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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5737, 3 December 1896, Page 3

Late Advertisements, WANTED to Let, Furnished Rooms, use of kitchen. Apply, Britannia Grain Store, Victoria Street. 3542 ANTED, good Cook, hotel and private Cooks and Laundress, Generals. Mrs Higgs, Registry Office, St Asaph Street. 3544 EOU N I J, i-ony, Ca->hel Street. Apply, Eastern Butchery. 3541 FOUND, a sum of money. Owner can have same by paying expenses. Apply, Waiwera, Berry Street, St Albans. 353S DOR* BALLANTYNE, PRESIDENT, and other Members of W.C.T.U., have called upon the Electors in the Name of CHRIST to strike out the top line in the license ballot-paper. The arguments used in favour of this recommendation are that people in this fair province are being RUINED by Drink, and that by depriving them of the right to drink, that sunshine ond hope will he brought to our darkened homes. Now, as CHRIST HIMSELF used his Miraculous Power to Provide People With WINE IT IS OBVIOUSLY WRONG To use Hl*. NAME to Promote Prohibition. Tlie contention thnt the people in this fair province are being ruined by drink IS ABSOLUTELY WILD, AND A SCANDALOUS ATTACK UPON OUR PEOPLE, WHO ARE THE SOBEREST IN THE WORLD. To say that sunshine and hope would come with prohibition is to state that which has been DISPROVED IN EVERY PART OF THE WORLD WHERE PROHIBITION HAS BEEN TRIED. Statistics prove that vice, insanity, pauperism and commercial decay invariably follow the introduction of prohibition. . This being the case THE PUBLIC ARE INVITED TO JUDGE THIS SUBJECT FAIRLY, AKD TO UPHOLD THEIR PERSONAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTIES BY STRIKING OUT THE TWO LOWER LINES On the License Ballot-Paper. F 6049 " The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath thelight sinned." —Isaiah ix, 2. To the WOMEN ELECTORS of CANTERBURY. ON hundreds of Homes in this fair Province there rests A DREAD SHADOW because of the temptations offered by the traffic in strong drink. Hitherto we have had to stand helplessly by watching with aching hearts the awful shadow deepening into the gloom of despair and death. That time of helplessness is now past. ON FRIDAY NEXT we shall have an opportunity of bringing SUNSHINE AND HOPE to these darkened homes by voting out tlie liquor traffic. May we not ask in the name of Christ, who spared not Himself, that you will use your vote for the relief of the troubled and tempted, and STRIKE OUT THE TOP LINE ON THE LICENSE BALLOT PAPER. Signed, for the Christchurch W.C.T.U., Dora Ballantyne, Pres. ; K. W. Sheppard, VicePres.; E. M. Widdowson, Hon. Sec.; J.M. Smith, Hon. Treas. 3421 MR T. E. TAYLOR. TO THE ELECTORS. f"pHE Liberty League having published this day in their organ, as threatened, charges against me upon tlie Eve of an Election that are absolutely false and that are calculated to mislead the Electors, This is to give notice that in [ TO-MORROWS «' PRESS " and " TIMES " full refutation of the COWARDLY UNTRUTHS will be published. T. E. TAYLOR.