MRS HELEN BARTON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10484, 22 November 1911, Page 6

MRS HELEN BARTON.

(ADVERTTSEM|EIMr.)

HER LOVE FOR CHILDREN. AN ASTOUNDING DECLARATION MIR JUSTICiE P-RING'S JUDGMENT. (Extracted from Fair Play, 17th March, 1911.) in Maxchi of yieasr, Mrs- Barton., a lady empk>y>ed by the Proihibitioni&tis to lecture on their behalf in Ntpw Zealaovd, siled ai newspaper in AufiifcitJiia far IfoteJ, and Bought to recover" £2OOO. Sflie got £5, aad had to pay hetf awtn' etfsits, the Judge, Mir Justice, Plrdng, of Sydney, where the (ia&e; was hteand, saying the ' casa

ought nwar to h'ave bean brought into court. However, that fact in the case i 6 not what commands attention from a Prohibitionist viewpoint. It is Mrs Helen Barton's amazing statement as to "what would, bo her attitude to a dying child. Mr Shand, K.C., had Mr® Helen Barton under eross-examination. Mrs Barton said .she had bean, a Prohibitionist alili hor ilife, and would go cvs l far as to say that liquor of any kind should not be. taken uijider any cilreumsitaiicee whatever. Mr Shand: But the advocacy of Plrohibitioiii does not necessaniily involve- abstinence at all times in /those who follow it? Is that your view? 'Mrs,: Barton: I believe in. Prohibition out and out. Mr Shand: I suppose you will admit that those who advocate Plrohibiftion do not all go to the extent you go and refuse to admit tho use Of liquor under any circumstances? Mais Barton.: J have nothing to do with what other people think. Mr Shand: Answer my question. I am asking what you know. GVLtis Barton : I don't advocate it even as> a. medicine.

Mir Sliaixd: If a doctor was treating your favourite child, and lie said "I icaai save the child's life Jby giving it biaindy," would yiou give it aaiy brandy? Mrs Barton : No, I would not. Ma* Sl)and : Yoil would let it die? Mrs. Barton: Yes, I would. His Honour: You would not give brandy to a dying child wlien brandy was recommended iby a doctor? Ml-s 13 art on: No, 1 would not. Hiis Honour: Are you married ? Mrs Barton: I (have been a widow for fifteen years. His Honour: Have you any dhaldiren ? I Mrs Barton: Nine eliiildiran. His Honour: :Well, I miig|hit inform you that if you refubedi to do it, and tllie diilld died, you woullid be guilty , of manslaughter.

Now, tlie Prohibitionists have engaged Mrs Barton at, it is said, a ihiigli salary to disseminate iher views tliroughout .New Zealand. T!hey accept the responsibility, but surely the less bigoted will repudiate their agreement with all ittf Mrs Marton's opinions. To save tlhe Dominion from being under the domination of those holding Mrs Barton's views, | the women voters 1 will strike out the foot torn lines on both ballot paper®.

• Mil- Justice Paring, in the course of his summing up in, the case, said:— The plaintiff, Mrs. Barton, advocates not only,total abstinence, but proMbition. She would not even use brandy to save, a person,.who would otherwise die. 'I hope thiat there are not many in the community who b.oM the same views. A very large mass of thinking people m this- community do ■ not believe in total abstinence, and are wise enough to believe that everything given to us by the Creator may Ibe (put to a good use. Used properly, these things l ore (beneficial, and the evil lies in their abuse. I hear people proclaiming loudly against liquor, and I often wonder whether they are not abusing eome other gjift of the Creator. It is just as disgusting to gorge food as it is to follow intemperan<oe in the drinking of liquor. We find." that Mrs Barton has come out here for the

purpose of taking part in. a' No-lic-ense campaign. Apparently ishe: herself an lier public 'addresses is not above attacking other people.. She has called every hotel in this country a den of infamy and dniquilty. Thiat language one cannot excuse; It iisi going too far altogether. [By accident, as l she says, she called down God's curse on a Bishop. Accident or no accident, she caMed dowji a ourse on' .Bishop Stretch. We find that she is 'a woman -who is> not above s'landea-ing other people. . » This is' straight, outspoken, and just. It needs no* comment; it confirms what so frcqeuently has been said by those opposed on the highest and .sanest grounds- ito No-liceaise and Prohibition. But the Pimhiibitionißts are. paying Mrs Barton to spread heir (views in New Zealand, and she is doing thig' for .tlie purpose of having, those views' established Qiare. We cannot think that the men, and especially the women, will agree to vote as Mms Barton bid® them.