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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 82, 7 April 1919, Page 2

IT MEANS PERSECUTION. IT MEANS INCREASED TAXATION. i ■ I IT MEANS INTOLERANCE YOU WOULD LOSE THE RIGHT OF DETERMINATION, IT WOULD COMPEL THE ' SUBJECT TO USE DRUGS. IT WOULD ENCOURAGE SLY GROG SELLING. IT WOULD MAKE CRIMINALS AND LAW BREAKERS. IT WOULD DESTROY THE PRIVACY OF THE HOME. Read latest move by Prohibitionists in America, taken from “New York Journal of Commerce," dated February'24th, 1919: “At Prohibition Conference held at Albany 25rd February, 1919, it, endorsed » Pill that is now before the Senate called “THE WALKER SEARCH AND SEIZURE BILL," “whibh if earned gives power to the State to SEARCH, every PRIVATE HO&iE and confiscate all alcoholic beverages kept for private consumption." TAXPAYERS: What would Prohibition SIR JOSEPH WARD said £4,500,000, perhaps £6,000.000 or £6,000,000 the first year, 1 LOSS OF REVENUE, INTEREST, AND SINKING FUND £1,500,000 each following year, £6,ooo,ooo' would mean approximately £6 per head lor every man, woman and child in New Zealand; or for a man with a wife and four children £56. HOW IS THE EXTRA TAXATION TO BE MADE UP? Either by increased Customs Duties, or Increased Land and Income Tax. INCREASED CUSTOMS DUTIES OR INCREASED TAXES MUST MEAN Increased Cost of Living. ’ < who Will have to pay the extra taxation? >■ The Farmer? Yes!, The Importer? Yesl The Manufacturer? Yea! , The Merchant? Yes! The Retailer? Yoi! YES! They will all have to pay, but they can aH pan it oa to YOU I WHO CAN YOU PASS IT ON TO? NO ONE I Have to Foot the Bill! MUST INCREASE IF PROHIBITION IS CARRIED. £ISOO per annum in License Fees will bb lost in NELSON and MOTUEKA Electorates. A LOW ESTIMATE OF £IOO,OOO DEPRECIATION IN PROPERTY VALUES This will mean a rise in rates, of 4d to 5d in .the pound to make up the above losses. ARE WE NEW ZEALANDERS INEFFICIENT? • -' • ; ~ FACTS AND FIGURES FROM GOVERNMENT RETURNS TO SHOW WE ARE NOT. ESTIMATED WEALTH PEE HEAD ofTotal' Population, £305. Adult Population, £469. TROOPS RAISED AND TRAINED IN NEW ZEALAND For War Purposes : 124,000 MONEY SUBSCRIBED FOR PATRIOTIC PURPOSES: £12,000,000 TOTAL AMOUNT WAR LOANS, RAISED IN THE DOMINION IN. DEFENCE OF LIBERTY, DEMOCRACY, AND TEE RIGHT OF SELF-DETERMINATION: £41,000.000 THE ABOVE ARE SOLID FACTS. Compare these figures with the achievements of other countries, and SHOW , DS ONB THAT ;S MORE EFFICIENT THAN NEW ZEALAND. THEREFORE: WHY SHOULD WE THROW AWAY £6,000,000 THIS,YEAR and increase the already heavy burden of the Taxpayer by £1,500,000 each year indefinitely!* DON’T-BE MISLED OB CAJOLED by o*o shibboleth, of FOREIGN PAID who ; Kaye n^ v stake in the country, and will not , have to 'be0 '.(heir .'sham o$ H* BURDEN THEY ARE TRYING TO HANG ROUND YOUR NE£RDO YOUR OWN THINKING, AND REMAND THE RIGHT OF SELFDETERMINATION IN TIIIS MATTER.' National Debt Increasing. FIVE TIMES MORE TAXATION THAN /IN 1914. New Zealand’s Debt is now nearly £200,000,000. At 5 per hent., this means taxation to the amount of a year. Our Soldiers’ Pensions, nobly earned, will be at least £2,500,000 per annum. In 1914 the interest charge for the National Debt was less than £3,0Q0,00Q. Thus, £9,000,000 is being added to the burdens of taxpayers and the cost of living has increased out of all proportion to any increases in wages or salaries. Now, Prohibitionists and Efficiencywant you to give-your vote to add £6,000,000 more this year to the Debt,’to make you pay, £1,600,000 in further taxation for all time, thereby raising the annual charges upon the people for debt alone to £13,500,000. 0 Besides increasing Taxation Prohibition will throw,"-out of work 12,000 {twelve thousand) Bread-winners with 45,000 Women and Children dependents. . UNEMPLOYMENT MEANS HARDSHIP. INCREASED TAXATION MEANS INCREASED COST OF LIVING. f DO NOT BE MISLED BY PROHIBITION THEORISTS. Prohibitionists Say (1) “Alcohol will be available for medicinal purposes.