THE PROHIBITION POLL.
If liquor is such a good thing, why. is it (hat, in times of national emergency, the authorities naturally close the bars? Why is this interference with freedom tolerated? In the public interest? Yes, of course. But why “of course,” if it interferes with personal freedom? Simply hecauseVlien the welfare 01. everybody is at. stake, the selfish pleasures of the individual —his freedom lo do as lie likes no matter who suffers —must he swept aside. When the aulhorilies closed the railway bars it was done by common consent. Why? Because everybody realised that it was safer to (ravel with drivers and guards who had not “had a taste.” Well, then, if alcohol is had for drivers and guards, how can it be good for anybody who has responsible work to do? What human life is safe in these days of fast travel if the man at the steering gear is seeing double? And the same thing applies everywhere, always. Freedom is not freedom unless it is fool-proof. Make it safe on April 10th, Strike out the Top line.*
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1960, 3 April 1919, Page 3
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182THE PROHIBITION POLL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1960, 3 April 1919, Page 3
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