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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2073, 27 December 1907, Page 3

WHAT lIM SAID TO JACK AND JACK SAID TO JIM.

(No. 3.)

JIM: “i wonild bo glad to have ono more chat with you, Jack, about this Prohibition, question. Jhioplo Hrq talking about it* everywhere. 1 was down at tho “Glovo and Shears” pub the other day, and they wore going at it hammer and tongs. Old Butterstopes, tho brewer, was thero, and my word didn’t ho get excited! Ho had a lot of strings to his how, I can tell you. Some of them wore rather shaky, but that was a strong ono lie used about THE LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT. M'hat do you smile for. Jack?” JACK: ‘‘l couldn’t help laughing, Jim, at tho idea of Butterstopes using tlie Liberty of Subject argument. Why, don’t you know that tho ‘Glovo and Slioars’ pub’is owned by- him, and that means that poor Sookey, the landlord, doesn’t own his soul? Ho can hardly move hand or foot because tho house is TIED. Ho can’t get his liquor off anybody elso hut Butterstopes, and has got to take anything ho sends to lum. In fact, lie can hardly wipe his nose hut ■bv your leave.’ And wliat lis true of poor Sookey is true of most of tho public-liouso landlords. And thou, look at the contempt- the iliquor dealers have for public opinion. You remember the cases of Newtown, Bruce and Port Chalmers. In each of these places the liquor dealers upset by moro _ trickery the vote oi a bilge majority definitely expressed at tho ballot box in favor of No-License. Do von wonder at me laughing at the drink sellers’ affected concern about the liborty of tlie subject? JIM: “My word, Jack, you don t seem in a- laughing mood, for you are getting quite hot- over the matter.. 8 JACK: “I can’t help it, for it is unmitigated humbug for men with tied houses and an utter contempt for tho voice of public opinion to slica crocodile tears about Jibcity. JIM: “Yea, this is true enough, old chap; hut coming to the real subject, don’t you think a man should be allowed to eat and drink what ho hk JACK: “Wall, Jim, you are mixing up matters. In the first. lAace, Prohibition doesn’t touch tlio mattei of eating at all. Then again, as to drinking: Prohibition doesn t mean that a man can t drink wliat lie likes. All it seeks to do .is to prohibit the S4LE of intoxicating drinks. the law regarding other articles of consumption draws a distinction between the use of a thing as affecting pe sonal habit and the welfare of the community. For instance, the lanr will allow you to drink wateied nnlk, but not to SELL it. So. you see that we onlly want the same principle adopted with regard to liquoi. (To bo continued.) (Advt.)

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