HOW TO STOP 26,400 CONVICTIONS
If prohibition is not carried at the neait poll, the liquor traffic will be free to carry on for another three years. That means .that, on a conservative estimate, it will be free to produce 26,400 convictions for drunkenness in New Zealand. In 1921 the traffic resulted in over 8800 convictions. Not only wit.' the traffic result in .that during the next three years, but it will also resuKt in all the degradation and misery produced in homes where the victim to drink does not appear in the Courts. Prohibtion does not immediately wipe out all drunkenness, but it does reduce: enormously. In Toronto. Canada, in 1914 under .license, when only bad ‘drunks’ were arresed. the arrests were 16,981. In 1921 under prohibition, when any man showing signs of drunkenness was arrested, they were ©nly 5811. Besides, as Sir John Salmond has said of prohibition in the U.S.A. the younger generation are growing up without cultivating - 'the taste for alcohol . Prohibition is just Common-sense —prevention rather than a cure. Vote out (the liquor traffic and stop the cause of .drunkenness. —N.Z. Alliance Publicity (62) .
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 759, 8 September 1922, Page 6
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