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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12283, 31 October 1925, Page 6

A Manifesto: Issued by the Prohibitionists when a Bill was introduced in the N.Z. Parliament to make the possession of liquor a crime No stronger statement of What Prohibition actually means has eVer been published! i This is what the N.Z. Alliance said “To make the possession of Liquor a crime, the effective detection of which would require the correlative right of search in every home, would be to establish an odious and inquisitorial tyranny utterly foreign to the fundamental principles of British law, and to the whole spirit of British liberty.” “We demand the right of the public to control public policy, but strenuously protest against the exercise .of that control being coupled with and hampered by an interference with private acts and private habits, which stop short of being a public nuisance.” ' “We protest against the threatened invasion of the privacy of the home by inspectors or by police: the espionage that Clause 9 (total prohibition) would produce; the strained relations and suspicions that would arise among neighbours; the incentive to breaches of the peace on the part of decent and selfrespecting citizens which would accompany inquisitorial questionings and domiciliary visits, etc This is the law the professional Pro* Mbitionists are now trying to force on the people of New Zealand. Vote Continuance Would you sanction by your vote a law which even the Prohibitionists themselves would not tolerate? You can avoid this “ODIOUS AND INQUISITORIAL TYRANNY” by striking out the two bottom lines on your ballot paper. ! vote for National Continuance I fag. State Pwcuacg and -Control for National PwoHism k i Strike out the TWO I BOTTOM lines. ! You must strike i I i f out two lines or f I your vote will not I count. I