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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11729, 2 December 1905, Page 4

TH€ Evil Effects — or — alias alias IF NO-LICENSE IS CARRIED IN WANGANUI, Aud not in Rangitikoi, there will be FOUR HOTELS within a radius of a few miles which WILL BENEFIT BY THE RUIN OF THOSE IN "WANGANUI whose licenses you are asked to vote away. IS THIS HONOURABLE, JUST, OR FAIR ? Remember that the conditions under which liquor can only be brought into Wanganui under No-licenso aro such as to he repugnant to our feelings and our boasted BfiITIMH FREI-IDOM AND LIBERTY. You will be tieated little better than a criminal, your name will be registered with the police through the medium of the Court. Your homes will bo liable to be searched without warrant or notice. Your Portmanteaux and Luggage will be opened at the Railway Station and searched, as they do every day in the King Country. COLOXLJL SOJIMDRVILLH SAW A LADY'S LUGGAGE DISGRACEFULLY RANSACKED at the Pukerimu Railway Station last woek, ou tho public platform. Fellow Citizens, aro you going to vote for such iniquities as this? REMEMBER— In crossing out the Top Line, you vote i for THE RUIN of many fellow citizens. And all for what object? Not for Prohibition, but for tho substitution of sly grog selling ant. private drinking ,in homes Are you going to vote for what every Magistrate and Judge in the Colony states begets Lying, Perjury, Deceit, and Uncharitableness, and a School of Informers. Are you going to ruin a number of your, fellow Townspeople under such conditions as above stated? REMEMBER— The Licensing Committee compelled every house within the Borough boundary to re-build. s . Tho No-Control, alias, !No-License, asJas Prohibition Party, now ask you to ruin these same people by taking away the licenses of the very people they clamoured sbxnild re-build their houses. IS ALL SENSE! OP HONOUR, SENTIMENT, AND BRITISH FAIR PLAY DEAD IN THE TOWN?