EXPERIENCE PROVES. MORE TRUTH FUL TESTIMONY. Mr. Matthew Lcsnick, Domestic Relations Officer, Yonkers, Now York, who has handled 5000 cases of domestic infelicity in his fourteen years’ service, speaking of Prohibition in the United States, says:— “People do not like drastic interference with their habits, so there is more drunkenness. In 1917 87 cases of dvunkonness were brought to this Court. In 1924 there were 242 cases. 'This is caused by the interference of the Prohibition law.” And yet the professional Prohibitionists of New Zealand ask yo.u—in tfie face of such evidence as the foregoing—to sacrifice ypur personal rights and allow them to. control your habits.—fAdvt.] 23
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16870, 27 October 1925, Page 12
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