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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 441, 12 November 1908, Page 3

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LAW ABIDING OR LAW DEFYING. LAWFUL TRADE OR LAWLESS TRADE THE question o! License or No-License resolves itself into" one o whether we shall be law abiding or law defying. The demand for alcoholic liquors exists no matter how we seek to ignore it. Surely, then, it is better to have this demand satisfied openly in houses regulated by stringent laws, than in sly-grog shops that know no law. In short, are we to have oure, wholesome liquors supplied to those who want them, at a reasonable price, and within certain restricted hours, or are we to force those who want liquors to break the law to get them ? NO-LICENSE : What it Means. [Extract from N.Z. Times.] The local option poll is in the near distance, and in a few days the electors will be called upon to say whether they will have no-license or license. How many people who vote really understand what they are voting for ? Ask the man in the street what No-License means, and be will probably tell you that it means the abolition of liquor. There was never a greater mistake. It is customary to refer to the supporters of the system as “ the temperance party,” and to its opponents as “the liquor party,” but these designations are misleading. Both parties claim with equal reason, to be temperance parties, in that they are both supporters of true temperadce ; both can, with equal reason, be described as liquor parties, in that each advocates a system for the sale of intoxicating liquors. The difference between them is purely one of method. NO-LICENSE NOT TEETOTALISM. When the prohibitionists, as they were then called, rejected the famous clause 9 offered them by Mr Seddon, which proposed to make no-license mean no liquor, they stood committed to the principle that the sale of liquor was desirable, and thenceforward they have confined their efforts to altering—and in their view, amending—the method of selling. They have recognised this position in many ways. They have ceased to call themselves and their official organ by the title ” Prohibitionist,” and in season and out of season they clamour for the moderate vote on the ground that they are not attacking liquor—they only seek to close the open bar. TWO SYSTEMS FOR THE SALE OF LIQUOR. Thus, when the elector votes no-license, he does not, as he has probably hitherto believed, vote for the abolition of liquor. He simply votes for an alteration in the method of sale. His vote means that instead of liquor being supplied in licensed hotels, under proper supervision, and under stringent conditions as to hours and as to supplying drunkards and children, it will be supplied to the home, to be consumed under no supervision than that of the consumers themselves, and with no restrictions except that it must be purchased outside the nolictnse area. In other words, the money now spent in liquor will still be spent in liquor, but cannot be expended in your own district. SUPERVISION OR SLY-GROG? There can be no question as to which is the.better of these two methods. While perfection cannot be claimed for the present licensing system, it is immeasurably superior to the unsupervised selling prevalent iu uo-license districts. Instead of decency and order, we find in these districts the evils of the sly-grog seller, drunkenness in the home, and increased drinking among young men and even boys. Every day brings news of some new horror from these districts, and as the best system is the one that makes best for decency and order, we are forced to the conclusion (which at one time appeared paradoxical) that the real temperance party is the party that votes for continuance. •