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I , WHO BUT f if would publish such a scurrilous cartoon as that appearing || in last week's "Free Lance"? || \l u . 1 The Three "B's." |( Vote for the Three "B's," Split' the Vote, and Help to Lose the War! The above is an unscrupulous attempt to discredit Mr. Brandon in the eyes of the Electors. _ ■ Si It'is on a par with Mr. John Hutcheson's interjection re the L.V.A. at Mr. Massey's Relburn meeting. If Why did Mr. Hutcheson hand only part of the correspondence to the Press on Saturday? h .Why did he keep back Mr. Brandon's crushing reply which appeared in yesterday's issue? J [See the full correspondence as advertised in yesterday morning's papers.] 1 Do you approve of these methods? Do von approve of the Liquor question being dragged into this Electa at all? Can vou "ive your vote to Mr. Luke when his campaign is conducted with such tactics? r Do you wish to hand over the Government of this Dominion to the Prohibition Party? >> r Do you place a real value on your freedom and personal liberty?. '„*■„.■ „ „ ,-„ ,„,»,„ V I Do yon realise that the Prohibitionists are attempting to prey upon your loyalty, so that they may gain further ~ | strength to put new fetters upon you? , /■ 1 DON'T BE DECEIVED! I Here are extracts from the official organ of the Prohibition Party, "The Vanguard":- _ "The plea that we cannot afford the.turmoil of a Cenoral Election and Licensing Poll durlne the War is , to Inflict an outrage on our deepest moral sensibilities." "Any proposal for a further postponement of the Licensing Poll will call forth the strongest opposition, will provoke the outbreak of hostility from one end of the country to the other." I HOW DOES THAT SQUARE with the plea for Unity put forward by Mr. Luke and his friends? I Another Extract from the same or,gan:— J j "As a prohibitionist Mr. Luke stands in line with the best thought of the age-and on this ground we £ I hope that the Electors of Wellington North will return him at the top of the Poll." 1 FOR WHAT PURPOSE? '"" To carrv out the orders of the Prohibitionists, regardless of everything else, or otherwise to force a General Election To divide the people when Unity is most essential. ,S THIS PATRIOTISM? '« ™IS CONDUCIVE TO UNITY? Mr. Luke is the man that Mr. Massey asks the Reform Electors to accept for the conservation of tho Party and the National Government. ~,-.. i. * Yet it is the avowed intention of Mr. Luke and his friends to divide the country at the earliest moment on what Mr. Massey termed a sido issue. Everything must be subordinated to their narrow creed. _ _ ■ ~ ,T- ~ !„„. TWcrkv Mr Mawv said ''he regretted very much the introduction to this tight of such B WmvseS e'ven SecUnism. rfe would haveliked to have seen all this left alone until after the War." 8 HOW CAN HE SQUARE THIS WITH THE OPEN ATTITUDE OF THE PROHIBITIONISTS, WHO CLAIM MR. LUKE AS THEIR OWN? ELECTORS, DO YOU WANT FURTHER PROOF? q»P the Luke Manifesto to "Lovnl Women" in Saturday's Dominion;, which in tho first few lines says: "For the removal of a Social Evil like the Liquor Traffic and all the miseries that follow in its train." REFORMERS I ! I Are you going to allow the Prohibition Party to wreck the Reform Party? Are you going to be tricked by this organisation in which fanaticism and bigotry are overwhelming patriotism? Tho Prohibitionist partisans of Mr. Luke have insinuated that Mr. Brandon is standing in the interests of the "Trade." Their statements have been emphatically refuted. On the other hand, it has been clearly proved above that Mr. Luke is standing firstly iu the interests of the Prohibition Party. It is they who have forced him upon the electorate. It is they who have prevented his withdrawal. Tho Prohibitionists for long enough have browbeaten Mr. Massey. But will the moderate and tolerant Electors of Wellington North submit to being browbeaten also? NO*** ■ YOU WILL SHOW THE PARTY OF INTOLERANCE THAT THE BLUFF IS CALLED, AND WILL FREE THE ,-.,.. J PRIME MINISTER FROM THE INCUBUS THAT IS DRIVINC THE REFORM PARTY TO DESTRUCTION, j AND OVERSHADOWINC THE WHOLE POLITICAL LIFE OF THIS DOMINION. j