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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11730, 4 December 1905, Page 4

The Evil Effects NO CONTROL, alias NO LICENSE, alias PROHIBITION. If No-License is carried in Wanganui, And not in Raugitikci, there will bo FOUR HOTELS within a radius of a few miles which WILL BENEFIT BY THE RUIN OF THOSE IN WANGANUI whose licenses you arc asked to vote away. Is this Honourable, Just, or Fair P Remember that tho conditions under which liquor can only be brought into Wanganui under No-licenso are such as to be repugnant to our feelings and our boasted BRITISH FREEDOM & LIBERTY You will be treated little better tlian a criminal, your name will bo registered with the police through the medium of the Court. Your homes will be liable to be searched without warrant or notice. Your Portmanteaux and Luggage will he opened at tho Railway Station and searched, as they do every day in th« King Country^ Colonel Sommerville Saw a lady's luggage disgracefully ransacked at the Pukeriinu Railway Station last week, on the public platform. Fellow Citizens, are you going to vote for such iniquities as this? In crossing out the Top Line, you Vote for THE RUIN of many fellow citizens. And all for what object? Not for Prohibition, but for tho substitution of sly grog selling and 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? EEMEMBEEThe Licensing Committee compelled every house within the Borough boundary to re-build. The No-Control, alias 'No-License, alias Prohibition Party, now asle you to ruin these same people by taking away the licensea of tho very people they clamoured should re-build their houses. Is all sense of Honour, Sentiment, and British Fair Play dead, in the | Town?;