SHOULD SOCIALISTS VOTE PROHIBITION?

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 32, 13 October 1911, Page 17

SHOULD SOCIALISTS VOTE PROHIBITION?

, Yes— a •-'•coal-dust yes I Economics and Prohibition! If Dominion Prohibition were carried cast-iron economics would rem.ia.in cast-iron economics still. But Dominion Prohibition would practically mean a sober proletariat ; education, the workers' hope, would then make better progress, would make for solidarity. What brain-power is spent in as hard- cash as was ever coined upon beer and kindred liquors! That wealth of' brain power under prohibition would perforce turn into other channels. Where union.-'■■meetings • are attended sparsely, owing bo bar-bound members, would,' I venture, be seen to best advantage. O wayward comrades-, when industrial troubles are throwing a clear issue would bo cast at the ballot. Onward, onward far solidarity!.- The liquor traffic and our proletarian movement cannot go well baud in hand.. By Spargo, three cheers for an intelligent vote'upon workers' interests! But while the saloons, as we know thorn, exist, a united effort cannot be. We shall speak better, understand clearer, vote more intelligently, get better into line, see the issue nearer and hail the coining day With a fuller and newer verve. Yes, comrades! — Huntly. BILLY BANJO.