OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS
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♦- GENERAL RUSSELL. AN EFFECTIVE ANSWER, The Prohibition Party have discovered that a returned soldier in the person of Genera] Russell intends to vote for Prohibition on general grounds! Well, what of that! New Zealand knows full well what the vast majority of the soldiers think on this subject. One hundred and twenty thousand -of the flower of our Dominion went across the seas to help in the world's conflict for Liberty. On the battlefields and in the cities of the world they conducted- themselves with gallantry and with chivalrv, and by their deeds New Zealand to-day is a name honored among the nations* of the earth. In April last our gallant soldiers (who were overseas) gave their verdict when they voted on the Prohibition question. Here are the figures: For Liberty and Continuance ... 31,981 For Prohibition 7 723 Majority for Continuance ... 24,258 More thau four to one were in favor of Liberty and Freedom. Will any reasonable person suggest in this democratic country that the opinion of one officer, on a question that is in no way connected with his profession, is worth more than the opinion of any oho of the thirty-one thousand nine hundred and eighty-one who disagree with him ? . The proposition has only to be stated to show its absurdity.
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Evening Star, Issue 17225, 15 December 1919, Page 10
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219OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS Evening Star, Issue 17225, 15 December 1919, Page 10
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