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Shannon News, 25 September 1925, Page 4

You'll be sorry if ICTURE a big American sailor : -physically and mentally fit—a man of superior type. « No—" he drawled, " I don't go mi myself, but I should know something of You people should watch your step—you sorry if yo* get it!" lauor durned f Every scrap of reliable evidence concerning the effect of Prohibition in every country which has tried it has one vital message for the New Zealand people—- " You'll be durned sorry ifyo 1 get it!" The armed strife which is causing bloodshed, bitterness, and waste in the United States;^ the increase in drunkenness and crime; the terrible evil which this thing called Prohibition has wrought among the youth of America—all echo a warning to this sober and prosperous people—u You'll be durned sorry if yo' get it!" When you consider what it will cost New Zealand to stage this Prohibition farce—the loss of at least £1,800,000 a year in duties—an army of unemployed and their dependants, 24,000 strong—an inevitable increase in crime, France—an army of spies, ooot-ieggers, m m do you wonder that the thinking man says—- " You'll be durned sorry if yo' get it!' 3 ers— The right vote NOW will save a thousand regrets when regrets are useless s you eannot have Prohibition on trial. Thus (1) I VOTE FOR NATIONAL CONTINUANCE