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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17730, 2 December 1919, Page 2

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i » " • "' " : BEAD! MARK! LEARN! * • ■ PROHIBITION OR MODERATION P SOME INCONTROVERTIBLE FACTS. CAN YOU GET AWAY FROM THEM? ' . 'x . -• - .- A DECIDING FACT, WKldll SHOULD CONVINCE ALL BUT THE WEAK-MINDED AND THE BIGOT OF THE UTTER WOETHLESSNESS OF PEIHIBITION STATEMENTS ABOUT THE MODEBATE U^E OF LIQUORS. If the case for the Licensed Trade required to be bolstered up with lies, then the great majority of those interested in it would not wait for December 17th, but would close downright now. It does not need and will not have lies. It leaves those wholly to its opponents. .It needs only that the New Zealand people know the truth, and the whole truth. Once they know this the Prohibitionists have no chance. "We do not go to the United States or Canada for paid lecturers to come here and trade upon the people's ignorance of the actual conditions in those countries. We come much nearer home, and take a fact which,is known to everybody, even.to the school children. It .only requires to make its meaning plain and its tremendous significance will be recognised by all. The fact we refer to is this:— . WE TAKE A COUNTRY LIKE BRITAIN, WHERE THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CONSUMERS OF BEER AS FAR BACK AS HISTORY GOES, AND WE COMPARE ITS RECORD WITH THAT OF OTHER COUNTRIES, SUCH AS TURKEY, ARABIA. PERSIA, OF AFGHANISTAN, AND RUSSIA, IN WHICH FOR MANY CENTURIES THE PEOPLE'S RELIGION (Mohammedanism) HAS PROHIBITED THE USE OF LIQUORS. WHAT IS BRITAIN'S RECORD? 1. She has built tip an industrial and manufacturing organisation and world-wide commerce unequalled by any other country. 2. She has produced a larger number of the worlds greatest men than any other country. In science, art, literature, commerce, statesmanship", or anything else you find the name of a Briton on top. ■■■~'■■ 3. Her National Efficiency in time of war has been proved over and over again. Sfhe freed Europe from the Spanish yoke 300-400 years ago. She freed Europe again from the yoke of Napoleon a century ago. And she has freed her for the third time from the attempted yoke of the Hun during the late war. Sir Douglas Haig stated -in his latest despatch, recently published, that "59 fighting British divisions, in the course of three months of battle, engaged and defeated 99 separate German divisions. The men who form the aruiies of tne Empire to-day have created now traditions which are a challenge to the highest records of the past aIKf w^ be an inspiration to the generations who oome after us." In other words, our National Em *ciency stands higher to-day than ever before. And of the British divisions mentioned THE NEW ZEALANDERS STAND SECOND TO NONE ON THE WHOLE WESTERN FRONT. In every great war in which she has been enp ged Britain has fought always on the side of Freedom, and she has never been,beaten. Could there*be greater proofs of National Efficiency than these? 4. She has founded the greatest Empire the world has ever seen, extending its boundaries to all parts of the carth —the Empire upon which the sun never sets. Tts and solidarity were never greater than at the present moment. During the late war THE DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS HAVE STOOP SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH THE MOTHER COUNTRY TO FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF FREEDOM. WE IN NEW ZEALAND, WHO HAVE TAKEN A NOT UNWORTHY PART IN THAT WAR, ARE PROUD OF FORMING A PART OF THAT GREAT EMPIRE, AS WELL AS OUR DESCENT FROM BRITISH PARENTAGE. These achievements are the achievements of a non-Prohibitionist nation, a ( nation in which beeer has been the national drink for over 1000 years. Without going the length of saying that beer has been the cause of these things, yet we do say, with all the emphasis we are capable of. that had beer been the harmful drink the Prohibitionists say it is. Britain could not possibly have done what she has. Her strength must have been sapped, and de generation set in centuries ago. » " What on the other hand, is the record of the-Prohibitionist nations. Turkey, Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan, Russia, or any other Prohiibitionists like to name which has been Prohibitionist for any considerable period. They have nothing at all to show in the least comparable to Britain's record. They have no trade worth mentioning; no great men : they are generally inefficient in everything they undertake: and their territories are being.rapidly absorbed by the more powerful non-Prohibitionist nations. They are nations in which crime, raping, assassination, massacres of Christians, and general corruption go* hand in hand with Prohibition and the use of drugs. They are one and all in a process of decay. We will be more charitable to the Prohibitionists than they are to us, and will refrain from saying that the condition of .these nations is a result of Prohibition. It is sufficient for us to state what the facts really are, facts within -the knowledge of all, and will leave the Prohibitionists to explain them as best they may. LET THE PEOPLE OF NEW ZEALAND PONDER WELL ON THIS MOST IMPORTANT FACT AND GRASP TTS FULL MEANING. IT GIVES THE LIE DIRECT IN THE MOST EMPHATIC WAY TO EVERY PROHIBITIONIST STATEMENT ON THE MODERATE .USE OF LIQUORS AND. FURNISHES THE MOST COMPLETE PROOF THAT THEIR CASE AGAINST THE LICENSED TRADE IS ROTTEN TO THE VERY CORE. . And think, ye puny Prohibitionists, think all you are able If your minds were but capable of grasping the full significance of the above facts (and you know them to be facts), and you could but cast your prejudices to the winds the while. YOU WOULD CEASE TO BE PROHIBITIONISTS INSIDE FIVE MINUTE^ \ > ' ; ■ _^ (1) I VOTE FOR NATIONAL CONTINUANCE. \&J- * ' -•' * *-f I \Jl\ rtiiWiinoa. mil/ vuiui\VL, Strike Out the TWO BOTTOM Lines. —ADVT.