GOOD TEMPLARS’ INCONSISTENCY.

Evening Star, Issue 3443, 5 March 1874, Page 3

GOOD TEMPLARS’ INCONSISTENCY.

e the Editor,. . When I joined'that honorable body, Good Tern bJars,’’ 1 was led to believe asamember, 1 am bound to discountenance the traffic in strong drink, in ma y judge.qf rriy surprise, last night one can be surprised at ir New gealand), when X heard Brother Neil, an office-bearer high in the order, propose Mr E. B. Cargill as a fit and of . the. people, Mr Cargill biimr an importer and wholesale dealer an*:“blue ruin.” The sight almost took a ?®y W breath. lam not quite recovered from; the shock yet. No doubt, my “ewpris Systenj.is .one of the finest, and my cdnstittitiOn rather: dedicate, -

But, sir, dees: Brother Neil think it re'spec table and praiseworthy to sell intoxicating liquors by the hogshead, but both sinful and disgraceful to retail it in nobblers? Does the quantity make all that difference ? Is the one business suitable for; a gentleman, the other only for him who is anything but a gentleman ? Perhaps so, hut I confess that I am either too stupid or too ignorant to see it. In my simplicity I have long thought that it is a. very great inconsistency, and a very great ’waste of time to he clip, clipping at the branches of the great tree of evil—drunkenness—that is in our midst, while we leave the trunk and the root unnoticed and untouched.—l am, ic..' Jons’ P. Armstrong. Stuart street, Dunedin, March 4.