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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 14004, 15 December 1919, Page 1

DRUNKEN BRITAIN! MORE PROHIBITION CLAP-TRAP NAILED. WHICH WILL YOU HAVEP

Statement by Rev. JOHN DAWSON, paid agent of the N.Z. Alliance. Among the evidence on the Prohibition questiou that the Rev. John Dawson has been accumulating on his recent travels, he drew attention last i night to the difference which travellers find between "wet" and "dry" ports. On his homeward journey to New Zealand the vessel got away from every "dry American port sharp to time. Suva, the first British port they reached, is "wet." When enquiries were made by the passengers as to when they would be leaving, they were significantly told to "ask the firemen." Th. vessel was timed to leave at noon, but finally pulled out into the stream at 3 o'clock. Meanwhile fhe waiting and watching passengers witnessed from the decks most humiliating sights. A steward hopelessly drunk, was brought on board by two priests, who had found him in the streets. Native Fijians and Indians had to be sent round to the various hotels to collect the drunken white firemen, who were behaving in a shameful manner. The natives had to fight for their lives, to bring some of these men to the wharf, and as the passengers looked down on the drunken behaviour of these white men in charge of natives, some of them declared that would settle them for ever voting for the traffic again. "Can yon imagine our feelings," asked Mr Dawson, "as we remembered that dry America is forging ahead, and drunken Britain is in danger of falling •behind." ("Otago Daily Times," 8/9/19.) Statement by President JAS. A. KENNEDY. Inter-Island Steamship Corporation. • Serious delay in handling Inter-Island steamers, both here and at Hilo, has "been occasioned by drunkenness among sailors and stevedores employed by the company, and President James A. Kennedy of the corporation said at noon to-

A TERRIBLE INDICTMENT. PROHIBITION BREEDS GLASS HATRED. (Special to "The Times") NEW _TORK, .July 4. Mr Samuel Gbmpers, President of the American Federation of Labour, has submitted to the Judiciary Committee of the. Senate a report on the industrial conditions of 'America as affected by Proliibition. Mr Gompers declares that the result of depriving the working man of his beer has been to promote discontent, which is expressing itself in the phenomenal growth of revolutionary organisations. "Prohibition," Mr Gompers adds, "is the champion breeder of elas3 hatred." _ • PROHIBITION PROMOT ES SLY GROGGERS. » Detroit, the capital of Michigan, says Mr Gompers, has under prohibition 5000 "blind pigs" and as many "boot - loggers." More whisky is drunk than ever, but it costs 50s a quart, and 2s 6d a drink. Tho introduction of Prohibition has been a tremendous stimulant to " revolutionary Socialism of a peculiarly virulent and ferocious character."—"The Times," July sth, 1919. WHAT ARE YOU TO DO ? mmmm—maammmmmmmmmmmmmmmammammammm—mmammmam ANTI-SOCIAL PLOTTERS, WHAT IS PROHIBITION? AN ATTACK ON FREEDOM. PROHIBITIONISTS URGED MR LLOYD GEORGE TO PUT PROHIBITION OVER ENGLAND. THAT GREAT BRITISHER REFUSED, ASKING, "DO YOU WANT US TO LOSE THE WAR?" PROHIBITION DESTROYS SOCIAL LIFE. IT IS AN ORGANISED CONSPIRACY OF ANTI-SOCIAL PLOTTERS. PROHIBITION IS AN ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH IRRESPONSIBLE TYRANNY. * PROHIBITION IS DISLOYAL AN UNDEMOCRATIC. THE PROHIBITIONISTS HAVE IMPORTED MANY IRRESPONSIBLE RECENT ARRIVALS TO PUT PROHIBITION OVER NEW " x ZEALAND. READ THIS FROM "THE DOMINION" LEADING ARTICLE: AN ATTACK ON FREEDOM. ("The Dominion," Saturday, November 29th, 1919.) "The whole thing is in accordance with a systematic and deliberate plan designed to undermine the rights and liberties the people of this country at present enjoy; an organised conspiracy by a gang of anti-social plotters, many of whom are recent arrivals in the Dominion, to establish an irresponsible tyranny. Our rights and liberties were not a free gift of nature. They were built up by our forefathers • at great cost, and it is time that the sane and loyal people of New Zealand realised that they can only be maintained by an alert and vigorous democracy. On election day the free mon and women of this country will have an open opportunity of showing wha-t they | think of it!" ' j i—-ni_-min—ii-_iii_»i_i_wi-_ii—iMi_■■■-ii-—imimnni—w—in_i__i_M—■■_»_■■■■_»<_«—■■_iiiiii_—w___ I

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