A Word to Strictly Moderate Drinkers.

Everybody admits that the Liquor Traffic is the source of an enormous amount of mischief, which no law for its proper regulation has ever been able to prevent. For whose sake then to it licensed? Not for the sake of the drunkards, nor for the take of abstainers, but solely for the convenience of moderate users. If you, as a moderate user, recognise that it is for your convenience alone that the traffic is licensed, and if it cannot be licensed for your convenience without entailing the enormous amount of misery and crime which have always resulted from it, we wish to ask you whether you are prepared still for your own convenience to vote for it, or whether you will not rather deny yourself for the sake of others, and resolve that your mere convenience shall not be made any longer responsible for all this crime and misery? Thousands of drunkards will vote against the Liquor Traffic, who would gladly break its power over themselves, and the abstainers will vote against it, so that with your vote as a moderate nser will rest the honour or the responsibility of stopping or of continuing it. We have asked our friend Rev. L. M. Isitt to say a word or two to voters through the medium of these pages. He reminds you that there are estimated to be 17,500 drunkards in this Colony, victims of the traffic licensed for your convenience. If on an average each of them has but five friends—wife, mother, sister, father, brother, son, daughter, or other relatives—and for their sakes you go to the polling booth and simply strike out the top line or the voting paper, there are over 87,000 of them who would gladly give you a warn grip of the hand, and say, "Thank you for that vote!"