Appendix

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 50, 6 May 1899, Page 4

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thte instructive volume should close with,, say, 500 testimonials from heaitbroken wives,, sisteis, and daughters, whose husbands, biotheis, and tatheis had, in their insanity, ioi&aken the glonous dunk and become hopeless ab^taineis. Such a woik would be a most valuable weapon in the hands of the Liquor paity, it, IF,

If it could be written. But it can't. The cenkuy has only produced one man capable of anting even the pieface for snch a. book ; we refer to the gifted M. de Rougeraont. Well may the trade sigh for the return of the lt-must-be-tiue-beeau&e-its-punted cinvs and lor the re-incarnation of Munchausen. The voteis of to day are too clear sighted for the tianspaient self-exposing lies of the modern school, the liquor apologists who tell us that •' Prohibition doesn't prohibit." "People are leaving Clutha because they can't get hquoi." "Theie is as much liquor sold in Clutha as before." " Young New Zealand doesn't drink." " The tempeiance people sue an ln&igmfieant minority ot faddists." '• This colony is in danger of being forced into Piohibition." "Prohibition is dead," and other such feeble tictions as well might make the shade of the good old Baion groan over the nineteenth centuiy. Perhaps though those leaflets which are said to have been punted m immense numbeis by the " New Zealand Times," in leadiness for the '99 campaign will go far towaids restoiing this lost prestige. T.B.U. committee meets on Thursday at 7.30 p.m.