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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 286, 22 November 1902, Page 1

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(Published by arrangement).

[ FREE ! ' No despot's sway New Zealand owns, I Within her bounds no slave. I Her son© are free as mountain wind j Or boundless ocean's wave. I But hark .' theory of drink-bound men j Is heard throughout the land ; To set them free, t" break their chain I Arise with heart and hand. cu mcs. Free ! free ! fret- ! From mountain height to rolling sea. Free ! free ! free ! From tyrant Drink, N.w Zealand free Th« thunder of the avalanche Shall join the torrent's roar And voice of storm ; the loud acclaim From earth tos-ky shall soar. The sportive breeze o'er fo.est, lake, Hill, river-course and pain Shall join the sea. waves' murmuring sound, To swell the glorious strain. (Chorus)— Fiee ! free! free! The people too shall'clap their hands And shout with heartfelt glee ' When down the tyrant's throne shall i fall, | From Drink the land be free. Come all and join the noble cause, From Drink your country save, And haste the day when through the land Remains no drink-bound slave. (Chorus)— Free! free! free! tst Andrews, Hook, Makikihi, Glenavy and Waihan Join choius w.th Waikakuhi, Mount C iok and Tekapo. Ye Fairlie men, from Opihi, The glad sound pass along To Hakataraiiie.i's sh ire ; Waimatft join the song; (Cho;ue) — Free ! free ! free ! ON TUESDAY If you are twenty one years of age and have not been so pitiably indifferent to your privilege and duty as to neglect to enroll yourself, you will stand at the Iparting of the -ways. With a btroke of ithe pencil you mil declare for Liceosc ior No Liconse.

This is not the time for argument—that we have had from week tc week in this column. This is the time for action. What has License meant in Waimate since our last decision ''.

To our knowledge young New Zealanders intoxicated in our streets, nob inertly in isolated eases out many of hem. Not a small matter this for it too surely means much in the liyes of those lads.

To vote for continuance is to vote for continuance of youthful drunkenness, \ License has meant drunken husbands, which to our certain knowledge has meant !in Waimate, oaths and ill usage for wives who have had to toil at the wash tub to support young chi'dren, , It has meant more than this in Waimate, whose streets have known the stop of the wife turni d out into the night by a drunken brute who was once a man.

i It has meant more than this, the 'untold misery which broadens the pencil Utroke of many a woman voter as she ide.-pairingly marks her ballot paper and cries to God for help for herself or her sister?.

To vote continuance is to burden your conscience with the continuance of these and interminable other evils.

Vote liquor, and you must stand with the drunkard against the wife and the children. You must stand with the sot, and by his side welcome the boys who are to take his place when his shortened course is run. Vote continuance, and you place yourself in partnership with the grog seller, and are just as responsible before Eternal Justice for all that comes of his trade as he is.

If you vote No License, you stand for God, for home, and for humanity. If you vote License, you vote for sorrow, for suffering, for death. No amount of froth and fume about Prohibition in America, liberty of the subject, opposition to Scripture, or Divine sanction for drinking can hide this bed rock issue. ; It is a vo'e for good or a vote for evil, a vote for No License or a vote for continuance. Which shall it be?