A PROHIBITION PLEDGE.
At a 'meeting Held in Carterton on Friday evening last between the
President and Scerot'.ry of the. N.Z. Alliance and the local leaders of the inn\ oniout, arrangement 3 were made to secure, two thousand signatures to th" following pledge : "1 hereby gn e my pi-'.'go that, rojrrdh'ss of party, "I will not at the next election' vote for any candi- J date for Parliament who will no! | undertake, if ejo'teo. to do bis lit- i in; st to remove, or m the hast. j very substantially reduce, the. pre- ' sent unfair handicap on both the issues of no-license and rational prohibition.". Wo venture f> think that there are not two'hundred, let, ..lone two thousand electors, in the Wairr.rr.yu distinct who would be simple enough to disfranchise, themselves mi all other questions for that of no-iiconse. It is a p ; -ce of t-upremo- imprideT-.ee on the part of the N.Z. Alln-nee to ask electors to make any .such pledge as that indicated. If the Prohibition Prty wishes to test public feeling on th'.\ bare majority issue, let, it petition Parliament ifor n. refe-endum on the question at the nest licensing prill, j This would secure; the verdict of > the people in n;i inexpensive way, and without' f-n-iihVr-g the political privileges of the electors.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10715, 7 October 1912, Page 4
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216A PROHIBITION PLEDGE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10715, 7 October 1912, Page 4
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