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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 140, 11 December 1919, Page 6

TO ALL WOMEN ELECTORS. THE GREAT QUESTION AT ISSUE. Prohibition will increase the cost of living. In the interests of your husband, yemr children, and your home, you cannot afford to vote for Prohibition. i The Prime Minister, Mr. W. F. Massey, says:—" If Prohibition is carried, ther» must b« an increase of taxation, either direct or indirect." Sir Joseph Ward says:—r" I agree with the Prime Minister. The cost of livine j will b« further increased. We must get the money by extra Customs duties." WHAT PROHIBITION MEANS. Prohibition would destroy £1,500,000 (one million five hundred thousand pounds) of voluntary revenue annually. To raise what Prohibition would destroy would mean increased Customs taxation, and the cost of living would rise still higher. To-day it takes £1 14s 9d to buy the same groceries that a sovereign boujht befor. the war. Prohibition will add equal to £30,000,000 to the National Debt, for the revenue it would destroy is equal to 5 per cent, on that sum annually. PROHIBITION WILL INCREASE THE COST OF LIVING. Prohibition will increase, therefore, for all time the cost of living to all the people. I This is the question for the housewives to consider. Customs taxation necessary to I make good the revenue would raise the price of: — ] Tea to 6s lOd per lb. ' Sugar to • 10ad per lb. Tobacco to ■ 18s per lb. House rents by • 5s to 7s 6d per week All women who would help to keep down the cost of living will vote thus: — 1 1 VOTE FOR NATIONAL CONTINUANCE 2.1 VOTE FOR STATE PURCHASE AND CONTROL 3. I VOTE- FOR NATIONAL PROHIBIHe&STRIKE OUT THE TWO BOTTOM LINES. A GREAT CLOUD OF WITNESSES. V.M.C.A. TESTIMONY AND SOLDIERS5 VIEWS. COLONEL M. J. GIDDINGS : "The Rum Ration saved the lives of thousands of our men in the trenches." V.M.C.A. ANNOUNCEMENT "I've come to tho conclusion that I never lived till I breakfasted {as I'did this morning) after 48 hours of almost continuous work in a crazy dug-out, on a . hard-boiled egg, some bread, and neat whisky."—Extract from soldier's letter published in V.M.C.A. appeal to Patrons for funds for Trench Comforts, and attested by H. W. Kersley, Acting-President, V.M C.A., and E, C. Brownell, Secretary, National Committee. % CAPTAIN MORICE : "I was opposed to the rum ration before I left N.Z,, but I changed my views in France." There is nothing like travel and experience to break down intolerant opinions. STRAIGHT FROM THE TRENCHES : "We had only rum in the trenches; but behind the lines in rest camps there was plenty of wine and beer at the estaminets in France. I never saw a New Zealander intoxicated, and the rum ration was the best thing we had,"—Extract from soldier's letter to his mother. , TWO GENERALS IN EGYPT!: GENERAL MAXWELL: Where is your canteen, Godley? GENERAL GODLEY: My Government prohibits beer to my troops. GENERAL MAXWELL: Are your troops children or men? You must have a' wet canteen for them in camp if you would keep them out of Cairo. General Maxwell knew Cairo, and so the New Zealanders had wet canteens ever after. No great soldier was ever a Prohibitionist. WHAT LORD KITCHENER DID: V This Field-Marshal cautioned the British. Troops against wine _id women, and ordered 20,000 gallons of rum per month to be supplied to the troops in France. Temperance in all things is Virtue. There is no virtue in Prohibition. \ WHAT DID THE ALLIANCE DO ? On 4th March, 1916, the N.Z. Alliance, that is the Prohibitioniita, pasted a resolution protesting against wet canteens to the N.Z, soldiers, against whioh it stood "definitely _ and unflinchingly"; and also against the issue of the rum ration to the soldiers. If the N.Z. Alliance had had its way the British Empire would have lost the war, ! for "the rum ration saved our lives," say the soldiers. The Prohibitionists also \ protested against the hospital Ships carrying liquor— ( brandy, whisky, stout, and j port wine for soldiers' health and comforts during convalescence. Is it any wonder the soldiers "turned down" Prohibition by a five to one majority? PRIVATE POTTOS TESTIMONY [: There are no teetotallers when the rum ration comes round. Mud, uir, is hell, and/5 a.m. is the devil's noon; but rum is Christian charity. There is no Christian charity among Prohibitionists when the rum r*tion to ioldiers is allowed. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ? Down with Intolerance. Down with Bigotry and Fanaticism. ,Up with Liberty Up with Freedom and Coramonsense, by voting thus:— I/I VOTE FOR NATIONAL CONTINUANCE; &J-VQTE-FOR STATE PURCHASE AND CONTROL: „ PROHIBITION^ CONTINUANCE COSTS NOTHING " TO CONTRIBUTES £1,500,000 ANNUALLY TQ THE PUBLIC PURSE. THEREFOR VOTE THUS:- ■ Wl VOTE FOR i^ATIONAI; CONTINUANCE,