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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 101, 28 April 1917, Page 2

MANIFESTO OF THE WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION OF NEW ZEALAND.' : "THE STRENGTH OF THE NATION" MOVEMENT jT^XITH a view to staying this ravages - ; i» » of the drink traffio and securing the speedier winning of the war, we urgo upon the people of New Zealand the - need of obtaining, by direct Act of Parliament, the immediate p^g^ibition o£ tbfl sale of all alcoholic liquor during the period of the war and for six months thereafter In view of the serious needs of our Empire at the present tim*. it is incumbent upon the people: (X) TO CONSERVE THE FOOD OFTHE NATION. ..... . , The manufacture of drink took from Britain every .week in 1915: — 71 million lb of barley and grain. • - '■ . ;■ 3 million lb of rice or maize. . 9A million lb of sugar and sugar equivalents *■ 3600 tone of coal. "Tho net result of it all was a. decrease . in" national efficiency "—SIR ALFRED BOOTH, Chairman of the Cunard Steamship Company. •.,-■■ In proportion to population, tho manufacture of drink in New Zealand absorb* (similar quantities of foodstuffs and coal. (3) TO CONSERVE THE SPACE IN SHIPS AND TRAINS. ■ The Otago Times stated lately that a. ' large liner was due at Dunedia in ' February, in which 5000 cubic feet of space was occupied with whisky. And this is only one eteamer and ©no port (3) TO CONSERVE THE PHYSICAL" EFFICIENCY OF OUR MAN- - HOOD - : "Alcohol spoils soldiers. It is eubVer-' Eive of discipline and robe a man of his prudence, judgment, conscientiousness, and higher morality;. it has a great influence on the sexual passion, and the diseases which resulted were the shame and bane of the military authorities. I have seen 493 men in one day in one plaoe; they all came from one military campy and Alcohol was the indirect" cause of all their misery."—Slß THOMAS ANDERSON STUART (Dean of the ■ Faculty of Medicine, Sydney). ' "'-■■<: "The directors of military 'operations are practically all whisky drinkers, and,, therefore wish the soldiers to drink ~'\ too. Out here in'this torrid olimate they actually still issue rum instead . of food and sterilised water, and, as a result, we now have cholera; dysentery, and diarrhoea to contend with. , Anyone would suppose that no military medical history had ever been written or published. Our gross failures and stupidity are, in my opinion, due to the whisky affecting the intel-' lectunl organs and clearness of oar leaders. The King is the head of the Army; as he went- teetotal for national safety, every military messy , ought to have followed him. Not one ■ did! It is a repulsive exhibition of . selfishness and luxurious treachery to our. country."—VlCTOß HORSLEY, .:• Co., A.M.S. (Consultant Surg. to H.M. Forces, Mesopotamia). The Auckland f Star, 24/3/17, says:—• "48,000 6oldiers are segregated iniso- . lation campa in Britain, defiled and: diseased," < and every "Report" charges Drink wi£h being tho on© great cause of sin and awful sufferr irig. " • ' ■■ 4 . ■ • - (4) TO CONSERVE OUR NATIONAL RESERVES. . :.....,;. To produce drink, the British Nation -^ - used in 1915:— ' \ . *** 871,000 acres-of land tojgrow, b%ley., 34,744 acres of "land'to'grow Kbpi, and monopolised the labour of — "■ 33,800 agricultural labourers, 6,000 coal ttiineiß, • '"■'■ ■ • . •' ■■■■'■: ■■•■'■. •■--•. 112,000 workers in BrowenM and. Distil-""••-■- ---■ leries, ri „-' .-, , '". ■ • 255,073 workers in Retail distribution, '"'2' lie Services absorbed-in the drinl-trade a.ro on a gigantic scale, and tte net result of it all is a decrease in. National efficiency I say it, ii all n^_ soriousnesa that if we are to main-, tain, our armies in the field, we shall, , before very long, have to ohoose be- / •tween bread x and beer."—Slß . ALFRED BOOTH. . . (5) TO CONSERVE OUR NATIONAL WEALTH. ■;• .! ' In New Zealand we are spending on ; . Alcohol over £14,000 per day (working day) in the year, and so wasting : our National wealth. -%•'/&& TO SUM UP THE DRINK TRADE'HINDERS THE ARMY: . It has been, and is, the cause*"'of grave delay with munitions $ it keeps tbou- ; eands ,of men from wst work every , day, and makes good, solid workmen second-rate. ■'.-','. IT HAMPERS THE NAY?. ' ; It delays ' transport, _ placta them nfc < ' / the mercy of submarines, clows down repairs, and congests the docks. IT THREATENS OUR MERCANTILE MARINE. It has) absorbed, during the war, between, _ 60 and 70 million cubic feet of ipace, and it retards the building of ships to replace our losses. Tha Hoard' of Trade asked the shipbuilder* and marine engineers of the Clyde and; West of Scotland what steps could bo ' be taken to accelerate the production of merchant. ships. At a meeting they declared that the first" essential is the immediate total prohibition of the sale or all alooholio liquor throughout'the- United Kingdom, applied to all classes and individual alike, and until this is done further essential steps cannot advantageously be taken. v IT DESTROYS OUR FOOD SUPPLIES., In 20 montk'i of war it consumed over 2,600,000 tona of. food, with sugar enough to last the Nation 80 days. It uses up mops sugar than the Army, . IT WASTES OUR FINANCIAL ANDSHATTERS OUR MORAL .. STRENGTH., "The' Strength of the Nation" movement in _ the Old Country has given pub-" licity to this carefully-considered and crushing indictment: "The man power lost through Alcohol since- the - war began is just;.as if the entire manhood of the United Kingdom had stood idle for 100 days." : . RUSSIA has proved th? enormous beae< fit of.Prohibition daring the war.: CANADA and AMERICA, are driving liquor out. ■■'■•'■ RQUMANIA abolished drink when joining tha Allies. BRITAIN has lessened hours of salt*. AUSTRALIA has greatly reduced hours of sale. ' . -..'.' OUR KING has «et us an example of persona! abstinence. -V . ■'■ . EARL KITCHENER and LORD ROB- ,. ERTS, though dead, still appoal to \ us to crush the dh'nk. LLOYD GEORGE says.—"Drink sa-a greater enemy, than Germany* and Austria." . All that is noblest, holiest, and best in our family and National hfe_ would flourish \ and increase by the abolition of drink. Why should N«w Zealand be the only place to lag behind in this tremendous hour of crisis when everyone should serve and sacrifice? • j We earnestly entreat your persona! and enthusiastic help on the grounds .6ettartp in this "Manifesto." BESSIE LEE COWIE, ' ." . Organiser of "Strength of the NationsMovement in New Zealand. Amethyafc Hall, InvercargiH. All correspondence on the subject., order* for leaflets, donations towards ihe"«un» paign, names of any willing to work or to join our Union, should be s«nt to th« nearest local branch of.the W.C.T.U., ©* "MRS. HARBISON LEE COWIE, Amethyst'- Hsai, Tnv«?earpill.' - .