POINTS FOR ELECTORS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1287, 16 November 1911, Page 8

POINTS FOR ELECTORS.

FACTS, NOT FICTION. DOW PROHIBITION WILL AFFECT YOU. It is always well.to bo guided by facts, and to reject opinions based on fiction. Under tho existing regulated licensing system, tho position is that annually:— (1) The State receives J)S50,000 in taxes, and, through its Railway Department, .CIOO.OOO in freights per annum. (2) New Zealand farmers rcceivo .£350,000 in payment for barley and hops. ■ i j (3) Breadwinners, to tho number of 11,000 (supporting 10,000 others), receive 431,650,000 in wages. (4) Another .£250,000 is spent by tho Trade for insurance, rents, ond other expenses. This makes a total of over Three Millions sterling expended annually directly. If Prohibition came into forco you would bavo to facefa) An increased taxation to recoup tho loss to tho State, (b) The competition for employment of tho 11,000 breadwinners directly engaged in the hotel and allied businesses, and at least another SOOO employed in subsidiary trades. (c) A serious depression is inevitable from the interference with the habits of thousands of people and the destruction of property and the creation of a vast army of unemployed. After considering these foregoing facts, can you do otherwise than Strike out (ho Bottom Line on both ballot papers? But yesterday a business' man said to the writer: It would be an evidence of insanity to vote for No-Licenso in Wellington.* j