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PUBLIC NOTICES. TO-DAY'S ECONOMICS. (BY THE N.Z. WELFARE LEAGUE.) THE FARMERS AND SOCIALISM. What is the most important industry in New Zealand? The farming and subsidiary industries. Why? Because thoso industries give us each day our daily bread, and in exchange for our surplus food we cet nearly all the manufactured necessaries of life. What ould the Labour Party do to the m'imary industries? They would nationalise them, that is, take them over and operate them as a State concern. t What would this involve? First they must got possession of the land and plant, and then run it as a business proposition. How would they take it? ' They would either expropriate it without payment, or give in oxchango for it State bonds or paper money; there is 110 other way. What would bo the result of this? At the worst it is plain burglary; at the best it means the creation of a class of idle rentiers, and during tire period of transition serious •and perhaps insuperable administrative difficulties, jobbery, corruption, inefficiency, disorganised and therefore reduced production, and high prices. I How would they run the land? As farming is a skilled industry, they must induce the present farmers to run it, and as the Labour Party does not believe in conscription, either or industrial, they could forca the farmers to work the land. They must therefore induce them to operate by ,other means, and would find that if they want to maintain a high level of production they must guarantee the farmer at least equal security of ■ tenure and of reward for his labour to what he has now. What is the upshot of this? The farming industry would remain m the hands of the present farmers, because they are the only citizens, that can farm, and the net result would be the same men runnilig the same industry as at present, but under conditions less conducive to efficient production , than we have to-day. « Where did the Labour Party get their idea? We don't know, but it reminds us of "Alice in Wonderland." What is the moral? Nationalisation in this sense is only a juggle, for the only men who can produce are the trained producers, and as the State cannot dispense with them it must enlist them, Could this be secured by Nationalisation? Not in any effeqtive manner. Experience has shown that the community gets the best service by relying on the motivo of selfinterest, which is the only spur that will elicit the best economic faculties of man. THE FAILURE OF PROHIBITION IN AMERICA. ►_ ' i WHAT PROHIBITION PRODUCES. • LABOUR LEADER'S DICTUM. Mr. Samuel Gompers, the great Labour leader, says"Prohibition is responsible for much of the industrial unrest that has arisen in the United States." Mr. Henry J. Johnson, Bridge Port, says:—'"Prohibition, on trial, has created infinitely more evils than it aimed to suppress." CRIME AND HYPOCRISY. Mr. R. Calhoun Barnes, Bedford, Ind., says:—"ln my State there has been more criminality and more sexual outrages during Prohibition than there waa in any similar period before its adoption." Cardinal Gibbons, Baltimore, Md., says:—"Prohibition makes hypocrites of men and women." SLY-GROG SELLING AND " ' ■ INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES. ' ,Mr. V. V. Mills, Kansas, says:—"The aaloon in my State has been blotted out'; but the moon-lighter and the boot-legger have been instituted,'and a greater police force had to be employed to combat tho evils Prohibition has introduced." Mr. Matthew W. Spoulding, East Millsboro', Penns., says:—"Viewing the troubles, industrial and social, that Prohibition has produced throughout the States, I have appealed to President Wilson to suspend the war-time Prohibition law." • SEDITION AND LAW-BREAKING. Mr. Edwin Oldroyd, Louisville, Ten,, says:—"Lynching, bomb outrages, and seditious propaganda among tho lowest society of America has been aggravated by the prohibitory law." , Dr. M. F. Crafts, Chicago, 111., says:—"Prohibition has not reduced the national per capita consumption of alcoholic liquoj-s. It has just created an illicit trade." WAR-TIME PROHIBITION. VIEW OF FEDERAL COURT JUDGE. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Received November 16, 5.5 p.m.) New York, November 13. Attorneys for ' distilling interests in. Louisville and Ivontucky won another victory in the. fight on wartime prohibition. Tho Federal Court. Judge announced his belief that the law was unconstitutional. It is proposed to seek the issue of an injunction restraining Government interference with tho salo of liquor that has paid a' tax. If you would avoid the industrial unrest and the social outrages encouragcd by Prohibition, you will on election day striko out the bottom two lines thus: 1. I VOTE FOR NATIONAL CONTINUANCE. -2—l-VST-E-PeR STATE PURCHASE fr CONTROLo i \;atp rv\r> T. i V\J i £ rOT\ ImUWiNML riNWniDl i IWIN. STRIKE OUT THE TWO BOTTOM LINES/ I i I GIVE PROHIBITION A TRIAL. It will cost nothing.

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