LIQUOR POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2365, 4 December 1908, Page 6

LIQUOR POLITICS.

THE LESSON OF AN ELECTION

The leaders of the No-license Party should not miss the lesson that was read to them in tho Avon electorate (remarks the- “Lyttelton Times.”) The contest between Mr Tanner and Mr Russell resolved .-itself very largely into a trial- of strength between the supporters of tho “bare majority” and the supporters of the- “three-films majority,” and, as might have been expected, the supporters of the threefifths majority won. The No-Hcen-sc Party throw all its influence on one side and the License Party all its influence on the other, and with the extremists the political views of the two candidates became for the day of secondary importance. Probably neither Mr Tanner nor Mr Russell was responsible for this development, but there can bo no doubt about its effect upon the result of the election. The lesson for the No-license Party to learn is that any attempt t-o force tho bare majority upon the country will be sure to lessen the popularity of its cause. A great majority of the electors, including many prohibitiou:sts, feel tlv.it the maintenance of the throe-fifths majority is absolutely necessary for the safe progress of licensing reform. This certainly is a case in which it as wise to hasten slowly. Wo believe ourselves that if tile bare majority became the law of the land there would be a tremendous falling-off in the No-license vote and that the prohibitionists would have very considerable difficulty in holding the ground they have won. As the Wellington “Post” points out, it may not he ‘very long before the License Party is -driven to take up the cry for the hare majority, and when that time comes the prohibitionists will realise that they have been clamoring for a two-edged weapon. They ire progressing quite fast enough for their own good under the present- law, and if they -are sensible they will not attempt to go any faster.

THINGS WF. LIKE BEST,

WHY IT IS THEY SO SELDOM AGREE WITH US?

What’s the reason the things we :ike best so seldom seem to agree with us? Maybe it’s because we over-cat of them. Then follows a fit of INDIGESTION. Only lasts a day or two perhaps. But it’s a most uncomfortable day or two. If we disregard consequences, and indulge our appetites the certainty that we must suffer spoils the pleasure. We don’t mean to abuse our stomachs, but we ill do it more or less. We see things we want, and can’t resist the longing for them. When it’s too late wc regret our rashness. But there’s a way to escape the consequences ol such indiscretions. A dose of a good ciigestant like DR. SHELDON’S DIGESTIVE TABULES, which digest what you eat, will relieve your trouble at once. That is a sensible remedy. These TABULES are sold everywhere at 2s 6d for a tin containing 80 TABULES. Buy a tin, eat a good square meal, and then take the TABULES according t-o directions, and note the result. You will forget all about it if you are not careful, for there- will be NO PAIN or disturbance, and the food will be DIGESTED just as it used to be when vour STOMACH was WELL and STRONG. Furthermore, your stomach will soon be restored again, if you keep on taking them, just as thousands upon housamls of other stomachs have been by the sole and exclusive use of OR. SHELDON’S DIGESTIVE TABULES Obtainable every where.