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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 15091, 13 December 1919, Page 2

labors # jjjes Off; WHAT THJ&,.MAORJI^D WORKER THINKS -OF AND THE PRQHjBI^IOiMSaS. , : One pf the. most surprising incidents m a week crowded; with -incidents has been a rem^ykajjle. 6ditorial ; -vvith 'regard to Prohibition: nirhich " appeased- in- the . official organ of the Labor Party— The* Maoriland Worker. . The fact -that" this ) journal— whjclv probTibJy u . carries r mpT|a weight and -ijifluencp r; wxth *:a- .* specific;! class of ' the uCQmmim&y ;ith&n -. any other paper m ,she Ja^imon^houldfibe -prepared to. .ftljiOSv: ?its ;. editor to .make so strong an. appeal is:. but another : proof of. the steady swhjg.of pppular-, opinion m favor of #i\ring Prohibitibn a trial— especially as Jit costs nothing . to .do so. TJib edS'toriar reads \;as , follows ;-^- --.WT v -WITH THE LIQUOR TRADE. Thb. liquor ; trafiSc must be destroyed. ■QtT December; vl7 , $&.-• electors IwjU • 'jje given a charipe to- wipe^ l -^ie^f«nV' 6f.the open- bar, a^we-hopjp'tHdy'AviH use ; It ..effectively. r lThis no t iiojis -tratte, as it is conducted ;^o^4y,^a'*a> { open .soy ; 0-.on the body social: ■The' people; haw the ebojxys^vj^ing^oryjlie Liquor • ' w as it w/forvS^eSPurcliase-ahd .Contt-ol of the Trade, "landl tor Prohibition, .We-.ta-ke- it . foivv.gtanted that Labor supporters • will ' vote against Cbntjniuance and for ''State ' : -Purchase and- Control or for -Prohibition. As between the ;la-sb rfcro'^ borne m MM ,that"ai"Vpto fdfr State Jpuwhaso scarHes With "it" comnensatiph '.B9fi^m" .^15,000,0(10;';':. :.***>. Wol<t;h • thl s.'to-tfie l - bitlon is "'& araßfcip ' rejnedj;; /dpubt%3, i but it i'esembli?s7iriVtJji's^>kpepr'ihe!ix'eforms' 1 demandeii- by Tiaboi': J The- moral effect of it vvo.uld Jie a g^'ai .ass^t fa MbOl',' as it would 'acctistoni' this p6dple, I intensely pojxsprvatiye ,like i ail Bri-tigh ' qpmraunities; TerpMipn^ry . :yesorw; ?'.: | the pepplp a/;e %ep^qd ' r t'd ( g6T the ' length' of Prohibition, "but "it is ' well ' •pforth a .trjal. Mr . tlie next ,thr,ee. years social' problems -will face the ' pepple, calljng .for a cle.ar .head, and' , with the liquor.* trade shelved, t"he iray \ wduld be rf clear fpr .nat-ippal ''"■■. and tho Labor Movenl^t" ':' '^p'mP "»<> 1 justified m; «alHn».^.,p>b~\^^ibiobipfljfets ; t: to_ support i. .other n}uoli : needed ' social;: reforntp. Besides, even \% tSPJßftrqry I I reign of Pjcohibitipfi^ wpuJdi'h^Vle i.an ammense ( educational value, and it> is' safe to say- that ;ey,e,n if ..^be peppjp w^gre .not prepared to continue. Prohibition. '"'. lii'ey would -never go back .to"4p!ppe.Ti/ybar,. orv sanction so morally 1 ihj3.§i#.lib|lp' Xi propos.jtipn as f :QbmpensAtion" tb v! ,the Ldquoi!' Trade, Jicie^^^ x it l w^rii jear to year only. ■';■ A$ ; a " nipqpipi ttii national ; discipline,' ;jre believe iPijohibition be pf/^aT^ue'itp'^hb State, apart from- (ts gain tfc'e hatidnal health and and would react most beneficially "on tKe Labor Movement, which is sorely hampered by fJ^V -vested int^v^&is a^ .thpae, of the '"^9? a(^ e - "'*h;^se' .Views, tot <Jourse,i are the editorial views of * The -Wpuker, uttered (n tho oxercisd of its undoubted right to" an individual ppijiioii," f jtre' not to be understood as ; thos^oif 1 t)he Labor Party,^which is 'neutral on this qUestion, leaving tjho'^ja'ttQr to. be decided -by the elgctPrsl ■ 'W6 Hope/that Labor supporters will lipt JiesH-ate to vote against Contin-uanice' m/ .ajny case, and .thii? remove- one of the worst' stuiibjing-blocks ,in.,tho path Of Labor:'

OORNS! CQR^Sr CORN 3! Why endure them! BarrncloiighV Progandpa has b ( eon, ew»g ,'-,Qp^» : fpt twenty years. l/_ all Btoves, or -jfrqin Rheumo Ltd./^llbgton.' ~ Box 1247. 1 a;P.o. -Barracloitgh'o Neicyifto atoßs f ppthii aoh.e. p-^^MO rap;dly .relieves matisin. ' '"-.' ; *'* ■' " ''■'■• i. ■' . ■ . ■ ■ . •• ■ . ■■■ .-"- "^"^ ! " ? — : ' f INrLUENZA jtjJUOALyPTUII wid C»«mhQr Tabl,«ti '