The Liquor Trade.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1648, 2 March 1886, Page 3

The Liquor Trade.

• fTO TKB KdMjß rtK THE STANDARD.) ( i! s^— Wiil you plb>se make robin m | *an ea*-ly iSsue'tbr the eocl'oßed' extract,! I have no doubt will be i perused ; with' interest' by many of ydurvreaders. i j.-.- \ -..■!■■ ':'' ,"' -.ijam, etc., -.^ ? ! V.A,^ V .liu.-.i^.-.i',..-. -:- P^- J • ■ What is the ipsue at present [before j •the-couDtrytiltisll^^ls^he. liquor! and pntectea as it has; been:by unjust and unequal laws, to be ; 'permitted: to retain; its •p'oaitirin and) contitvue" to exercise its dire influence ; 'foV e'Vfl m otir midst? ; lhis is the queß-; tidnwhicli'Ve call upon^tho ,ek ctors toianßwer,and !ive ask them itq dstn arid that; otbiß yile and unjjoly trade be .utterly I .abolisljed^ It .has .been the fruitful?O »ourc.e of untold sufferine: and mis»ry.r We see jta Tayag^sin th 6 blighted pros-j *Vects infl-blVst'ed' r^puta^tibris 6t men' ' whb. / BtaT(ed fmrin thdwoiild'sS race ; m; *th6fißWfOrra and igiey^ hoirs -of pre-[ -intturelyioldim^nf abd : wom,en ; ;in the! iltearapfiJthie twidqyjan.d orphan thej j • ; Wajger ijnd frags, of m the. , wretchedness and. .misery "of ■■women, we, read-t'h"e tale f of '.griet and .trouble^ it hasj ♦''tiius 'wVbiiglit m countless hom'eߣCrime,j T -|&^enßin,' ; vic^ .rinriJoralltyjf'and sin m! -^r^shape^ndform^haveifbund theirj surest ally, their staunpbestpfriend, m -that wrbickiwe* idenqunce: as, the most, cruel^ pitiless, and unrelentiug.fbe of the; human race. $his i^fh'e traffic '< w,hiph: f Btatespi^n ! haTe. made; their idol, bestow-; 4be. upon' it'eiceptibnal' advantages, andm rtturn a re*eriue, : every shil-| f 6f' 3 whifehih'aßlbeen,/wrupg.---f.rom th^ t-rpedplfe, at ttie expense of: honestyi virtue "^anditrjuth.. Against this. traffic, yre war.; o-iNfithiQjg bu tits csomp.lete final over-, throw «an satisfy the dfemarids of an in-: ' ' djenapf 'an,d n) sufferin'g people.;— lrish