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Prohibition is Folly. No-License is Farce. Combined— A Fraud. (BY NEW ZEALANDER.) Masterton Again Considered. . First Per The Prohibitionists have tried and failed to assail the truth of my . ■ Offenders.- 1000 of Pop. conclusions. The people of Masterton have condemned No-License after Population Invercargill, 13,000 — ".235 ' *8.03 years of experience, and Prohibitionists would endeavour to trick the Population Dominion, i,t80,000 J „. 6362 S>39 public into believing otherwise. They quote with great unction one or So f ar the convictions for drunkenness among first offenders in Inver», two persons who are Prohibitionists, and they are asking the general f^ 11 is more than tnr ee times greater in No-License Invercargill than public to believe that these persons are "the people" of No-License is the case f . or the whole Dominion. The Prohibitionists in their ignor-'. areas. What do the electors— the adult men and women— of Masterton ance and with their faces set against believing the facts say this is a say of Masterton under the No-License blight? "false-hood"; but the Mayor of Invercargill says "the evils ofNo-License Masterton carried No-License in 1908 by a majority of 1176. After are understated"; and the Mayor is correct, despite the swearing of the three years' trial of the abominations No-License and the vile pestilences Prohibitionists to the contrary. Prohibitionists had imposed upon Masterton, No-License* was voted out by the electors by a majority of 169. Thus the majority of the men and An Unlicensed Marriage. women of Masterton are opposed to No-License, yet the vile thing has The fruits of No-License and Prohibition are keg parties, :>ly grogto be endured by them. No-License is a menace to the morals oi any shops, immorality, disregard for law, sacrilege, petty crime, "wantonness, community,, It breeds the sly grog-shop and all its abominations, and hypocrisy, and these characteristics No-License advocates and Pro Here is one sample from last Saturday's " Dominion "of what No-License hibitionists want to force upon the whole Dominion. No man or woman is doing for Masterton:— that loves New Zealand will support so degrading a propaganda* AH ought to strike out the Bottom Line on both ballot papers,. and put an Another Sly Grog .Case. end to No-License and Prohibition. A FINE MA? ERE R £ T I O°N 0 ' th December TOWNS UNDER LICENSING. ' F.J., who resides on the outskirts of Masterton, was" charged INCREASE OF WELLINGTON'S POPULATION to-day with a breach of the Licensing Act, in offering liquor for TTrVUFR T TPPNQIrVr' sale without a license. The police proved that a large number of ulWßft i-»i^iai^OAl^HJ. young men were on the premies, and that there were evidences of . Estimated drinking. A quantity of liquor was also seized. "N.Z Gazette^ His Worship imposed a fine of .£IOO and costs, in default Census. Census. Census. oth July,, 1014. two months' imprisonment. ißgr. igoi. 1911. .34.100 40.344 70,729 74>766 What does the leading Masterton newspaper say of Masterton under " These fi K ures are from the official Year Books, and any intelligent No-License? The "Wairarapa Age ":—" Masterton is gaining an un- P erson cau see how false tQ e statement of the Prohibition Party is when enviable reputation on account of the frequent prosecutions and convic- they say Wellin gton's population declined under licensing: by /-per cent, tions for breaches of the liquor laws. Fines and imprisonment have been Only fools can be misled &y such inaccuracies. Prohibitionist figures imposed time and again, but still the illicit trade continues. The facilities mislead the People. Anyone who believes Prohibitionist figures deserves for obtaining liquor are so numerous and so freely availed of that the t0 be led astra y- How is & tliat some Prohibitionists will even attempt whole business has become somewhat of a farce."—" Age," 19th O.:ober, t0 vil . ify . the city . they live in . in striving to introduce that degrading 1914. ■ > abomination No-License? It is a miserable spirit even if it had truth and not inaccuracy to support it. A great man has said that Prohibition No-License a Danger to Young Men. makes liars and hypocrites of men, and here is demonstrated the truth Yet trie No-License Party, which is so concerned ( ?) for the welfare of the youth of the community, think that their creation, 'the sly grog- PALMERSTON NORTH AND PETONE UNDER LICENSING, shop, where there is no restriction, no regulation, no control, and where, Palmerston North. Estimated as in the typical case cited above, "a large number of young men- had ' "N.Z. Gazette,*' congregated — these Prohibitionists, I say, so concerned (?) for our boys, Census. . Census. July,* 1914. consider the sly grog-shop, the first-born of the ungodly union of Pro- igoi. igti. hibition and No-License, ought to be established in every electorate. 