PROHIBITION FALLACIES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 10, 20 June 1899, Page 3

PROHI BITION FALL ACI E S.

(ao thh hnrroii.) Sin,— Under the aoove heading, in yoiu issue of Saturday last, appeals an fddiess ttoiih leading a^ain and tig.un. In a piepaiA'ory -note we me tnln the addiesb was de lveied in IbBB by theHon, 6. W f Gi'dard. i'oitland, Maine, who havmc; •' cevoted main yeAta of Lm life to the qin±-,M'->n, found and pronounced piohibrirn to Le a complete fa'lme." Theie B liolluiiK m the H'tiu-fcbs to bear out this HSboiiuji), and the*'aiiice could quite ab OoribisrenUy have been headed '• Eaucaticm F.i Moieb " or '' Fallacies of lloforms Go, u m, j\." But, peiluips, it is not \soith whi , '„ be p.utuui ai about the tit'e, that, aitei an, m tne bnsinoss ot whoeveL publislius Lhti ailicle. M,- object in wilting is to i ail attention to the subject tiea ed of, ti r, is one of vital nnpoitance to us m tins cjions. We have no need to i-kour-•e'vus, " Wnat ten-iencv h.is meie mtel-lectu-i! e»iishtennienttoeie\atetheinoials of a commuait\ ?" As a people we & c looking well to the iiaiinngot theph\sica' and inbellectn.it iAculties of our boys and gnlii, and leaving. the moral sine of their «,afutea exposed -to the veiy woist influences. Theadrhe&sundsi notice proves *hat will he the inevitable and undesnao c *ewi»t «f.-«ueji ,a couu-ss. -Trustmj this

allusion to the aiticle will cause some to leaci it who may have ovoi looked it, ami to heed to its warning, for, as the auttioi sAys, " Nothing can save fioni peidition a people winch ioigeU Gkl, sympathises *vith ciiiiie, ami <uls to protect from minder or outnue, i's law abiding sons and daughteis." — I aai, etc., En. BwNEira\N.