A REPLY.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 406, 3 May 1902, Page 2

A REPLY.

_ ( To the Editor of the, Times). Sir ’~ Pr ohibiti onists beware, also consider the dreadful odds you have to contend with. The renowned individual who is such a walking encyclopedia of knowledge on such a variety of subjects from the full details of the local water supply, to your fanatical teachings, lias entered the 1 sty against you. Consider your ways, and cease your intellectual and Biblical orations. Consider your opponent’s consistency ‘ of teaching, how he strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel. He abused you for not keeping the Sabbath on the lines that he would insist upon but shows that he himself is devoid of that charity that thinketh no evil and vaunteth not itself. Everyone must' swallow his teachings holus bolus This great magnate of Gisborne does I nf.t'Tn l n f Ulting the “mmon sense of its inhabitants by offering himself hr f S n ?‘ datc /or ParJia menfc, but if brow-beating will do it and misrepresenUtmii thrown in with it, he Goliath champion of the liquor inerests Oye Prohibitionists, have rho ? W r yOU tread ■ 011 tail of ? e c° atj of this Donnybrook Fair fighter. Surely his shellegh is ready triJ r ?!! nC( : ever y onc ye . judging from the tone of this doughty champion (Mr W. D. Lvsnar’s-) letter he not only, like the war horse smells the Hattie afar off, but he has already demolished all who as members claim the right to say whether houses protessedly created to meet public requirements, shall or shall not continue to exist in their midst. Whether the liquors which debauch, demoralise, and curse the community shall 'be sold or be closed up with all their vicious surroundings.—l am, etc.,

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