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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 259, 2 November 1925, Page 19

Whom WILL You Believe? As a patriotic New Zealander, whom will you believe? On the one hand you have the Liquor Traffic fighting for its profits—for profit and nothing else—circulating misrepresentations, distortions, half-truths, that you cannot check, and the sayings of men in the U.S.A., so fond of liquor that they are willing to trample on and defile the good name of their own country. On the other hand, you have, printed below, statements by splendid New Zealanders whom you know and can trust. The late Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey. Hon. W. Downie Stewart. Speaking of the U.S.A. under Prohibition, in the House After his return from the U.S.A., this year, Mr. of Representatives, September, 1924, Mr. Massey said:— Downie Stewart said:—"l BELIEVE THAT IF A "Most other countries have been exceedingly anxious to PLEBISCITE WERE TAKEN, PROHIBITION WOULD reduce their taxation, as was indicated in the Press cables BE CARRIED AGAIN." from day to day. America had probably been the most consistent country in this respect. SHE HAS BEEN T\j- Dpv Rkhf.f_ C*l_>_\rv WONDERFULLY SUCCESSFUL IN RESTORING THE *«. **t2V. OISIYOp bleary. PROSPERITY OF THE COUNTRY." Rt. Rev. Bishop Cleary, D.D., 0.8. E., Editor of the Roman Catholic Journal, "The Month," has said:—"The Church of the living God is built on a rock, not on a —^.' -w w^4. d -_ss4 f . "D _P vat Speaking personally, we would a thousand f£t. l*On. Oil* KODert OlOUt, times rather have the experiment of National Prohibition, «r r\ jy| £J_ CKicf JtlstlCC of N.Z. if there is no other practical alternative to the moral havoc "' , which an unreformed licensing trade keeps on working " At every Session of the Court about one-third of the among souls, committed to our care, for whom the Saviour offences are due to drink. This is regrettable, but true." suffered and died."—October, 1925. a li,- k A *n The late Sir John W. Salmond. ArCl-DlSnOp /Werill. The late gir jQhn w salmond, after visiting the "What we need to ask ourselves is this: What would United States said:—"Prohibition in the United States be the probable effect of Prohibition upon the happiness of has come to stay. . . Y. It seemed quite feasible children and homes, upon the youth of the country, and That the YOUNGER GENERATION MIGHT GROW upon general efficiency? The war measures in all countries UP WITHOUT CULTIVATING THE TASTE FOR labelled their existing Licensing Laws as the enemies of ALCOHOL." efficiency, and are they less so in days of so-called peace?" Sir James Allen. ______» _r*-*_ «_;*, A«%rl««£><ur _>iic«r-_>ll Sir J ames Allen, X.C.8., High Commissioner for _Vlaj.~lxen. Olr /\nureW KUSSeiI. New Zealand, considered to be one of the soundest «__.___ «_r • si id' * ...i..,. . d.__,_.__ii -~i*i-.~ «•__ financiers we ever had, said on the eve of the April. 1919. In 1919, Maj.-General Sir Andrew RusseU, writing to Prohibition Poll-—"I HAVE NO ANXTFTY 4ROTTT the late Rev. R. S. Gray, said with regard to National THE REVFNUe" ANXIETY *BOUT Prohibition: —" I shall vote for it on two specific grounds: w * on the material ground, that drink entails much human m _ wastage and impaired human efficiency, and so interferes SIF FenW-CK. with production, the chief need of the day; and on the moral ° ground, that, seeing the trouble and often misery caused Writing in the "Otago Daily Times" of June 21st, to others as the result of drink, THE LEAST ONE 1924, in a letter he sent whilst actually in the United States, CAN DO IS, FOR THE SAKE OF OTHERS, TO Sir George Fenwick said:—" I have come to the conclusion MAKE THE PERSONAL SACRIFICE INVOLVED IN that among the moderate and sober-thinking section of the i PROHIBITION." American people, there is a majority who are satisfied with § the Volstead Law that Congress has enacted, that the pride i of the nation is at stake in seeing to its enforcement; and I Hnn s_if* _Pf_E_l__r»_Q Flit lon fWII that a good few years must elapse before it can be absolutely I JTlOn. Oir rrantlb _LHllOn UlCll. determined whether it is to be an unqualified success or not. 1 Referring to Prohibition, on August 14th, this year, MY PERSONAL BELIEF IS THAT THE BENEFITS 8 Sir Francis described it as " The great example set to the THAT WILL ACCRUE WILL QUITE OUTWEIGH THE world by the Americans." EVILS." | New Zealanders! Settle a New Zealand problem for New Zealand's good. Line up with the Leaders I Vote according to conscience