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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20072, 9 October 1928, Page 15

SUPER.--GOVERNMENT " MENACE. TACTICS OF N.Z. ALLIANCE. Anion? Iho member!; of Parliament pledged (o tlio New Zealand Allianco are a number who represent; " Continuance " constituencies. This, in itself, is sufficient indication of the undemocratic policy of tho Alliance, in at (erupting to force its opinions over the heads of the people. As (lie Christ church Press said in a, recent editorial, "there is no danger, that prohibit ion will be carried by popular vote, but there is a risk that prohibition fanaticism may seriously dislocate the mechanism of politics, and the threats of the Alliance must bo resented by all supporters of representative government." Tho New Zealand Alliance is not concerned with the welfare of New Zealand. It has only one avowed object—the overthrow of the licensed trade, and so long as it can persuade a member of Parliament to support it, it dloes not care a rap about his views on important questions with which the country has to deal. Its policy is to flood Parliament with men of its own choice, who, they hope, will be able to "put prohibition over " without tho question being submitted to the * actors at all. New Zealnnders should; an emphatic declaration on. PoUinS.- •• •-■ that they resent such attempts > . with the m.n»hom, (toy ■"** seat them in Parl^^r^- , ,