IS THERE ANYBODY JUST LIKE YOU?

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LVIII, Issue 6155, 15 November 1935, Page 2

IS THERE ANYBODY JUST LIKE YOU?

.11 « *W~" ' ' ' Have you considered that no two people, are exactly alike ? We all think differenty, rea:t differently to circumstances, our tastes differ, our bodi'y requiiame.its are different. Some people live happily and adequately without te:, without meat, or without confectionery; some play b;idge> others have no use for card games; some enjoy a race meeting', others have 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 of choice, depending upon our personal tastes and our' individual consciences. This measure of personal liberty reaches its highest point in British communities, which are inc'dentally the best behaved communities. Prohibition is an impudent and intolerant restriction of perron'sl liberty, to which no free people will submit. The in list'ce cf [jrohibiticn is apparent when one realises that the exact parallel of prohibition would 1 be a law forcng every -person to partake of 3?er> wine, or spirits. Under jontinur.nce every person is fres :o have all the. prohibition he wants 1 for himself. A vast majorty of New Zealanders have already stated through ( jox that they will not impose )rohibition on this country. With . ;he knowledge of what -prohihi- j :ion is, how it has failed, and how emphatically -New ?tealandters lave rejected it,, hew- can any dncere preson cast a vote for it 1 3 9| ]