HOW TO STOP 26,400 CONVICTIONS
If prohibition is not carried at the next poll, the liquor traffic will he free to carry on for another three years. That means that, on a conservative estimate, it will lie free to produce 26,400 convictions for drunkenness in New Zealand. In 1921 the traffic resulted in over 8,800 convictions. Not only will the traffic result in that during the next three years, hut it will also result in all the degradation and misery produced in homes where the victim to drink does not appear "in the Courts. ProhihUon does not immediately wipe out all drunkenness, hut it does rediKie it- enormously. Tn Toronto, Canada, in 1914, under license, when only had ‘drunks’ were arrested, the arests were 16,981. In 1921, under prohibition, when any man showing signs of drunkenness was arrested, they were only 5.811.
Resides as Sir John Salmoml has said of prohibition in the U.S;A. the younger generation are growing np without cultivating the taste for alcohol. Prohibition is just Common-sense—-prevention rather Ilian cure. A ote out the liquor traffic and stop the cause of drunkenness. —N.Z. Alliance Publicity (62).
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1922, Page 1
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189HOW TO STOP 26,400 CONVICTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1922, Page 1
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