PROHIBITION SCIENCE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 11, 24 June 1899, Page 3

PROHIBITION SCIENCE.

letter of the 17th iasfc., gives foith the following lemaikable scientific (?) fact. He says; —•' Proliibitioni.sfcs m New Z'j.i'un<l havj> never sought to suppress the i' ink wl|ich causes the io\e of s'umulan^s e^'-ept hi <jhe will of the pa>p'a expiesscd tr the billot box." Now, Sir, Mi Brown wishes to U\- it down, as a p^ient.fio itut. •Iku "dunk oyuiaes the hve of siimuants." , A s^jitific jtti.v.j, like Dc Bowmjin, who, after an infinite amount of enq iiry, obso/vation, and a thorout;h exAnuuation into the subject, conies to the conclusion that : " I consuier the love ot siumlants a human instinct (alcshol is not the only stimulant), winch h seen wdeievev man lives. I cannot, be'ieve in Hie possibility of its suppression, etc." Who aie lationa! people most likely to !>p leve — Mr Uiown or the scientists? '• J) ink which caus.es the lova ol stimulninU.l" Absuid ! on the very f i-e of it! Hnnnosuvj; we pass a 'e^al ena^sment to snpptess diink. we are still lace to face witn one of the " sfcion^esb ot human instincts," a,n irmomb'e law ot Natme. It. is a piiy that people should he mib'eil iv i'lohibitnn scientists, who, full of piejudifp, and seeing no virtue in ajchohc oe\eia^es. shut their evos to tiuth. The subject is surely ot" sivfli'ient impoifaiu-e' to wauant a thorough and impaUial e/iquuy befoie we ru-.h into an experunent which will cause infinite loss, vexation, unil tiouhle, without aecomp'i&hmg any progifss in leal tempemuue. — I am, etc., J. li. Milsom. .