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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18526, 30 October 1925, Page 7

PARENTS BEWARE of Prohibition! gt£ Passaic Metal Ware Company iNcoftpaitATia decorated and Plain METAL. CA>'B AND IIOXK9 Passaic, New Jersey, July 3 » 1925, Mr. D. M. .Findlay, Vice Pres.,. The New Zealand Licensing Reform Assn 312 Lambton Quay, Wellington, N.Z. My dear Mr. Findlay: Your letter of June 2nd has just been received and I have read it with great interest. I note that in December your country will hold a referendum on three issues—Prohibition, State Purchase and Control or Oontinuano«i and based on the experience of the United States, I sincerely trust that you will not have the ourse of alleged prohibition, such aa we have here in the States, placed upon you. The Prohibiton Party of New Zealand will undoubtedly employ similar tactics to those practised by the Anti-Saloon League in this country, and they should be disregarded by all thinking nen, just as they are here in the States, for practically all of their propaganda is false. The public records of our hospitals and of our jails and other criminal institutions prove conclusively the fallacy of the contention that benefits have accrued because of what is known in t'he States as "Prohibition," but whioh does not really exist* Personal investigation which I made in our own city and county shows that arrests for drunkenness have more than doubled since 1919j and the records in New York show that a greater number of alooholio cases are treated in the hospitals than ever before. The Government is, losing millions upon millions of dollars in legitimate revenue, which goes to the bootleggers while our government is spending millions more in a fruitless attempt to prevent the bringing of liquor to our shores. Prohibition here in the States has debauched thousands of publio servants and has caused the young to-drink in a way and to an extent that would have seemed absolutely impossible ten years ago. The majority of our people neither obey the prohibition law nor treat it in any spirit except that of contempt, and, inconsequence, it has been the means of bringing all law into more ox less disrepute. If the voters of your country knew p£ t,h®~ conditions existing in the States under the so-called Prohibition law, -they would vote solidly against any change which would Jaring about similar conditions with you* For your inf or mat ion >1 have-no -i^ere#|i ;^xe<>t4sJ?- indireotly in the sale or manufacture of ".'1 iquor H'*/* "-beefa"'t6r years opposed to the saloon, and have spent considerable sums of money in blocking the granting of licenses, and was hopeful when Prohibition came, although.l did not believe in it, tHat the evil of the saloon might be done away with artd that .posdibly und# proper government supervision, the dispensing of liquor for Use in:the home> where it belongs, might be accomplished. , • I have noted the unrest and (dissatisfaction of the hundreds-of employees that we have who have been used to having their glass of. beer or glass of light wine in the old days, because what they get now is mostly of inferior quality and they have to pay unheard of prices for it. " As a parent, I am doubly- anxious that my two growing boys shall be able to escape the present day tempations which are many times worse than existed even in the days" of the saloon. In my humble true temperance lies in moderation, and . not in prohibition, and the; use; of and light wines, etc., in the home, where they properly belong. , In closing, it might be well to advise you thi.t th® same interests that are responsible for Prohibition in this country have been working quietly but energetically to prohibit the use of tobacco. In this connection,Vl am. informed, on excellent authority that in the legislatures of more than forty states last winter, antitobacco bills of some sort were introduced. The Anti-Saloon League here seem to be bound to make us regulate our lives and habits by legisiaiioh, disregarding the obvious fact that no law can be effective unless it is recognised and respeoted by the majority of the governed* Very truly yours, <4 President, Passaic Metal Ware Company, Ine. This Advertisement is Authorised by The N.Z. Licensing Reform Association. Dominion Preeideal s THE VEN. H. W. WILUAMS, Archdeacon of Wait**. Vi«*.Pr«»a»eß« MR . D - M - FINDLAY. WaSteato*. Dominion Sectary. R. A. ARMSTRONG. 212 Qn*y, For the Sake of yottf Children and a Clean New Zealandvote for State Control I Vote for State Purchase and Control your vote is wasted unless you strike out two lines. CANTERBURY BRANCH —President: The Yerv Rct. Dean Harper. Kevs. Charles Messrs H. Y. Nieo'.l. Arnaud McKellar. A. L W. I'. Horrick. If. IU, Wa:tch'ir. A. PcTenll Hon. Secretary: Mr Cr„ L. Donaldson (Art (j Smith Committer: Mesars 1\ Dcfoenham. l Barnes. KAIAPOI : BIIAN'CH —Committee W IVoUblcdav. Dr. Maxv-cll Ramsey. Hon. Committee: Pr. li. Voloktnan, Messr* w. t>. Secretary: Mr H. Neave. .JIANGIOUA S Mcintosh, C. Leech, C. Tyler, F. Horrell, A Von- Archdeacon V. X. Taylor. Dr. E. (f. Lerinse. CommiUw: Tb» A H N'orris K. K. Maiden, and Hubert Jooes, Sir George Clifford. Bart.. Prof. Blunt. Cronp H !>' Acland, J. V,'. K. Lawrence, A. Freeman. 11. E. Button, J. Ponjaa. J" {-"can P Garlick, (f. Smith. A. S. Duncan. C'. D. Morris, A. Rose, T. A. iller' Armagh street. Christfiliurch). OXKOKI) HL'B-BRANC'Hj—Preeiitct: Mr 0. Onflick, G Capetick, \V. 3. Thompson. J. Wothergpooo. Don. Secretary. Mr E. C. • Messrs KMlouk, U.'March. L. P. Hopkin?, W. It. Coup. T. V. Jtably, M. ODoaofctt*. ' Sccretarv Sir 3. A. MeallHß*. LEKSTON SUB BRANC H—Present. Rt*. W. UpJUt Kennic K B Clausen, IV. Johnston. F. Townshend. G. Purser, I. S. Jarntan. Hoa. U-B-BRANCH—President: U. Tallott, Esq. Committee: Rer. J. F. F«roo. Mmjh tU J Tutton, H. Hesuov, T. Shankland. Hon. Secretary: Mr L. V. Harley.