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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 21, 6 November 1935, Page 3

IS THERE ANYBODY JUST LIKE YOU? Have you ever considered tint two people are exactly alike, all think differently, react dillerenU} to • circumstances., our tastes cl ttei., our bodily requirements are diiteieiu. Some people live happily and adequately without tea, without meat, or without confectionery; some play bnd o e, others have no use tor card games, some enjoy a race meeting, othois lnn c never attended one; some are slaves to fashion, others dress merely for protection : some smoke, others do not. The point is that in our personal habits, the things we eat and drink, the things we wear, the pleasures we pursue, we have our own right o choice, depending upon our personal tastes and our individual consciences. This measure of personal liberty reaches its highest point in British communities, which are incidentally the best behaved communities. Prohibition is an impudent and in*' tolerant restriction of personal liberty, to which no free people will submit-. The injustice of prohibition is apparent when one realises that the exact parallel of prohibition would be law forcing every person to partake of beer, wine, or spirits. Under Continuance every person is free to have all the prohibition he wants for himself. A vast majority of New Zealanders have already stated through the ballot box that ‘they will not impose prohibition on this country. With the knowledge of what prohibition is, how it has failed, and how emphatically New Zealanders have rejected it, how can "any sincere person cast a vote for it? — (Advt.)