PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17843, 26 July 1921, Page 6

PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN.

MARION MEMORIAL IJECTURE.

The third of the Marion memorial series of lectures on prohibition was delivered by Mrs. Harrison Lee-Cowie in the Town Hall concert chamber last evening. The. Rev. J. A. Reid, formerly of Canada, presided. The attendance was small, but the speaker's remarks were followed with interest. The chairman, in his opening remarks, spoke of his personal experience of converts to prohibition in America, who had been actuated by economic and business motives. Mrs. Lee-Cowie's subject was "The Modern Goliath," or "The World's Fight Against Alcoholism," and she briefly traced the history of the world-wide movement against alcohol from the- times of the early reformers until the present day. In criticism of the argument that the revenue wonld lose considerably by the enforcement of prohibition, the speaker said the cost of converting men into criminals by supplying them "with drink was enormous. Abolish Mrink, and for every twelve policemen needed to-day only one wonld be necessary. The police force and the gaols largely existed because of the menace of drink. Even were it not a fact that prohibition meant economising, it was nevertheless true that righteousness, and not revenue, exalted a nation.