LIQOUR TRAFFIC AND HOME LIFE.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2713, 22 June 1925, Page 4

LIQOUR TRAFFIC AND HOME LIFE.

LECTURE BY MR. O. H. POOLE. There was a good attendance at tho Coronation Hall last night to hear Mr. C. H. Poolo lecture on “The Relationship of the Liquor Traffic to Home Life.” Mr. Poole outlined the condition of affairs that started the United States out for the protection of home life. After the emancipation of the negroes, the planters manufactured and sold liquor, with the result that the negro population of the South got out of hand and was guilty of many offences which brought Into operation the lynch law. Hence, the members of the Southern League decided upon the abolition of the liquor traffic as the only remedy—so the Southern States are the strongest element in America for the enforcement of prohibition. Mr. Poole then dealt with the three institutions supported by the publicschools, hospitals and churches, stand, ing for mental, physical and moral efficiency. These organisations had boen sadly damaged in their heroic work by the operations of the liquor traffic. This danger w%s met by America by - the establishment of national prohibition, and colleges, hospitals and churches were all flourishing as efficient producers under prohibition. This furnished an inspiring object lesson to Now Zealand at the present juncture and in view of the reports coming to hand there was every possibility, and probability, of the reform being carried in New Zealand at the end of the year. People only needed the truth to decide them how to vote and the existence of a “smoke screen” alone prevented New Zealand from getting a full view of this great reform in operation.