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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15041, 8 April 1919, Page 2

'• * - ■/ ■ lo wait for the poll at next Gendral I Election with the idea of gaining Prohibition 1 without Compensation would be a course which I could only result in disaster. I ' I.' "fc "B •! • • m . . . _ m. rrohibition must be won now, because I the only fair, just and "equitable poll that the great I ational issue can possibly have, for some years I at least, is the poll fixed for Thursday, April 10. I Every year under license means yet The suggestion to postpone voting- for J another year's inefficiency and waste— Prohibition until the General •Election is the I _ . suggestion of the liquor trade — DON'T BE 1 Every year under license means that misled by it; 1 hundreds more of our brightest boys must •- • I line up and take drink for the first time- = is Slirely better to pay £4,500,000 . *" and CLOSE THE BARS AT ONCE than, to go Every year "old drinkers are dying: oS" on spending £5,000 5 000 (our annual drink —new ones must take theis places! "" biU) year after year. I Do you realise that the boy of to-day it is almost impossible for I will be the drunkard of to-morrow if YOU atlonal Prohibition to win. at next General I allow drink to continue? , Election owing to the THREE-ISSUE HANDICAP. I . ' ,„. ,' ' ■•■ ■ , A \,^ rrn , . The liquor trade knows this and seeks * I The only way to ensure that YOUR boy to sid J rack voto on ix ia § •—or the other boys—will not go under through ' 8 drink, is to vote liquor out on April io. At nest General Election three issues § * will be on the ballot paper—National Con- g Sobriety is essential to success in ail tinuance, National Ownership and National 1 >.-,,. individual—it is equally essential for a Nation. Prohibition without Compensation. • Each elec- X ,' . '. tor can only vote for ONE issue. . || -3S%w^^^^ to keep pace in the m . ..,■ . ,' \ . X ; ••>- I commercial race, must preserve its manhood, Tlms lf out of 10 electors, 5 vote for I and maintain its efficiency. Prohibition, 3 for National Ownership, and | only 2 for Continuance, the liquor trade g To hold our own in the days ahead, wins » oag^ 12 out ot 10 desired I waste must be eUminated^prodvukm muß it. Before Prch.brt.on can vrm ,t must get I . . ■■ ■■' n . , a., more votes than the two other issues combined. m be increased. Drmk, the greatest waste—tho g handicap to industry and the hindrance to This is what the liquor trade asks f production—must be banished. electors,to wait for! Tho reason is obvious ! i lite one great chance for Prohibition I is the Poll 'on April 10. Don't [ miss your 1 opportunity of voting for it! 1 > ' REMEMBER: ' PROHIBITION never had a fair chance in the I past because it had to fight the '% I three-fifths handicap. ' I PROHIBITION will not have a .fair chance 1 in the future because it will have to I fight the three-issue handicap. I PROHIBITION will have its First <md Best I Chance of a fair run on Thursday, i April 10. I Therefore he sure you I ON THURSDAY, APRIL 10 : ~~ ~ I