TO THE WOMEN ELECTORS.
Be true to yourselves, your husbands, and your sons. Prohibition means sly grog-shops and worse evils. Therefore, be fair to your men folk, and prefer the clean licensed hotel to the dirty, disreputable shanty, unfit for decent men to enter. Be wise in time. Assert your womanhood. ' Better good liquor in open bars'than bad liquor in bad houses. 5 ' ‘ MR JUSTICE PRING AND MRS HELEN BARTON. Mr Justice Pring to Mrs Barton, Prohibitionist and No-license advocate; “ You would not give brandy to a dying child when brandy was recommended by a doctor?” Mrs Barton: “ No, I would not.” ! Mr Justice Pring: il Well, I might inform you that if you refused to do it, and the child died, you would b© guilty of manslaughter. I hope there are not many who hold the same view s. Mrs Bartoh would not even use brandy to save a person who would otherwise die. We find that Mrs Barton is a woman who is not above slandering other people.” , * ... - ■ ~
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7977, 7 December 1911, Page 6
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170TO THE WOMEN ELECTORS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7977, 7 December 1911, Page 6
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