Beware ofihcLiquor Traffic's Petition ' for their SO-CALLED "FAIR, M, A! REASONABLE POLL" It Asks for Three Issues 1. National Continuance \ ■ ,= ~2.' National Ownership v 3. National Prohibition Every Voter to vote on One Issue Only. No Issue to be carried unless it secures a majority • of the total votes cast on the three issues» V, . HOW WOULD IT WORK; IF National Continuance secures a majority THE TEASE WINS IF National Ownership secures a .majority THE TRADE WINS IP No Issue'secures a majority THE TRADE WINS For the Traffic will continue as at present. ( LlQliOl' V' IEMAMIS A IfIREE-TO-ONE CHANCE! IS THIS "FAIR, JUST AND REASONABLE"? LOOK! . 500,000 Electors would probably vote > (Number of votes required to secure bare majority, 250,001.) If 250,000 voted for National Prohibition, 150,000 voted for National Ownership, ? ; 100,000 voted for National Continuance, NO ISSUE secures the necessary number—therefore the present position remains, and CONTINUANCE WINS, although 400,000 Votes have been cast against it and only 100,000 for it. IT is "FAIR" that every-Voter have a Vote.. IT is "JUST" that the Vote be on. a Bare Majority. IT is "REASONABLE" and imperative that the Liquor Traffic be settled. ; 'gign the Alliance Petition For a Poll This Year on the Basis of the National Fffidency Board's Recommendation been withdrawn. The " TRADE" PETITION is not a Government Petition. The "ALLIANCE" does not pay canvassers so much per hundred signatures. , The "ALLIANCE" desires only genuine signatures. DO NOT BE/ : 'jHSLEDId, ZIZ
A CONVERT TO PROHIBITION. ' / • j • In a leading article 011 "The Lifiuor Question,"' ia its issue < of Monday, August 19,. the "Southland Times" says "If tlie exclusion of alcoholic liquors from tie Dominion, jj except for use under medical orders, will make tlie nation, more j fit, will improve its equipment for successful enterprise, will increase tie energy and prosperity of its people, then alcohol . \ : should he thrown out. This war has • taught many lessons. . j This paper has always been opposed to Prohibition and in | favour of State Control and regulation, but we are bound to admit that the war has proved clearly that the consumption of liquor is closely related to national efficiency, and for our part j we are prepared to say now that the sooner the Liquor Trade in £ all its branches is rooted out of New Zealand the better it will be for the people of thte country. . . . The lesson is clear. | The less the consumption of alcoholic liquor the greater is I national efficiency. Alcohol is an enemy of efficiency, and the i • v country which strives to attain< the highest degree of fitness can | •do nothing better than sh\it out alcohol altogether.- The Effi- • | ciency Board which inquired into the question in this country jj heard evidence from all classes of the community, and the com- jj missioners were unanimous, in finding that from every point of \ view the country has all to gain by banishing liquor. He would f be a bold person who would dispute the soundness ol that find- ■ ing, and the business men of the Dominion who aro at the back of this movement are entirely at one with the Efficiency Board. ! It is one of the lessons 'of •the-war, and the sooner it is applied j the better. It is for the people to say whether it should be ap- j plied. Parliament is not asked to legislate the Liquor Traffic s out of existence. It is asked only to authorise a poll which will | enable the people to make their voice heard upon this question. The decision rests with the people, and if the demand for a poll j! is made by 300,000 signatories to a question it cannot very well be 1 refused. . . . The point we wish to make in the meantime is f that on the broad question whether the Dominion would be jj better off without alcoholic liquor than with it there is very little jj room for difference of opinion." | WELLINGTON AGREES |
This Question of All-absorbing , Interest to the People of the Dominion will be the I subject of a Stirring Address in the Star' .Theatre Ncwfowi (Wellington) | To-morrow (Friday) Nlfpt. I . Commencing at 8 o'clock* | ; SPEAKER: \ Mr. "James. Simps©! 1 (o! Canada) | First Vice-President of the Canadian Trades and Labour Council ! and Delegate-Elect to the First International Congress of Socialists j after the war. ! You are urged to comc and hear this question analysed thoroughly, i and learn the reasons why the people of this Dominion should ! adopt, the only logical course, and drive drink from the Dominion. I A collection will be received for Campaign Expenses. I BEWARE OF THE TRADE PETITION! | Bo warned against signing "THE T.KADE ' Petition —there is | 0110 logical issue only to this great National Problem—either I'O.R | or AGAINST the drink. j Sign the N.Z. Alliance Monster Petition and do your part in getting the Poll to Banish Booze.
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