Ask the Liquor Traffic this

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 4 August 1922, Page 4

Ask the Liquor Traffic this

o According to Police Reports for 1921' there were over 8,800 convictions for drunkenness in Naw Zealand. Ask the liqaor traffic what made -these cases 'drunks' and where did they gat its Ask tbe'liquor traffic if the arrests and convictions represent i-11 the drunkenness in New Ztaland? Ask the liquor traffic if it is true that every babitua drunkard find every drunkard began aa s motier-atp? As-k the liquor traffic if intoxicating <■'•• nk is sola any whtre in New Zealand w drunken ness being there too? Ask the liquor traffic if a prohibition order taken out by a roan himself or on a relative's request is ever broken? Ask the liquor traffic if a prohibition order has a chance of heir g obeyed whilst an organised trade is Dusning temptation before a man at every epportunity? Ask the liquor traffic who pays when a husband and father spends most or all of bis money on drink? In the U.S.A. under prohibition diunkerness has been reduced 60 per cent. Ask yourself if it is net true that Prohibition is just Common-stnse? — N.Z. AiHance Publicity.