JUDGMENT THAT MUST BE RESPECTED R un your eye carefully over the following names at the same tim considering carefully whether there is even one person in New Zealand whm.e knowledge l and judgment is superior to that of their unanimous opinion. Archbishop or' Canterbury. . Might Hon. Stanley Baldwin . Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain. Lord Ask with. ~ Bight Hon. Winston Chui chill. Earl Haig. Sir Philip Gibbs. Sir Walter Scott. Lord Birkenhead. Beverley Nicholls. Arnold Bennett G. K. Chesterton. 'Lord Dawson of Penn. Lord Horder. Cardinal Gibbons. Bishop of Hereford. Bishop of Chester. Bishop of Worcester. Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney. Sir Basil Thomson. Miss Annie S. Swan. Rebecca West. Cosmo Hamilton. Jeffrey Farnol.
Among leaders in every walk of life —statesmen, churchmen, lawyers, doctors, leaders of industry, authors— it is practically impossible to find a single supporter of prohibition. A few who may have been favourably disposed towards the idea at one time have revised their opinion. It is hard to believe, therefore, that any person with ordinary common sense, and free from unreasonable prejudice-, can set ns own judgment above that oi men anti women who have more than ordinary knowledge of social and economic problems. . . , , _ LI It is confidently anticipated, therefore, that New Zealanders will reveal to the world at the forthcoming licensing referendum a solid common sense vote for* Continuance. —(Advt.)
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 20, 5 November 1935, Page 3
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