WRIGHT WRONG !

NZ Truth, Issue 327, 30 September 1911, Page 7

WRIGHT WRONG !

MAINE IS RIGHT 1

A Parliamentarian on the Platform.

Is Maine right when it declares Prohibition a failure ?

Is Mr Wright, M.P. wrong when he asks free white men to take ou and try the fake fads that fanatical faddists fancy, but which free, white civilised communities everywhere repudiate and abandon after disastrous experiences resulting from a fair trial ?

The Political Prohibition party of New Zealand, as the denial is likely to become known, opened its active campaign m Auckland on Saturday night, when several open air meetings were' held, but if the action of the people at the polls on the day of the election evidences the same positive protest against the propaganda of the puritanical pietists and and pulpiteer shown at these 'meetings, then surely will the wail of the wowser be heard m the land. The wowser will have w(h)ino- and woe, and be unable to prohibit wine, song and mirth to the freedom loving white population o? .New- ■ Zealand.

Mr R. A. Wright, member of* Parliament for Wellington South, attempted to address a fair sized crowd at the corner ■of Victoria and Queen-streets, Auckland, but was constantly interrupted, with cries of "How about Maine?" ''Tell the truth about Maine." "Remember Maine. "Maine tried it, and they know.-"

Mr Wright then tried to tell. .of. a town where the arrests under License had been 302, r.ud under No^license 89. Someone .intersected,': ''^That's because; the worker and wage earner left it and only the poor bankrupt and windy wowser remained."

Mr Wright was repeatedly dubbed Mi- Wrong, and told he was a Socialist, and to go back to Wellington and mind his own lousiness, and earn the pay the people paid him, which was not for the purpose of furthering the interests of the parson as . against the people. He was j questioned as to what has the wowser ever done for the worker, and what of the wives of the wage earners . m Waihi forced to the washtub. Has the wowser ever found work and wages for the willing workers who were deprived of a well paid job ? Mr Wright then accused the crowd, or those who interjected, of drunkenness or of having taken drink, but was immediately informed that they had not, nor could it be hoped that he would pay for a drink for a white mani, but . that m keeping with his record, he was now seeking get the white people ot New Zealand to adopt the social and religious practices of the Turk, and to aid the worker m. China and India (where the tea comes from) at the- expense of the white worker .and producer employed m the hotel and liquor industry of New Zealand.