ASK THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC THIS!
According to Police Reports for 1921, there were over 8800 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 New 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 New Zealand without drunkenness being there too? Ask the liquor traffic if a prohibition order taken out by a man himself or on a relative’s request is ever broken? Ask the liquor traffic if a prohibition order has 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 in drink? In the UjS.A. under prohibition drunkenness has been reduced GO per cent. Ask yourself if it is not true that Prohibition is just Commonsense? New Zealand Alliance Publicity (61).
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Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1280, 12 August 1922, Page 8
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188ASK THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC THIS! Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1280, 12 August 1922, Page 8
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