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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17731, 3 December 1919, Page 2

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. . ■ ■•■/■■■■'.•■•. ■■■ 1.. .. , J "■ > «....— ■ n. N / PROHISBTSON OH IGiERITIQNP SOME INCONTROVERTIBLE FACTS. CAN YOU SET iWIY FROI THEM P A DECIDING FACT, WHICH SHOULD CONVINCE ALL BUT THE WEAK-MINDED AND THE BIGOT OF THE UTTEE WORTHLSSSNESS OF PRIHIBITION STATEMENTS ABOUT THE MODERATE USE OF LIQUORS. If ths 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 irot 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 Jaiow 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, -^l only requires to make its meaning plain and its tremendous significance will be recognised by all. The fact we refer to is this:— v WE TAKE A COUNTRY LIKE BRITAIN, WHERE THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CONSUMERS OF r 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. .' * , 7 " | WHAT IS BRITAIN'S RECORD? J. She has built up an industrial and manufactiiring 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. She freed ; I Europe from the Spanish yoke 300-400 years ago. She freed Europe again from the yoke of NapoI leon a century ago. And she has freed her for th c third time from the attempted yoke of the Hun : I 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 armies of tne Empire to-day have created now traditions which i I are a challenge to the highest records of the past an& will be an inspiration to the generations who | come after us." In other words, our National Efaciency stands higher to-day than ever before. : And of the British divisions mentioned « THE NEW ZEALANBERS STAND SECOND TO NONE ON THE WHOLE WESTERN FRONT. ] In every great war in which she has been engaged Britain has fought always on the side of Free- \ dom, and she has never been beaten. Could there be greater proofs>f National Efficiency than these? t -A. '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 strength and solidarity were never, greater than at the pro-sent moment. During the late war THE DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS HAVE STOOD SHOULDSE TO SHOULDEE WITH THE MOTHER COUNTRY TO FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF FREEDOM. WE IN NEW ZEALAND, WHO HAVE TAKEN A NOT UN- ' WORTHY PART IN THAT WAE, ARE PROUD OF FO&MJNG 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 oE saying, that beer has heen th% cause of these things, yet we do say, with all the. emphasis we'are capable of, that had i 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 degeneration 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 lias 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 i undertake: and their territories are being rapidly absorbed by the moro powerful non-Prohibitionist ; nations. They are nations in which crime, raping, assassination, massacres of Christians, and general ' | corruption /=ro< 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 ; thorn as best they may. i LET THE PEOPLE OF NEW ZEALAND PONDER WELL O>! THIS MOST IMPORTANT PACT ■ AND GRASP TTS FULL MEANING. JT GIVES THE LIE DIRECT IN THE MOST EMPHATIC WAY TO EVERY PROHIBITIONIST STATEMENT O N THE'MODERATE USE OP LIQUORS AND • PXJRNTSHES THE MOST COMPLETE PROOP 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 uf ; | grasping the full significance of the above facts (and you know them tojbe facts), and you could'but ' j cast your prejudices to the winds the while. ■ * ' YOU WOULD CEASE TO BE PROHIBITIONISTS INSIDE FIVE MINUTES. x ! i : ,— _ t I (1) I VOTE FOR NATIONAL CONTINUANCE. I \ (2) i VOTE FOR sTATE PURCHASE AND CONTROL. • !■ (3) I VOTE FOR NATIONAL PROHIBITION. ! \ b t t ' --• • .. . —ADVT. J