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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 237, 19 September 1922, Page 2

Choose! Good Beer or Blinding Poison? Which shall we have in New Zealand ? THAT which the Prohibitionists have accomplished in another country they now propose to achieve in this. These people have foisted upon America the most stupendous experiment in the restriction of human liberty that the world has ever seen —Prohibition and that experiment, after a two years’ trial, has failed. Its failure is demonstrated by universal evasion of the law, by enormous lists of murders and crimes as the result of its attempted enforcement, by the fact that to-day you can buy liquor from end to end of the United States. YOU can buy liquor quite easily anywhere in U.S.A, if you have the price. The quality will depend upon the price. Some of it is good Scotch whisky, some of it is poor stuff, some of it—wood alcohol—is so deadly that one ‘nip’ will destroy your eye-sight for ever, whilst two or three will kill you in a few hours. Prohibition has not stopped drinking in America. But it has given the American, instead of good liquor, the most abominable poisons that ever drove men to madness. During the past two years the American peop.le have drunk millions of gallons of such stuff. Last Christmas Eve in New York alone eleven persons died from drinking wood alcohol. Eleven in one night in one city! I| OW many have died of drugs—how many are to-day in the grip of the 1 Idrug habit—no one can say. Make no mistake about it—if Prohibition comes to New Zealand, then Dope and Drugs are coming too. And the human wreckage they will make in our fair land will be terrible indeed! Let us Have OUR Liquor Trade Out in the Open I • tl® 7 ) =w^ere we can see ** an d re § ulate ! * * ■ I 1., Sv ike Vsmmsl Cosnrii >’ "licensed T-adt of \’ew Zealand.