MR. PALMER IN REPLY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 273, 11 November 1908, Page 4

MR. PALMER IN REPLY.

I! ATE PAYER. Stratford, 2/11/im.

To tlit' Kdilor. ■Sir,—hi reply to "Absolute Fuels' 5 in your js*uo of November -I — 1. Lot your readers beware of any that interested imli vitluais make. in order to bolster up the liquor trade. 1 would mention that thr NoLieenso parfy. liave no axe to priml. ami iire sacrifu-infr themselves and their money to rescue humanity from tin. 1 dutches or the liquor monopoly. 2. "Absolute Facts" slumlil call himself "Absolute fiction/' He is throwing dust in the eyes of your readers and deceiving tliem, at the same time clinr:?-

ing mc with making "misleading statements absolutely' contrary to facts." lie. quotes the resolution, .passed by the Ghristcliurch Synod, whereas my circular referred to that igassedby the Synod of the Auckland iDifidese, in which Taranaki is situated.' On 'l4th October the Rev. <). A. B. Watson (late of Stratford) moved:— , That in View of the widespread evils resulting from the present licensing system, and also in view of the benefits -accruing to th'fe people wherever NoLicense is honestly enforced, this Synod earnestly recommends all churchmen and churchwomen in the diocese to support Noi License at theforthcoming Local Option Poll.

This resolution was carried on the voices by an OVERWHELMING MAJORITY.' The Maori clergymen present, with their whole-souled desire to save ; the remnant of their noble race from the ravages of this business, voted unaniinouslv for the resolution. 3. 1 would again plead with my fellow churchmen to do that which our Master Christ and the holy' Apostle St. Paul pleads with all Christians to do, viz.: ••That no man put a stumbling-block in his brother's way, or an occasion of falling"—Romans xiv., v. 13. And 1 | would remind "Absolute Facts" and ail voters for continuance that the Lord Jesus Christ has said that — Whoso shall cause one ot these little ones (weak ones) to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone be hanged about his neck, and that he should be SUNK IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA.—ht, Mattiiew 18v. 6. Therefore, .STRIKE OCT the TOP LINE ONI A.

1 am, etc., H. F. L. I'ALMIiH, Vicar bt. -Mary's, XS.W., Vyluntccr-Lecturer lor M.Z, Alliance, itli November, 11)1)8.*