INCREASED TAXATION AND THE FINISHED PRODUCT.

Shannon News, 21 November 1922, Page 3

INCREASED TAXATION AND THE FINISHED PRODUCT.

(To the Editor.}

ir ,—ln your last issue interested parties attempt to scare the housewives oi Shannon from voting. Prohibition by the ridiculous assertion that they will have to pay increased taxation, lhere are few women who have not sufficient brains to uixdei'Stand that if we no longer had to pay for the “finished product” (very -much finished) of liquor, we should be x’elieved of ~ a mucix heavier sum than that with which they threaten us. No longer would |he poor girls who nurse in our hospitals be chased in danger of their lives by drunken lunatics, or our helpless sick folks lie trembling in their beds during their vagaries. Nor should we, who had nothing to do with sending them there, have to pay for their keep and treatment. And this is but one tiny item of expense that would be off our shoulders. Also, the respectable tradespeople of Shannon would no longer be outraged by the filthy and unspeakable doings of the aforesaid “finished product,” nor decent townsfolk and school children be compelled to witness their degredation.— I am ,etc.,

ONE OF THE HOUSEWIVES