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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10493, 2 December 1911, Page 6

< ADVERTISEMENT). AS OUTSIDERS SEE US. THE PARTY THAT USES STRAWS \ IN ITS HEAD FOR A COM- . PASS. (Article from "Sydney Bulletin 1 .") After year.s olf threatening,, the Maoriland alleged reformer of intemperance lias definitely domei to the. point and foirmaJLy warned' the politician' that his job in future will depend, as far a* the intemperate temperance! mob is concerned, on doing what he is told by the I.T.M. At ilts last meeting the Alliance execuf--tive agreed to issaie a manifesto which included) the following clause:— That no candidate fbr Par/fciiment who raaintaaji's. it'll©', present uaidiemioicnitic three-fifths majority can have the support «.'f the Maor'iliaridAlliance. That, evetry. member oif the ipresenlfc' Hou.&e a.nd even 7 person who announces him'sellf a candidate shall' be requested to say plainly what his, at tit incite shall/ be on the' majority question. Toothing ellse matters. defence, purity elf .race, honesty of comimei - - ciaifcm, education' of youth, Living wage—all national ideals;—and immediate aiecessitnies are not even \ (mentioned' as mlatters of detail by these crannkis, whose sole aim to pubMo attention! is the complete faiiluire *jf their methods of solving the liqutoir question. Pre-sju-maibly a. Ohow or a Diagu (iee-oream-hawker, wiho is prefpared to slink every question but the fool propaganda of tlie Wowsers, •will cairy th'e (party- vote (from a white nationalist who refuses to subisinibe! to it. And iitf the pairty is in earnest, as it threatenis to be, thfe Chow or the cream Dago .wiilß be worth 'backing, to top tlie poll:. That can. hardly b'e doubted fa face of tjie- fact that ini. tlie 1908 elections' tlie no-licensie vote predominated im 52 out of 68 electorates' (in Auckland, Wellington!, Ghristehiurch and Duiredin the city electorates were grouped as- one foa" the purpose, of tli© local option vote). It might be argued that that vote would mot follow the leading wowsers so far as to fill the Parililaimiont wiitli representatives whose only asset was an unswerving 1/oyalty to> the cause of quack prdliibiirtion; bait tlie person who advanced such argument wouM have to clinib over som'e steep obstacle's before he could contvince a juiry acquainted with the evidence. Ever since the days wh'en WILLIAM FOX igct busy and tfiormed the M.L. AJCiJance (in 1886), that body lias steadily and enthusiastically increaised its imfiiucnce over the publlic, des^•'•e its pi'liim and' consistent, failure to attain its object or even find the track to it. Every plan it- has advocated/ evco'y .amendment of tlie law it has imitated' or supported to reduce the con sumption oil* alcoholi and lessen tlie amount of drunkenness, has. ended in. a<w ign/omimious- break-down. Nevertheless its.anna-zing baaraokers in nine years have spread them'selveisfirom tlie minority of 6122, as' compared with the Bung vote in 1899, to a total majority of' 33,336 in 1908. Meanwhile the expenditure pier head of. population, on the a>rtidl& that ■s:tin.geth like an adder has risen from £3 4is 9d to £3 13s l*d (according to the drink bill 1 for 1910 issued the 'dtfhier day), and tlie convicted "drunks" staggered oniward from 9.50 pea- 1000 of (population in. 1900 to 11.01 pea-100 in 1909. All of which cannot 'be often repeated .by the Saitellgent dndlividual 1 who contenfdlsthat' the; puitfiic which will boost up such a. demented and straw-haired system; olf reform wli'lH stand' for anything but the most urgent requirement—that is- to lock, it self in! a padded cell! .and swallow the key. The next pofllTwiMi be taken in a few monthis uaider a. new Act, wlidch gives the •Hopelessly Incapable Party two shots lat.the instead of ome as formerly—one. with a total ojption bullet amd one with ia Domin'ion optiaafa: bullet. But, tliike everything else it-has had anything to die with, the> party has arranged' or accepted am Ktoivolved .sclieme which 'wall lead to'- riowhene in particufar amidst a) great clatter of douible-jointedi statlisitics- and resounding platitudes. In! between. whSlelS', new routes to Dryland wiM be. surveyed, and everyibody .iwnll rushi along rtjluem until 1 the dead (marines blbok tfttrtlier progress; politdlansi wall' be ydked up and mad© to draw tllie 1 tinavellfinig asylum up hiH and down again: and dervishes like G.' B. Nechlolls (he who 1 bow 40 or 50 infaints realing out of one of tlie imosit .brilliantly Mgluted hotefe in. Sydney) will be 1 sent to many lands, to prove the wondering and mliirthful multitudes' that .Maoi'ifand'is- gi'eat Hiccough is the miiiFjeniuni in disguise. It's a, vei"y remat;kaib(le theory, and evem tllie miostt -cno'wedi menitail liospital would give it a is'hakedohvni eomewhierie.