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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2059, 10 December 1907, Page 3

WHO OUGHT TO VOTE NO-

LICENSE. Business men, „„„ You ought to voto NO-LIOENSE, bocaus'e if tho throe million storling sterling that are spent yearly in tins Colony upon liquor wore diverted into the channels of logitimato trado, eoimnerco would bo galvanised into new life, unparalleled and permanent. BUSINESS MEN, ,don’t continue, liko tho dog, to lick the hands of your smitor, but “STRIKE OUI THE TOP LINE.” WORKING MEN, Trt „ XTaT , You ougTit to voto NO-LICENSE, because tho Liquor Traffic is the greatest enemy of Labor, attacking it from two special quarters: (1) It absorbs tho hard earnings of labor given by other industries ; and (2) it practically refuses to employ labor in its own productions. All the world over tho' LIQUOR TRADE IS A HUGE FUNNEL, having a largo capacity for receiving, but a smallono for giving out. WORKING MEN, slav your worst too, and blivlivuOUT THE TOP LINE.” WOMEN, „„tt™voi? You ought to vote NO-LICENSL in order to protect tho homo liie of your country, and to make the pathway smoother, and the moral atmosphero sweeter and purer for your children. There is nothing like tho Liquor Traffic for wrecking homes, withering affections, blighting childlife and destroying all that every true woman holds sacred, lhis traffic ruthlessly tramples upon everything that a woman loves, robs her of all that would minister to her happiness, and in thousands of cases imprisons her in tho centre of her own gloom, the most solitary place in God s universe. WOMEN, will you not go to tho ballot-box with tho grim determination to abolish your most implacable enemy, that which mipoveiishes and degrades your sisters, and spoils the music of tlieir lives? l*or the sake of home and children, and all that woman holds dear, fellvllvlli OUT THE TOP LINE.” CHRISTIANS, vn , rT • You ought to vote 3S O-LICEJs SE # for a moment’s reflection will assure you that your Master would not in any wav identfy Himself until a Traffic that, from every point ol view, injures all and benefits none. To even imagine Jesus Christ voting for the continuance of a traffic that degrades and destroys those whom He came to “save” would be blasphemv of the blackest character. To vote for License, or to refrain from voting No-License, will not only bo treachery to tho sorrowing and. suffering, whose interests, as Christians, we should be tho first to uphold, but it will be cruel disloyalty to Christ whom we profess to - serve. This statement is so obviously incontrovertible that there is only one thing for vou to do at the ballot-box. You, at any rate, must, “STRIKE OUT THE TOP LINE.”

everybody, Ought to vote NO-LICEN SI. , for it will not only lessen taxation, create an enormous demand for labor, and largely increase the volume of legitimate business, but the moral results that will flow, from the abolition of the Drink Traffic will be seen in tears wiped aivay, hearts made buoyant, despair giving place to hope, ties of affection renewed, home life re-instated, reason re-en-throned, character reformed, and the soul’s higher faculties made sensitive to the touch of Divine influences. Surely, a change so beneficent as this is worth effecting. Therefore, one and all, “STRIKE OUT THE TOP LINE.” (Advt.) C.P. A. F. N ORRIS ’ BRITISH BOOTMAKER AND REPAIRER. Gladstone-road, two doors above- Royal Hotel. My Motto — Reasonable Prices and Good Workmanship. H. M. Smeeton, Ltd. ENERAL -pROVIDERS, AUCKLAND. Are Prepared to OFFER LOWEST RATES For GENERAL GROCERIES, PRODUCE, PROVISIONS, HOUSEHOLD IRONMONGERY. All communications to b'e-addressed — H. M. SMEETON LTD. GENERAL PROVIDERS, Auckland.

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