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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 441, 12 November 1908, Page 3

THE OUTLOOK FOR NEXT WEEK. THE next week will decide the issue of what will be the fiercest moral struggle in the history of this Dominion. For the last 15 years two rival armies, one of great power and wealth, the other springing from a small "handful of earnest men and women, until today it numbers a democratic nfajority in the land, have been engaged in a keen battle lor supremacy ; the one fighting for liquor and for mammon, the other battling for soberness, equity and righteousness. The enthusiasm and earnestness of both sides is undoubted ; the inducement of the one is money interest, that of the other springs from the purer source of MAN’S KEEN INTEREST IN HIS FELLOW MAN. THE LIQUOiT"SELLERS. THE liquor sellers have made their boast that they will be able to last out longer than the friends of temperance ; the history of the past 'few years is against them, the indifcations and the demands 1 of the future trouble‘them. THE FINAL ISSUE. "VCTHAT the final issue will be is \ * surely, and with no un..cerfaia ’note, -already proclaimed by the Steadily increasing army of true hearted citizens, who are inoving rapidly to the overthrow of that trade that is still licensed to traffic in the liquor that Governors, Judges, Statesmen, and Doctors universally declare to be the primary cause of most of the crime, poverty, and disease that afflicts humanity. THE DEMAND. There is no cause which demands the support of those who have the weal of the Dominion at heart, and of those who deplore its woe, as the great movement, now firmly established,, for tbe abolition of the licensed liquor bar. What is needed is a further great awakening in respect to this curse. When that awakening comes, and it is already on tbe horizon, there will be a stern and vigorous dealing with the trade that degrades and demoralises the people of every land where it is tolerated. *WHAT CAN BE DONE ? It may be asked, what can be done? Just this, let all who are in dead earnest in this matter urge their friends to VOTE NO-LICENSE, and see that their own vote is recorded. THE ADVANCE OF NOLICENSE IN NEW ZEALAND. Five Local Option polls have now been taken in New Zealand. The following diagram shows how the aggregate vote for NoLicense has grown : In 1894, 48,435 votes. In 1896, 98,312 votes, In 1899, 1x8,575 votes. In 1902, 151,543 votes. In 1905, 198,768 votes.