"No-License" Convention.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7865, 6 July 1905, Page 3

"No-License" Convention.

' AN AWEAL TO THE VOTEItS. .

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON. July .V OR>e abnual convention of the "Nolifcense" forces commenced to-da\. Mr J. O. W. Aitken. presiding. Tho annual report laments that tie prkp paid for the good features of laKt year's Licensing Act hod Ixvn a number of concessions to the enemy. Appropos of the Cook Islnhds. Hi' report says that unfortunately thu Complete prohibition of the traffic i:i Bth««; inlands. for which the Alliance been agitating, has nlt ■f obtained, nnd the entrusting of butim*s.N t/> the Customs authoriestablishes an evil precedent for the stringent restrictions pl u con sales to natives ofler very inV«dequatc compensation. The party, the report continues, must Tight to the death any attempt to cxti.vd thu f scope of thin vicious principle a single; inch. In the concluding sections of tty' ilyport it is ranarkqi that the Alliance's b'tief Wfllßblfy" and d.vpi-si rWorce of Hes in the fact than while a great number of the churches oi the colony stand side by side with it fri this great conflict, so many lyinisters of religion (some of thein koldiqg positions of grc«t influence) hold aloof from, if t'ley do not actively oppose thi; "No-licenw" movement. To these and to the laymen who take an active interest in cfcorch work, jet will not opppsethis [ greatest of all .to Chr stianity ur»l progress, the Alliance submits a number of facts, and begs them at the present crisis, to give Cham earnest consideration. The report adds :"It must Ih; that L tfc a grval rpicstioli buch as thin itftere Is room for grave doubt, and the benefit of the "doubt must In given either fo good or to evil. Me therefore plead that if there 1* : ny lingerie* douHt ill the mind of 'any Ood-fenring man as to whether tbe liquor traffic is worthy of his Wf. he will give a now study to a nd mak« a diligwt ■wireh into the facto «ltieh Jie all round him, and so see (or h imelf how destruction and death always artl every where tjqcoinpany license and the sale of intoxidrlnlc. lx-fore he determines to ate for a traffic ■> deadly and rading, and that if ho Cannot conaeoUoosly Tote for "Xo-ltceniw ' he ill at least determine tfiat he will pt take the r"spon«ibility of voting Er contiouan v ' U special resolution was passu! exEsslng satistactton wilh the work I (lis Kev. Father Hays in til'' Col-

WmKr 1C S. Adams, of DUUortin. »«.« ic-clectcd President- Ik snid he bl- - Beved that tto result# of 'Jfcrtikl Mataura and other electorwould caun the sweeping of tho traffic from a P 4 ®®-' °' t«rr |to T B in tie-South. Thy hail found .of the of the P>H in Tort ChalTTlat would he but another HnaO In th« coffin cf the traffic. The ■>Magistrates decision ought not to ■ discourage 'So-Kcense" peopV. The ■ tree people of .V« (Zealand would de- ■ cline to permit the more intcr|>osiH tion of a Stipendiary -Magistrate to Attend in t?» way of a Rreat moral Not e\cm Parliament could in the way. A reimd.v was bo found lor the* things at Ihv election* »nd i» < >t|ld hnye ■ been found laat yeir '< m'-n in ■ . could have' had tluir ■ \*ayV The people would have found ■ "themselves gagged and handcuffed Hon the liquor queatioP, ' )Ut public ■ opinion out&ido tlic House had Ih- r, Ktronger than publican opw»on wthe Houae.