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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12647, 7 November 1905, Page 4

• *' w ''' ■ • ' - : FATHERS! You're proud of your chil^ dren ? Of course you are! Want to do the best you can forthem. Wouldn't know^ ingly do them an injury. Like to give them a clear start in a fair field. Never struck you that your boy has just as big a chance of becoming a drunkard as any other man's boy. Hasn't occurred to you that the daughter you're so proud of may possibly marry a fellow who'll turn out to be a drunkard. You're not a drunkard. Your wife doesn't touch liquor. (ran You Guarantee that your boys and your girls will grow up to be like you ? No, of course you cannot. No man can honestly give a guarantee of this sort. But even if you were sure of your own children, you can't possibly speak for other men's children whom your children are going to marry. Can you think of any good that your children can pos^ sibly get out of the licensed liquor bars? ( Can foil call to mind any other man's child who has ' got any good out of the licensed bars ? By the way, have you got any good out of the licensed bars yourself, and if not, do you know of any other man who has? These are fair questions.? If you cannot give a fair, square, honest "Yes" in answer to them, what is the use of voting to keep tHe liquor bars open ? ; - And you cannot answer "Yes" to any one of the questions. You know you can't. ; We know it, too, and that's why we ask you, for your children's sake, to Strike Out the Top Line. You don't want your boy to stumble in the race. Then put the temptation of the open bar out of his way. . | But suppose you don't. Supr pose you vote for license. How then ? You've lived long enough in the world to see a good many bright youths "go under " because of the drink. It you vote to keep the bars open who are you going to blame if your boy adds another name to the pitiful list? ; Not the boy, surely. Then " play the game" for ; the boy's sake, and Strike Out the Top Line. Don't worry about the publicans and brewers They don't worry about you, not a bit. Charity Begins at Home* The publicans will be all right. They will still be able to make a good living out of the hotels. They may have to work a little harder, but the money they make will be cleaner. Think this matter over, will you ? Look at it from a Father's point of view. If you think the bars will do your boys any good, vote to keep them open. If not, join the majority, help us to make up the necessary three-fifths, and give your vote to shut them up. Look Out for To-morrow's