A PROHIBITION MEETING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 12, 2 June 1914, Page 6

A PROHIBITION MEETING.

'MR. I'COLE IN NEW PLYMOUTH. Mr. C. [I. IVole had. a most attentive audience right to the very end of h:* I «:<•» ::;ldnv.-s oil I'rrhibition in the (ioud i: . i' Hail 'on Sunday evening. He " - ily introduced by the Rev. T. veare, it-hough tha|t was iinncccs- - 1 :i Mr. Poolers lame as a speaker leached all parts of New Zealand, veil as a very large portion. of ;..-rica. The theme of the sulilress was' ■ H.iinly Prohibition in America, and hat t'he spea'ker had .seen and hoard ercon during his stay, ami travels in - Republic. Mr. Poole, on .pressing invitation, to America in 1912 to join \! ';;yng out a programme of prohih- ■ •» : .'pagantla, wherein he ivas inli->-~cciated with such well-known i'heodore Roosevelt and W. .1. "■'! ■> : ; ' Secretary of State). Tills 11 * ' ! 'both iv»t and dry d-is- " ■ ciii; call it, and lie was a.. ' - himself and hear liv.-it 'he drink hail in wet • ' - what gooi refills follow. ■ places thai, h-n! voted <■ . • . . . H wa,: particula. , Kansivt and Maine an,. >. that he had much to s • - found, had, from being . . nid .St'ile, become «ut of ■ "ous, and its largest city. spite of ■what 'has been t :by trade, was clean Jl9 said on the tesi,:i vho were not prohibition:. ■.< . private citizens wh:.< v ,>us i f promoting what was to. good ol their <i:ty. Kansas, after a iong period of prohibition, wa,-i the wealthiest IStatc in the Union, when the average wealth of licr people wa-:i reckoned up; yet !'he was not the most richly oii'lowed by nature, for slie ccntained a large area of naturailly poor land. Her" wealth came from the sobriety, thrift and enterprise of her citizens.

Mr Poc-le. took part in the greatest campaign in West Virginia, whicls, ending in it-hub State going out of the liquor trade by a majority i o f 92,0:)'), and the poll takes effect in July, 1911. In this State he was it j'd to expect, a rough reception from the mining an! lumbering populations in the mountains; but he found quite the contrary: he go! a good reception everywhere. Illinois ia perhaps the most mdstnding vi/ctiory. for lw-licciioc in America, as well as being the most recent. In this State it as nojt a question of Slate wide prohibition that ivoted on-, bii|t what we should fall noliccnso; and that is gaining ground yearly. Here, too, the women lw ■ been recently enfrancMsed, and their votes have helped largely ito the happy result in closing down 1)50 saioons iii the various parts of ,the 'State. The particulars are interesting. There was an aggregate majtarity agtlfn.st the drink of 35,462 out of a total vote of 210,000, or over GO per ccnit. for prohibition; 114 cities and milages were added to the dry territory; 52 counties, out of 102 n.re now under prnh'.bi+.io:;; a::! n ';

single ctaiunty, city or vifrige ha* gone back frcmi "di-v" to "NYCit." The lecturer waxed warm and eloquent when he described the great suqcesn of nolicense :n Hockford. ill. This city, of about 55,000 population, is about 50 miles from Chicago, the centre and stronghold of liqiuordom, ami ycit ihns resisted successfully al{ attempts at restoration in her borders. So well satisfied are the business .men of ithis city that they would not for a n:nment think of allowing tile liquor trade again in tiheir midst Mr. Poole throughout emph:u:v~ed the benefits to trade thait everywhere followed prohibition!, and for this purpose quoted from The Dry Goodw Economist, u paper especially devoted (0 trade interests, and by 110 means intended ito be a pro. hibifion advocate. 'T'-e hard, yet cheery, facts of the leeiure were Wievcli by many very .lirmcri'iis incidents of personal experience. The speaker, however, diet not confine I:inis!'lf Ito trade v. drink, ibiit told t.lie meeting of his meeting with Sir Victor llorslcy. 011 the .public iiiiitfonn, as wo'l as Dr. Salecbv. Thf<e ne.t«l scienU.-K I,thi! former .being a world-known wir"Reon in matters «►* ;the lirain, and the latter a leader in the science of : eugenics and .race-preservation, both dc.<>ll,ire that alecM is always and only injurious to the human body: it hinders recovery from disease and its use, tends to race deterioration. Rounds »f ap- ' plaufio greeted' the speaker a.s lie resumed his seat with a cheevv "Good night." *