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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13522, 2 November 1911, Page 4

WHAT PROHIBITION WILL BO In WANGANUI. It will ruin. Wanganui as a Tourist and Holiday Resort. It will create - an army .pf sly-grog sellen as it lias; done in other places. It will cause drink to be taken into homes where it has never before entered. It will depreciate the value of all property in Wanganui. It will cause increased;; rates. It will directly throw 300 . men (with their families dependent upon them, say over 1,000 in all) out , ' of employment in Wanganui alone. It will cause the Borough to loose considerable, revenue in the way of license fees, rates, etc. which will mean striking an extra rate of 3d in £ on all rateable property. It will destroy Wanganui as a mercantile distributing centre for this coast. All wholesale t houses will loose their licenses, add will no doubt remove their places of business. It will ca?user^ a lowering of the standard of morality as is evidenced by the perjury and;deceit which takes place in otherplaces in ■ sly-grog cases in No-licensp districts. Magistrates and Judges are continually voicing this lamentable fact:" 4 ; Maine has discovered this and reverted to License as the only remedy, and in doing so> has followed the example pf the other seven ' States which originally carried prohibition and found it a failure. Are not the Hotels in Wanganui clean, comfortable, and well appointed ? And is not the Licensing Act observed? Did not the Prohibition Licensing Committee force the rebuilding of nearly every Hotel in Wanganui ? During recent years over AA 0 ) 000 was spent in New Hotels, and the same men are now clamouring to take these licenses away.

1$ THIS HONOURABLE, FAIR, OF BRITISH ? Is it not better • to have liquor sold dhder proper Licensing control than to have no Licenses - with all its proved cursed aftermath. Read what Count Tolstoi says; why shmild there be any prohibition of the sale of alcoholic drinks ? Why shouldn’t I have the right to drink just what I , like, provided I do it decently and not to excess? Because one person makes a fool of himself is no reason why the next person should be deprived of his rights.” , ueunveu ujl m.a uguw. COUNT LEO TOLSTOI. to prevent the Spoliation of Prosperous and Progressive Wanganui. Vote for your Liberty and How to "Vote bn BOTH Eatldt Papers.