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Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1919, Page 4

WHY PAY, COMPENSATION 1 QUESTION—Why pay (£4,500,000 to the Liquor Trade? ANSWER: I—To1 —To prevent the country from having to pay the "Trade" £6,000,000 for Goodwill and an additional £9,000,000 for the properties should State Purchase and Control be carried at the General Elections. (There in no limit in the Act to the amount to be paid to the Trade for State Purchase.) 2—To prevent the payment of £5,000,000 every year to the "Trade" if Continuance should be carried. 3—To save the £5,000,000 to £10,000,000 a year loss through inefficiency caused by liquor. 4 —To save the thousands of convictions for drunkenness every year. o—To save the shame and humiliation to the families of those convicted. 6 —To save the incalculable loss to the country caused by the "Trade" in crime, poverty, lunacy, sickness, and general moral degradation. 7—To save thousands of children of whom the "Trade" will make its finished products—drunkards. QUESTION—What does £4,500,000 mean? ANSWER—One penny per week per head of our population will provide a sum sufficient to pay inter est and establish a sinking fund to pay off the principal. QUESTION —Would any voter grudge one penny per week to obtain for our country the least of the above savings. ANSWER—Let each voter's conscience dictate the reply, THEREFORE, VOTE FOR THE CHILD AND THE NATION TO-MORROW. FINAL WARNING: The Prohibition Party does not claim to have made no mistakes in this liquor fight. It does claim not to have knowing ly made any misstatements. It regrets to need to point out that 'the Liquor Party has been guilty of distinctly dishonorable tactics. What Dr. Valintine described as its "Impudent use of my name" in the bogus proclamation about influenza—its deliberate cooking of the cable about the release of spirits in Greet Britain—its quotation of statements made nine years ago by Mr. Massey an d Sir Joseph Ward, that extra taxation would follow prohibition, as though th ey were made on the recent Licensing Act—its deceptive use of the name of the Chief Justice and of the Y.M.C.A. —its flagrantly false figures about Ma ine (certified as false by the editor of the Dominion)—and its equally false statement about America having lei pudiated prohibition by a majority of 250,000, BRAND IT AS ABSOLUTELY UNWORTHY OP BELIEF. It is certain to publish other alarmist statements with some semblance of truth, but as false as the above—such as cables from overseas, opinions of apparently or really eminent men's statements undated (nearly always old, but quoted as new), 80-called financial statements, so-called testimony about the failure of prohibition. ALL THESE—AND, INDEED, ANY MADE BY THE LIQUOR ELECTORS ARE WARN ED NOT TO ACCEPT. Unless they can verify. The "Trade" advertises what it claims to be testimonies from Canada, REMEM BER— Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister of the Dominion, says—- " Prohibition as a provincial m easure has been in force in eight out of nine provinces sufficiently long to realise and confirm expectations of great benefits—moral, commercial and industrial—consequent on its enforcement." And Governors and Premiers of individual States corroborate this testimony. toa^Sn T MSSTA ™ NTS ABOUT AMERICA IS £™ J2?,{£" FIVE OUT 0F FORTY-EIGHT STATES HAVE DECLARED FOR PERMANENT PROHIBITION after the State elections in November last had been fought out on this issue. CAST YOUR VOTE FOR THE CHILDREN AND THE NATION.

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