. Those who- imagine that it is only, in the
-United "States that Mr. " Pussyfoot" has a large following may have forgotten that at the time of the last referendum in 1919 in New Zealand the Prohibitionists were defeated by only 8,262 votes. It was said:that the vote "might have gone the -other way but for the returned soldiers, who voted "no change." The actual . figures were.: No change, 241;251; State Purchase, 92,261; Prohibition, 270,250. The Prohibitionists in order to win had to obtain more votes than the other two alternatives com- bined. In . an interesting message from Wellington, the Times correspondent writes : "An important change in conditions since the 1919 Poll which will tell in favour of the Prohibitionists is :the attitude of the Anglican Church."- At the General Synod-held at Auckland this year the following resolution was adopted : "That this Synod expresses the strong conviction that it is the bounden duty of Christian people, unless they are prepared to vote for total prohibition of the liquor traffic, to have some other drastic remedy for an evil which is sapping the morals and efficiency of the community."
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