LABOUR AND LIQUOR.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 171, 17 July 1918, Page 3

LABOUR AND LIQUOR.

A QUESTION FOR THE PEOPLE

) Labour's attitude to the Liquor ques- ! tion and the proposed campaign to be ' instituted by the New Zealand Alliance . I was referred to by 'Mr Steve Boreham, I a well-known Labour advocate, speak- .' ing at 'Masterton on Saturday evening. 1 He termed the proposal of the Prohibii tion Party to close the Liquor trade, i State to pay compensation, as "outrageously monstrous," and a bold at- ' tempt to gull at least nine-tenths of the ! people into paying the bill He would strongly advise electors not to be deceived by the Prohibitionists, who were full of tricks, pregnant and immacu-lately-conceived cunning. The policy o> i the Labour Party was much different ' to that of the Prohibitionist Party. The .' Labour Party desired that every shade of public opinion should be heard, and that the people should decide for themselves, by a bare majority -vote, on tne question of National Prohibition, State ownership and sale, and continuance sis at present. Should the electors decide in favour of State ownership and sale, then the people's Government would be ■justified in cutting off the sale or dealing with the problem in any way thought fit. It was a matter for the whole of the people, and- not for one section only.