CHAUTAUQUA AND PROHIBITION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12019, 24 March 1920, Page 5

CHAUTAUQUA AND PROHIBITION.

To the Editor. SIR,—I have no desire fto take part in the Chautauqua controversy, but a sentence in the letter of your correspondent, J B McKenzie, seems to call for some statement on my part. Among reasons for not being' fond of the Americana he includes the following—“( 9) Their determination rc inflict Prohibition on this country.” Now, Sir, this may be taken by some people to mean that the Prohibition movement in this country is du American enterprise. Permit me, therefore, to point out that the New Zealand Alliance, which conducts the campaign, is an entirely New Zealand institution, staffed by New Zealanders, and not dependent on any outside organisation whatever. Long before America had National Prohibition this Dominion organisation was working for ! the suppression of the liquor traffic, and gained the support of a very large section of the public. America could not inflict prohibition on this country—only 'the electors can do that; and that many of them think well of Prohibition, no matter what they think of Americanisation, is evidenced by the fact that at the last poll that issne easily outdistanced each of the other two issues, while in Marton the vote for National Prohibition was in excess of the other two issues combined. — l am, etc,, PERCY J, OOSSUM, President Eangitikei No-License League, Marton, 22nd March, 1920.