon on May 1, 'I said' "I warn you, my brethren, that rt you have no riyht to mix up, politics *'■ IZ Phristianily." But the fairness of ! «r A*--but worldly-wise schemes for the amal-rni^ir^-ader^ )f forming jonrnaL-I am, etc., . ic July 11. | -