•..'■■ *_ . * . ■ ■ . ', - ■ " ■ ■ ' , - . unswi? wn t TPi?iirw \ STOP THE s w° king waste of money \ Vu -IJa IMU JLjlUJ!jliw>X!i » to promote the prosperity of the district i ■"■"■■ ,_ TOSiiMUIiATE EVERY LEaiTIM ATE TRADE ! New Zealand spends £3,000,000 a year oil drink! The NelsonJElebtorate alone spends over £50,000 a year! What good cfoes it do us? Nay, what an amount of injury it does us! Fifty thousand pounds in Nelson worse than wasted! "VOTER S ! ST©P TS-15S WASTE I VOTE NO LINCENSE— TO SA^E THE PUBLIOA»S S Wliv does every Life Insurance Company object to insure the lives of publicans? Because they so often become the victims of drink.* Because so many finally drop into drunkard's graves !*a cruelly murderous trade! VOTERS! SAVE THE PUBLICANS! " VOTERS! SAVE THE PUBLICANS! lUIiJ NX) JjlVJJi^ldJj . jQ REDUCE LUNACY! TO ALLEVIATE BffIBSERY ■ I Dr ,ilackay -wants 'a padded room for the increasing number of D'.T'S— this in "SOBER NELSON." Make that padded room . . unnecessary! ■ . ;" ' Always and everywhere, what niore potent cause of misery, of Lunacy, of Crime, than alcoholic Drink. VOTERS-^-VOTE THEM OUT-— VOTE NO LICENSE ! >J STRANGLE ERE IT CROWS TOO STRONG ;;-:-,-■ '■■'■..- ■■!•.. k;:.j the cruellest, the most unscrupulous of trusts. ■• - x A worse source of political corruption, a greater menace to good government than fifty Standard Oil Trusts I Their battle cry : "OUR TRADE*' OUfr POLITICS." .„ VOTERS— TRUST NO TRUSTS iMfOTE NO LICENSES SAVE OUR YOUNG MEN !: SATE OUR iWGMENi ' SAVE OUR CHILDREN! , The open bars are the recruiting ground for the awful army of drunkards. VOTERS! CLOSE THE BARS , ,.. ...'.' VOTERS'! CLOSE THE BARS ■ FOR GOD, HOME, AND HUMANITY STRIKE OUT THE ;MfiIJI?tV-- :
■>- 1; -- : NO UICENSE; -V- /'.; :^ ? r ; '; A DECLARATION; ; . -* WE, ' the undersigned Ministers of religion, knowing that the traffic ;in liquor as at present carried .on^ throughout the; Dominion is attended^ with continuous social and r moral, evils to the community, feel it;oui; duty to appeaLto the various congregations we. represent, and to. citizens' generally to consider their responsibility as electors on the great; question which they are called uppn ; to decide, on the 17th inst. . . ■ : -- Without making any affirmation for or against the present Licensing Act as the only legislation capable; : ,pjj dealing with the liquor problem, we -desire to say that as'the only: alternative which the law of the land permits us, at present to. take is to vote either for the continuance or discontinuance of the open bar (for reduction is a form of continuance), W^ ARE BOUND TO VOTE FOR ITS DISCONTINUANCE, and respectfully urge our fellow citizens to join us m striking out the "top line." . • CHARLES 0. NELSON. " J. p. KEMPTHORNE. \ T. A. MEYER. J. ELLIOTT FOX. ARTHUR J. CARR. JAMES -H. ; JOHN CRUMP. I C. H. GARLAND- . , S. H. D. PERYMAN. STANLEY W. JENKIN. B. L. THOMAS. -HY. CHAS. COOK, Adjt. WILLIAM L. JONES, (Evßngclist.) 4625
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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12398, 13 November 1908, Page 3
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466Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12398, 13 November 1908, Page 3
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