THE LIQUOR QUESTION, TO THE EDITOR.
Sii I,—Your1 ,— Your correspondent "Moderate" labours to show, in your issue oi the 23rd inst., that as the no-license areas became more numerous, the consumption, of alcohol steadily increased, which, of course, implies that if New Zealand' by such a process gradually became dry the consumption of alcohol would then be greater than it is to-day. According to his showing the wonder is that the liquor traffic do not join forces with the Prohibition Party, but evidently they do not take his reasoning seriously. His peculiar methods of argument remind me of the story of a man who once lived on a terrace of which the numbers or* the house were two three nine ; the world called it No. 239, but the occupier added the figures togethei and tried in vain to lead the people to believe that it meant No. 14. "Aloderate's" 'method of manipulating figures comes very near to this sort of thing, which I may later expose. — I am, etc., ONE VOTE ONE VALUE. 23rd March.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 71, 25 March 1914, Page 3
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175THE LIQUOR QUESTION, TO THE EDITOR. Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 71, 25 March 1914, Page 3
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