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Evening Star, Issue 18141, 4 December 1922, Page 2

i iia sisai lilat the Prohibitionists Think ©f Prohibition N.Z. Alliance Manifesto When the Prohibitionists were offered “ No=Licensc, No Liquor” (Total Prohibition), they strenuously opposed the proposal, and Issued a very strongly=worded protest. What they said at that time still applies. Here it is: To make the possesion of Liquor a crime, the effective 'detection of which would require the correlative right of search in every home, would be to establish an odious and inquisitorial tyranny utterly foreign to the fundamental principles of British law and to the whole spirit of British liberty. “ We demand the right of the public to control public policy, but strenuously protest against the exercise of that control being coupled with and hampered by an interference with private acts and private habits, which stop short of being a public nuisance. “ We protest against the threatened invasion of the privacy of the homes by inspectors or by police; the espionage that Clause 10 total prohibition] would produce; the strained relations and suspicions that would arise among neighbors; the incentive to the peace on the part of decent and self-respecting citizens which would accompany inquisitorial questionings and domiciliary visits; and, above all, against the insidious attempt to handicap a great and genuine social reform by attaching to it an unprecedented invasion of private rights,” The manifesto is signed on behalf of the Prohibition Party by the llev. F. W. Isitt, Secretary [since deceased], and the Eev. John Dawson, President. The latter is now well known aa General Secretary of the New Zealand Alliance. From the foregoing statement you will see that tlib Prohibition leaders do not believe in Prohibition. They are simply out to fool the electors for reasons best known to themselves. Here are a few of (he things (hey said (hem about Tola! Prohibition? An ODIOUS AND INTOLERABLE TYRANNY, utterly foreign to the fundamental principle of British law. Utterly foreign to the whole spirit of BRIN ISH I.IBERI Y, An interference with private acts and private habits which only slopped short of being a PUBLIC NUISANCE,! THE PROHIBITIONISTS PROTESTED AGAINST the invasion of the PRIVACY OF THE HOME by the police. AGAINST the SPYING that would be produced. AGAINST the strained relations and SUSPICIONS that would arise among neighbors.! AGAINST the, incentives TO COMMIT breaches of the peace among decent people. AGAINST the unprecedented invasion of PRIVATE RIGHTS. Can You Trust Them? People who will reverse their statements like that will repudiate anything and mislead anybody. Don’t let them mislead yon. Vote Continuance and save the people of this fair Dominion from “ The odious and inquisitorial tyranny that is utterly foreign to the fundamental principles of British law and to the whole spirit of British liberty.” Vote CONTINUANCE Issued hy the National Council of th-e licensed Trade of'New Zealand,