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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THE LIQUOR BILL

Sir,—So much depends upon the Liquor Bill that it is not surprising Cabinet has buiiii dealing with it for several Jays. Thu demobilisation uf our soldiers will ■be useless unless we huvo the Liquor Bill-and it must be a Liquor Bill that thu Prohibitionists want or they will reject it. Prohibitionists would rather n'uve the Trade nourishing tliun take a Liquor Bill that does not express their irreducible demands." The repatriation of our soldiers, their settlement upon the laud, ami the finding of money "to assist them, are ail as nothing to a Liquor Bill, i'he cost of living is a trifle to the demand of the Proluuitionisls for a Liquor Bill. The provision of old-age pensions, soldiers' pensions, provision lo;soldiers' dependants, mid making adequate compensation for those who return lit and yet uusuited for agriculture— these lire all nothing to a Liquor Bill. We must have n Liquor Bill to save our self-reliant soldiers, the heroes of a thousand battles. We must have u Liquor Bill to save the defectives honi the consequences of their folly. We must have a Liquor Bill to save the whole Dominion. Nothing will save it but a Liquor Bill. If we can just get a Liquor Bill that will suit the Prohibitionists, Parliament may at once dissolve, Cabinet Ministers cease from troubling, and Sir Joseph Ward and -Mr. W, 1 ,, , ilnsseymay go Home and stay away altogether! With a Liquor Bill to suit the" Prohibitionists, and pay four and a half, millions to wealthy brewers, flourishing publicans, and ricli landlords—towards which payment the Prohibitionists will contribute little or nothing—then Mew Zealand will be as saintly as the inhabitants of Turkey, and as moral and righteous as Mohammedans generally are. A Liquor Act on Prohibition lines would usher in the millennium, empty all churches, schools and colleges, and all gaols, asylums, and hospitals;' for such a Liquor Bill would make us all so good and so happy that we could aljolish religious and educational institutions, and there would be no cue to occupy reformatories. A Liquor Bill on Prohibition lines would do more for this Dominion than the war has accomplished for civilisation. Then, for God's sake, Mr. Editor, give us such a Liquor Bill!— i am, etc., AXTI-HIMBUG. P.S.—Practically a total abstainer, I've been' down with tho "llu" ten days, and the doctor lias soaked me up to the neck with whisky—to my disgust—but he says it has saved my life- Oh, how-can I live—saved by whisky.—A.H.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 50, 23 November 1918, Page 8

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 50, 23 November 1918, Page 8

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 50, 23 November 1918, Page 8

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