HOW TO STOP 26,400 CONVICTS.
If prohibition is not carried at the next poll, the liquor traffic will ba free to carry on for another three years. That means that on a conservative estimate, it will be free to produce 26,400 convicts for drunkenness in New Zealand. In 1921 the traffic resulted in over 8,800 convictions. Not otjly will the traffic result in that during the next three years, but it will also result in all the degration and misery produced in homes where the victim to drink does not appear in the Courts. Prohibition does not immediately wipe out all drunkenness,' but it does reduce it enormously. In Toronto, Canada, in 1914 under license, when only bad ‘d'unks’ were arrested, the arrests were 16.981. In 1921 under prohibition, when any man showing signs of drunkennnss was arrested, they were only 5,811. Besides as Sir John Salmon has said of prohibition in the U.-S. A. the younger generation are growing up without cultivating the taste of alcohol. Prohibition is just Common-sense —prevention rather than cure. Vote out the liquor traffic and stop the cause of drunkenness. — N. Z. Alliance Publicity {62),
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3129, 7 August 1922, Page 5
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