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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1885, 3 October 1918, Page 4

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State Control r PQCTaaasraa&ffEa committing yourself and FIND OUT exactly what STATE CONTROL means! Ask: X. What amount will the State need to pay the Trade! It is said that the recent-Conference of Brewers, Hotelkeepers, Wine and Spirit Merchants, etc., while they disagreed strongly on some tilings, were quite unanimous in deciding to ask £15,0011,000. 2. Has any body of disinterested business men recommended it ? For obvious reasons no sensible voter will accept either the Moderate League or “The Trade" as authorities. He should know what lie is voting for. Let the National Efficiency Board say what it thinks of it as an Investment. 3. la the new Government Department to be run for Revenue ? Let “The Trade” submit balance sheets so that the probable profits may be known. No “pig in a poke" at £15,000,000! 4. Is it to be run not for revenue but to, promote temperance? Days of great financial stringency lie immediately ahead, Revenue must be produced. The Liquor Department will be expected to produce its share. The pushing of sales will not be needed. Drink seljg itself! fS. Are the present Hotelkeepers, Bartenders and Barmaids to be the new civil servants? There may be real difficulty in staffing the new Department. The other civil servants may object to the new type. One other department brands them now. It loads a 30 year old publican 12£ years on a Life Assurance policy. Will this be removed when they become civil servants V 6. Will there be a new brand of liquors Guaranteed not to produce present Effects ? The danger is not in the management but in the lifjuor. "State” liquor will produce drunkenness, disease, poverty, crime and inefficiency just as surely as the present brands. Provide facilities . >- for drink and excess is inevitable, 7. Has any country in the world mad® a success of State Control? Sweden's Gothenburg system, Russia’s National Vodka Monopoly, South Carolina’s State Dispensary, Saskatchewan’s State Liquor Shops, were all ■ huge failures. In Britain the experiment at Carlisle in a State Public House is cited as having reduced drunkenness over 00%. But this is really duo to the reduction of the hours of sale to 5£ per day. An exactly similar lessening of drunkenness has resulted all over England where reduced hours prevail but where no experiments in State Public Houses have been tried. It is reduction of hours, not change of proprietorship, that has made better conditions, 8. Why did Great Britain appoint the Liquor Control Board? Lloyd George said Drink was a greater enemy than either Germany or Austria. Admirals, Generals, Shipbuilders, Judges, Labour Leaders, etc., joined in demanding Prohibition, but the “greatest enemy" was too strongly entrenched. It defeated the great Premier, and the Liquor Control Board was appointed as a compromise. 9. Why did not the United States or Canada adopt State Control? The United Slates has sacrificed an Annual Revenue of £100.000,000 and Canada an Annual Revenue of £5,000,000. because they were strong enough to throttle the 'Traffic, and wanted the job done thoroughly. In spite of the restrictions, Great Britain spent last year, at the present increased prices, no less than £250,000,000 in Drink. XO. Is State Control necessary in New Zealand ? Prohibition is easily possible. The Trade i« hopelessly discredited here. It has wasted directly £20,000,000 during the 4 years of the War and as much more indirectly. It is responsible for 43,600 • convictions for drunkenness during the same period, and has produced more misery, poverty and crime than can be measured. Consider this; State Control has Always Failed! State Control is Always Discarded! Prohibition has Always Succeeded ! Why try a discredited remedy when the true remedy is known ? Canada and United States have adopted National Prohibit'© i both for War Efficiency and for Peace Efficiency, after experience with both State Ownership and Prohibition. PROHIBITION IS THE REAL REMEDY! Sign the N.Z. ALLIANCE MONSTER PETITION! KX Efllclrurr S'jrfcj-Wv viiiifi'iiiiiwiiii 1 in