THE TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 7, 13 June 1899, Page 2

THE TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

(to the editor.) Sir, -In the above column appealing in your issue of the 10th-insfc., the following appears, viz. :— " LitUe nvne than a >ear ago, this town was in an nproai over the fast that a Prohibitionist ha<l dared to state m evidence befoie the Police Coramission that he saw 70 persons enter an hotel between the hours of eight a^cl six o'clock on a Sunday." Further on the writer of the said column goes on to say : " The little Liquor section of the community, for renumber four prisons out of five in Wamiate aie Ptolubiiiouists, did ail that was possible to injure the man who dared to tell \he truth." As a aesident of Waimate, t destie to inform the writer of the column under notice that the people of this town were not in "an uproar" because that "Prohibitionist stated in evidence that he had seen 70 persons enter tin hotel between eignt and bix o'clock on a Sunday." I admit, however, that the niajoiity of the people of Waimate wei'6 not a litLle suipuaed to leain that there lived amongst us one capable of adopting so mean and base a method of acquhing the evidence he pave to the Police Commission at Oaniaru. Again, " The little Liquor sectioned the community," whom the writer of theteinpeiance column asseits, represents only one in five, did not, to, my mind, try to injure, or in any way condemn the Pro-, hilutionist for having "daied to tell the! truth."- Not at all the truth of what that Prohibitionist said before the Police Commission was at the lime, and is at present, admitted by all who are not void of sight i lor surely every resident of ' \Vaimate knows perfeztlv well that there is not a Sunday passes that one could not stand at M'-inchestez's corner and count from 50 to 100 go into Mr Dooleys Hotel, and any ie3u!ent of this town with a modicum" of reason is aware thatihose people visaing Mi Dooleys Hotel aie people, from the country attending the Roman' Catholic Church, who, in most cases^, go to' the horol for meals and to get changa. W^ will, for argument sake,- admit thai tfieif object in going into the hotel was to procure liquor and not fo"r meals, etc. Under the existing liquor law, I' ask the question 1 ' is £/ Piohibitionitt or any other ist sane that will duiingtexi hours voluntanly shut himself up in a not too pleasant smelling woikahop i'or no other puipose than to count persons going into this hotel, who are.wlthia their le.gal and moral light in so doing. A Prohibitionist or any other i3t, sane, doing the Ukes dl this ia, jn my opinion, an objectionable spy, and one to bs avo&ed' > by- 'S- solf-xeapeutiug -people. Fut^ier, a Prohibitiomat who 'would, apt. .thus 13 not. practical, _for this ieason f| that, the information he obtained by making- a; 'spy of himself could have' bean got to,^ asking Mr Dooley liow many people- weiiii' into his "hotel oSfany Sunday r" It -Will' be* seea by the above that.the people of Wai-"* xua^e -were tiot it£,'f&xi uproar',- because' a? "gfeve" cSvi'Jehce u i> b'6fore-the Pplice^pt^mi^iOnYoV^p^a'se hei4ared4to' ? truuh;\bu¥bjjca'uf6 we Ve^e u\atd<£ | jvhp^cl!.i'"Qfiij^t||)Tiiat M^

must admit that a spy has from time immemorial been .treated by -»all selfrespecting citizens as a dangerous and ' objectionable creatuie,' the writer of' the temperance column will, I am sure, forgive the people of Waimate for having dared to objeot in a rniUl way io the presence of a spy in our — I am, etc., S._ Bobeha.ll.

(TO THli EDITOR,) Sin, — In the Temperance column which appsmed in your issue of Jiine 10th ihe editor seems to have struck oil simply by blowing his own tni rape's jrJ; ,the late police Commission and arlitinwlet'UiJnK rmtfself a reckless 1 individual and endorsing his statements by statin" that four oirfc of eveiy five peisons in Wai m pie are Prohibitionist. Can this be true? 1 think not. If the editor of this column will confine himself to the truth, which he seems so veiy far from stat ng, tba sound of his glorious tinmpei would be heard to much better advantage. Tn*>n, aiftin, it h quite amusin.T to r.ce Ihe avidafity displaced bv the editor of this coltram when he a«»ks for the-* apo'otnes to the Prohibjtjonists. Doc he class himself one 1 I suppose so. jßufc of comse the general publi'i of WiumaV know too well that he is- only a sham. Jf the edikoi Will a^cco 1 ; a suggestion and act from pure motives, then, And not, till then, will he succeed in his endeavour. — I »im etc., A PROHIBITIONIST.