FAIR PLAY VERSUS FANATICISM.
Care must be taken not to confound the total abstainer with the prohibitionist. There are thousands of total abstainers in New Zealand who consistently vote Continuance, because they know that prohibition has been proved a complete failure, and because they believe that it is no function of tlie State to interfere with the personal habits of the people, so long as these habits conform to decent standards. The man who voluntarily abstains and at the same time does not judge the man who doesn't, occupies an unassailable position as an inculcator of temperance. Such a man will never vote for prohibition, as by doing so he would place a stricture on the liberty of hia fellow man, whom he is determined not to judge. The prohibitionist, on the other hand, urges his propaganda with no respect for his fellow men. There are some who practise prohibition upon themselves —the only way prohibition can succeed —and others who support it as a political expedient, regardless of its universal failure.
Temperance is right, prohibition is wrong. Continuance is the only verdict New Zealand can afford from every point of view.—(Ad.).
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 250, 22 October 1935, Page 18
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FAIR PLAY VERSUS FANATICISM.
Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 250, 22 October 1935, Page 18
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