'"w JL JEi X Uil JEW i&iaw£iJbV iSUEi 11 Liquor Statements Reftited! The KEiV. W. THOMSON" contends that Prohibition in Maine is !■'■■■• THE STATES IN AMEBIOA which have given up State Prohibition a Failure. " " have done so in order to substitute Prohibition by popular vote as in New Zealand, and this form of No License has SHERIFF PEARSON, the Head of the Police Department in '> always been successful. * . Portland, Maine, on February 22nd, 1902, said:—" I have •* . '* ' TTTTT _ -vr^m-or -^xnPTi-v carefully canvassed the list of sly-grog shops given by . , CLUIJdA iJNOKJLAbJib lib JNO LICENSE VOTE EVERY Messrs. Rowntree and Sherwell, and to my personal know- i; j-j.jso.jij. ledgeNNtO t LIQUOR.IS SOLO AT ANY ONE OF~TH.UM. OLD AQE PENSIONS could be provided for EVERY PERSON in Further, I will forfeit 100 dollars (£2l) to any .person who New Zealand over 60 years of age if No License were carried will prove that one such place exists m the city" . , • throughout the Colony. bC weie odj.xj.wu. THE TOURISTS will come in increasing numbers to this Wonder- EVERY INSURANCE COMPANY IJST ENGLAND recognises the land. They come for the scenery and not for the liquor. . the fact that the AVERAG-E LIFE OF THE TOTAL •■-• ' ABSTAINER IS NINE YEARS LONGER THAN THAT THE LATE REV. H. PRICE HUGHES, M.A., said :--*' I stayed at the , . OF THE MODERATE DRINKER. principal hotel in Portland, and a maghincem; hotel it was* __^ r Twnwrci'-n x oo -^ _^ x _ Tn^__r _ . . fit to be comioared with the palatial establishments of the NO LICENSE DOES ISTOT MEAN LOSS OF REVENUE, nor m-„ ' < ■ West End of London. But not one drop of intoxicating creased taxation, nor languishing business. In no case has liquor was visible in that great vand crowded hotel. No License caused business to be detrimentally affected, nor . ' ' . , caused taxes to be raised. PROHIBITION IN MAINE has become^ the settled^policy of the CLUTHA'S RATE UNDER NO LICENSE islsin'the£. State. It is such a huge success that the State will not go ' back on it. THAMES' RATE UNDER LICENSE is Is 6d in the £. FOR FORTY YEARS no Governor in Maine has dared to lift up his NO LICENSE INCREASES THE VALUE OF PROPERTY. In - voice in favour of a License Law Clutha during License the Criterion Hotel could not find a buyer at £500. but since No License was carried it has been THE LATE REV. H. PRICE HUGHES, M A., said:-" I have never , ' sold for £650. Duringthe time of License the Farmers' Arms seen so beautiful and so nourishing a city as the headquarters . . was sold for £bSO, since then it has changed hands for cf prohibition No ragged beggars in the streets; no foul ' ' . abiouu. slums ; + no work for the police; it aln^^^^^ ; The Drinkers of New Zealand spend enough in liquor every year to > fhr P a^trVs^^ " -;.: buy out the whole of the hotel property of New Zealand, Every year the STATE receives £670,000 from the liquor traffic, but (*EO. W. HOOKER, President of the Vermont State Agricultural , the BREWERS receive £2,330,000. Society, and member of the Republican Committee, said: — "Prohibition is the best law for Vermont, and I base my Whilst the STATE receives from LIQUOR REVENUE £670 000, belief on the almost entire absence of crime. There is no law the LIQUOR TRAFFIC COSTS THE STATE for CRIME, better enforced in Vermont, and it can be enforced every- PAUPERISM," INSANITY, &c, directly traceable TO where if public sentiment so orders. • . - .DRINK £770,0 00. • , , ■ ■ ■■■ .■.■';.•■. • • , .... j ... ■ ■ _ . ._■■..'■■.■ . ■ ■- ■ , ■ . ;i . . . . ... ■.'■.. ; ■ ' • , ' ■■"..■■ v - F l:IIT THF TUP IIMF fHHLYIi ' ■ m^-» • GIFT SALE! GIFT SALE! GIFT SALE,! GIFT SALE'! GIFT SALE! GIFT SALE! ■jl /*^S <• JY% \\ *| lilT 1 /~tl I'l * ' • ■ /GIFT SALE! GIFT SALE! GIFT SALE! GIFT SAT.FJ! fiTFT sat.^i mwv cat.w I Cj»J >
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Thames Star, Volume XXXX, Issue 10500, 22 November 1902, Page 5
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