CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4436, 5 June 1893, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

Prohibition, [TO THE EDITOK W.D, TIME?.J Sin,—ln your criticism yesterday on Prohibition, you say: "Ouronly difficulty is that we regard with disfavour all probihitivo legislation, believing that it tends to lessen the liberty of the subject." I quite agree with you.Sir, that in certain directions prohibitive legislation does lesson the liberty of iho subject. For instance, the legislative enactments of the dfate prohibit murder as a crime, and hanging is tho penalty attached thereto. In this direction, certainly, prohibitive legislation does lessen the liberty of the subject to minder his fellow. Would you condemn the law as a fetter on tho liberty of the subject on that account? I think, Sir, that it will bo conceded that the laws which govern society which proclaim—"Thou ShaltNot"—in essence, if not in words, are prohibitive. Further on, you admit ihat prohibition would be attendod with immense good to the community, but still regard it as a fetter and a wrong remedy, Here I fail to understand your argument, unless prohibition can bo both bad and good at the samo time,—l am, etc. Thos, Bayliss, Eketahuua, 3rd Juno, [Wo deprecated prohibitive legislation for inoffensivo people,not for erimi-nuls.-ED. W.D.T.