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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15027, 22 March 1919, Page 4

THE PROHIBITION POLL. j The greatest curse of the small trader jis the credit system. People get on the I books and stay there. The ''Trade 1' j knows a trick worth two of tEaf. If ,'! you want six pen'orth of stagger-juice-.it s cash on the nail, and if you want i just another glass of trip-me-quiek it's cash on the nail' again. That is where the honest-trader falls down in his contest with the dope-dispenser. That ;, chap always "gets his blow in fust!" If iwe' \vere. a small trader our first move would be to put Booze out. He is right "J the track of legitimate business. In i Masterton the traders always remark to investigators: "The first thing we noticed about no-license was that people paid their accounts quick on time" rhat is never a boast in tEe- licensed districts! Never! Strike out the, top hne on Thursday, April 10th. X?