PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN

Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14029, 4 April 1919, Page 5

PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN

iVtR YOUNG AT TE AWAMUTU. (By Telegraph—Special to Times.) TE AWAMUTU, Friday. ' Last night a large house greeted and gave Mr J. A. Young, M.P., a §plend ! d hearing, when he delivered an address on ".National Prohibition from the Political and Economic Standpoint." The -Mayor presided. la the course of his address, Mr Young dealt with the question of compensation and the revenue, and shotted how the investment of the £5,000,000 now spent in liquor would ho diverted into more useful and productive channels, and not only bring in revenue to the State, but make for increased efficiency and production, which also would return its quota to the Shite Treasury. These two items, and not counting the saving effected in expenditure in law, police, crime, and charitable aid, would more than pay the loss of revenue on cutting out the drink and the interest and sinking fund to pay off the £4,500,000. Mr \oung extended <an invitation to any man in the audience to come on to the platform and prove the contention of the liquor trade that Prohibition would necessitate an increase in the cost of living to the worker. The invitation was not accepted, and Mr Young then most effectively unmasked what he termed the 'liquor lie," that Prohibition would increase taxation on the farmer or the cost of living to the wor kof.

The meeting, which was orderly throughout, closed with a vote of thanks to Mr Young.