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TWELVE QUESTIONS TWELVE QUESTIONS ' FOR THE NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE. NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE. 1. Why did the Members of the House who were in favour of Prohibition ever allow a Bill to go through the House giving the Trade 4} years' notice before Prohibition (if carried by those in the country in favour of it) could bo effective? 2. Was tho New Zealand Alliance a party to this agreement? 3. Did Sir Josoph Ward, as Colonial Treasurer, state that the revenue received from the Liquor Traffic was ' roughly ,£1,000,000 per annum, and that it would take him years to adjust his finance; and is this the origin of the JM.SOO.IMO which figures as compensation to the Trade? 4. If this 1 is the fact, how can this sum, whioh is compensation for loss of revenue to the Consolidated Fund of the fcOiintry, logically, in any sense, be turned round and bo made a sum sufficient iu any way to compensate tho Trade, when no basis whatever has been arrived at, as data on which to estimate such .compensation? 5. Does not this explain why the Members of the House are in such a fog as to why ,£■(,500,000 or any other sum (within a <£1,000,000, as suggested by Sir Joseph Ward) should be the sum'they inserted iu the Bill? 6. If this haphazard sum, arrived at in such a way by members imnronerly allowing a year's license to tlie Trade to jbe extended to years, was accepted by the Efficiency Board, ,is that any reason for the people to whom the issue will be submitted accepting it also? 7. Is not the usual trade custom for the PURCHASE of the goodwill of any business, mostly on tho basis of ono year's profits, and if so, whv should "not exceeding two years' profits" be the basis for tho COMPENSATION of the Liquor Trade? S. Why do the Canadian delegates come hero to advocate compensation, when in their own country^.'and in the United States Prohibition was; is, and will bo carried by legislative enactment without compensation? 9. Do they consider that what is possible for them is impossible here? 10. Whv is a sum of ,£200,000 necessary as a fighting fund in a democratic country of 1,000,000 inhabitants with 600,000 voters? 11. Why does the New Zealand Alliance forsake principle and endeavour to buy reform ? 12. Would their predecessors/who had no .1200,000 fighting fund, l>ut nlenty of fighting, have accepted such base (less) compromise? !

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