Facts which Should Influence Your Vote!

NZ Truth, Issue 334, 18 November 1911, Page 1

Facts which Should Influence Your Vote!

' 1- WHAT THE ISSUES ARE. , Under the. new (1910) Licensing Act the old issue of REDUCTION is eliminated. In its place is substituted the wider demand for Dominion Prohibition. You will thus have to vote (on two separate papers) — (a) For, or against, . Local No-License, and (b) For, or against, '^ , - L _ - - y. Dominion Prohibition. ... Afc the last election 'Prohibitionists, to catch the vote of the MODERATE MAN, disclaimed any intention of interfering with his private and personal right to drink. They used the power he 'gave them to immediately force on the drastic Act of 1910. DQ NOT FALL' INTO THE TRAP. Treat both issues alike/ for their effect is identical.

2. JBQW PROHIBITION DEMANDS 0 |f , ' / GROW. | Under.the .1893 Act— Z y NojLicense simple meant NO HOTEL BARS. Under the 1905 Act— T ■ No-License meant no Hotel Bars, no Olub Ohart- . _ ters. together .with added difficulties of ob- ' I,'1 ,' " i taining private supplies m No-License areas. -Under the 1910 Act— , I No-License .virtually- means No-Liquor, and if J ' V Dominion Prohibition is, carried, no vote to . repeal it can be taken for 9 years, namely, un- ... til 1920. v HAVE YOU REALISED THIS? U! A

_..- ' INDUSTRIAL^AND. COMMERCIAL EFFECTS. - 1. £1,000,000; annually increased -taxes to replace -revenue now paid by liquor. 2. 11,000 Breadwinners (earning two millions, annually) thrown out of work. 3. Increased rates; decreased business, and industrial stagnation.

> _Pirst Paper. I VOTE FOR CONTINUANCE.

3. THE EFFECTS OF PROHIBITION. LOCAL NO-LICENSE Takes effect m 6 months. It then abolishes all hotel i „ licenses m the affected area, all club charters, private j lockers, stops innocent" storage for private consumption. It makes it an offence to toast your friends at a wedding', ; a social, smoke concert, or send-off. Renders your HOUSE j "LIABLE TO RAID without notice to see if ybu have un- ; registered liquor, whilst harassing you m a thousand j other ways. v DOMINION PROHIBITION. Dominion Prohibitiou^proyides for the cancellation of all hotel, wine, spirit, and brewery licenses, N.Z. wine shops, amd ,club charters, TOTALLY PROHIBITS manufacture . '(ecven of 'hom'e-inade wine),' importation, or sale of alcohol. An example of experimental legislation run mad.

Second .Paper. , • ■ ■ I VOTE AGAINST NATIONAL PROHIBITION. FOR -NATIONAL PROHMft¥is&p