The Evening Post says the public credit depends upon the liquor traffic, and, therefore, the traffio must be maintained. With all due respect to an able contemporary,this declaration seems to us to be an absutdi'.y. Many years ago Sir William Fox, touching upon the question of public credit, aßked ; ''which is easier tosqueeze, a dry spoogeorawet one?" While Mr Gladstone once went so far as to say that if he were given a Bober people he would undertake to find revenue, The public credit of New Zealand rests upon its ability to meet the publio and private engagements of the Colony, This ability would not be impaired were one or two millions of money now sent annually to England to buy liquor retained in the Colony. There are logical grounds on whioh prohibition may bo objected to or deprecated, but this is not one.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4365, 11 March 1893, Page 2
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