NO LICENSE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13733, 24 October 1908, Page 3

NO LICENSE.

HOW TO VOTE ! HOW TO VOTE ! .Strike out the TOP LINE ONLY,:and for REDUCTION* and N'OLICENSE. Remember that a . BARE MAJORITY carri.B REDUCTION. WASTE OF REDUCTION VOTE. There are one or two ■ hundred nolicense voters who say, " There is not much good in voting reduction. Itwill not diminish drunkenness." All the facts are against the opinions of such voters. Reduction has and does diminish drunkenness. If no-license is notcanied in an electorate reduction ha.i proved of the greatest- value. The Invercargill people attribute their success to the fact that they carried REDUCTION at two elections previous to the carrying of no-license. The experience of England is that reduction has great advantages, therefore the Government proposes to reduce by one-third the licensed houses in England. LIVERPOOL'S EXPERIENCE. In Liverpool the population has increased in a few years, from 550,000 to 700.000. In that" same period over 400 public houses have been closed. With what result T Drunkenness has decreased over 60 per oeiii. The po'io- tV.n-,-has also been reduced bv 2CO. LORD RUSSELL. Some time ago Katon Ru.-fell. of Kil lowen. Lotd t'lii'-f Justice, said :u Liveipool: I observe that the diminution in drunkenness, to which the Head ~- Constable refers. SYNCHRONISES WITH THE DIMINUTION IN THE NUMBER OF PUBLIC HOUSES. ALL ENGLAND. Since 1904 four thousand public house* have been closed in England. With what result? The National Liqnor Bill has dropped 10s per head per annum, and crime has decreased 5 pfr cent. BISHOP OF LONDON. The Bishop, speaking from his ; unrivalled experience, savs that " REDUCTION IS AN ADMIRABLE THING." The Bishop states on the authority of a brewer—a friend of bis own—that .when a public house is closed the trade does not- go to other houses. Much of it " evaporates." N.B.—NOTE WELL THESE FACTS: I. Reduction means the closing of the worst hotels. Those with The bad reputation must go. If. Reduction causes the licensees who remain to manage their hotels better lest they should be the next- to go. They will be more careful about those to whom they supply liquor. They will cause less drunkenness. 111. Reduction means, that every bar closed in a street is one temptation less for some weak man to meet, on lii.* way to his home. ; Voters of Timaru': If you want to see drunkenness diminished and temptation removed out of the way of weak men, don't waste vour reduction vote. VOTE REDUCTION AND NOLICENSE —Bv— STRIKING OUT THE TOP LINE ONLY'.