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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 31 October 1925, Page 3

EXPOSURE of the Methods of the N.Z. Alliance u HAVING no case to offer for Prohibition, the N.Z. Alliance is attempting to mislead the electors of New Zealand by maligning the Continuance Party. In the September issue of “Cheerio” we quoted the significant words of Colonel IW. Li. Barker, of the Northern Division, U.S. Salvation Army. Our quotation was taken from the St. Cloud Daily Times (Minnesota), and was as follows: — tt Prohibition has so materially affected society that we have girls in our rescue homes who are fourteen and fifteen years old, while twenty years ago the youngest was in the early twenties.’ 9 THe Alliance advertised that our quotation was “a scandalous lie” and inferred that the Editor of “Cheerio” was guilty of inventing the statement. We now expose this despicable attempt to twist the truth. Here is a PHOTOGRAPH of Colonel Barker’s Statement as republished in a prominent American weekly. The professional Prohibitionists told you that the statement was never made. WHO IS LYING? Here are the proofs. y A w J' <-NW /. a,- & , Note and Comment Salvation Army Head on Prohibition ■ HAT prohibition has diverted the energies of t’ Salvation Army “ from the'' drunkard in the gutter is the finding of Col. to the boys and girls in their teens William L. Barker, head of the Salvation Army's Northern Division and organizer of its unit in France y during the war. The St. Cloud Daily Thncs quotes hint’' further as saying: ' The work,of the Army has completely changed In the past five y years, since" the dry era came into being, and prohibition has -so > materially affected society that we have girls in onr rescue homes ... who are fourteen and fifteen .years old, while twenty years ago g the youngest was in the early twenties. These, of course, are facts observed on all hands. It is time that partisan fanaticism be laid aside and the prohibition question be reviewed in ,a . sober tnood^ w Tv At! ion rut tdp A HrAnd remember —the same statement was publisKeß By} a correspondent in the Bath Chronicle (England), on July} 15r3* 1925. The Alliance does not .want you to know this! Here is d PHOTOGRAPH of a cable received from the Editor of the “ST. CLOUD DAILY TIMES,” which originally published the Salvation Army Colonel's indictment of Prohibition. It proves conclusively that the statement in “ Cheerio ” was absolutely true. ... A.. • NEW ZEALAND POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS. EASTSR'N EXTENSION A. & C. "TELEGRAPH OO.pLTO INWARD CABLE MESSAGE: Via EASTERN } ! c.t err C: Op , - • Zy' ■ * V • : , *]**'' i{' ►>''* , ' '■ T-' X .. | ■ ■ T y AAA S* •••••• ~ | y • ‘.V-T'/C W IS . „..VIA EASTERN 220 PM " -O'- .. WUFY III! NATIONAL COUNCIL LICENSED TRADE WELLINGTONN2. BARKER INTERVIEW TRUE DAILY TIMES L 3 I6P.M, : jirgTdTl dinar fcHßfir ■ yy-r . :i A cause which has to stoop to mud-slinging in order to “justify” itself is not worthy of your support. Vote according to FACTS —and remember Colonel Barker’s words. Will the K,Z. Alliance now have the common honesty to apologise to tSie Electors of New Zealand for its u Scandalous Lie”?