Note on the Majority Vote.

If a three-fifths vote is required to carry prohibition in a district, obviously equity demands that a three-fifths vote shall be required to restore licenses. But if a large majority short of three-fifths voted for restoration and did not get It the position would be declared to be page 30 intolerable. There can therefore be no finality short of letting the majority settle the question either way. As to national option, there are about 300,000 electors in the Colony. If all voted, three-fifths would mean a majority of 60,000, equal to all the electors in the four largest cities of the Colony put together. What would the feeling of the country be if licenses could still be maintained against an opposing majority say of 50,000 ? Or if prohibition were carried by the majority of 60,000, and then a majority of 50,000 could not reverse it ?

"Nay, my comrades, do not urge me;
Not again these hands of mine
Will ever touch the sparkling goblet,
Ever touch the flowing wine.
Yea, I'll vote for Prohibition !
Prohibition is for me !
Only that will stop the traffic;
That alone will set us free,"

The Reformer says: " Only a small fraction of the people are allowed to sell Drink. Why is the larger fraction prohibited? In the interests of the whole Well, why not, if so it seems good, prohibit that small fraction which remains, just as we prohibit the larger fraction, and for the same reason—the interest of the whole."

A dispassionate verdict: "The general results of Prohibition are beneficial, decidedly so when the Prohibition is genuine and actual; in exceptional and local instances the results are unsatisfactory when measured with the fruits of real Prohibition, hut far from unencouraging when compared with the effects of all systems of license."

Speaking in the House of Commons in 1890 Mr Gladstone said : " I am one of those who see the utmost incurable radical and profound mischief from what is called the publican's monopoly, and not through any fault of the publican, or indeed anyone. My firm belief is that as long as a monopoly connected with private interests belongs to the trade we shall never have full and true police supervision exercised over the publichouses, and without that they must continue to hold the disparaged and unsatisfactory position which they hold now and have held for so many generations."

Chili Beer—Two quarts of water, two and a-half pounds of sugar, and thirty chilies; boil twenty minutes; add two ounces cream of tartar; boil five minutes more; strain; add ten quarts boiling water; when cold put in two teaspoon ruls of essence of lemon, and bottle.

The late Dr. Guthrie, of Edinburgh, said: " I have had four good reasons for being an abstainer—My head is clearer, my health is hotter, my heart is lighter, and my purse is heavier."

Names like those of the Bishop of [unclear: pon]don and Canons Famar and Wilbercarce, among many others, are a tower of strength to the movement in England.