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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12639, 28 October 1905, Page 4

We Propose to Talk to You About NO-LICENSE. We have arranged for the use of this column for a month, and it is our intention to fill it with something Bright, Pithy, Readable, and Convincing:. We are going to talk every day, in bold type, and we ask you as a reasonable citizen, and one vitally concerned in this great question, to give us your Earnest Attention. Ygu Have Got to Vote Either for License or No-License. There is no escape. Your vote will count even if you do not record it at the Poll. If you do not go to the Poll and use your vote it will mean one less for the side for which you would have voted had you taken the trouble. It will count one for the side to which you are opposed. Much better, then, to use your vote, and to use it Intelligently. That is why we want to con* vince you, if you are not already on the side of the big majority, that the sensible thing to do is to Strike out the Top Line on your Local Option Ballot Paper. That is why we have leased this column. Maybe you haven't realised what a good thing No* License really is ? It hasn't occurred to you, per* haps, that No* License is the sort of thing you can hold up to the light, that you can turn upside down and inside out,look at it any way you like and see good in it any way you look. A reputable publican once said to the writer—toy the way, don't run away with the notion that there are no decent 'publicans—tftris man held a good reputation, and said to the writer: "Look here,, old man, we know as well as you do that you people have GOT ALL THE ARGUMENT on your side. We know that drink does a fearful amount of harm. We know t'hiat people would be better off if our bars ivere closed. Bub we're in this trade for 'business, and we're going to fight for our bread and butter." The man wa.s honest. He spoke the truth. But the average publican gets a good deal more than bread and butter, and as ia rule he gets it a good deal more easily than you can get it. The publican has had all the luck up to the present. He Sias enjoyed.« State-protected monopoly, and he's grown fat and comfortable <on huge profits and a high standard price. Of course he's going to fight for his bread and butler. But what about you ? Don't you think your bread and butter is worth fighting for ? We do. That's why we want to tell | you in these articles that if you close the licensed bars you will have a cleaner town, happier and more comfortable homes, better business, and a good deal more hard cash (or its equivalent) at the end of a year than you. have now. . We are going to appeal to your common sense. We are going to try to bring home to you the tact that your home, your happiness, your business, and the welfare.of your children, are as much worth fighting for to You as the Publican's fat monopoly is to him. We arc-not going to blame him for fighting hard. He'sgot too good a thing on to let it slip easily. But we want you to , know that it will pay you to fight on the other side. And all you have to do to win is to Strike out the top line. In our next issue we will "get: to business and tell you something of interest to the man who only averages Three Drinks a week.