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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1290, 20 November 1911, Page 6

DOES REGULATION REGULATE ? Prohibition prohibit?'' is the question tho Anti-Prohibitionists liko to keep asking, in the hope that tho attention of tho electors can bo kept from tho equally important question—"Does ro gulaljon regulate ?" Tho Liquor Trade speaks fondly of their present' legal status ns a clean licensing system. It can be stated with ccrtaiuty that after years and years of attempt at the creation of a clean licensing system, such a system is iui impossibility. No; regulation docs not regulale. Ihis dean (.-) license system figured in your Police Courts over 11,000 times last year. This clean, well-regulated liccnse system might boast last year of causing 11,000 citizons to spend some timo in gaol, ns tho annual returns show over 11,000 convictions for drunkenness. ■ Now, of those branded with the stigma of the criminal court, over 7000 wcro convicted of drunkenness for tho first timo. Their wives and children wcro disgraced, their fathers and mothers were brought into shame, and their brothers and sisters Millcrwl with them. Arc .you going to wait' till this clean {r) trado with a most unclean record catches your brother, your sister, or your son, and brings you into disgrace? Nothing is rnoro insidious than this liquor trade; it enslaves the very best. You will never regret voting Prohibition as long as you live. Bcforo next poll, threo years honco, at tho usual rato, thero' will bo over 33,000 fresh convictions for drunkenness, aud over 21,000 fresh drunkards manufactured. What is to prevent ono in your own circle, be ho over so strong, from joining this torriblo throng? Save those nearest and dearest, to you from tho artificial temptation of the open bar. You can't do better. It is the top lino on both papers which you will accordingly strike out. Have you been in tho Polico Courts? Itnvo you been outside a bar at ten ? Have you spent' a whole Saturday night in a bar? If you have you won't talk much about a clean licensing system, but will clean A up tho whole business by voting No-License and Dominion Prohibition — Advt. ' . A meeting of Mr. J. E. Fitzgerald's Soatoun. Worser Bay and Karaka Fiav combined committees will be held to-iiight.