LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
PROHIBITION AND MR. MACK
Sir,—l have to thank Mr. Mack for his picture of the child (Hussia) reach r ing out for the butterfly of Prohibition and >j)emg crushed, for the persons vho are reaching out for Prohibition iu New Zealand will fall to the ground and bo crushed. Why? Because Prohibition is a greater menace to the liberty yud' freedom of a people than are the Hun hordes of Europe. The Germans intrigued for Prohibition in Russia, and that brought about the country's downfall. Mr. Mack is endeavouring to split the Labour people in Wellington Central, and like the child reaching out for Prohibition he will fall to the. ground and be crushed, and the more the people aro educated the less laitk will they have in Prohibition. The result of voting iu No-License areas iu New Zealand is proof of this, and the last election showed the Prohibitionists to be in a substantial minority. Why do they raise this question again during the war? Is it patriotic? Is it patriotic to spend large sums of money on a campiig'i when all the money is needed for war purposes? I have said the leading men in the Labour movement are supporters of State purchase and State control. Mr. Lloyd George Bays: "Personally, I am of opinion that State purchase is the best way to progress ' and temperance." Being a Prohibitionist, Mr. Mack is a laggard in the temperance movement. Prohibition is an. out-of-date idea among temperance leaders in Great Britain. Why, Phillip Snowden was one of the pioneers of State control, and J. E. Clynes is, as a Labour man, one of the latest converts. If he wants to be in the vanguard of temperance and progress Mr. Mack will have to become a State Controllist, otherwise he will be a repetition of the child who fell out of the window and was crushed. Mr. M'Combs has already had his experience, and is coming round to Stato control, for he does not want to fall out of the Labour window.—l am, etc., E. KENNEDY. , September 21.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 310, 25 September 1918, Page 6
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351LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 310, 25 September 1918, Page 6
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