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Observer, Volume XVIII, Issue 1093, 9 December 1899, Page 17

Liberty ! Liberty ! STRIKE OUT LAST TWO LINES ON LOCAL OPTION BALLOT PAPER. TTOTE i GAINST T)ROHIBITION BECAUSE PROHIBITION IS A TYRANNICAL AND DANGEROUS INTERFERENCE WITH THE LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT. ' BECAUSE PROHIBITION INCITES TO GREATER DRUNKENNESS, AS IS PROVED BY THE RETURNS WHENEVER IT HAS BEEN TRIED. BECAUSE PROHIBITION TENDS TO DIMINISH THE VOLUME OP TRADE, AND GENERALLY CREATES COMMERCIAL STAGNATION WHEREEVER IT HAS BEES TRIED. BECAUSE PROHIBITION IMMOR4LITY, POVE STY, AND INSANITY GO TOGETHER. BECAUSE PROHIBITION PRODUCING THIS POVERTY AND IMMORALITY INCREASES CRIMINALITY. BECAUSE PROHIBITION IS DEGRADING FOR A PEOPLE TO BE TREATED AS THOUGH THEY LACKED THE VIRTUES OP SELF-CONTROL AND SELF-RESPECT. BECAUSE PROHIBITION DOES NOT PROHIBIT,' BUT ENCOUR AGES THE WORST FORM OF INTEMPERANCE, NAMELY, SLY DRINKING, AB THE RECORDS OF MILDURA, CLUTHA AND MAINE TESTIFY. BECAUSE PROHIBITION ENCOURAGES THE MEANEST OF VICES — CUNNNING, DECEIT, HYPOCRISY, LYING AND SLANDER. BECAUSE PROHIBITION ROBS TEMPERANCE OP ALL VIRTUE, AND TREATS MODERATION AS A CSIMF-. Therefore — STRIKE OUT LAST TWO LINES ON X OCAL /OPTION T)APER.