THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC, altss "THE LOCAL BAR.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 380, 5 August 1884, Page 2

THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC, altss "THE LOCAL BAR.

.-•-■j .ftf.T...»_tef aittß 'J_si?ro_s?(?*._r Sir,—l glanced over, the Reverend Joseph ■ f^ , W^^!ff?Jf>^R*%:^f®sMiyiffl& last is•sue, and boiled down there "is notfffng in it but the " poison;' inasmuch as it is altogether ffiV!ie a iiyp^rq-lM'teug.Mggls of the incipient dipsomania can only be grieved by such an erroneousJlineTof The licensine sburfness:i§>an.eSeHfefl{-e-in m& lvimirerse, and Mr Buttie,Jf he know it—and if he does he does not understand^the (iiiestion— -%u*pp*eslesf*ti^ p^iMa^i-fa^-tthat ;this same licensing business is the creation of a monopoly for revenue and excise purposts— that is, to raise money ; and that the conditions of : Ithie^ ligeiLaersrjar only|a'^)*w^?^rt. The revenue'is'the- substantia!* part;* fttiTpolice re- ?,"?^ tlo ° s *' ? ° Iy %- c^ or y- and therefore Blue Hibbonists are violating their^vow in tonching it. A Blue.Rihbonistj raising revenue from alcohol is an anomaly. • They don't see it, for dt isindispfataßfea__& as 'a'iuleM" committeemen areiprejudicedfi and, no.fewonder, for they, are usually returned by a block* vote of either party ; and for Mr Buttle: to assert that they are the elect of "a free people is to be wilfully blind to what the mo_tv common day-laborer knows to be a fact— he is wrenchedjffom hiß day's word and wages to , vote as he is bid. y\ y Si : . y t ;.? Mr Buttle also does not know or suppresses the fact thatthe few barmaids in New Zealand are under, statutory regulations as to hours like the factory girls, and that' in Melbourne, where he travels for his illustrations, a great number of the latteras a^consequenoe of these Acts take to the" streeC He also suppresses the fact that there are go barmaids, in Gore or any .of „the neighboring townships,* and ithiCt''ta'6.BluO Ribbon Army, unlike the Oddfellows, have no auxiliary benevolent fund, and that no* one in the police cells in Southland has ever been assisted by the Army. Thos^ are left to their'fate Who are over-akoaaiyfdrink. How often do yott see the" Blue Ribhonist slink away from. givicg* assistance when needed. The charity, or_rather the charlatanism, that ...consists in r pla.tf^rni_oratory .andc.newspaper -writing-* is • not;; tnuch to >boast and what more has the Blue Bibbonist ? , The clergyman who. permits? «i,ttie bonnie bit blue " to be prefixed or^afl-p-ed as a necessary auxiliary &: the "Wsufßcieit Grospel of .Christ,, and, the: Blue Bibbonist who sits cheek by jpwl..td eaf-, ,*the same fowl with (as he asahme.) 'the" an.. generate publican-^-aimealcheapened 'atftife cost of the drinkers in the adjoining room^oj mayhap at h^..?A bow ')' — dow, by his own'conduct, rofate himself. Oharlatanism of this soft requires no further answer than that- it «be pointed out. — lam, kc., ' '■"' ..--*>** '"••i- ■"-■-■■ • Ay.;:.-i ,**...- 7*v«*> z -v Gore, 2nd AugusJ;,,!^!.:^/. .