THE PROHIBITION POLL.
If liquor is such a good thing, why is it that, in tiinos of national omorgoncv, tho authorities naturally close the bars ? Why is this interference with freedom tolerated ? In tho public interest? Yes, of course. But why “of course,” if it interferes with personal freedom ? Simply bocauso when the wolfuro of everybody is at stake, tho selfish pleasures of tho individual —his freedom to do as he likes no matter who suffers—must bo swopt asido. When tho authorities closed tho railway bars it was done by common consent. Why ? Because every, body realised that it was safer to travel with drivors and guards who had not “ had a taste.” Well then, if alcohol is bad for drivers and guards, how can it bo good for anybody who has responsible work to do ? What human life is safe in those days of fast travel if tho man at tho steer, iug gear is seeing double? And tho same thing applies everywhere, always. Freedom is not freedom unless it is fool proof. Make it sale on April 10. Strike out tho Top Lmo. 213
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Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 126, 3 April 1919, Page 4
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