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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1600, 13 November 1905, Page 3

Mrs Harrison Loo, writing to an Auckland paper on the subject of JNoLioense, says : “ By tlio laws of Now Zoaland any man can get a two-gal-lon kog into bis own house. You have no power in your colony to get prohibition. No-Liconse does not ; interfere with individual liberty in the slightest degree, * and the man who thinks he cannot live without his beer can still obtain it openly, fro®ly> and without any breaoh of law* This fact i we have to face, and truthfully admit; but when the voters have done their part by dosing up the bars, there comes the moral force of persuasion to urge every man of his own free will to become a total abstainer.” Commenting on the above our contemporary states: Apart altogether from the question of infringing upon the liberty of individual judgment, there can be tittle doubt in minds not warped by

fanaticism, that it is better to havo'one licensed public-house than forty homes each with a two-gallon keg. We do not doubt for a moment that the closing of the bars will be followed by the institution of the two-gallon keg in the home, though we are not so foolish as to suppose that Mrs Lee and her friends intend that the householder shall be permitted to procure his keg “openly, freely, and without any breaoh of the law.”

New Liberalism appears to have slumped considerably in the Hutt electorate. It isn’t more than a month ago that Messrs Taylor, Laurenson, and Bedford delivered impassioned addresses in that locality to large audiences, and then boasted to thd rest of New Zealand of the magnificent reception they reoeived at the Hutt, and the splendid chances of their brand of candidate. Sensible people remarked at the time that the public chiefly went to hear Messrs Taylor, Fisher, Laurenson, and Bedford out of curiosity. They wanted to see what the notorious quartette looked like. They regarded them much as they would regard the wild man of the woods, and the ten-1 foot giant, and the other monstrosities I in a tenth rate travelling icirous. But the New Liberals laid the flattering I unction to their souls that New Zea-1 land was hanging on their words, and I that they were the saviours of the I country. So they put up : Geo. M. I Yerex as their candidate at the Hutt. I On Friday night Geo. M. Yerex held his first meeting, as the result of which I a vote of thanks failed to find a sec- | onder, and the meeting unanimously carried a hostile resolution. That is I how the colony feels about New Liberalism. There is an awful slump in that commodity.—Christchurch Truth.