HOW TO STOP 26,400 CONVICTIONS.

Shannon News, 29 August 1922, Page 3

HOW TO STOP 26,400 CONVICTIONS.

If prohibition is not carried at the next poll, the liquor traffic will be free to carry on lor another three years. That means that, on a conservative estimate, it will be free to

produce 26,400 convictions lor drunkenness in New Zealand. In 1021 the traffic resulted in over 8,800 convictions. Not only will the traffic result in that during the next three years, but it will also result in all the degradation and misery produced in homes where the victim to drink does

not appear in the Courts. Prohibition does not immediately wipe out all drunkenness, but it does reduce it enormously. In Toronto, Canada, in 1914, under license, when only bad “drunks” were arrested, the arrests were 16,981. In 1921 undei prohibition, when any man showing signs of drunkenness was arrested, they were only 5811.

Besides, as Sir John Salmond lias said of prohibition in the U.S.A., the younger generation are growing up

i without cultivating the taste loi alj cohol. I Prohibition is just Common-sense ! prevention rather than cure. \ote I out the liquor traffic and stop the ! cause of drunkenness.—N.Z. Alliance I Publicity (62).