PROHIBITION ALWAYS MEANS REDUCED COST OF LIVING.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15040, 7 April 1919, Page 4

PROHIBITION ALWAYS MEANS REDUCED COST OF LIVING.

The second nnancial year in Manitoba the Minister, for Finance gave the Assembly rather an unique Budget speech; the qther day. His nnancial statementwas too second one compiled since protnl^u Was carried- Every column? teus^tho same story of healthy development-, extended enterprise, and all round! gq-aheadness. Modern electric power tor Tactory, farm, workshop, and home,' telephone extensions, • new agricultural colleges and demonstration farms, new +£!, f a 1 d T nation&l apparatus -for-na-tional well-boring were among the work* successfully financed throughout S year. Over and above this gigantic expenditure the Budget Statement shows %f?m^ Vplw <* .34,200,000 dollars £™! S?'°°°\ °? assets a ~L he assets of the previous year are J#?'<*»dollar3 (a shade under *£$$$* <£jU,. ■lhese are the worSs that wilt neip repatriation. A vote for prohibition is a vote for reduced cost of living A veto for1 prohibition i,s a vote for prospen ty. homo^.;7resh--a*gniies cf employment, higher wages; shorter hours, "a hii-ner standard of living, a-nd increased comfoi-t, health, and, prosperity all round. Vote for the Child' and tho Nation on Thursday, April 10th.