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Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1922, Page 10

OT A./ “H'e amtt i« fiu or JU uke ifitak the tongue ~ _■ •• ■" That Shake»fi«ar« aftako Wordsworth. '“TO-DAY this nation is a free and sober people. zin ' The New Zealander is a well-balanced, self-reliant, intelligent, and law-abiding citizen —a straight thinker and a straight worker. He can stand upright and call himself a man. SHALL he submit to the tyranny of a small but persistent group of faddists and extremists, who would impose upon him Prohibition —firstly Prohibition applied only to his beverages, but later to his smoke, his games, his amusements, and all his wholesome pleasures?. In America—that land where according to Bernard Shaw the peo- ' pie “know everything about Liberty, except what it means”—Prohibition has been imposed upon the people for nearly three years. It has proved itself a failure. I T has not reduced excessive drinking—but it has substituted for * good liquor the vilest and most vicious poisons that ever drove men to madness and murder. It has not reduced crime—but it has made of the American people a nation of law-breakerjn thus bringing all law into contempt. Prohibition has failed—and its failure is colossal. “Hold fast to Liberty.” Do not permit this band of narrow, short-sighted cranks to put their shackles upon our harmless pleasures. i Make Up Your Mind—-and Speak It! Issued by the Watidflal Council of the Licensed Trade of Hew Zealand,

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