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Taihape Daily Times, 13 March 1919, Page 4

DON’T BLAME THE PUBLICAN,

“Licensed to sell spirituous and fermented liquors. ’ ’ Who put that label on the public-house door? The publican! , No —no, he doesn’t put it there. “I vote for continuance.’ ’ Do you catch the point'? So when you read in the paper: So-and-so was charged with ■drunkenness, or theft, or assault, of forgery, or attempted suicide, or murder—and he says to the Magistrate: “I wouldn’t have done it. sir, if I had been sober, ’ ’ you must not blaiVie the publican Hd is licensed bj YOU —by your vote for continuance to sell ‘“spirituous and fermented liquors.’’ He is uot there to gauge the capacity of his customer to carrj liquor; not his business to know when his customer has “had enough ’; nert his business ho know how much the victim of the liecning system “can carry” without going oft his head and doing foolish or criminal things. No, no. You are the chaps. You. He is YOUR fool, YOUR dupe, __YOUR criminal. It was YOUR licens'd that did the trick.—Adf.

Brocaderos 1/2J per yard, ■wide, during the last week of Summer Sale Collinson & T.td. 28 in. our Big Gifford,