Does Prohibition Pay?

Compare the two licensed States of Illinois and Ohio with the Prohibition State of Maine, respecting which the Liquor Party are always telling us that Prohibition does not prohibit.

• Illinois has a population of 3,826,351, and roundly, £4,699,501 in her savings banks.
• Ohio has a population of 3,672,316, and roundly, £6,921,242 in her savings banks.
• Maine has a population of only 661,086, and has roundly, £10,679,518 in her savings banks.

In Illinois the savings banks money, divided among the whole population, would give £1 4s 6d to every man, woman, and child; in Ohio, £1 11s 11d each; and in Maine, £16 3s 1d each; or in the following proportions :—

This shows how the people are impoverished in any country which keeps the Liquor Traffic in existence, and how they are enriched in any country which prohibits it, and should alone be sufficient reason to strike out the top line only on your voting paper.

(See also pages 30 and 32.)

In a recent issue The Scottish Reformer asks: "If America can, by Prohibitory education and organisation, put 558,131 square miles, and 14,622,000 of a population under Prohibition and Local Option, what is to binder Scotland from putting her small territory and our four millions of a population under local Veto !" We ask what is to prevent New Zealand with under three-quarters of a million of a population She can do it by striking out the top line of her voting paper of [unclear: lling] day.

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Your Laddie !
"Here's a laddie bright and fair,
And his heart is free from care.
Will he ever, do you think,
Learn to smoke, and chew, and drink?
Make a furnace of his throat,
And a chimney of his nose?
In his pocket not a groat,
Elbows out, and ragged toes?"
That may depend on how you vote.

I shall ask sis' and mother and dad and of my cousins and aunts and uncles to think of me when they are voting.