THE PROHIBITION HANDICAP.
TO THE EDITOR OF "TUB PRESS." •" Sir, —Have you noticed that ■ tkchief, nay, the only, argument being used against the reduction to 55 per cent, of the present 60 per cent, vote necessary to carry prohibition has been tho question of tho revenue collected by . the liquor trade. I submit, Sir. that the revenue argument is quite irrelfr - vant to the majority question, for whether wo carry, prohibition by aGC , or a 55 uer cent. vote, can havo. iv s; altered effect ou the revenue arguhient, ;■ and tho introducing of this revenue >" sophistry makes obvious tho paucity of - ", legitimate argument against Mr .Mas- ■ __ sey's reduction of the handicap".— Yours, etc., • „ . ARTHUR* TOO- IBES. Ashburton No-license Council Rooms, Ashburton, July 15th.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15022, 17 July 1914, Page 8
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