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Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15042, 9 April 1919, Page 4

For. the future of our country and the good that we ca ndo." That's the slogan for to-morrow, Thursday,. April nation^ V°te the chil<l and ?he

My "Moderate" friends are all determined to vote for the child on Thursday, April 10. They say its criminal to waste £5,000,000 eVery year m booze while the soldiers need money.*

"No drunkard shall enter the kine;domi of heaven." Say! Then can. the publican who makes a ' drunkard? What about the voter who licenses the publican. Vote for the child and the nation to-morrow.* "I drank more gallons of light beer and more bottles of French wine, when I was in France, than there are years in my life," was the somewhat surprising: statement of a Chaplain, in a Prohibition address at Auckland the other evening, j He explained, however, that tea was not obtamable when troops were advancing * and that good water was often not otH tamable. Even where wells were found '■ sometimes they had been poisoned by! the Germans The speaker was ' refer-1 ring to the soldier's probable prejudices! agamst Prohibition, one of the reasons 1 being his arduous service in a country■! where light wine and beer formed the common beverage. L.K. now showing an unrivalled selection of Ladies' Watches! £6 los to £15.—Louis Kerr, Jeweller.* "It is a pity that so many returned soldiers get into troubl/ through to.M., at the Magistrate's Court Wellington, on Monday last. "The matter has cropped up often enough before the Court here. The trouble seems to be that a man who has gone through the experiences of active service is unable to drink the same quantity of liquor that he was able to drink before he went away without it producing! more or less - disastrous effects." For the sake of those returned soldiers who are not so strong as many of their mates, be sure to record your vote early to-morrow.* 11116' X-C -' peaking a t the 'Liberty Theatre, Christohurch deCieared that he had overcome reluctance Jo support A cause so different from all that his early training suggested, so hostile also to his own material interests. But his reluctance had been overcome by the logic of a new situation. He thought that in an audience that contained more/ sinners than saints, his words as-a member of "the devil's own" profession might have weight. He quite believed that the' verdict of many on his action would be I summed up in .the phrase, "Damned 1 fool, to injure professional interests and alienate friends. But his own conscience was easy on the point. He welcomed the term "wowser" in connection with this reform as a term of honour. He believed that the "wowsers" were right, and that the wav to mend the liquor traffic was to end it Mr- Wilding retorted on those who attribute his conversion to senile decay with a very lively challenge to a i tennis tourney for a "pony" a side His own conclusion as an a'thleie coin- ; cided with that of his son Anthony that alcohol was invaluable— administered externally. On his last visit to j England he had the great opportunity ' of a chat with Lloyd Georgo, whom he esteemed the greatest of statesmen./, To his surprise, Mr. Lloyd George asked him.at once about temperance reform in New Zealand, in which he himself then had but a slight interest. Lloyd George declared that in the Old Country the liquor traffic blocked all retorm, and was so eutrenched as to make .him almost hopeless "But why, » said he, "in your young democracies do you not root it up and east reW»* iS *tterly W*blQ «f aU