*’ (2) “Alcohol is utterly useless in any form and for any purpose, and must be abolished.” DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN—(I) Chemist’s Medicinal Alcohol? (2) Beverage Alcbhol? The first is supplied in a small phial or bottle by the chemist. The second is supplied by licensed houses in the form of Brandy, Whisky, Wine, Stbutj and Ale. , . ‘ Think seriously before depriving yourself and your family of the right to purchase BEVERAGE Alcohol, and d° a 6t be misled by Prohibitionist# who say you’wiirget supplies’from chemists. c v ‘ V ; How ,many thousands owe- their live# to-day to the 'combination 6f Hhe. value of Alcohorand food properties as contained in Brandy, Whisky, .Wine, Stout, and Invalid Ale? Whst fireit Doctors Say A GREAT CONSENSUS OF MEDICAL AU HORITY, “The Lancet,” with the object of putting the Public right oacthe Liquor Question, asked the highest medical authorities for a pronouncement. This if what “The .Lancet" published, ■ ' """ r '. ui : “In view of the statements frequently made as to present mfdfoa| opinion regarding alcohol and alcoholic bewfipi, ;, %e)' ■ ' think it desirable to issue the following short statement on Abe ’ subject—a ’ which, we believe, represents the opinions of " the '' leading clinical teachers as well as of the great majorityoorf r the medical prac- ; titibhers. ■’ A RAPID AND TRUSTWORTHY. RESTORATIVE—“Recognising that,’ s m alcohol, the requirements of-.the must' be the governing rule, we are convinced* of "the correctness pf-the opinion, long -hnd ,igerierally held, that in alcohol. is a rapid £hd - -trustworthy?re#tbfatnfe;• In numy cases it. may.-be / ti , uly described as life-presetvihg, “owing- to its ■ power to sustain' cardiac • and nervous energy, while protecting the existing nitrogenous tissues." ALCOHOL AS A FOOD—“AS AN ARTICLE TO DIET WE HOLD THAT THE UNIVERSAL BELIEF OF CIVILISED MANKIND, THAT THE MODERATE' USE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IS, FOR ADULTS, USUALLY- BENEFICIAL, IS AMPLY JUSTIFIED," ' : ' . ' -I “We deplore the evils arising from'the abuse of alcoholic beveWgfs, But it is obvious that THERE IS NOTHING, HOWEVER FICIAL, WHICH DOES NOT BY EXCESS RECOME INJURIOUS.’^ (Signed by) ..- ; T. McCALL ANDERSON, M.D., Regius Professor of Meficina, University b! Glasgow. ALFRED Q BARRS. WILLIAM H. BENNETT, K.C.V.0., F.R.C.S. JAMES CHRICHTON BROWNE. W. B; DIXON. 'V ■ . V DYCE DUCKWORTH, M-D , LL.D: . ' . • THOMAS R. FRASER, M.D., F.R.S. , T. R. GLYNN; W: R. GOWERS; M.D., F.R.S. j W.HALLIBURTON, M.D;, LL.D., F-R.C.F., F.R;S.', Processor 1 ology, King's College; London; JONATHAN HUTCHINSON; ROBERT HUTCHISON; ’ EDMUND OWEN;' LL.D., • F.R:C.S.; pr hj; pye smith ; ■ frEd. t. Roberts, B.sc., y F.R^C.P.; EDGECOMBE YENNING. F.B.C.S. . , . That statement impartially expresses the oipnion of the great majority of medical men all over the world* and the view held J by all the great medical authorities. Medical science is opposed to the abuse, and not to'the 'use, of alcohbl. Alcohol Is Necessary. LEADING NEW ZEALAND OPINION. DR. T. H. A. VALINTINEj Chief Medical Officer and ■ Inspector-General ■' 1 of Hospitals, saya’S— "■ •>'*■***; •' __ ■ . “Certainly; from what T have' seen during the Epidemic, 'Z .am convinced that it is necessary that Alcohol should be availableto the people.” DR. KINGTON FYFFE, President of the British Medical Association, say's:— ‘Th tho epidbmio the ihaA who took it (alcohol) in moderation, had the advantage. A man who . took a,. Reasonable anlouht Of ■ -kit' th¥ee ; -Vyj|{#ki& < -a ! not gel the disease so readily people. ; ’ Intake'alc&hbpTOygeff; And ■ I could not have got • -the epidemic without it. In my general practice I have found that la moderate drinker does not. get those atehte disease in the same way as a man ' who does not touch - lit -U *> - ► DO NOT BE MISLED BY DESIGNING FROHIBITIONISTS AND WILY POLITICIANS.

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