BAYLEY NEXT MONDAY.

Taihape Daily Times, 30 August 1918, Page 4

BAYLEY NEXT MONDAY.

In reporting T. D, Bayley’s speed* one inland paper lias the following to say:—“After quoting figures bearing out bis contenti ons, Mr. Bayley put the question thu'sly; Figures don’t He —hut some liars figure.” The police records regarding misdemeanours, particularly social offences, snowed a big diminution and bore out the claim that men did not turn to vice when they had their self control and self respect. Drink was the Hun of Canada at bis traitorous work agains tbe Empire. The speaker said the demand for Prohibition did not come from the wowsers, but from a picked committee of bard beaded, sane business men—the National. Efficiency Board —whose report and findings on the subject was now one of tbe classics of the world in regard to the liquor traffic. It was being read throughout America, and was being printed in England, and was one of tbe most clean cut opinions ever banded out by a group of men. They bad said the liquor traffic was the foe of efficiency of tbe nation, and it was time to stop it immediately, not only for the time being but for tbe war. Conscription had been carried without a referendum and on tbe National Efficiency Bond’s report Government would have been justified in putting Prohibition into force without reference to tbe people, but personally be was democratic enough to allow the question to go To the final tribunal of the people.” This forceful speaker is advertised to address, a meeting in the Town Hall on Monday night, when a crowd, is expected.