Sensible Bishop

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 143, 26 May 1891, Page 4

Sensible Bishop

'; he iii>lio(> or Christvliarch is not a I n ivever in U«Vt;y prohibitionist tactics in to tlit« liquid trade. In his recent -e.mon to the nudes unionists oe even ' went a little oat of his wav to nvike )>U ' opinion known. He .taid he had no \ I juU in ' the'good results whicH might, c from any act of injustice: He did • >.'■ believe in confiscation, and he could not '•uppoit the proiiibtionist^ on 'hut account (A movement a:nongst the audience of approbation by some, and others .groiined i Titey might gro.tn but he would say that in the past we had given licenses to men to work, hotels, to go thejeeand sell beer or drink liquid, ■and get as much as they liked out of the i men, but as long as they kept an orderly hou>e— whatever that might mean — we gave them their license. But when we became' wiser and ; s : >w that these houses war* curses, then we must slowly do away with them— not by storming a man out, but by. withdrawing tlie licenses in the ' course of time, and thus allowing him to HO about some other- business. He had, no faith in-elosina houses so hurriedly without, compensation of some sort, or, in ' develqpjn^a better state of things by -«onnscation^ , '