UNDER THE CLOAK OF TEMPERANCE
MISCHIEVOUS PROPAGANDA At school we are taught that inert are three zones—the frigid, the torrid and the temperate. The same differ ; nces are found in the characters ol humans. The temperate man. that is the moderate man. swings neither l». th- frigid ascetism «»f the prohibition :-t. nor to the fervid exuberance of th( free liver. The temperance men and women ol New Zealand, who constitute the great majority, are impudently ignored by those who la' their prohiibtion snarf hmler the <-loak of temperance. Temper ac« e is moderation. Most emphatically b is not prohibition. A «-ause which deceitfully Maims for itself virtues it does not possess is fore»looine»l failure. Temperam c —de- idedly yes. I’ruhibii ion. most eniphatirally m». New Zealand must meet the atta*-k on moderation by the solid support of the mod prate man’s vote, which i< for < «»n tinuanrp.*
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 268, 14 November 1935, Page 6
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