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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 262, 9 December 1914, Page 11

CITIZENS! Remember the following Facts and ACT ACCORDINGLY Remember ' THAT SINCE THE LAST POLL, three years ago, 35,484 PERSONS HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF DRUNKENNESS, and the number is increasing every year. Many of these were first offenders. Remember THAT THE DRINK BILL FOE THE LAST THREE YEARS is £12,088,180. We worse than waste £4,000,000 per vear, and we receive £900,000 in revenue, but this is almost swallowed up by the cost of the liquor traffic to the country. In view of the coming expenditure on the war, we cannot afford to continue to waste £4,000,000 annually on liquor. THAT CLOSING- THE BAR does not mean closing the hotels. / Many of them will be kept open* Remtember THE GREAT PROFITS OF THE BREWERS. The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, Minister of Customs, said recently: "In 1911 the 60 breweries employed 741, and paid in wages £109,544. The subscribed capital of the 60 breweries, £477,000. The annual profits of the 60 breweries, £250,000. So that two years' profits greatly exceed the total amount of capital engaged in the industry, and one year's profits are much more than double "the total annual wages. The manufacturing profits of tfie breweries, so far as I have been able to get the figures, are a quarter of a million a year. In order to enable them to earn that they pay £109,000 a year in wages." BREWING PAYS THE BREWER, BUT IT DOES NOT PAY THE LABOURER. Remember THAT THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC IS THE ENEMY OF THE WAGE EARNER. John Bums, M.P., gives Remember IN THAT THE 17 INVERCARGILL HOTELS WERE VALUED AT £65,453, and paid £162 in rates the year before No-License was carried. Last year they were valued at £89,345, and paid £642 in rates. An incretse of £23,802 under No-License. The experience of No-License districts shows that rates do not rise. Remember THAT THE BREWERIES AND THE BARS ARE DOING US MORE HARM THAN THE GERMANS OR AUSTRIANS WILL. There are about 1000 drink deaths in New Zealand every year. This means 3000 drink deaths since the last poll. Remember THAT THE LIQUOR DEALERS ARE LAW BREAKERS. There are 1244 publicans in' New Zealand. During the last 12 years 1230 publicans have been convicted of illegal practices, and last year about one'in seven were convicted of breaches of the law. Remember THAT DURING- THE LAST 12 YEARS. 69,164 HAVE BEEN CONVICTED OF DRUNKENNESS, who have previously been convicted. During the last three years there have been 18,00 first offenders. BREWERS MAKE FORTUNES, BUT LITTLE LABOUR IN DOING SO. Remember THE CHILDREN. YOU HAVE A DUTY TO THEM. This is one of the thousands we ask you to protect. You would not like to see your own boy come home drunk. ■ ~ mmm mmm m iiiii li ■: ; - THIS YEAR SIX STATES HAVE VOTED FAVOUR OF PROHIBITION IN AMERICA. they are: Virginia, West Virginia, Washington/Colorado, Arizona, Oregon. These six States have an area four times as large as New Zealand, and a population five times larger than that of this Dominion. OUT OF A POPULATION OF 92 MILLIONS, ABOUT 50 MILLIONS ARE NOW LIVING IN PROHIBITION AREAS. Remember THE COST OF THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC TO THE COUNTRY. It helps to fill our Police Courts, gaols, asylums, charitable institutions, inebriate homes, hospitals. It causes domestic tiiihappiness and misery. It blights men's characters and ruins their chances in life. Each year about 1000 persons in New Zealand go down to their graves through liquor. THINK THIS MATTER OUT WITHOUT PREJUDttik Remember THE SUCCESS OF NO-LICENSE IN NEW ZEALAND. IT IS EIGHT YEARS SINCE A BALCLUTHA RESIDENT WAS CONVICTED OF DRUNKENNESS. Pretty good, isn't itf Not much sly-grog there. In ASHBURTON business is prosperous, and there is very little crime. There is very little sly grog. In three years there have been nine convictions for sly grog selling. In OAMARU No-License is a splendid success. The rates are 3d in the £ less than in the last year- of license. Business never better. Poverty has almost vanished. INVERCARGILL, BRUCE, ETC., HAVE THE SAME STORY TO TELL. In NO-LICENSE DISTRICTS NEW CROPS OF DRUNKARDS ARE NOT BEING MADE AS IN LICENSE DISTRICTS. In License areas £4 5/1 per head is spent annually on lienor. In No-License districts it is 18/6 per head, about' One-fifth. Remember THE FIGURES AT LAST LICENSING POLL (1911) For National Prohibition . . .. .. .. 259,943 Against National Prohibition .. . . . . 205,661 MAJORITY FOR NATIONAL PROHIBITION 54,282 Yet because of the iniquitous three-fifths handicap, which, exists to defend the liquor trade, thenars were not closed. REMEMBER, THAT ANY CANDIDATE WHO STANDS FOR THE THREE-FIFTHS HAS NO RIGHT TO EXPECT SUPPORT IN A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY. Remember you have Two Votes and can vote for A YORKSHIRE STORY A REAL GOOD 'UN An old mail and his wife were in the habit of having a quart of beer between' them each night. They were informed , that, if they bought the, beer by the barrel they would save twopence a quart After they had drunk their first quart from the barrel, the old man said: "Well, wife, we've saved tuppence." "Yes," she replied. "Well, then," he said, "let's have another quart and save another tuppence.'' They saved fourpenee and lost eightpence. The liquor people say: "We find one million revenue." Sensible men reply: "Yes, but we worse than waste about five millions in liquor before we can get a million in revenue." Let us spend the five millions in legitimate business and save the country] from the disastrous effects of the war. No-License & Prohibition STRIKE OUT the TOP LINE ON BOTH BALLOT PAPERS DURATION OF WAR f LEDGE Lord Kitchener's Sister Asks Soldiers to Promise Total Abstinence; Lord Kitchener's sister, Mrs Frances E. J. Parker, lias instituted a teetotal pledge for soldiers for the duration of the wat. In: a letter to the -'' Daily Mirror," dated October 27, she explains her object as follows: — ' , . "Yesterday my brother, Lord Kitchener, ~made an appeal to the public asking that all whs. desire the efficiency- and. w%ll-being, Of our troops would refrain from treating them to:'drinks' or setting temptation befor# them. '' May I, as his sister, supplement this" appeal by asking the men themselves whether they will not, during the period of the war, abstain from all intoxicants, except when such are ordered by a doctor? "I think I am right in saying that in no way could they give my brother a. truer proof of, their loyalty to his wishes than by making this promise. "."May I also suggest that: if the same pledge were taken by those left behind, then the men who have rallied to the colours would be lifiked to their wives, parents, and families at; hpjne by a bond which . would be for the good of all?" The suggested pledge, which is headed, '■'f Help my brother by signing this patriotic pledge, " runs as follows:—. * i I'll order that I- may be of the greatest service to my country and carry out the wishes of the Commander-in-Chief at this time of national peril, I promise until the end .'of the war to abstain from all intoxicants (fexcept \yhen such art ordered by a doctor), :aiuF to encourage others to do the same."