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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 248, 21 October 1935, Page 8

PAIR RIiAY VERSUS FANATICISM.

Care must bo taken not to confound the total abstainer with the'prohibitionist. There are thousands of • total abstainers in New Zealand who consistently vote Continuance, because they know that prohibition has been proved a complete failure, and because they believe that it is no function of the State to interfere with the personal habits of the people, so long as these habits conform to decent standards. Tho man who voluntarily abstains and at the same time does not judge the man who doesn’t, occupies an unassailable position as an inculcator of temperance. Such a man will never vote for prohibition, as by doing so ho would place a stricture on the liberty of his fellow man, whom ho is determined not to judge. The prohibitionist, on the other hand, urges his propaganda with no respect for his."fellow men. There are some who practise prohibition on themselves—tho only way prohibition can succeed—and others who support it as a political expedient, regardless ot its universal failure.

Temperance is right, prohibition is wrong. Continuance is the only verdict New Zealand can afford from every point of-view, —l4.