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Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 12 November 1919, Page 3

"EASING" THE CABLES. "The Tress Association of New Zealand is again being used as a longrange weapon for the liquor interests." soys the "Mauawatu Daily Times" in . an excellent leader. "Our readers will remember that when the poll was being taken in New Zealand in April kisn: a , cable message was received purporting j to be from Sir James Cantlie, the wellknown specialist of Harley Street, London, warning the public that alcohol was essential to the treatment of influenza. This was advertised, empha-. sised, and spread broadcast by the N.Z. agents of the liquor interests. The cable took hours to come. The contradiction took weeks, and. when it arrived, it was shown that, so far from j being an advocate of alcohol. Sir James Cantlie regarded spirits as a drug to be obtained only from chemists by a doc- i tor's prescription when even-thing else fails. The cable was a deliberate frame-up, a lie circulated with the intent of influencing the voters (who wore in the throes ot a terrifying epidemic) to keep the bars open. (Similar tactics, were employed in using Dr. Valintinc's name to a faked circular.) The N.Z. Press Association is again lending itself to a similar imposture. It is sending forward cables containing the preposterous suggestion that Samuel Gompers, the American Labour leader, wants the saloons again thrown open "to save the United States from Bolshevism." and also indicating that prohibition in America is being followed by "a wave of increased drug-taking," and also causing Bolshevism and 1.W.W.-ism to gain ground in that country, because of the belief that "prohibition is the crateome of antilabour movements." These statements are so much at variance with all that is known of the conditions in America, and so repugnant to common-sense that it is amazing that the liquor interests should contrive and get them past. They show a very low estimate of the intelligence of the people of this country. But what we cannot get over is why this newspaper should have to pay for this ridiculous propaganda as part of a Press Association "service."— Advt.

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