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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 253, 28 November 1914, Page 12

Tories are stodgy old boys who prate about "good old times," and who hate and impede the evangelists of BETTER NEW ONES. Tories shriek against every reform that attracts the Democracy. They spend the millions their monopolies have given them in fooling the public. New Zealand electors are hotfooted on LIQUOR REFORM. The Liquor Lords are at their old game. The Scotch Whisky grandees entreat us through their monocles from every hoarding and advertising page. The New Zealand Beer Kings promote Moderate Leagues, import smart writers, and send obscure orators to up-country halls to the hopeless task of sweeping back the Pacific with a broom. 260,000 electors said in 1911 that THE HOUR FOR SOCIAL ADVANCE HAD COME. A majority of 55,000 electors said that alcohol, because it is an impediment, shall go out of New Zealand life. , -The Monopolists call the 260,000 electors WOWSERS. They Picture them on the hoardings as CADAVEROUS OLD STIGGINS gagging and binding New Zealand, while the ANGEL OF LIBERTY will lift her hands in protest on December 10. This is the FAT MAN'S IN. SULT to the overwhelming majority of *&ew Zealanders. Who binds and gags and drugs strong men? LIQUOR DOES; Who casts a desolation over hundreds of New Zealand homes? LIQUOR DOES. Who despoils the unborn; and ordains that children shall grow up: ilLnourdshed ?, and iuticul^red? LIQUOR does; The ANGEL OF LIBERTY protests. ! What Liquor wants is the Jugular Vein of the Nation. New Zealand, despite the shrunk consumption in No-License Areas, is STEADILY INCREASING HER DRINK BILLS. If she goes on she will be sofuddled that KING COLE. LEERING on his liquor cask will b« entrenched as he is in the -"oV 6 - world. The LIQUOR THEORY is that you cannot be jolly till your nerves are. stimulated in alcohol. The LIQUOR IDEA OF LIFE is so beggarly that they depend for their wit on what they pour down their throats. LIQUOR HUMANITY is so tender that they the 7000 first offenders who are their victims every year, and that long and beery train of unfortunates who have ceased to be men and are now THIRSTS. ; LIQUOR LIBERTY is so antique that it refuses to make any personal concession for tHe sake of humanity. It is outrageously out of date. Advance New Zealand! Sweep out the Tory Monopoly. Vote for a generation that has never seen a drunken man, that has never known a woman robbed of her elementary rights by her husbaiid's thirst. Vote for a CLEAR-EYED DEMOCRACY. End the Beer Dividends of 50 per cent, per annum. Half Your Vice, A Quarter of Your Insanity, and The Mass of Your Poverty. Give the GREATEST MODERN REFORM a chance to make New Zealand GREAT. Strike out the Top Line