WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE CONTINUANCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1925, Page 1

WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE CONTINUANCE.

Whoever it was who iit'.-l inspired the oilieial Prohibitionists to create the mirage of "the liquor traltic” was a publicity expert of extreme artfulness. Hut he forgot one tiling. He forgot, that when the time comes to take off the gloves and light the Prohibition question tooth and nail. PACTS are apt to overshadow ai'litieial ‘‘stunts.’’ Because the fact i- the Prohibition Party is no more in vomhal with a "liquor trallic" than the ('outinnaucc Patty i- opposed to Temperance. There is no .such tiling as a "liquor i ruffle” in New Zealand. ‘ Tratlic" in liquor come.- only w ith Prohibit ion. The Prohibitionist entureemenl ollirer. Ihe bootlegger, and the peddler oi deadly "moon-hine”—the inevitable offspring of Prohibition- are the only traffickers in liquor. T his is no more hair-splitting. The constant reiteration of the term "liquor trall'e ■" i- a deliberate t tec to deceive those who ate sll-erpllbie In the lure of words. Every penny spent in the attempt to foist. Prohibition on thi- country i- a penny spent i ll inviting the 'cry worst form of liquor "trallic ever eoucei\ed. |l j„ not a ease of what you think or 1 think: the la-I- cannot he avoided. All over the iace of th-- Cinted Stales are written the lines o! sorrow. debauchery and erime eau-e! hyalite nnr.il t ura I. deceilitd lion -alb-d I i hihitiou." Do not he deceived by the -culimentid ■•hogi. -f the paid Pr-'ht-hiiioni-t. Vote nee-, -ding t- the proven facts.- It. prrv-Mtr XU?**