THE NO-LICENSE MOVEMENT.
[To tub Editor.] Sir, —T have to take exception to your leading article of to-dav. xlov\ ■anyone can -wish to load such a dcsirable reform as no-license with a handicap of five to three I cannot understand. True, the toinperanco party accepted 'Ft, because it was that or nothing, though how tlio liquor party can expect any body ol sellrespecting men to rest content with sucli unfair treatment is quito beyond me. Last Saturday afternoon, 111 about, fifteen minutes a friend and 1 counted seven 111011 pass my workshop under tlio iniltionco of liquor. Shortly after, 011 my way homo, I saw two men, or rather a man and a boy (for he was under the ago of 19) drunk. Sir, the sights and sounds we havo grown so accustomod to on our streets and about the hotels ore truly shocking. Had a bare majority vote been sufliciont for this (as in any otlior) reform, ■ Gisborno would have been spared 'many violent and shocking deaths as well as much liiis--ory, shame, and crime.— lam, etc,, FRANCIS STAFFORD. Gisborno, July 22.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2250, 23 July 1908, Page 1
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183THE NO-LICENSE MOVEMENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2250, 23 July 1908, Page 1
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