WHEN THE HOTELS WERE CLOSED

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 67, 13 December 1918, Page 6

WHEN THE HOTELS WERE CLOSED

Sir-I hope "Moderate" road Inspector Mars'ack's and Magistrate C'oopei• s comments on the con tnigent of drunks before the Bench on Monday. Also the Police Court news in your paper to-; ay. iNote, fifteen first offenders. Will "Moderate inquire and get the names of these fifteen and ask them when they learned to drink? I think the answer would be, "We breasted the bar like men. lam certain ho will not find one man in fifty who learned to drink in a 'blind pig — slv grog-shop-and the sly grog is an offshoot of the license system. "Moderate must also know that first offenders were moderate drinkers. I know men who get drunk;' still they claim to be .moderate drinkers, and inebriates were moderate once. Some moderates say nut tliem away, say, to Koto Boa or a similar institution, and to be kept at the taxpayers' exoense. , Still that does not keep down the sunnlv of drunkards. , One thing only will do that—Prohibition. AA e then cense asking for recruits for the drunkards' army. Protect the rising generation—it is worth a trial.—l am. etc. AT. J?.. CRTTTFA'TVRN. Hornby, N.S.W.; December 10,1918. |

Sir,—Will you kindly allow me to inform "Moderate" that I did not write to answer the charge that sly grog-shops opened immediately the hotels were closed.' I wrote to protest against his unwarranted attack upon the Police Force; men who were doing noble work, and some of them laid down their lives for us. "Moderate" calls them to account by writing of "the indifference of the police at such a time." I think it calls for a protest, as the police are not allowed to protect themselves. With regard to "Moderate's" other remarks, 1 am sure Mr. Frazer, S.M., and Inspector Jfarsack know more about it than eitkir of us. Being content to leave it at that, 1 won't trouble von further.—l am, etc., ' * A WATCHMAN.