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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17736, 9 December 1919, Page 2

Pause before you Vote Prohibition. Ou December 17th the people of the Dominion are to be asked to vote upon the mo3t momentous question yet placed before the electors. The question is momentous inasmuch as the carriage of No-License — apart from the usual stock arguments—means a serious and uncertain position of employment for thousands of people. Voters are asked to pause and reflect before they, by one stroke of the pencil, cause the instant dislocation of employment in the Dominion. PROHIBITION spells the immediate and wholesale discharge of thousands of employees into an already disturbed and chaotic labour market. Thousands of these employees are not fitted for other employment. Let us pause before we throw this army of employees into the labour market, especially in view of the serious position of the cost of living. The fact that oixr country is in the throes of an endeavour to repatriate some fifty thousand returned soldiers is a further and serious aspect of the question. PROHIBITION also means a tremendous and immediate loss to i the revenues of the National Government and local bodies generally throughout the Dominion. In spite of all arguments to the contrary, the mattter is surely serious at this time of all times in our financial history, when a stable and assured finance is urgently required. t LET US PAUSE and consider what this dislocation om employment j and financial chaos means to a young country with a small population, j that to-day is slowly and with great effort emerging from the financial strain of a war. It is the clear duty of the people to do nothing that can be calculated to accentuate the position. WE ARE A SOBER AND TEMPERATE COUNTRY, and the reform of 6 o'clock closing shoud meet and satisfy any reasonable critic. It has been demonstrated that the "EFFICIENCY BOARD" are prejudiced against Continuance. We are one of the most—if not the most —efficient Dominions of the Empire, and our soldiers have proved themselves "Soldiers" beyond the dream of the most critical. IN YOUR COUNTRY'S BEST INTERESTS, PAUSE! i ! We will not argue for the moment whether this sum of money can or cannot be found. We will suppose for argument's sake that it can be found. But rememMi Hit will not be found growing on gooseberry bushes. IT MUST COME FKOM SOMEONE'S POCKET before it can come into the Government coffers. Who is that SOMEONE to be? Is it you? % If you are a FARMER, do not thnk the Minister of Finance will miss YOU, and pass the burden on to someone else? If you are a WORKER, do you think YOU will be missed as regards Customs duties? If you have an income of over £300 per annum, do you think you will be overlooked? There is such a thing as INCIDENCE OF TAXATION. WHO is to pay? Is it YOU—and if you think you are going to dodge payment, why do you think so. CITIZENS OF NEW ZEALAND, ARE YOU GOING TO PERMIT THIS WANTON CRUELTY? WILL YOU ALLOW THESE SMALLMINDED TYRANTS TO DICTATE TO YOU WHAT YOU SHALL DRINK. WILL you stand up for your liberty? Ar e you going to let these men PUT A MUZZLE ON YOU LIKE THEY DO ON DOGS? I VOTE FOR NATIONAL CONTINUANCE. 4 I VOTE FOR STATE rU&CKASE AND CONTROL i VOTE FOR NAiiuimL riiOmuiuuii. Being Highly Concentrated "^y J c\^i iflv^^B m/mw^^^ Wb^ hB ; '^mg^. Will go as far as double 1 it's weight of other foods, I '^W^ Follow the directions when making, | **432&r an( j prove this for yourself.—-Test it!'

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