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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 144, 16 December 1919, Page 19

The National Prohibition Committee is sorry j that it is necessary to appeal to you as | Returned Men, but there is no alternative. | The Liquor Trade is claiming that you practically belong 1 ] to it, and that you will fight _or its licences, just as you fought 11 for the nation's liberty overseas. I The trade has degraded your badge in its public posters-*- 1 the badge which the public look on as a mark of your I honourable service. 11 The Moderate League misled you in the "NewZealander/* They said that the moment your backs were turned, the j Prohibition Party tried to stampede the Government into taking I a vote while you were away. jl Here are- the; Facts— j| The proposal for a Poll was first made by thp National If Efficiency Board. f This Board waß set up by the Government to decide ' i what steps should be taken to promote efficiency in the ii country, while you were away fighting for it. '■ I It recommended that the Liquor Trade should Be J1 closed down as speedily as possible in the interests of - II the nation both in war and in peace. 'I _^ appointed by the jl Government solely because of their business ability. i 1 The Prohibition Party, absolutely refused at first to 1 agree to the Board's proposals, because of its life-long 1 „ objection to Compensation., , , T ■;,.■' S 1 It finally agreed only because it believed it was serv- | big the best interests of the country and the empire | for which you were fighting. i ' The Moderate League said that the Prohibition Party j 1 was doing its utmost to prevent the soldiers from getting a I vote. \ ' i ' At the same meeting, which decided to agree tdsa Poll, jl a resolution was passed making it a condition that the ,j| soldiers had a vote. I If ; 11 This was submitted to the O-ovemment long before any I| were made either by the Moderate League 1 or the Liaupr Trade or any other body, " I The Prohibition Party*s request that the soldiers should havd | a vote was publicly reported in the principal papers of the j § Dominion months before the Moderate League inserted j their misleading advertisement in the "New Zealander." !1 ' * 1 , The Prohibition Party has not used your Badge in any | way in this contest. It has refused to make you a shuttle-. I cock between the Liquor Trade and itself. 1 The Prohibition Party has never injured a Returned Mary 1 The Trade asks you either to vote Continuance and let j 1 it carry on as at present, or to pay from £10,000,000 to | 1 £15,000,000 to the wealthy brewers and publicans (£4,500,000 • 'II V to £6,000,000 of this would be Compensation): for State I Purchase. ' 1 Did'you get Compensation for going to the Front? 11 Is the Repatriation Fund what it ought to be? 1 The Prohibition Party is content to leave the dcci- . j 1 sion of this great National question to your intelligence Si and your patriotism. II If the Liquor Trade is a* good thing for the country, I then vote for it—it's your country. 1 If it is the enemy of the nation, of men, and 1 women, and children, then treat it as you did the 1 :' Hun, and , I Hi' $ f m ' _» - HT 1 1 ' jf^k m ■ I GIVE 'PROHIBITION A TRIAL' j ' "" ' """"**"»"^——i lIIW _---M_---_--_-_---«__-_____l-»_____» ■■■■■■HJil_x. W _, u ■__——_ Hill 11l 111 II" ffl \ 1 il Wi' Hi, || BBS__«___ga_B_g___^^