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RETURNED SOLDIERS The National Prohibition Committee is sorry that it is necessary to appeal to you as Returned Men, but there is no alternative. The Liquor Trade is claiming that you practically belong to it, and that you will fight for its licences, just as you fought for the nation's liberty overseas. The trade has degraded your badge in its public posters—the badge which the public look on as a mark of your honorable service. The Moderate League lied to you in the "New Zealander." They said that the moment your backs were turned, the Prohibition Party tried to stampede the Government into taking a yote while you. v ere away. HERE ARE THE FACTS: The proposal for a Poll was first made 1/ the National Efficiency Board. Thia Board was set up by the Government to decide what steps should be taken to promote efficiency in the conntry, while you were away fighting for it. It recommended that the Liquor Trade should be closed down as speedily as possible in the interests of the nation both in war and in peace. The members of the Board were appointed by the Government solely because of their business ability. The Prohibition Party absolutely refused at first to agree to the Board's proposals, because of its life-long objection to Compensation. It finally agreed only because it believed it was serving the best interests of the country and the Empire for which you were fighting. The Moderate League said the Prohibition Party was doing its utmost to prevent the soldiers from getting a vote. At the same meeting which decided to agree to a Poll, a resolution was passed making it a condition that the soldiers had a vote. This was submitted to the Government long before any representations were made either by the Moderate League or the Liquor Trade or any other body. The Prohibition Party's request that the soldiers should have a vote was publicly reported in the principal papers of the Dominion months before the Moderate League inserted their lying advertisement in the "New Zealander." The Prohibition Party has not used your Badge in any way in this contest. It has refused to make you a shuttlecock between the Liquor Traffic and itself. The Prohibition Party has never injured a Returned Man. The Trade asks you either to vote Continuance and let it carry on as at present, or to pay from £10,000,000 to £15,000,000 to the wealthy brewers and publicans (£4,500,000 to £6,000,000 of this would be Compensation) for State Purchase. Did you get Compensation, for going to the Front? Is the Repatriation Fund what it ought to be? The Prohibition Party is content to leave the decision of this great National question to. your intelligence and your patriotism. If the Liquor Trade is a good thing, for the country, then vote for it—it's your country. If it is the enemy of the nation, of men, and women, and children, then, treat it as you did the Hun, and WIPE THE LIQUOR TRADE OUT. GIVE PROHIBITION A TRIAL;

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Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1919, Page 4

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Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1919, Page 4

Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1919, Page 4

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