HOLD UP YOUR HEADS
The union of the English-speaking peoples—drawn together by a common love of liberty—is the world’s greatest hope of peace and freedom in the future. Liberty should be our goal in New Zealand also. Liberty demands selfreliance and self-restraint. There is no need for prohibition in a rightthinking community. Whatever the theories about prohibition may be it has proved a failure—in fact a disaster—wherever it has been tried. It has not only failed to cure the evils it set out to overcome but has created new crimes as well. “Prohibition has been disastrous to* the cause of temperance” was how an American bishop summed up the experiment in the United States. The same result has happened wherever the prohibition experiment has been made. New Zealand should take warning. This country cannot afford to provide additional evidence of an acknowledged universal failure. New Zealand will not open the way to an unwarranted attack on individual liberty. Again and again New Zealand has condemned prohibition at the Polls—in 1925. in 1928, in 1935 and again in 1938 (by a record majority). It should do so again in 1943. Let your vote count on the side of Liberty and moderation—go to the Polls and again vote for Continuance. Strike out the two bottom lines. 1117
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22151, 24 September 1943, Page 7
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