PROHIBITION FALLACIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6661, 6 December 1899, Page 1

PROHIBITION FALLACIES.

♦ (Published by arrangement). HOW SHALL I VOTE? Electors, — Doubtless the majority of people have by this time thoroughly made up their minds as to how they will vote on the question, license or "no license?" Those who are still in doubt may be helped to a decision by the following :— " No license " means utter ruin to hundreds of your fel-low-citizens without diminishing one iota any „of # the evils attendant upon our social conditions. "No license " means the immediate creation of a large class of unemployed. This must intensify competition in the labour market. "No license " means an immense destruction of property values, and an enormous reduction' in the municipal revenue, which will have to be made up by additional taxation. "No license " means the destruction of the accommodation and comforts demanded by the travelling public. "No license " means treating the whole of the people as though' they were incapable of self-control And deficient in self-re-spect. . , ■ ■ "No license " means compulsory abstinence or else the degrading effects of deceit and illicit trading. "No license " means the coercion of all because a few abuse their liberty. "No license " is supported by none of your leading statesmen, by none of your influential papers, by none of your most ■earnest reformers. "No license " has been condemned by men- of every position and of all shades of opinion, not on any theoretical grounds, but because they have had practical experience of its disastrous and degrading consequences. " No license" lias been tried and rejected by 13,000,000 of people in America. ; to-day it is retained, by less than 3,000,000. America is getting wd of it; Canada doesn't want it ; Australia won't have it ; Engj land won't submit to it.