TO FIGHT MONOPOLY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10485, 23 November 1911, Page 5

TO FIGHT MONOPOLY.

■•. [To The Editor.] Sir, — As certain members of the cominwmity are dissatisfied' with Nolicense, although it lias justified; its existence by reducing crime, why do (those people not' 'suggest a better solfiition ? Surely they 'do not want to go back to the o'H isystem of open bW,s up and down' our streets wbiehi children 'have to pass on their way to school? -No-license- is not the cause of the present depression. The bad times are hero also. Com.© and see the'empty Kltiops and houses- im Wellington, and study the heavy steamer passenger list of persons going to Sydney. No-license is not the cause, but we -have struck bad times. I <\o flfiope that every colonial will fight against the ol'd system of selfMing Hqimi- by monopolies. I would far irather see State hotels, as jiji Western Australia, than the open bans under private control. If fho-'e persons who object to No-Keen se would bo candid, and formulate a.n improvement on the old plian of selling liquor, they would' do good, but in the moan time, for the sake of the weie boys and girl's going to our State schools, let olid Masterton ■again run up the No-license flag (next month, and advertise to the whole- 'world that the descendants of the English, Irish', Scandinavian, and' Scotch pioneers who settled) the district istilli (believe dn, keeping the fliiqnor under. I crave your pardon, sir, for this letter, but being educated and brought up in Masterton, T desire the town to progress.— I am, etc., SAMUEL PEARSON. 2M Cuba, Street, Wellington.