THE PROHIBITION POLICY.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 53, 31 August 1896, Page 2

THE PROHIBITION POLICY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAE. Sib,— The Prohibition party are twitted with not having a policy, with not having an idea as to what would take place or what sbould be done in the future in the event of the abolition party getting into power. To prove tbat such assertions are unfounded and that we have a bold and, I think, efficient scheme to go on with, I beg to quote a few lines of the Prohibitionist policy. In the first place it must be distinctly understood that we are not working merely for a few seats in Parliament, or for a bare working majority. We want all the seats in Parliament in order the more easily to give effect to our policy. The first steps will be — 1. To close all public houses, and to destroy all liquors found in any hands. 2. To double the police force. 3. To provide an efficient coastguard and stations. 4. To abolish voting by ballot. 5. To take a plebiscite of votes on Prohibition. 6. To disfranchise opponents for three years. 7. To provide against smuggling, receiving, distilling, brewing, or holding in any way, alcoholic liquor. 8. To provide penalties for persons making use of words, phrases, terms, calls, toasts, etc., now used in connection with and applied to drink, such words or phrases to be held to be profane and indecent language. 9. To make up deficiency in revenue as follows : (a) a poll tax pro rata on all disfranchised opponents, hereinafter described as malcontents, to equal onehalf of customs duties on all imported liquors, taking average of last five years ; (b) a tax on capital value of all real and personal property held by malcontents total to equal (a) no exemptions. 10. To levy a tax of trom 10 to 50 per cent on, property of all persons leaving the colony. 11. To provide quarantine stations sufficient to accommodate for three months all tourists, visitors, etc., enter- t ing the colony. 12. To provide facilities for holiday making, picnics, excursions, seaside, riyer, etc., 13. To carry on the general service of the colony. I am, etc., Sage Tea.