OPINIONS OF STATESMEN.
Read what some ot the world’s leaders . have said about drink: President Roosevelt: No Society can do more to help the wage earners than temperance Societies. Lord Rosebery : I go so far as to say this, that if the State does not soon control the liquor trade, the liquor trade will control the State. Lord Shaftesbury: Impossible to release poverty until we get rid of the curse of drink. John Bright: Strong drink prevents our success, Remove this obstacle, and our cause will be onward, and our labours blessed. Mr Gladstone : It is said that greater calamities are inflicted on mankind by in- ' temperance than by the three great historic scourges — War, Pestilence, and Famine. VOTE FOR NO-LICENSE BY STRIKING OUT THE TOP LINE.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 441, 7 November 1908, Page 3
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127OPINIONS OF STATESMEN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 441, 7 November 1908, Page 3
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