WHO HAS BEEN BLUFFING THE PUBLIC ?

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3388, 1 December 1911, Page 5

WHO HAS BEEN BLUFFING THE PUBLIC ?

The Liquor Trade has tided every kind of method in its advertisements to discredit No-license in Masterton. But they have been bowled out every time.

The resolution passed by the business men of Carterton in the adjoining electorate to Masterton a few days ago ought to be sufficient to convince every unprejudiced person that No-licenso lias been an assured success, and that all the attempts to prove the contrary have been pure bluff. The complete exposure of these unfair methods by the Rev. Mr Hammond will give the death-blow to any further attempt to mislead the public" in this direction.

The Trade continues to bluff the public with regard to Maine, still asserting that Prohibition has been lost, in spite of the fact that the Governor of Maine cabled to the American Consul in Auckthat Prohibition has been retained by 7-18 votes. This has satisfied Mr. Leo. Myers, the brewer of Auckland. "Why then does the Gisborne L.V.A. continue to assert what they must know to be false, and then charge the XoLicense Party with bluffing the people ?

Three years ago the Trade tried to persuade the public that the amount of duty on spirits paid through the Inver, cargill Customs represented the liquor drunk in the No-license electorates of Invercargill and .Mataura. They are bluffing the public with the. same wild statements this week, and withholding the real facts, which are that this amount covers the liquor sent into the •three neighboring license electorates of AYakatipu, Wallace, and Awarua. The same bluffing is apparent when Liquor professes to be the friend of Labour, and asserts that 300 breadwinners will be thrown out of employment if No-license is carried in Gisborne. By this time electors will see through these methods. CONTINUANCE MEANS THE LIBERTY OF THE TRADE. NO-LICENSE MEANS THE LIBERTY OF THE PEOPLE. Every single vote is needed, for the liberty of the people can only be secured if three-fifths of tiiose who vote strike, out the top line. Remember, the Trade would like to split the vote, so that some Temperance people may vote Prohibition and some bocal No-license. Beware of being misled, for if half the population of the Dominion voted National Prohibition and half local no-license and not an elector voted continuance, nothing would he carried. Poll early and strike out the ton line on both papers. ( Published by arrangement with the No-License League.)