6,534 10,59 $ n,g7l God forbid 1 Truly, the Rev. Mr. Rogers, of Hinds, ' Ashburton, has said • " The temptations to drunkenness and drinking are greater in dis- • Petone. Estimated tricts where there are no licensed houses." Those truly concerned for " N..Z. Gazette,' 1 the youth of the Dominion will not vote for No-License. After years of Census. Census. July, 1914. trial the majority of the men and women of Masterton are convinced that igoi. 1911. v No-License, however fair of face, is actually an iniquitous and an abomin* 3»78o 6,640 7j214 able institution in actual practice. Yet the Prohibitionists want the public to believe that in these places A Word about Population. *• tne P°P u l at i°n has decreased by 4 per cent. Absurdity and worse has n - . .', • " , A ,',.,, , reached the limit in Prohibition figures. They were defending Master* ~ --- IMS*"- - - — - "«• 5583 — so that the increase in the official estimator's judgment is 85 persons — an increase of 21 per annum under No-License. The truth T«iuine iintta* X!« I i/«anca stands that as population is the true test of progress, Masterton is prac- lowns vn ««^ Nt-UCense. tically stagnant. It cannot keep its native born. And its "unenviable Ashburton went "dry 5 " in 1902. Oamaru and Invercargill carried reputation "on account of its sly groggeries promoted by the No-License No-License in 1905, and Masterton in 1908. Population is the true test Party, Masterton has become morally, socially, religiously, a much less of Vtogiess, and these No-License towns for their size show the least desirable place than formerly. The further proof of this is found in the Progress of any towns in New Zealand during the tirm> they have had to fact that after eliminating convictions for inebriety in the last year of suffer from the stagnating influence of the .No-License blight. licensing and comparing the various forms of criminality in Masterton • j ac f in 1913 with those of the year preceding the advent of the No-License Towns> p opi 6> p op> scent, per arm. fraud, we find that cases of criminality under No-License exceeded those Ashburton ... ... 2">6? 26>1 084 under licensing by no fewer than 182 cases (vide No-License Hand»Book, M-ictortr..-. "" "" .-*** ~'<u 1914). The conclusion is — No-License and Prohibition are worse than Oamaru <;o?i <;i« useless as Temperance reforms, and they are in practice a menace to morals, religion, and progress wherever tried. Every sensible mw and In the same period Petone increased 2.55 per cent, per aiinum; woman will avoid these abominations on Thursday by striking Out the Stratford, 4.80 per cent. , and Hastings 7.40 per cent. Even Carterton's bottom, line on both ballot papers. increase was nearly five times greater in ratio than Masterton's, namely, Carterton 2.83 per cent, per annum, as against Masterton's 0.62* No"WHTAnr nTT T\rVl?l?r i AT?r'ITT ? License and Prohibition are the most stagnating and decadent influences TV HA 1 vr ir\ V JM\WlXVlJlljLi . invented by man. 'The Turks adopted Prohibition as part of their re* ITS KEG PARTY SYSTEM. %ion, and they have been on the down grade ever since. If you would ttc 1 rr\Tir\r> nr\ vrcr Tiv/iivrTr* ivt make your town > countr y> a »d people bright, happy, and prosperous you IIS JLIUUUK CUJXaUMriIUJM. w in avo id Prohibition and No-License. The Minister of Justice says; Let me begin by exhibiting the enormous official ascertained con- " ! . f you carry prohibition in this country New Zealand will be a plaguesumption of alcoholic drink in No-License Invercargill. The Rev L. M. stncken ss P otl Isitt, the Prohibitionist, called, for a Parliamentary return concerning the . _,_ „ _ iTmr/v*T ■„-.-, "legal" consumption of liquor in No-License areas, and such an -.'xposure WHA.T XIA.S PROHIBITION DONE of the inefficiency and failure of No-License resulted that advocates of urkW TI?\yf DUD A fcJ/^IT O that nostrum never refer to it. It showed that Invercargill with a popula- rUK 1 E/IVIrISK AIN V«Ii T, tion (census 191 1) of 12,782 consumed 95,967 gallons of alcoholic liquors. Nothing. The following table shows that as a Temperance reform That was the total sent into the No-License area of Invercargill through Proh i bit i on and No-License are worse than Useless ;— the legitimate channels in 1912. How much went in illegally and sur- g eer reptitiously? ■ Areas Consumption. ... _. M „ ' _. „ . Year. Dry. Gallons. Spirits. Amt. per head. Another Official Return — Home Drinking. s> <j. Invercargill uses up the supply of three breweries, and these produced 1895 ... ... 1 7.4 .63 219 8J and paid duty for the period of 12 months — June, 1913, to May, 1914 — as 1905 . „. 3 8.7 .73 3 8 2-J under:— sß2 hhds.; 44 barrels, 365; 98, 275; 289, 18s; 137, 10s; 1693 1912 ... ... 12 9.2 ' .83 314 nj five-gallon kegs; 1917 three-gallon kegs; 40,648 two-gallon kegs I 3380 - two-galloD kegs per month are consumed in the homes and other places As showing that No-License is not Temperance nor Prohibition total of Invercargill. This is the base of that No-License institution — the keg- abstinence the convictions for inebriety more than doubled, while Noparty system. The return providing- these figures is, signed "W. J. License advocates worked like slaves' to put 12 areas dry; from 1895 "to Ha,wley, Collector of Customs," and is dated " Customhouse, Invercargill, 1912. 