They Can't Explain This Away.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 25 August 1922, Page 3

They Can't Explain This Away.

in a democratic country votes and when they have spoken. U-ere is no ; doubt about what ih.-y truan. Now, hss; ' t'ne New L'quor irtjftfe how it ; is that,, in'lie U.S. A., in the States that' went dr? before National s'rouibilun, the people, after trying it, voted to keep Prohibition by increasing majorities.! Here are some of the votes that show that the voting majority like Prohibition :

WASHINGTON. Dry majority, 1914 . • 18,632 Dry majority 1916 .215,036 Increase in dry majority . . 196,404 The total aggregate increase in the "dry" majority for the six states was 700,320 votes, after two years'trial. When wp get .New Zealand Prohibition we shall find the same results. People find out when the liquor- traffic is abolished, that a wasteful, unmitigated nuisance has been removed. Once they bave tasted tbo benefits of Prohibition, no amount of lying and yelling by ths liquor inter*?ts can befool the people into voting it back again. Prohibition is just comrn'iD-sense. —N.Z. AlliancePublicity. (65)

ARIZONA. Dry majority, 1914 3,144 Dry majority, 1916 .. 12,000 Increase in dry majority 8,856 COLORADO. Dry majority, 1914 .. 11,572 Dry majority, 1918 .. 85,792 Increase in dry majority .. 74,220 MICHIGAN. Dry majority, 1916 .. 68. 624 Dry majority. 1919 .-. 206 936 Increase in dry majority . . 138, 312 OREGON. Dry majority, 19L4 .. 36,480 Drymajority, 1916 .. 54,626 Increase in dry majority . . 18,146 OHIO. Dry majority, 1918 .. 25,759 Dry majority, 1920 . . 290.141 Increase in dry majority . . 264,382