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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 253, 28 November 1914, Page 14

Strike out the Top Line on each Paper The Liquor Monopoly is troubled about "Revenue WHOSE REVENUE? ITS OWN, OF COURSE S The liquor trade scoops from the drinking public over £5,000,000 each year, and returns to the Government (including ail excise revenue and import duties) less than £900,000. Who gets the other £4,000,000 ? Far better for the public, including abstainers, to pay the £900,000 in direct taxation, if it is needed, and save the £4,000,000 now appropriated by the liquor monopoly. Therefore Strike out the Top Line on Both Ballot Papers thus: I Vote for National Prohibition I Vote for No-License FIRST REVENUE LESSON: The Liquor Traffic does not pay revenue; it merely collects it from the drinking public, and charges 400 per cent, for collecting it. ?■ SECOND REVENUE LESSON: The revenue received is not sufficient to pay for the cleaning up of the evils caused by drink. SUPREME EGOIST! If the storekeeper claimed that he was the philanthropist who paid our taxes, we should apply the above term to him. And yet his goods carry import duties in the same-way as the goods of the publican. But the liquor trader is the only one who claims to be the financial pillar of the country. The average.duty on all imported goods is about 25 per cent. The average duty on spirits is about 30 per cent. New Zealand spends £2,000,000 annually on spirits, of wbicb £673,868 is returned in revenue. (N.Z. Year Book, p. 391). If this money was spent in imported goods, such as clothes/furniture, etc., about £500,000 would still be returned in revenue. New Zealand spends annually over £2,000,000 on colonial beer, on which the revenue received amounts to* £122,339 (see N.Z. Year Book, p. 396). The same amount of money spent on other revenue-producing goods would yield as revenue the enormous sum of £500,000, or over four times the amount derived from beer. Therefore it would be better for "the Revenue " if the colossal amount of money now expended'with. the liquor traders'was disbursed among our storekeepers. 'To accomplish this Strike Out the Top Line on Both Ballot Papers. Strike out the Top Line on each "Paper

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