WILL YOY WALK INTO MY PARLOR? ETC.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1919, Page 2

WILL YOY WALK INTO MY PARLOR? ETC.

Sir,—At a Prohibition meeting in Hawern last Friday, Mr. Craj', president of the New Zealand Alliance, in reply to a question, said that the movement did not propose to interfere with the rlßht to use sacramental wine. No doubt lie felt that many, in view of certain cases of drunkenness, were prepared to favor the desperate remedy of the prohibitionists, provided that medicinal'and sacramental wine were not included in the prohibition It was hoped to capture these people But let us he wary prohibitionist lecturers rejoice to teli how "the best doctors have lost confidence in the medicinal properties of alcohol, and prohibitionist ministers do away with tiie sacramental use of wine and introduce a misty substitute under tile name of "sacamental wine''—a concoction that no one else calls wine. Once let us help in earrymp prohibition, so that the movement succeeds, we shall be told plainly that alcohol is banned by the doctors, and that the truo sacramental wine Is the stuff prohibitionists call un fermented wine. Mr. Gray told lis he was -i Baptist, so that he could K lv c the fahle or Baptist version of tile Mayflower, and In tile name of liberty attack the liberty of the tem Derate, but he did not make it clear that orohtbitionists would stop at exemptions with which they were not in synmnthv. And can thev reasonably be expected to stop (here? The real prohibitionist is tha* w'ne is 'j.id and I.os no use, and that therefore the miration of abuse docs not arise. Hut surely it must be obvious that to people whom the wine her«» has not Infatuated that abohol has uses,'and s not all abuse Ihe argument from abuse is an argument only iißainst abuse. To make it m r.ranniont arolnst us.- is untruthful. It was this untruthfulness that prompted the invented story of a dream in connection with the ('ana miracle And this miserable dream, introduced as an exposition showed only to what depths prohib- ■ tionista aio driven by a failse position—l am March 8, 19,9. TBMPBHANc* "