IMPORTANT ASPECT OF COMPENSATION.
■■ MONEY MAY BE WASTED. I POSSIBLE GIFT TO LIQUOR ! TRADE. "No State that has gone Prohibition has ever voted liquor says an announcement by. the extreme party. This suggests an important question. "What guarantee have the people that if they compensate the Trade, by voting prohibition next month, the Trade will not be licensed again—with £4,500,000 of public money in its pockets? There is absolutely no guarantee. , A future Parliament is just as likely as not to re-open the question, and as;a result licenses may be restored. For | it is contrary to the fact to assert that. States have not voted liquor back. Prohibition was repealed and liquor voted back in Vermont, in New Hampshire, in Connecticut, in Rhode Island, in South Dakota. And th e same tiling caiv happen in New Zealand. There is positively ao guarantee that, in the event of prohibition passing next month, the experi- ] ment may not prove ephemeral and I the compensation money a gift to the Trade and a heavy public loss. In fact, on the bare majority several oi the existing no-license districts would now be back -to license conditions, through the determination of the majority to Strike Oat the Bottom Line. 9-i
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16478, 22 March 1919, Page 10
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