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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 251, 26 November 1914, Page 11

ALCOHOL! THE PUBLIC THINKS:— It is only Heavy Drinking that harms. EXPERIMENTS SHOW:— That even Moderate Drinking Hurts Health, Lessens Efficiency. THE PUBLIC THINKS:— Alcohol braces us for hard work and against fatigue. EXPERIMENTS SHOW:— That ALCOHOL IN NO WAY INCREASES MUSCULAR STRENGTH OR ENDURANCE. ALCOHOL LOWERS VITALITY; ALCOHOL OPENS THE DOOR TO DISEASE, Resolved, at the International Congress on Tuberculosis, 1905, to combine the fight against alcohol with the struggle against tuberculosis. At the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, the use of alco'liol as a medicine declined 77 jier cent, in eight years. » Most modern hospitals show the same tendency. « " Alcohol is responsible for much of our insanity, much of our poverty, much of our crime. OUR PRISON COMMISSIONERS REPORTED THAT 95 PER CENT. OP THOSE WHO WENT TO PRISON IN 1911 HAD INTEMPERATE HABITS. YET THE PUBLIC SAYS:—We need the revenue from liquor. THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW HOW SMALL IS THE REVENUE Compared with the cost of carrying the wreckage. YOUR MONEY SUPPORTS THIS WRECKAGE. - ® YOUR WILL ALLOWS IT. YOUR INDIFFERENCE ENDANGERS YOUR NATJON. Commercialised Vice is Prompted through Alcohol. CITIZENS, THINK. ARRAYED AGAINST ALCOHOL are ECONOMY, SCIENCE, EFFICIENCY, HEALTH, MORALITY. —The Very Assets of a. Nation. —The Very of a People. THINK. FIBST MUNICIPAL POSTER AGAINST ALCOHOLISM IN UNITED STATES. Placed by authority of the Mayor and Park Commissioners of Cambridge, Mass.; in all parks and public biiildings. M. CLEMENCEAU, the strong man of France, in his pamphlet on the Alcohol Scourge, says:-—"To-day it is beginning to be recognised that the right to poison people cannot properly be regarded as one of the achievements of the French Revolution. "LE MATIN" (Paris newspaper) says that alcohol costs the country an army, corps a year. t , DEVASTATION IN NEW ZEALAND. (THE PASSING SHOW UP OF THE LIQUOB TBADE.) Last year 11,707 Convictions for Drunkenness/equivalent to the \vhole population of Wanganui; and not ono in six of those drunk in the streets are arrested. . First Offenders last year, 6900, equivalent to the whole population of "Waihi. These are the victims of the men who strike out the bottom line under spurious pleas of Liberty and Revenue. • ; Disorderly Hotel-keepers, 229 prosecutions, one in every six of the publicans of the Dominion. . Sly Groggers (alas, Kuscobin) more common in License than in No-License Areas... ........ HELP TO SAVE YOUR LAND. ; : - 11,000 VICTIMS OF LAST YEAR WILL BE BETTERED. TR ADE WILL BE BETTERED. -HOMES WILL BE BETTERED. 7 v YOU WILL BE BETTERED. YOU WORK BETTER, PAY BETTER, LIVE BETTER WITHOUT THE WHITE PLAGUE ALCOHOL. STAB OUT THE TOP LINES ON BOTH BALLOT PAPERS.

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