NO-LICENSE IN UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 149, 15 June 1908, Page 3

NO-LICENSE IN UNITED STATES.

To the Editor. Sir,-Refcrring lu Mr. Enroth's letter in your issue of Monday lust, 1 would like brielly to ,«.tate the fuels regarding the 'Trohibilioii cyclone'' which lias swept so large a portion of the United Mates. 11l my address at llawera 1 rcferied to the North as well as the South. The' position as given by the Review of lieviews for April in an extract from the American edition is, that two-thirds of the territory and T0.0W,UOlt of the inhabitants are, or shortly will he, freed of the licenced saloon, til these 2li,lltHI,<ll)ll have brought this about through local option polls similar to our own, save that the vote is gencrailv taken unium 11 v and that a majority of'votes give, effect to the will of the people. The remaining H1.000.W0 are under State prohibitory law. In the Southern States, fourteen States with 211.(1011,1)00 |>opuhition have 1i,000,000 dwelling in territory from which the saloon has been driven out. Thus there are 10.0n0.1100 of people in the Northern Stales' who live in localities from which ,1 tl„. li M u,.r lu, lu- been banished. The

statement dial till' negro v..1.' hahioughl about II"' great change in II"' Smith i- win' for which ) can lin.l )>» fiiiinilutiiin. F.vcrylhing that 1 have managed tn lind licaring on tin.' subject, of recent ilati'. is to tin' contrary, an.l it certainly cannot have atl'ectcd the N'.irtli. Tli'iti', in here, the movement lin.l- it-« backbone in the Christian ehiirehe-, who have l.'d tin- battle on 11.) victory. I referred to America ami othiT countries to show that thi' light against alcohol was fast becoming world-wide. We have no need to j,'o to America for examples of tlie success ol no-licen-e. The accunnilation of incontrovertible testimony from Clitlha, .Ma- ' I aura. Inveivargill, Oamaru, ami «1»«- ' where iu our own Dominion renders it ' iiiiiieccs-ary to go beyond its borders. '' The strength of the cause is that Cod is in it. and in the ever-increasing unity „t Christian workers is working

amongst the people. Air. Enrutli must pardon me for saying that iu Christian ethics I must follow the guidance til my iife-long convictions and lie inlluenceil I by the" growing consensus of Christian I .minion that the li'pior Irallic is in imical to the kingdom »f .le-u, Christ | ~„!„.,- than follow one who tails to per I ceive that which to me U a- eviilen L s ,],, |j.,h',,-l am. etc. C. K. ItF.LUiIXCF.K.