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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 259, 5 December 1914, Page 12

; The amount of wool Messrs Matsoi and Co. are offering at Monday's wool sales is 2818 bales. "'"■"**' " *'""'"'

Drink is no more to be Blamed for Drunkenness Than Money is to be Blamed For Embezzlement! The Liquor' Hack pretends tliat money and liquor are of similar importance. Are they'?. The Liquor Hack holds that money leads to embezzlement in the same way that liquor leads to drunkenness. DOES IT? MONEY IS ESSENTIAL TO MODERN COMMUNITY. A Community without Liquor would lose a certain pleasure of a. replaceable kind and would (the actuaries say) be healthier and (the economists say) be wealthier. But a community without money as a medium of exchange would be paralysed. The use of Liquor gives some men pleasure that can be obtained in better quality in other ways; and it gives other men (numbered by thousands in N.Z.) unutterable, degradation. The use of money gives to all men the bread they eat, the clothes they wear, and the books they read. But some men embezzle this essential money, and more men become drunkards on this nonessential liquor. So they do. Men do determine to be thieves. Did you ever hear of a man who determined to be a drunkard? Never! from Noah to the best derelict at Roto Eoa. A man known to be an embezzler is never given a chance again. A man known to be a drunkard is given a chance to become a worse one by every publican in whose till he puts sixpence. See what water the Liquor Sieve holds. Drink makes Drunkards. Drink Drugs Drinkers. The proposal before the Democracy is to banish the Nonessential Liquor for the sake of Essential Manhood. ARE YOU WILLING ?