TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
(This column is the property of the Waikato No-License League, and we are in no way responsible for the opinions expressed. — Ed. W.P.)
SOME SIGNIFICANT FACTS. (NOT FAKED.) The number of men who live to reach the age of 55 years engaged in all other occupations equal 45 per cent. The number who live to reach the age of 55 who are engaged in the manufacture and sale of liquor equals 22 per cent. The number of men who live to reach the age of 65 years engaged in all other , occupations equal 30 per cent. The number who live to this age (65) engaged in ' the manufacture and sale of liquor equals 8 per cent or less than a third. REMEMBER! THE TRADE. Out of every sovereign the Trade takes (not earns) one shilling and fourpence is paid away as WAGES. Bars employ 2,100 persons. Breweries employ 872 persons. Further, out of every sovereign the Trade takes (not earns) six shillings and fourpence goes in all other expenses—rent, rates, fees, material and duties. But, please note. That out of every sovereign the trade takes (not earns) twelve shillings and fourpence gpes in profit. This is the trade that so many people are afraid of voting-out, as they are wondering what all the poor people are -going to do who lose their employment, and it pays the magnificent sum of one shilling and fourpence in , the pound to wages. The Trade may well keep an I office microscope for the w,ages sheets but it certainly does not need one to see the profits. The Trade thinks of NUMBER ONE first, last, and always. No one else receives any consideration whatever. They have not a decent argument to give in support of their Trade, and so they bring Qut a lot of faked stories, like the one which the Masterton Caledonian Society indignantly repudiated this week, and expect the public to believe them. So we urge everyone to be prepared. Think out this matter for yourselves. Where will the money go if the Trade does not get it ? Make up your mind to do the right and
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Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 64, 24 November 1911, Page 4
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358TEMPERANCE COLUMN. Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 64, 24 November 1911, Page 4
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