How To Stops 26,4000 Convictions.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 28 July 1922, Page 3

How To Stops 26,4000 Convictions.

If prohibition i 9 r.ot carried at the next poll, the liquor traffic will be free to carry on for another three years. Tbat means that, on a conservative estimate, it will be fr?e to prodace 26,400 convictions for drunkenness in New Zealand. In 1921 the traffic resulted in ever 8,800 convictions. Not only wili the traffic result in that during the next three years, but it will also result in all the degradation and misery produced in homes where th 3 victim to drink does not appear in the Courts. Prohibition does not immediately wipe out nil drunkenness, but it does £aduce it enormously. In Toronto, Canada, 1914, under license, when only bad 'drunks' were arrested, the arrests were 16,981. In 1921 under prohibition when any man Hhowing signs of drunken ness was arrested, they v> ere only 6,811. Besides, as Sir John Salmond has said of prohibition in the U.S.A. the younger generation are growing up without cultivating the taste for alcohol. Prohibition is just Common-sense —prevention rather than cure. Vote oat the liquor traffic and stop the cause of drunkenness.—N.Z. Alliance Publicity (62).