ASK THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC THIS?
According to Police Reports for 1921, jthere were over 8800 convictions for drunkenness in New Zealand,. Ask the liquor traffic what made these cases ‘drunks’ and where did they get it ? Ask the liquor traffic if the arrests and convictions represent all the drunkenness in New Zealand? Ask the liquor traffic if it is true that every habiftl ual drunkard and every casual drunkard began as a moderate? Ask the liquor traffic if intoxicating drink is solid anywhere in New Zealand without drunkenness befing there too? ASk the liquor traffic if a prohibition order taken out by a man himself or on a relative’s request is ever broken? Ask the liquor \traffic if a prohibition order has a chance of be’ng obeyed whilst an organised trade is pushing temptation before a man at every opportunity? Ask the liquor 'traffic who pays when a husband an.d father spends most or alt of his money on drink? In the U.S.A. under prohibition drunkennness has been reduced 60 per cen(t. Ask yourself if i't is not true that Prohibition is just Com. mon-sense?—'N.Z. Alliance Publicity, (SI).
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 759, 8 September 1922, Page 7
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188ASK THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC THIS? Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 759, 8 September 1922, Page 7
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