GET THIS ON YOUR MIND.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 489, 23 October 1925, Page 1

GET THIS ON YOUR MIND.

(Published by Arrangement.)

REMEMBER AT THE POLLING BOOTH. | It was decided the other day, in a Federal Court of the U.S.A., that a Prohibition officer may "eize baggage and examine it, or may enter a house and search it, WITHOUT A WARRANT. 1 Needless to say, the New Zealand Prohibition Party has not announced this decision. It would far rather that the electons knew, nothing about it; it queers their pitch—gives the lie to their vapourings. ! They know that the law .they are trying to force upon this Dominion is modelled- on the American law; they know that it is just as severe, more narrow, and more far-reaching tnan the American law ; they know that it will operate, just as the American law is operating—to the destruction of personal liberty, to the increase of crime and general lawlessness. | If it were not a serious and pathetic situation One could laugh at it. The poor, short-sighted meddler in ( other people’s affairs itfould be happy | when an officer broke into a man’s i home or opened a man’s suitcase and . found' a bottle of brandy. He would feel that the gloriou? result justified the enormity of the method. I Personal liberty is a matter of transcendental importance. The se- J curity of Government, the existence of civilisation depends upon its maintenance. - " J Hold fast to liberty. Strike out the , two. bottom lines.* 9