DRINK IN THE TRANSVAAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 194, 28 August 1901, Page 4

DRINK IN THE TRANSVAAL

Ri Mr. Theophilus Lyndall Sohreiner npritee u follows on the proposal ■Suit the Government should control iv» liquor trade in the Traosvael and -'Orange Colony: 5,' I submit that thab proposed schema fllbad, (a)beciuse it would identify » \Brttfsh Government with a trade hart-! fol o the .oommanity, which it is it? 1 t> curb and restrict, bnt not to ! Scarry on ; (b) b'cmse, though onder a' ?.Orown Colony system of Government scheme might not work so badly, J iptg influence on general politics would ibo pernicious in the extreme, when I responsible government is established; ! (o),because the prohibitory liquor law .gf tie old Orange Free Steta was suc- : «essh)l ; y administered and deserves to l])I maintained, and it will not do to fcijhawe one syet'm in that State and a •" different one in the Transvaal; (d) J; faeuse the scheme is based on an Is immoral principle, and will tend to i_ filiate the national conscience on the of the drink traffic snd drunkenness. iv It B al!owd on all hands that tbel ,'* liquor interest in tin Trunsvaal h one •" of the most powerfal agencies with which the Government will have to jfi contend. If the liquor traffic be earp- tied on by the Government's own P- officials, all the power of this liquor It interest will be arrayei against it; and P if the Government employs the indifc viduals who represent bbe liquor inters tat and allows tie o to carry it on, all £■ the former evils will mult, asgrsvatfd B* by Ibis fact, that the Government will ||."be responsible for them. Eg I submit that the only course for W: the cf the Transvaal to F/ parsue will be: (1) To enforce the pro- & hihition of the sale of liquor to natives f* (2) To oonfi»» the retail sale cf intcx I" icating liqsors tj bona-fide hotels fnd L' _ restaurants (3) To limiti the numbs r r , af inch lie snsed hotels tod restaurants aooording to the European populatio'. r (4) To keep tbe granting of such licand the regulation of the traffic p- allowed by r-och )ic»es?e in iti own i 4 buds. —English paper.