THEY CAN’T EXPLAIN THIS AWAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1922, Page 3

THEY CAN’T EXPLAIN THIS AWAY.

In a democratic country votes talk, and when they have spoken there is no doubt about what they mean. Now, ask the New Zaland liquor traffic how it is that, in the U.S.A., in the States that went dry before National Prohibition, the people, after trying it, voted to keep Prohibition by increasing majorities. Here are some of the votes that show that the voting majority like Prohibition:— ARIZONA.

The total aggregate increase in the “dry” majority for the six States was 700.320 votes, after two years’ trial. o When we get New Zealand Prohibition we shall find the same results. People find out when the liquor traffic is abolished, that a wasteful, unmitigated nuisance has been removed. Once they have tasted the benefits of Prohibition. no amount of lying and yelling by the liquor interests can befool the people into voting it back again. Prohibition is just commonsense.—N.Z. Alliance Publicity. (65)

Drv majority, 1914 .. .. 3.144 Dry majority, 1916 ...... 12,000 Increase in drv majority .. ... 8,856 COLORADO. Dry majority, 1914 .. 11,572 Drv majority, 1918 .. 85.792 increase in drv majoritv .. : .. 74220 MICHIGAN. Dry majoritv. 1916 .. 68,624 Dry majoritv, 1919 .. 206,936 Increase in dry majority .. ‘ OREGON. .. 138,312 Dry majority, 1914 .. ..i 36,480 Dry majority, 1916 . . r... 54,626 Increase in dry majority .. 18,146 OHIO. Dry majority, 1918 .. sv Dry majority, 1920 r.. 25,759 . . 290,141 Increase in drv majority . . 264,382 WASHINGTON. Dry majority, 1914 .. 18,632 Drv majoritv. 1916 \. 215,036 Increase in dry majority .. . . 196,404