IS THERE ANYBODY JUST LIKE YOU?
Have you ever considered that no two people are exactly alike? We all think differently, react differently to circumstances, our tastes differ, our bodily requirements are different. Some people live happily and adequately without tea, without meat, or without confectionery; some play bridge, others have no use for card games; some enjoy a race meeting, others have never attended one; some are slaves to fashion, others dress merely for protectionsome smoke, others do not. The point is that in our personal habits, the things we eat and diink. the things we wear, the pleasures we pursue, we have our own right of choice, depending upon our personal tastes and our individual consciences. This measure of personal liberty reaches its highest point in British communities, which are incidentally the best behaved communities. Prohibition is an impudent and intolerant restriction of personal liberty to which no free people will submit The injustice of prohibition is apparent when one realises that the exact parallel of prohibition would be a law forcing every person to partake o* beer wine or spirits. Under Continuance every person is free to have all the prohibition he wants for himself. A vast majority of New Zealanders have already stated through the ballot box that they will not impose prohibition on this country. With the knowledge of what prohibition is, how it has failed and how emphatically New Zealanders have rejected it, how can any sincere person cast a vote for it?
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20260, 8 November 1935, Page 13
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249IS THERE ANYBODY JUST LIKE YOU? Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20260, 8 November 1935, Page 13
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