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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12640, 30 October 1905, Page 4

Three Drinks a Week. You don't average more than three drinks a week. | You pay for six. I Naturally, being a good fellow j you don't care to go in for a "lone-hander" and so you ■' shout " for a friend Its only a matter of Three Shillings, and you know that lots of other fellows spend twice that much on liquor every week. Just so. Did you ever stop to think hard about the value of Three Shillings a Week? Did it ever occur to you that you spend enough in a year, even if you don't exceed your average, to pay interest on £150 at 5 per cent. ? If you could put your hands on a Hundred and Fifty just now you might be able to make a big deal and come off with enongh profit to; |)ay back the capital arid start "on yourown." But you can't. You've had your Three Drinks a Week instead. You've paid an average of a shilling each for those drinks, and you're just as thirsty you were this time yesterday. Y6u could have had three Good Drinks for Nothing if the Bars had been closed—three -healthy, thirst-quenching drinks of pure water. But let us get back to that three shillings. Tots up. to just Eight Pounds a year. If you stuck to good water at nothing a glass you could get a nice little trip out of that eight pounds ! Yes, you could. You could run down to Dunedin, put a couple of days in there, and get back again for that Eight Pounds Or you could slip up to Rotorua, via Auckland, and have a look at the thermal wonders. The Eight Pounds would do it. But its gone in the Three Drinks a Week ! And you've been drinking mostly water most of the time. That's the silly part of it. You could stay at home and drink water —clean water—for nothing Yet you've been walking right down to the licensed bar to drink water I —poisoned water—at a Cost to you of a shilling a Glass. That's not good business, is it ? Poisoned ! Well, that's what Sir Frederick Treeves, the King's physician, says, and he ought to know. „','".' Sir Frederick could swim in champagne if he wanted to, and ; buy-,: whisky or beer by the truck-load: But he doesn't. He doesn't take any stock in alcohol as a'beverage. * '' r He says : . ;■. ' - 1 *r- i!:'■■;..' \ "That alcohol us of value is an absolute fallacy. a.s can be proved scientifically in a moment." And yet you've been paying at the rate^of A Shilling a Glass to have good water spoiled by stuff like that! Now, honestly, do you think you've got value for your money ? Do you ? Of course you haven't. You'd have spent your money to much better advantage, you would have got something to show for it, if the bars had been closed. You know that. Then why not vote to close them?