Page 5 Advertisements Column 6

Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1919, Page 5

DON'T BLAME THE PUBLICAN. "Licensed to sell spirituous and fer niented 1i,,„0r5." Wlio ]mt that, labe on the public house door? Tlie publican Ao—iio, lie doesn't put it there. You pi* it there. "I vote for continuance." Di you catch the point? So when you rea< m the paper: So-and-so was charged witl drunkenness, or theft, or ussau't, or for gory or attempted suicide, or murde* ' —and he says to the Magistrate: "I wouldn't have dene it, sir, if I had been sober, you must not blame the pubH'wi. He is licensed bv YOU— by your vote for continuanec-to Ml "spiri :i.o-jr and fermented liquors" H e is U l h «1 to gauge the capacity of his customer to carry 1-quor; not his business to Vnov when Ins customer has "had jbjuA". victim of the hcensbuj system « n .„ carry" without going J hTad adomg foolish or criminil things. No You are the chapa. You He i» ViVro was YOUR license that did the trick.