-..; ; x . YOUNG NEW ZEALAND. HAS spoken on the DRINK PROB;LEM with no uncertain voice. Fearlessly: and fairly it has attacked tho question from every possible, standpoint. '• .-With impassioned eloquence, convincing argument, and honest enthusiasm Young New: Zealand hns appealed to tha Electors, to abolish.the Social Drinking of Intoxicating Liquor once and for ever on the coming Polling Day. ■'.Ytiithg New Zealand has a right to be heardw The youngest among us have the longest number, of years to look forward to; and it is, therefore, of more importance to them than to'their elders whether their days arc to be spent in an alcoholic environment or not. It may be many a (ln.y before Kugonic Societies can evolve practical rules for Ihe removal directlv of 'the handicaps Of. heredity,, but here to'.tlieir hands is a present practical op-. poiHtunity of '■.■■"-..'. DEALING WITH ENVIRONMENT, and this,dealing with environment must, of necessity, remove the inUuence of alcohol as a source of race- degeneracy from th« community, ... ' •• It would only bo fair if there were universal,'suffrago on a great moral question likt'tive Drink Question, if every child 'and-every boy and girl, every youth and maiden were allowed to express an official opinion. Is it lair that .188.00(1 (the total number who voted for Contmnnrice !)t last election), should dictate to 800,000 how they should live? : ;Tlie State came into pxistunce for the heneut'..,aud protection of the individual, ni\d the duty of the State to the individual has been emphasised through the ftifl!*.-. In this nge we insist that tho duty of the. Individual to the Stiito is of equal importance. Every man or woman must uot namler to- his'.'jr her solfish appetites or desiros, li.it must think in terms of wlmt is Vst for the ibininunity as a whole, aud for the unborn generations who are to follow. . THE APPEAL OF THE INNOCENTS In their hundreds of thousands is ' a Rilent appeal to every elector to vote for J.licul No-Licnnse and National Prohibition. Don't be unkind and pretend you can't hear it. STKIICM OUT THE TOP T.IN'E ON BOTH BALLOT PAPERS. Advt.
In Lincoln Cathedral Liciitonant-Gencrnl Ravim (inffilpd n memorial tablet to Mio late <>nenil Sir JI. B. Tongdcn, who had h<*!n tfirniiehoufc hi" military career nssoniaftiil with tho l.incolnshiro Tipeiinent. 3«n4roJ liongilon wrved with distinction it tie retici of Lucknowj
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1299, 30 November 1911, Page 9
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