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Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14030, 5 April 1919, Page 4

■w.TYs»Km»». KB^Bgssaggsssa^g^sasaßga gBBSEEE3^BBBS!SEBBSgBaaBI To wait for the poll at next General Election with the idea of gaining Prohibition without Compensation would be a course which could only result in disaster. Prohibition must be won now, because the only fair, just and equitable poll that the great National issue can possibly have, for some years at least, is the poll fixed for Thursday, April 10. Every year under license means yet another year’s inefficiency and waste— Every year under license means tliat hundreds more of our brightest boys must line up and take drink for the first time— Every year old drinkers are dying- off —new ones must take their places! Do you realise that the hoy of to-day will be the drunkard of to-morrow if YOU aUow drink to continue ? The only way to ensure that YOUR hoy —or the other boys—will not go under through drink, is to vote liquor out on April 10. Sobriety is essential to success in an individual—it is equally essential for a Nation. y New Zealand, to keep pace in the commercial race, must preserve its manhood, and maintain its efficiency. To hold our own in the days ahead, waste must be eliminated—production must be increased. Drink, the greatest waste—the handicap to industry and the hindrance to production—must be banished. The suggestion to postpone voting for Prohibition until the General Election is the suggestion of the liquor trade DON’T BE MISLED BY IT! It is surely better to pay £4,300,000 and CLOSE THE BARS AT ONCE than to go on spending £5,000,000 (our annual drink bill) year after year. Moreover, it is almost impossible for National Prohibition to win at next General Election owing to the THREE-ISSUE HANDICAP . The liquor trade knows this and seeks to side-track your vote on April 10. At next General Election three issues will be on the ballot paper—National Continuance, National Ownership and National Prohibition without Compensation. Each elector can only vote for ONE issue. Thus if out of 10 electors, 5 vote for Prohibition, 3 for National Ownership, and only 2 for Continuance, the liquor trade wins, though only 2 out of 10 voters desired it. Before Prohibition can win it must get more votes than the two other issues combined. This is what the „ liquor trade asks electors to wait for! The reason ir obvious I The one . great chance for Prohibition is the Poll on April . • Don’t miss your opportunity of voting for it! (ft F* W it MR WJ? ® MLa-A WM MDs JLwM JLJ? © PROHIBITION never had a fair chance in the past because it had to fight the three-fifihs handicap. PROHIBITION will not have a fair chance in the future because it will have to fight the three-issue handicap. PROHIBITION will have its First and Best Chance of a fair run on Thursday, April 10. POT ON THURSDAY, , 10

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