"PROFIT BY EXPERIENCE."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 8918, 6 November 1905, Page 2

"PROFIT BY EXPERIENCE."

According to Mr Lefnngwell, New Zealand must profit by experience. The inference is that New Zealand is a foolcountry, that only by being ruined can he be convinced that No-license is a failure. New Zealand is profiting by United States experience, that even under imperfectly enforced prohibitory laws, the evils of drink are less than under license, notwithstanding the vague and absurd statements to the contrary, made by the liquor party. New Zealand, generally, profits also by the experience in her own Nolicense electorates, and Clutha in particular profits by its own experience. If No-hcense produces all the evils laid to ite charge, and is the great fajT^e it is asserted to be, why does an overwßelming majority of the electors in Clutha continue to vote for it ? Why did the neigh, boring electorates carry No-license at the last election, when they had the best of opportunity of- seeing that it was a failure? Truly those electors must be the greatest crowd of lunatics outside an asylum. No-license is a marked success in those areas that have adopted it. The friends of the Liquor Trade cannot prove the contrary, and therefore adopt the method of making wild, ridiculous, baseless assertions that have a very strong flavor of "sour grapes."