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Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1919, Page 5

A SPLENDID FELLOW—BUT 1 so is a splendid worker if lie could only leave """ " mor alone," or "What a splendid chap l-so would bo, if it wasn't for the—one ~1.1..- n'eakness," or "He lias only got one enemy, and that Is himself." There is scarcely one family in the whole Dominion that can honestly say that drink has not injured it in some shape or form. And the "good fellows" are so often the first to "go under." "He is a good husband and father when he is sober, but when he is drunk hs is mad." That is a'common saying in tile police courts, and it is a general experience ide the police courts. And yet the "modcr- ' and trade advocates are always carping ' a. Why not let us have freedom? free these poor chaps who are their uivu enemies, from the liquor thrall? Why not free their wive 3 and children, and friends and fain*!,,™ 9 no t f rec t nfi i) r ewers and pub- • the constant stigma of injuring their ■ .—for profit? Let us have the splen- 1 did fellows without the "but." JFeilow-yotets,. t»i» labour haud*. ~ -- I