THE PROHIBITION POLL.
(Published by Arrangement.)
If liquor is such a good thing, why m it that, m times of national emergency, the authorities naturally close the bars? Why i_ this interference with freedom tolerated? In the public interest? Yes, of course. But why "of course," if it interferes with personal freedom? Simply because when the welfare of everybody is at stake, the selfish pleasures of the individual — his freedom to do as he likes no matter who suffers — must be swept aside. When the authorities closed the railway bars it was done by common consent. Why? Bed«tee everybody realised that it was si^fer to travel with drivers and guards tfho had not "had a taste." Well, then, if alcohol -is bad for drivers and guards, how can it be good for anybody who has responsible work to do? What human, life is safe m these days of fast travel if the man at the steering gear is seeing double? And the same thing applies everywhere, always. • Freedom is not freedom unless it is fool-proof. Make it safe on April 10.*
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14880, 7 April 1919, Page 3
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181THE PROHIBITION POLL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14880, 7 April 1919, Page 3
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