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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 510, 13 November 1928, Page 18

Silence gives Consent that public opinion is so strongly against prohibition, there is a danger that some electors may feel that their vote will not be required. Avoid this danger of being caught unawares by a minority vote. Remember it is possible for one vote to carry prohibition to New Zealand’s everlasting regret. Don’t leave it to the other fellow —-he may be leaving it to you. Points to remember on Continuance Day! 1. For thirty years prohibition has lain like a log across the path of true temperance legislation. New Zealand already stands head and shoulders above other countries as a land of temperate and lawabiding citizens. An attempt to impose total abstinence by threat of fines and imprisonment is absolutely unwarranted. Such an attempt insults every free man and woman. 2. No religion excepting Mohammedanism condones prohibition. Christianity condemns it. The principle of persecuting the user * instead of punishing the abuser is as un-Christiari as it is un-British. 3. Prohibition denies those rights that no free man will yield. It invites lawlessness. It saps the moral fibre by creating a disrespect for a law that cannot be respected, which spreads to laws in general. Prohibition has ever left a trail of unparalleled crime and corruption. It is a law that has caused more wrong-doing than any lack of laws could possibly do. 4. Prohibition would cost millions annually. It would immediately throw THOUSANDS OUT OF EMPLOYMENT— causing unrest and business depression. Prohibition is doubly a burden. It cuts off a valuable source of revenue, and on top of that requires a huge expenditure for its administration. It would impose BURDENSOME TAXATION at a time when the most pressing need of this country is to get taxation down. 5. EIGHT COUNTRIES have tried prohibition; already six have cast it out. No country has ever had prohibition back ! But above all, remember—however strongly you feel on the matter, it is only your vote that counts. Silence gives consent. Don’t be caugbt unawares. Voice yonr protest and VOTE CONTINUANCE “A Vote for Continuance Is a Vote for Temperance ”