LABOUR AND LIQUOR

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 14, 16 July 1918, Page 4

LABOUR AND LIQUOR

A QUESTION FOR THE PEOPLE.

Labour's attitude to the Liquor question and the proposed campaign to be instituted by the New Zealand Alliance was referred to by Mr. Steve Boreham, a well-known Jja'bour advocate, speaking at Masterton on Saturday evening. He termed the proposal of the Prohibition Party to close the Liquor tatde, the State to pay compensation, as ''outrageously monstrous," and a bold attempt to gull at least nine-tenths of the people into, paying the bill. He would strongly advise electors "not to be deceived by the Prohibitionists, who were full of tricks, pregnant with immacu-lately-conceived cunning. The policy of the Labour Party was much different to that of the Prohibitionist Party. The Labour Party desired that every shade of public opinion should be heard, and that the people should decide for themselves, by a bare majority vote, on the question of National Prohibition, State ownership and sale, and continuance as at present. Should the electors decide in favour of State ownership and sale, then the people's Government would be Justified in cutting off the sale or deal-' ing with the problem in any way thought fit. It was a matter for the whole of the people, and not for one section only.