SAYS THE SYDNEY BULLETIN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10481, 18 November 1911, Page 5

SAYS THE SYDNEY BULLETIN.

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: The imost vigorous parson in; .tihe dmunci'ationi 'of of the pubHilc batrs' is o. A. Homaox, M. A., St. B.!, -booK, the Enemy of., JemperAnce,',' reactor- < "a; weeks agjoV Homan.„ ■* 'Wihaitever mjay be* the gobdi miotivesi of the adyoq/ates iaf prohiKitioaii, its pjrOp'agaftion can be *con6ideii'ed a' mfenaoe'to tlite nation." By nature of ttiinigs it jb not ative, hiut it; ' tendls. to hneed' the: viery worisit) social oonditaons. Sjpeaking with; nefrenoe. to this subject onto of tihe Judge® in. Maine dfetdlai-' ed: '2lbe valuje. of the oath, hia &' beieaii fiifit-y . per ; pent.- dax 'this State'., Perjury (for wihich the maxinium .penalty • is., imprdsonmeintfor .IStfe), is so coananon that it no longen 1 attracts atteution. jitnd' it its- not' only confined, to" thie' JaquOa*' eOleaneint tlite- effect of; it is. far-reaohinig and growing, ; Peoplfe tall'k of it oipenliy wtihoixt o' blush;' ? Wliat with bribery and - ooririuptijon 'of officialia, oontaiwial coi)iti*tHaoice at the soiPiiie; oomlmiitted; day by diay iiiid year by : year, .aind) w.ith.;puhffic towiaaidis thte' enforoement* t& statute©, , is. it iiiiiy wxjndier thiat.ttherlei sihlauH -be ! bred the pieop|a., proMbdtioii, State,si, a general dissrte-. for the law. . . .Matny > young .main wllxlo, undier lictemise, tooOs ain ocpaisdonal .drink in a saloon', is en.cour'aged under; prohibition rule to indulge much .'more frequently in the Abating bowJi, araiidi thie inviting s-ur-roundings of a ipff'ivate duWhiouse, Wthiare he "cam. be unobserved and unmollasted. Thie fact is, judging front warehouse receipts, Kome and olub • consuirßjpitaon of alioohjolio liquors' is fciaiviing an appflfljitng increase . in. iSbutlhern pi*o!hibd,tibn State®. . . Itt iMjaiine. . . im/ost o!f tSiie frequenters of iillicflt safoonis - were ytauing men., mw.e of them, boys between 12 and 16 years of age. OotsasionaMy sxmaQjL •girl® had ■■• < grriwflfer» , ® , l fiSHied. - Oldjeagirls werte present to drink and' t6 talk ivutjhi thie nilen. Drunklenness' ini its various sitages> ,wa® visible, espeOiaHJy in places of the twest grade. » •. , Omlei of itlhle judges of tihe SuPii'eml& .Oourt said: "It is- a quiestion wftuetfeheiP tih© prohibitory law mjakes moi'e Ihypocrdlfces or more drunkards." .•

Pn tlii©. oitflber hand, Axcihidieiacon Boyce declares that Maine is "tiie star '■of ho wcrlld 1 ." Pirobaibiy he meaavfc . thine© star. ,