WILL SHE LET IT HAVE THEM?
NEW ZEALAND’S RESPONSIBILITY IN 1911. The tragic fact of the drink traffic is that, year in, year out, it requires its annual tribute. It does not on any set day formally make a sensational demand at a city gate for one or a hundred maidens or men to be delivered up for its devouring. Would to God it did, for then men and women would understand. A dragon, in honest dragon shape, with or without fire issuing from between its bloody jaws, which, within the sight and knowledge of all men, would each month frankly demand and openly tear and slay ten thousand British people, would, because of its honesty, be welcome in exchange for a traffic which now insidiously dishonours and actually does to death that number of our men, women and children every month.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1059, 21 October 1911, Page 4
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142WILL SHE LET IT HAVE THEM? Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1059, 21 October 1911, Page 4
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