THE PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 217, 15 August 1918, Page 2

THE PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN.

Ail M D 1 AY lEA XI HASTINGS. Hit ii shot in the camp ign for prohibition on the basis ot the iccoinmendation of the National Efficiency Board was fired in. the Oddt ho)) s II 11 Ilnstinss last n ght, bv Mr- W. I). Bavlev. 8.A.. of Winnipeg. The. hall was wed filled and the chair was occupied Ly the Rev. M X Rm bv Piatt picsident of tlie local prohibition L mon. I h Pii o sid that oi the three great social reiorins—free compulsoi) t ducat cu iioiic isi firag' 1 nd pronibiticn--Ncw ZcaLoid mid g.ven the lead to Canada. In the first two tic 1-itai i Dum on ’id adopted those two measures because they i the) we e i icr<i«s n \c v Z iiland. and there was therefore a- debt ot gi Hit ide due o) li id i to New Zealand. Canada would repay this debt bv leaning the wav in piohtbit>on mid showing New Zealand that it was a gooci thing. It was not neeessarv to uemonstratc that the honor trade was a moi a], social, and phvs cilmu we I iboui men knew chat it was a democratic menace, and business men wcie counneed that it was a business menace. p»ere were three ways of dealing with the rrade. Of these, the laissez fairc method had long since been abandoned, and the principle of regulating the traffic by license ana law had been found inadequate. Now there was one and only one p.o.nt to be decided is fir i> pi oh hition was '■oneerned. and that was, “Is alcohol a good thing for the human system Th" speaker showed the effect ot alcohol upon some white of egg or albumen, which, he said, was the same material as that of wlncn the TH tn s v ere ccinposcd Continuing. Mr. Bp.yb'y said* that until it was disproved that alcohol was a foe to thfj human nervous system, the case for the liquor trade was hopeless. He quoted the results of polls taken in which, after experience of prohibition. the voters were asked to declare their view of the result of its operation. In overwhelming numbers. men and women in every branch of industry, commerce, socia. and professional life, declared it to be “most favourable.” Tlie lecturer proceeded to d.'-cuss the prohibition proposal in the terms of L.S.D.. which letters represented the questions: Is pro-hi-l.iiti<if> logical? Is it sii-'c.'ssfui ? Ts it democrat io >' , , ... These points he ehiliornteit v 'dh skilful effectiveness, scoring heavuy off one or two interieetions. At the close of the lectiire question. were asked and an-wered and a vote of thank- was heartily tendered to the lecturer. A Lire" number of wojkers wore enrolled to pro.-eiuto ihe earapaiun for signatures to a prohibition petition and for the di.JiTbnt.ion of literature.