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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14855, 5 December 1911, Page 6

Auckland, * 5/12/11. JQEAR pRIENDS— rjiHE . . J^ONOPOLY AEE ANXIOUS ABOUT YOUB "LIBERTY ; M IT IS OBVIOUS YOU ARE ALSO ANXIOUS ABOUT THEIRS, " WHICH YOU INTEND GIVING THEM IN NO-LICENSE. THIS IS WHAT THE TRADE CALLS RECIPROCITY, SO NO DEMOCRAT COULD TAKE EXCEPTION TO IT; NOT EVEN THE LIQUOR MONOPOLY OR THE WOWSER. IJIHE jyjONOPOLY ARE ANXIOUS ABOUT CLEAN SPOET. WE HAVE SEARCHED THE GOVERNMENT AND SPORTING RECORDS, AND THE ONLY SPORT THEY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO IS NOT BY ANY MEANS CLEAN, BUT DEGRADING—TO GET MEN, WOMEN, AND YOUTHS INTOXICATED,. NOT GRATUITOUSLY, BUT FOE GAIN. BY TAKING TOEIE , HABD-EAENTSD WAGES, AND THEN LEAVING THEM AND THEIE FAMILIES ,TO THE CARE OF THE GUTTEE AND POLICE. IS NOT WHAT THE WOWSER CALLS CLEAN, BUT DIRTY, MEAN, AND CONTEMPTIBLE. IJIHE jyj-ONOPOLY ARE ANXIOUS THAT SLY GROG-SELLING SHOULD NOT EXIST IN OUR MIDST, BUT AS IT NOW EXISTS DOUBTLESS THE LIQUOR MONOPOLY KNOW TO WHOM IT WAS SUPPLIED. DO YOU THINK THE POLICE HAVE AT SUNDRY TIMES CONVICTED THE EIGHT PERSONS? WHEN NO-LICENSE BECOMES LAW WE THINK THE GREAT DEMOCEACY WILL ,BE INTELLIGENT. ENOUGH TO TREAT THE WHOLESALER AND RETAILER OF SLY LIQUOR AS LAW-BEEAKEES, AND DOLE OUT TO THEM THE LIBERTY WHICH A GOOD FEW OF THEIR UNFORTUNATES NOW DO IN DURANCE VILE. IJHE pRESS ARE ALSO ANXIOUS, AND SUGGEST . EDUCATING THE PEOPLE TO DRINK LESS UNDER THE LIQUOR MONOPOLY'S SYLLABUS. AT THIS WE AEE NOT SURPRISED, AS THEY ALWAYS ARE ANXIOUS ABOUT ANY SOCIAL REFORM*'. AND ADVISE CAUTION. jIT IS A WISE POLICY TO PUESUE. BUT IF THE DEMOCRACY WERE TO BE GUIDED BY THE EDITORIALS OF A LARGE SECTION' OF THE PRESS THEY WOULD BE RIDING IN WHEELBAEEOWS OE GO-CARTS TO PREVENT SERIOUS ACCIDENTS.THE WOWSEE IS OPPOSED TO LUKE-WARM-NESS ON SOCIAL REFORMS, INTRODUCED BY LARGE MAJORITIES. rpHE pEESS WILL ALSO REMIND YOU ABOUT THE DANGER OF NO-LICENSE ENCOUEAGING HOME-DRINKING, BUT THIS BOGEY HAS' BEEN SMOTHERED BY THE DECBEASED DEINKING IN NOLICENSE AREAS. THE WOWSERS ADMIT YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO ELIMINATE DRINK FROM OUR MIDST BY NOLICENSE. BUT IF WE CAN reduce the WASTE IN DRINK AND MISERY 75 PER CENT. IT WILL GIVE THE DEMOCRACY 75 PER CENT. MORE SPENDING POWER. IJIHE pRESS, ALONG WITH THE LIQUOR MONOPOLY, ARE A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT ■ NO-LICENSE • AFFECTING THE TOURIST TRAFFIC, BUT THIS NEEDN'T WORRY THEM, AS' MOST OF THE TOURISTS WITH WHOM WE HAVE COME IN CONTACT WERE MORE OF THE WOWSER THAN THE BOOZER TYPE. ASSUMING THEY WERE NOT, ARE YOU TO BE DOMINATED BY A FEW HUNDRED BIRDS OF PASSAGE... PER ANNUM? WE EMPHATICALLY SAY, "NO." WE UNDERSTAND THE LIQUOR MONOPOLY INTENDS HURLING IN-A LOT OF MIS-STATEMENTS. ETC.. AT THE LAST MOMENT. JUST PUT YOUE COMMEECIAL VALUE ON THEM. AND CONSIGN THEM TO OBLIVION! '' " ; JQEAE pBIENDS-rWE ARE EXTEEMELY SOEEY THAT THE LIQUOE MONOPOLY HAS NOT OPENLY ENTERED THE DEBATABLE AEENA. AEE THEY ASHAMED OF THEIR RECENT MIS-STATEMENTS, AND, RETIRING IN A COWARDLY. JEERING FASHION, CRYING, "WOWSEE, WOWSER?" WE ARE NOT ASHAMED AT BEING CALLED WOWSEE, IT IS PEEFEEABLE TO BOOZER. We are, >JIHE QOY., CEsllx Paid up.)