QUESTIONS FOR WOMEN VOTERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 17 November 1922, Page 7

QUESTIONS FOR WOMEN VOTERS

A SERIOUS RESPONSIBILITY

la America the women were foremost in supporting Prohibition, hoping thereby to restrain erring sons and hus- . Hands. Mrs Elizabeth Marbury, a prominent New Yorker, in the Chicago Herald of May 22n'd last, wrote, that “they will be the first to demand its repeal. Temperance mothers will Avipe out the Eighteenth Amendment (the ‘dry’ law). It has taken the saloon from the corner and smeared it in every dance trail and restaurant.” Do the - Avoinon of this country realise that if Prohibition is earned paid spies may enter their homes and pry round their kitchens to see that they have not been making “home brew?” For the Prohibition law already on the Statute Book, provides that “It shall be unlawful to manufacture intoxicating liquor of any description.” That bars the making of Avine or beer for your OAvn consumption. Then the revenue of this country will he short to the time of £2,500,000 an- ‘ nually. As (here is no other luxury in such Avidc use us alcoholic beverages, litis decreased revenue will have to be made up by extra- taxation on the necessities of life. For instance, if it is put- on tea, then tea. will cost 0s 6d per pound. If on sugar, (hen you will have to pay 10d a pound for sugar, Avhioh means that jam, rakes, biscuits, etc., will also bo doubled in price. Another thing. Do avoid en wish to throw thousands more out of employment? And would they like to have (heir mnn-fnlk secretly drinking vile concoctions instead of a glass of good wholesome liquor now and again? These arc questions that all Avomen electors should ponder seriously before going to the polls. Having done so, they will assuredly Vote Continuance.*