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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17625, 30 November 1922, Page 9

£IOOO Challenge LIQUOR TRADE EXPOSED and Routed on the Revenue Question r 1 . % - - 1 ' Scathing Editorial Indictment «A BOLD LIE" «A Crusade of Falsehood" Mr Kobt. chairman of the Oamarn Harbour ««r(! has handed the "Oamaru Mail" a cheque for £IOOO to Sihanded to tho Liquor Traffic if they can prove that they been telling the truth about the N.Z. Liquor Revenue, jhe amount is still unclaimed, and the inference is obvious, The "Oamaru Mail," with rslreaning c&uuour, coioaicnta iditoriilly in a leading article on 22nd November, as follows: A OBUSADE OF FALSEHOOD. The truth is unprofitable to the liquor : license propagandists, and so in order t.o prop up their crumbling and falling (•ause they resort to the antithesis of truth. They conjure up some statement that is calculated to appeal to tho imagination and turn people into tiio way°of acting that suits their purpose. The allegation may be utterly devoid of truth, and may be exposed over and over again, but the coiners of false statements persist in its reiteration in tho belief that a great lie may, by oft-repeating, be accepted by soma as an established fact. AVe have an instance of that reprehensible course of action in the persistence with which' tho statement that if Prohibition is carried next month, the Dominion will lose £2,500,000 a year in revenue is flaunted in tho faces of people in the hope of frightening them into voting for the liquor traffic lest financial disaster should befall the country. Now that statement of impending loss is a flagrant exaggeration of a daring character. which cannot be adequately described than as a bold lie conceived and promulgated with the set purpose of deceiving simple-minded and unsusJ pecting people. Theso are strong terms Ito use, but the thing is so outrageously ' . bad that it does not permit of mincing ' . j,; words and meaily-mouthed denials. The ; *} thing has got to be given its true name. } | V- Thoso who havo given currency to the 'l' fei lie have been repeatedly challenged to ; prove that 'statement. With consum*„ri'tl'fii mate impudence the promulgators of , lie have sought to lead people to beliovo that their statement is made on the authority of Mr. Massey. We supK' ie it serves the ends, and aim of the nor license advocates to get people to hdiro something foreign to the truth. IBS MIDMEATE LEAGUE makes a despicable appeal yon lb againii Frohibition because otherwise you may .vis to pay. some ip&iph which at present comes from the yßquor consumed jfy Vbushmen, rural workers, etc." Zreryone knows how shamelessly the Trade robs and (Wwiclies these poor fellows when they reach the nearest hotel frith their hard-earned cheque. ; It is understandable'that some members of the Moderate lame arepISGUSTED at having their good names dragged la the mud in connection with such a contemptible appeal astfaii. ■ v. bit any wonder that some members of the Moderate are ASHAMED of having their names connected with fieadachras statements about Revenue and Taxation, when jjßtojr know that Mr. W. D. Hunt, Managing Direotor of Wright, 'JmAesson & 00., Ltd., and Chairman of the Government's Jfuation Oommittee. has published the following statements Jfafflnarifihg an exhaustive analysis of the matter £vi The State will not lose Revenue by Prohibition. It will giun Revenue and reduce expenditure. will not cause unemployment. It will bring - nore employment. There will be no loss during the change-over period. The ' improvement in State Revenue and in employment will £ >■ begin at once. oif THE SIDE OF DECENCY. Our womanhood and M»hood, our growing girls and boys, the safety and sanctity are the only things worth considering in this W Y °P know this, act upon it and keep jpa OONSOIENOE CLEAR by voting the Trade out. l< • Strike out the TWO TOP Lines thußii State PHrohafiHinMSoßii'ol' for National Prohibition

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