More Reasons why Everyone Should Vote Against the Liquor Traffic by Simply Striking out the Top Line on the Voting Paper.

1. Alter making fullest allowance for exceptions, there are no persons who do so much sly grog-selling as publicans. Every one knows that they sell out of licensed hours and on Sundays, and to drunken persons continually, and that their trade has always been the most lawless in existence. By means of their licenses they defy the police and the law, and their law-breaking goes unpunished. But when they attempt to do the same without their licensee, as some of them have been trying to do in the Clutha, they are convicted and punished over and over again, until they get tired of it, as they soon will do after this under the new law, under which they will not merely be fined hut will be sent to jail when convicted a second time. It is right that the man who gets his living by taking money for liquor which he knows deprives the drunkard's wife and family of their living should be compelled to get his living in some other way. Continued licenses means continued competition in adultersting, lambing down, Sunday drinking, and other law-breaking; continued local poverty and unhappy homes; continued bad debts and inability to purchase stores; continued corruption of individual social, commercial, municipal, and political life.

2. If you vote for the Liquor Traffic, or fail to vote against it, you cannot complain if some day your wife, husband, son, or daughter becomes a victim of it. Already every person has some friend or acquaintance who has been injured, ruined, or destroyed by it. As long as the Liquor Traffic is tolerated it will produce a crop of drunkards out of every generation, and if you do not vote it out someone dear to you may be its victim.

3. The Liquor Traffic, by impoverishing the people, reduces the demand for the produce of the settler and the manufacturer, and therefore its value also, and correspondingly it reduces the demand for labour, and so also reduces wages; but also by being the source of diminished cash trade, and or the bulk of the bad debts in retail trade—losses which have to be covered by raising prices—it makes the cost of living greater to everyone who honestly pays his way. You cannot spread your breakfast table nor put on a suit of clothes without paying more for them because of the Liquor Traffic.

4. Our taxes will he greatly reduced when we get rid of the Liquor Traffic. To get local revenue from licenses you have to impoverish the district by the amount of money squandered to keep the liquer bars going, and the bulk of this goes out of the district to distant brewers and spirit merchants, and to distillers and brewers in other countries. The poverty and crime caused by the drink piles up more taxes for charitable aid, police, and other expenses involved, than all the revenue, local of colonial, derived from it. The annual drink bill of the Colony merely on the basis of page 9 Customs and Excise returns is at the rate of at least-three pounds per head of the whole population; so if you know the population of your own town or district, you can easily reckon your own local drink bill, if yours is a fair, average place, neither better not worse than others, and thus see how much it reduces local prosperity.

6. Refusing Liquor Licenses does not mean closing needed hotels for boarding and victualling purposes, as is abundantly proved in the Prohibition districts of this Colony and elsewhere. It only makes unlawful the Drink-selling in them.

If licenses are refused, and the boarding business has to be more depended on, the boarding and travelling public will be generally better attended to; more people will have the means to travel and pay for proper board; and only the mere grogblelling public-houses will have to close.

Anyone who would not like to have a liquor License next to his own house should not vote to maintain one next to someone else's house. Therefore, when we get out voting papers let us just strike out the top line, and so vote for purer morals, greater agricultural and industrial prosperity, cleaner politics, and a better respect for everything which makes for righteousness, and will help to make us a great and a free people.