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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18265, 5 December 1922, Page 8

ELECTORS ALL ! ELECTORS ALL ! Don't forget that you have it in YOUR hands to make or mar thi3 splendid country of ours. Your vote on the Continuance Issue will be the deciding factor as to whether New Zealand iis to be a free, happy, prosperous country, or whether it is to suffer from all the evils that Prohibition has brought to other countries. ' PROHIBITION IN U.S.A. i, HAS RESULTED IN : AN ALARMING INCREASE IN DRUG-TAKING. THE GREATEST CRIME WAVE IN THE NATION'S HISTORY. AN ENORMOUS CROP OF BOOTLEGGERS AND PEDLERS OF ILLICIT LIQUOR. WHOLESALE DISRESPECT FOR ALL LAWS. DISTILLING AND BREWING IN THE HOME DESPITE THE LAW. HIGHER TAXATION. GREATLY INCREASED COST OF LIVING. DO YOU WANT NEW ZEALAND LIKE THAT? If Prohibition comes to New Zealand it will mean AN ANNUAL LOSS IN REVENUE OF £2,500,000 This will have to be made up by HIGHER TAXES on Tea. Sugar, and other foodstuffs. EXTRA DUTIES will need to be put on Clothing a3 well as other Necessities of Life. LAND TAXES will go up with a, bound. This will place a still heavier burden on the Farmers. Rents will Eoar even higher than at present. CAN YOU AFFORD TO PAY BIGGER RENTS AND MORE FOR THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE? On iop of this—the carrying of Prohibition must inevitably bring the Worker and the Small Wageearner into the Income Tax net. MORE UNEMPLOYMENT will be one of the worst results of Prohibition, which would throw GOOO Breadwinners out of employment, deprive their 18,000 dependants of a living, besides affecting 30,000 other workers. THE COST OF PROHIBITION NOW PAID BY

VOLUNTARY TAXATION. These extra taxes aro now paid VOLUNTARILY by those people who take a drink. If Prohibition " is carried EVERYBODY WILL HAVE TO MAKE UP THE COST! In addition to all this, there is the cost of " enforcement" (which would never enforce!). An army of Spies. Police, and other officials, together with their equipment, would cost the country another Half Million at a modest estimate. KEEP THIS INIQUITOUS TYRANNY OUT OF NEW ZEALAND ! VOTE CONTINUANCE.