NO-LICENSE IN POLITICS.
It is to be feared that in some of the electorates of New Zealand, the larger political issues will be subordinated to liquor trade considerations. Why this should be so is inexplicable, when it is remembered that the .No-license question is the subject oi a direct vote of the people. As a contemporary well sayis:— The good government of the country, the reduction in expenditure and taxation, the proper development of the land and its resources—all these-are a«3 nothing, in the estimation of isome people, compared with the necessity {as they see it) for regulating the dietary customs of other people. The vision that sees tliis as the one important issue to ibe decided at the approaching election® is surely deplorably narrow. The 'people have it in their owji power to vote the bars oui of existence, and even to stop, as far as laws can stop, the consi: mption of liquor. The men' who wiU be sent to Wellington as the reBult o<. the elections r&hould be men capable of dealing with the important problems that will confront the next Parliament—problems that the present Government lias steadily evaded.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10452, 18 October 1911, Page 4
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192NO-LICENSE IN POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10452, 18 October 1911, Page 4
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