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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1296, 27 November 1911, Page 6

THE AMOUNT OF TOE ANNUAL DRINK BILL TN hard cash is known to most electors. A Tho price paid in tho .sacrifice of human life and human brain, is not so easily estimated. Some items m this sad expenditure may be staled. 1. In 11100, 82S persons were admitted to mental hospitals, probably .one-third of that insanity was due directly or indirectly to alcohol, making the first item of this Drink Bill— 270 CASES OF INSANITY. 2. In IPO!), US persons committed Suicide. Authorities arc agreed that about one-half of all suicides arc duo to drink (irrespective or tho form of suieido chosen). Tho second item, therefore, is— Sil SUICIDES. X In lilt)!), 3G Deaths wero certified as dun to acute or chronic alcoholism alone. (There were almost certainly many deaths where alcohol was a contributing cause.) The third item is— 30 CERTIFIED DEATHS. j 4. norslev and Sturgn (in "Alcohol and (he Human Bodv") justify us in including the deaths from cirrhosis of tho liver, as I his dis-unse. fhev state, is practically alwav* due lo alcoholic indulgence, lho fourth item (for 1!MW) is— 47 DEATH* FROM CIRRHOSIS OF THE LIVER. . From those'tour items wo estimate this Drink Bill .as--112 DEATHS. 270 INSANE. Most of theso 412 persons would bo alive and sane to-dav, useful and valuable members of lho community but for the drinking customs lo which-Now Zealand has remained devoted. In 100!) tvphoid fever, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, and diphtheria together caused 212 deaths. Contrast this with tho dcath-dealing powers of drink. The waste of money is a serious matter for any country, but THE WASTE OF HUMAN LIFE AND HAPPINESS Is much mora serious. Every man or woman who votes continuance, is voting for lho continuance of this waste, and is allowing high principle to be overruled by selfish appetite and. prejudiced judgment. There is only one thing for lho truo patriot to do on election day. namely, to Vote for No-License and Notional Prohibition. STRIKE OUT THE TOP LINE ON BOTH FAI'ITiS. 1 r-Advt.