THE LIQUOR QUESTION

Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14028, 3 April 1919, Page 4

THE LIQUOR QUESTION

MR. YOUNG’S CAMPAIGN.

(By Telegraph—Special to Times.) TE KLTTI, Thursday.

Yesterday afternoon Mr J. A. Young,. M.P., received an appreciative hearing at Pio Pio, a vote of thanks being accorded him for his address.

In the evening here, Mr Young addressed the largest and best attendedmeeting of the campaign. Mr .1. Walsh, who presided, complimented- ►

Mr Young on his moral and intellectual courage in taking the platform in the campaign for national prohibition, and said that the future of the country would be in safe hands with men likeMr Young in Parliament. * The address was attentively listened to and at the close questions wereanswered, after which Mr Elliott proposed a vote of thanks to Mr Young for his able and patriotic address. Thiswas seconded by Mr Meagher, who said that as a worker and member of the New Zealand Labour Party, he hoped that prohibition would be carried. The vote of thanks to Mr Young was carried by acclamation. BOTH SIDES CONFIDENT. THE DECIDING FACTORS. ORGANISATION AND ENTHUSIASM. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. With little more than a week to go before the poll the parties in the liquor fight are working with redoubled energy. Both sides are professing confidence, and both are sparing no effort in the struggle for victory. The Moderates are building their hopes largely upon the poll of 1914, when there wasa. majority of some ten thousand in favour of continuance against prohibition. This, they have persuaded themselves, was the turn of the tide which marked the revulsion of feeling from the big" prohibition majority.of three years before. But, the prohibitionists retort,, the vote of 1914 was a war vote, timid" of change and of experiment, and did not represent the deliberate conviction of a majority of the people. Here, again, organisation and enthusiasm are going to be great factors in the decision and in the end may count for even more than the big battalions.