18th June, 1914-" Yet Prohibitionists and No-License advocates flatter themselves, and would make others believe that they are Temperance workers 1 The • InverkegVille Iniquities. ■ Prohibition movement is merely political, and is used as a political stalkBefore No-License converted Invercargill into Inverkegville, (here ing-horse by some men and women who would otherwise never be seen or were not 50 two-gallon kegs consumed in the homes of the people per neard of. month, and now there are 3380 ! All kinds of crimes emanate from the flchhurtgn and damaru No-License keg party creation. The worst crime of the year in New . Zealand took place 'in Inverkegville, as the result of a keg party, and the Ashburton carried No-License in 1902, and at every election since the most immoral and degrading conditions follow in the wake of this No- men an ? women of Ashburton have by a majority of votes shown theit License abomination. detestation of No-License and at the ballot-box have expressed their regret that No-License was carried in 1902. At the last election there "No-License forces men to drink in urinals and out of the . was an aCtua | ™ a Jority of 466 of the electors of Ashburton favourable to Wallaces in Invercargill."-Mr. Solicitor Inder, of Invercargill. T *** m to licensing. That it what the people of Ashburton think Of " Evening Post " report 14th May 1914. . No-License after a fair trial. Ashburton is more favourable to the Mr. Solicitor Tipping, defending "keggers," said: "The licensing system than many districts that enjoy its benefits. ■ better class have their homes and other clubs to drink in, but Oamaru is not as bad as Ashburton in this respect; but iieither m these young men discovered drinking in a stable at one in the Oamaru nor in any other No-License district in the South Island could ' morning are the victims of an unreasonable law."-" Southland No-Licqnse have been carried if the vote at the last election had been an Times " report, gth July 1914 original one, for in not one electorate was the requisite majority obtained. Mr. Thos. 'Hutchison, the Stipendiary Magistrate, speaking A T n this P roves that , the belief in No-License fades away with experience; from the Bench in a No-License kegging case, said: "It is quite No-License may look good to some salad eyes, but to men and wemen true keg parties are a common institution and the name Inver- of experience and sound knowledge it is a dangerous experiment, and on* kegville seemed a very appropriate one." ' attendant wherever tried with untold evils as Oamaru and AshburtOD,, Detective Cameron: "There are hundreds of keg parties in llkc Masterton and Invercargill, have discovered. i:L around Werc^U, r e K »,a rij ,"-Ev Mra ce in *, party A j^j^g^ This could not have been said of Invercargill before No-License was THE CHIEF JUSTICE'S REMARKS. instituted over that electorate. No true lover of Temperance can honestly Prohibitionists advertise that the more drinking and drunkenness the favour No-License. , more cr { mc there Sir Robert Stout, speaking at Nelson last . . week, demonstrated in a column measure of the newspapers that all Invercargill and Criminality. forms of crime in New Zealand were decreasing. This Prohibition bogey According to the Rev. L. M. Isitt's Parliamentary return referred to is flouted. The Chief Justice, perhaps not altogether meaning it in this there were 832 persons " taken into custody, summoned, or apprehended," connection, also whipped the Prohibition and No-License Party for theit which is greater than the average for the whole Dominion on a popula- attempt to bludgeon the people by coercion. Sir Robert said: "If there tion basis. The total convictions for discovered drunkenness in Inver- is no regard for Human Life, no regard for the Rights of Others, and W> kegville No-License districts is also more than the average for the regard for Human Liberty, that nation is on the down grade." Dominion. The Police Report, 1914, shows there were 235 young men Prohibition and No-License degrade, as we have seen in No-Lkense and women in Invercargill convicted for the first time of drunkenness in areas, Human Life, violate the Rights of Others, and attacks and would one year, which is greater than the average for the whole Dominion. Is destroy Human Liberty. The Chief Justice, in effect, says to New Zeait any wonder that the present Mayor of Invercargill should say: "The land: Be on the up-grade Fight against the destroyers of Human evils of No-License in Invercargill have been under-stated."— Vide daily Liberty, maintain your own and establish the Rights of Others, and press, July, 1914. ' elevate and sanctify Human Life. You can best do this on Thursday next by striking' out the Bottom Lrine on Both Ballot Papers* —Published by arrangement.