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Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1073, 15 December 1903, Page 3

Man has dwelt on oarth 100,000 yoars according to archaeologists who have dug dug out human remains from ancient layers of soils in the Old World. Similar discoveries near Treuton, Now Jersey, in dicate that America has been inhabited at least five thousand years and perhaps twenty thousand years. Suppose the law were to deal with opium as it now deals with beer. The consequences would be grave, but no graver than they are in the King Country. Nor opium, nor hashish, nor hemp, nor any drug in the pharmacopoeia of the Old Scratch could produce more disastrous, more deadly results than now flow from the illicit traffic in the King Country. So loDg as the law permits liquor to be taken, there, so long will people there imagine’ that when they call for whisky they get whisky, even though, in nine cases out of ten, they get logwood and copperas, or, if they be favored ones, kerosene and sulphuric acid. There are but two ways of stopping this diabolical traffic. The first was offered, or, it would bo more correct to say, indicated by the Premier in the late but unlamanted Licensing Bill.— Observer.