NO-LICENSE CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 205, 19 August 1908, Page 3

NO-LICENSE CAMPAIGN.

JHSS HUGHES AT XK\V PLYMOUTH.

tuX 6 aire S K" T! 1 ; , ; ,te Anderson Hfe' S /'-lien Miss on the Xo.L«Sn.., !V ud aii addh'.ss mg-, said tint tl.; 1 k "'o <i good heavi'nportant V,"? t "-most peoples. '""ongst civilised | . The lecturer s aid Hi..t t i • I m that hail !' S so Has there \i'/1 t'ireadbare, but l wo l'lc voting for contii!?" 01 '''""' 5 a "'' trallie, 00 lon.r mn t tie of the iu S Vhv people shonl g ° "" U<*t People,' she " t| V ° te strong drink was , , a ='' ocil that not all sure but tlu '}' were .

Proper remedv. at f" 51 ' w ,' as tlle taining mau'ner .Miss IWI anecdotes toucl.in,, ""S l ' os related 'lie reasons for its "n!!"rr trilHic anJ «as going to was good, but she w. ■ ! 110 -.license America or to the r m "! 8 01 l to to prove this but i'° enl)er 8 system rases of the' dt( - which had tried the eha I ™ , L ' le<? t:oratos told all sorts nf i J n o e - -they were tile State of thhiJ^ t ' a " , ' ( e . uiim 8 stories of areas, but she was'*n't Inf.,""''ij-'ense

visit to those ~f "P I "'™. after ; had been a sucee at uu " ,iccl is< remedv. Of course i""* " ( t"? fl0 »' tie people who could See Matau r r ft f eW systl »- f 1 ™"' and electorates "lived next door '' InVev-/ Very Uext electorates n .New Zealand to vote no-license. .Miss iughes gave her own experience in the L?d l?!; I™ 1 . 3 0f tte Sout| i- «lie

drunlTn 1 * ° l,t , there i ust looki «g for drunken men, but she hadn't been able tfeno'rt i I>ol "'' e U'ommission's feport showed that in Clutlia there were a-ha!f s vc.°r dl r k T e " in and 130 i„ ° f ~ l° -l ,eeilsc' « against years InH I TT U ? Lree and a -^ lf years. And of those six, four had been drU ( nk by traiD ' Tl,is was th <= exptneuce of every district that tried no-license— that drunkenness and crime ere greany She referred^ tinn of g lS i ba " mana S el 's accusasdd tlLf.nf f Ule l- ill uvercar g'll> Hnd said that at a function in Auckland the ttat r f m Jh n • I Pool^-JIP -. related that that footballer lmd written in a lifter than he had been "having an awfully

jolly time around Southland andOtaeo.'" ierhaps that accounted for what he saw. The lecturer then adduced figures to show the increases of ordinary business m districts under no-license, which she said, should make every business' man a '-ramping enthusiast for nolicense. She had obtaiped these figures 1 personally from the business men themselves.

The lecturer also mentioned incident,s showing the improved status of people who had previously wasted a great part of their evenings in liquor. It was urged that the teetotallers contributed little to the revenue of thtcountry ; hut was it not a fact that dnfnkards often became paupers and that they became a tax upon the country, even upon the teetotallers? The thrifty man was taxed for the maintenance of the thriftless, so that the man who drank interfered with the liberty of the man who did not, even in his youth whilst he was being locked up for drunkenness. Stepping across to Victoria, Miss Hughes n'ferfed to the fact that at Mildura the introduction of a winelicense had forced the people in one month to apply for an extra policeman and to double the cell accommodation. Miss Hughes defined no-license not as an interference with drinking liquor, but an interference with the easy facilities for obtaining liquor. No-licence was not necessarily prohibition. She claimed the right of the majority of the people to outlaw this traffic, for the person who drank was likely to !n----jure others as the result of the drink habit. She cited pathetic instances. For the public safety and for the protection of the children they claimed the right to say, "'No license." Was there, she asked at the conclusion of a touching ■story of misery and death arising out of drink, any other trade in the world responsible for half as much misery and crime as the drink traffic? She answered with an emphatic "No." A questioner wanted to know if llisi Hughes favored the abolition of the oldage pensions. Miss Hughes said she had not even suggested that, but she was sure that if there had been no liquor there would be less old-age pensions to pay. I

A vote of thanks to the lecturer was carried, on the motioiuof Mr. C. E. Bellringer and the Rev. T. G. Brooke. Similar compliments to the chair and to the orchestra terminated the proceedings.