GET THIS ON YOUR MIND * REMEMBER AT THE POLLING BOOTH. Tfc tvas decided the other day, in a Federal Court of the U.S.A., that a Prohibition officer may seize baggage and examine it, or may enter a house land search it, WITHOUT A V,'AURA NT. Needless to say, the New Zealand Prohibition Party has not announced this decision. It' wouM far rather that the electors knew nothing about it; it queers their pitch—gives the lie to their vaporings. They know that the law they are trying to force upon this Dominion is modelled on the American law; they know that it is just as severe, more narrow, and more far-reaching than the American law; they know_ that it will operate just as the American law is operating—to the destruction of personal liberty, to the increase of crime and general lawlessness. If it were not a serious and pathetic situation one could laugh at it. The poor, short-sighted meddler in other people’s affairs would be happy when an officer broke into a man’s home or opened a man’s suit case and found a bottle of brandy. He would feel that the glorious result justifies the enormity of the method. Personal liberty is a matter of transcendental importance The security of Government, the existence of civilisation depends upon its maintenance. Hold fast to liberty. Strike out the fcwo bottom lines.—CAdytJ
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Evening Star, Issue 19062, 3 October 1925, Page 4
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228Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 Evening Star, Issue 19062, 3 October 1925, Page 4
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