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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue XX, 15 November 1902, Page 1261

rpo THE CIT'Z ELECTORS. MH F. E. BAUME IS A CANDIDATE FOB YOCR BCFFRAGES AT THE FORTHCOMING GENERAL ELECTION. yjR GEOIGE FOWLDS Will contest GREY LYNN. , At the FORTHCOMING ELECTION.

Liberty! «« Prosperity! ELECTORS BEWARE. ELECTORS CONSIDER. STRIKE OUT LAST TWO LINES ON LOCAL OPTION BALLOT PAPER. PROHIBITION would mean almost the entire loss of the tOUPlst traffic, which is worth hundreds of thousands of pounds to the settlers and business people of the col ony, especially those residing in the Auckland Province. where our world-renowned Thermal Districts are attracting people from all parts of the globe. PROHIBITION would, in the opinion of Mr. Justice Cooper, if carried in a district, prohibit the sale of New Zealand wines or any other description of alcoholic liquor, and prevent any license being granted in that district. PROHIBITION in the colony would mean a direct loss in revenue of nearly three-quarters of a million pounds, or one-fourth of the whole, thereby necessitating increased taxes on land and the necessaries of life, the local authorities having power to increase rates in case of loss of revenue through Prohibition being carried. PROHIBITION has been a dismal failure wherever tried in the United States (vide Rowntree and Sherwell’s Temperance Standard Book). Eleven out of sixteen State* abandoned it. The five States that retain it have a population of about three millions, while those that have abandoned it have a population of over fifteen millions. PROHIBITION produces more drunkenness, and turns whole districts into huge sly-grog shops, with their numerous attendant evils. PROHIBITION would mean that vile and poisonous liquors would be sold that would pay no duty. PROHIBITION a failure in Clutha, vide Bishop Neville, who states that “increased drinking occurs in the private houses in Clutha, spreading to the wives. The liquor is on tap all night.” PROHIBITION a failure in the King Country, where there have been 164 informations against sly-grog sellers since 1900. PROHIBITION would mean the abolition of Old Age Pensions. PROHIBITION is a tyrannical interference with the liberty of the subject. ./ " PROHIBITION robs temperance of all virtue and treats moderation as a crime. Prohibitionists cannot deny that Maine, after nearly half a century of Prohibition, has 42 drunkards per 1.000 of population: while New Zealand, under its Licensed system, has only 7 drunkards per 1.000 of its population. STRIKE OUT LAST TWO LINES ON LOCAL OPTION BALLOT PAPER THUS : I vote that the number of licenses existing in the district continue. *—4-voto that the number of licenses-existing-in tho district bc-pedueed. - —I voto4hat no licenses be- gpanted-in the district. ■ ■