On General Election Day, when the members of the now Parliament will be elected, the Electors will vote also about the granting of licenses to sell intoxicating liquor. But Licensing Committees will not be elected on that day.

When you are in the polling booth, two papers will he given to you. One of them, called the "Ballot Paper," will contain the names of the candidate for Parliament. The other, called the "Voting Paper," will be about the granting of licenses. The two papers will be of different colours, and there will be different boxes to put them into when you have used them.

From the ballot paper you will strike out the name of any candidate or candidates you wish not to be elected to Parliament; and from the voting paper you will strike out anything about licenses which you wish not to be carried.

No one can tell after wards how you have voted, whatever any may pretend; so you need not be at all afraid to vote just as your own good sense tells you to. If anyone tells you after wards that he has found out, it will be only a guess to try to make you tell Neither Prince, Priest, nor Peasant Returning Officer, Poll Clerk, nor Scrutineer can find out so you need not fear anyone. (See the explanation of this in the article on the Secrecy of the Ballot, page 27.)

If the responsible person inside the polling booth fails to give you both papers, or misleads you in any way, he will be liable to a penalty of £20.

The day will be a Public Half-Holiday, from noon, and no liquor may be sold from noon to seven o'clock.

The voting paper about licenses will be much simpler than last time. The voter may strike out any one or two of the three lines upon it; but our advice is to Strike out only the Top Line. You will find good reason for this advice in the following articles.

Take no notice of the papers which people will give you outside the polling booth. The right papers will be given to you by the proper officers inside the polling booth.

This is what the "Voting Paper" will be like:—

Voting Paper.

I vote that the number of licenses existing in the district continue.

I vote that the number of licenses existing in the district be reduced.

I rote that no licenses be granted in the district.

General Directions.

The voter may strike out all the proposals except one, or all except two, but no more.

The voter must strike out all the Proposals which he does not wish to be carried.

If the voter strikes out all or fails to strike out at least one of the proposals, the voting paper will be void.

The voting paper so marked is to be dropped by the voter into the [unclear: sepra] ballet box prepared for it, and not into the same box as that in which he drop his electoral ballot paper.

The voter is not allowed to take his voting paper out of the polling booth.

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In striking out the top line only you do not put either of the two issues on thus vote for to any disadvantage. They do not conflict with or militate [unclear: pinst] each other in any way in the counting of the votes, so that you need hesitate to strike out the top line only.

When you have struck out the top line with a pencil, you will fold the [unclear: r] up so that no one can see how you voted, show the stamp on the back of to the poll clerk who gave it to you, that he may see it is the same paper, and [unclear: e] yourself put it into the proper ballot box. This is how it will look when have struck out the top line :—

Voting Paper.

I vote that the number of licenses existing in the district be reduced.

I vote that no licenses be granted in the district.

General Directions.

The voter may strike out all the proposals except one, or all except two, [unclear: t] no more.

The voter must strike out all the proposals which ho does not wish to be carried.

If the voter strikes out all or fails to strike out at least one of the proposals, [unclear: e] voting paper will be void.

The voting paper so marked is to be dropped by the voter into the separate [unclear: llot] box prepared for it, and not into the same box as that in which he drops [unclear: s] electoral ballot paper.

The voter is not allowed to take his voting paper out of the polling booth.

Further, if you would not like to see Prohibition carried in your district [unclear: ept] by a very large majority, you need not hesitate to strike out the top line only, because it cannot be carried unless three-fifths of those who poll vote for it, and as the voting is taken on General Election day, when the largest numbers go to the poll, it cannot possibly be carried except as the result of a very large and overwhelming expression of the public mind in its favour.

If you wish for further information and explanations read the article on The effect of striking out the top line," page 26.

Why Vote Against the Liquor Traffic?

1. It is the occasion of an enormous amount of immorality.

2. It destroys the happiness of many homes.

3. It subjects numberless wives to untold suffering, and reduces many women and children to beggary.

4. It occasions most of the pauperism, crimes of violence, and insanity.

5. It occasions enormous expenditure to prevent and punish crime, relieve its paupers, and counteract its immoral influence, and so burdens the community with heavy taxes, and makes Urge demands on private charity.

6. Drunkards want the temptation removed.

7. It is not a necessity, and the interests of the rising generation imperatively require its suppression.

"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side,
Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right,
And the choice goes by for ever twist that darkness and that light."