SWEDEN REFUSES PROHIBITION.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1922, Page 4

SWEDEN REFUSES PROHIBITION.

IMMENSE NEGATIVE VOTE BY BOTH SEXES. A Stockholm wire to the United Press Association, London, on August 30, 1922, proved conclusively that the people of Sweden will have none of prohibition. Popular feeling ran high, and the number of people who voted far exceeded that at any general election. The voting*was overwhelmingly 7 for continuance. In Stockholm, of the women 71,214 voted against Prohibition and 14,372 for, while the voting among the men was 68,664 against and 7662 for prohibition. The Swedish Prime Minister, interviewed on the situation, said th-at the results of the plebiscite proved beyond doubt that the attempt to force the Swedish people into prohibition had failed. The real work for temperance must now be based on other grounds than prohibition, and it was desirable that those who during this plebiscite had worked hardest for the realisation of the idea of prohibition should now devote themselves to less extreme, but in the long run more effective, work of enlightenment The Swedish are a sane, hard-headed people. Follow this excellent example, and Vote Continuance. 74 There will no doubt be a large attendance at the Empire Theatre tonight, to hear the Rev. Howard Elliott on the political situation. Mr. Elliott is well worth hearing.