YOUNG MEN AND LIQUOR.
Anyone going into a public .bar between nine and ten o’clock in the evening will find that a very large proportion of the people there are mere youths,, who might bo very much better employed in their own homes. Very few. of them may he drinking to excess, in the sense of hurrying to a state of intoxication, but many of them may be acquiring a habit that will make the drunkards of the future. The licensing committees can do nothing to save them fom this danger, hut public opinion might do something, and the Legislature might do much more. If every place where drink is sold were made open to the public view,. young men would be much less inclined to loiter about the bar. They would not care to run the risk of being seen by their parents or their employers. A still better remedy would be to .place the trade under State control, and remove the proprietary interest in the sale of drink once and for all; but the Prohibitionists refuse to consider this reform, and for the present we must make the best we cam of the system they are trying to extinguish.—“Lyttelton Times.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2581, 16 August 1909, Page 2
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202YOUNG MEN AND LIQUOR. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2581, 16 August 1909, Page 2
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