ASK THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC THIS?

Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2578, 29 July 1922, Page 6

ASK THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC THIS?

According- to Police Reports for 19111, then 1 -were over 8,800 convictions for drunkenness in New Zealand. Ask the liquor traffic what made these cases ‘drunks’ and where did they get it? Ask the liquor traffic if the arrests and convictions represent all the drunkenness in Kew Zealand.? Ask the liquor traffic if it is true that every habitual drunkard- and every casual drunkard began as a moderate? Ask the liquor traffic if intoxicating drink is sold anywhere in Xew Zealand without drunkenness. being there too? Ask the liquor traffic if a prohibition order taken out liy a man himself or on a relative’s request is ever broken? Ask the liquor traffic if a prohibition order lias a chance of being obeyed whilst an organised trade is pushing temptation before a man at. every opportunity? Ask the liquor traffic who pays when a husband and father spends most or all of his money on drink? In the 17.5. A. under prohibition drunkenness has been reduced (50 per cent. Ask yourself if it is not true that Prohibition is just Common-sense?-—X.Z. Alliance Publicity ((>1).