NO LICENSE SPEECHES

Grey River Argus, 21 April 1911, Page 5

NO LICENSE SPEECHES

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: SYDNEY, April 20 Professor Anderson Stuart in addressing: a no-license conference on the ' medical aspect of ; the ,temperance question, condemned the "shouting" ha&it. He gave this advice:. ''If you meet a man in the street who asks you to have a - drink, ; knbok -him down, sit on -his /head; and don't let him up till he signs the pledge." The people put down their misfortunes to bad whisky;' it wa_s. too frequently the bad man, not.ba.d Alcohol "was rarely, adulterated . in a deleterious way. The . common-es't adulterant " was .water and , the -/more .of that was.\better.' The Lord Mayor , advised the party- to advocate a 'sub-. . stantial decrease rather than attempt to wipe out all licenses at once;