RIDICULOUS

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1302, 4 December 1911, Page 9

RIDICULOUS

is too .mild a term to apply, to the pic torial prophecies of the evils Prohibitior will bring, which the liquor trade pub lished in their full-page advertisement. "A Moderate Drinker answers some ol them very aptly in a recent booklet dealing with "The Liquor Traffic." Head the following quotations:— ' •HOME-DKINKING. "The wife—tho chief sufferer—will havt Something to say on the matter. How often, does, a man whoso better-half seeks to exorcise some control over him get loave to go out. of an evening, just for a minute to, 'get some tobacco' or 'just one glass,' perhaps, and return in the small hours of the morning drunk and penniless? Yes, the wife will hare to be consulted in this matter, and she will bless the day when thero shall be no. hotels where hor husband may get 'just one S'ass—to prepare him for another! Ami she will take precious good care that her home 13 not • turned into a publichouse, even if tho husband be willing that it should be. But few men indeed —even lmong heavy drinkers-would sock to force upon theii' families the temptation «r , 3'- know the evils themselves. It is company' that induces drinkin", and not such company as tho average man would care to see in his home either. SLY GROG-SEOPS. "Then, above all, is it reasonable to anpposo that tho people who, after due deliberation, vote iJio licensed bouses out of, existence are going tn encourage or countenance tho illicit sale or abuse of the very evil they desiro to remove? i lie suggestion is simply preposterous! The victim of the drink curse— the man who drinks most—is the person who is most anxious. to see tho last of tho • licensed houses, not because he desires to sneak l?' 0 ,11 s '}' grog-shop and bo 'run in.' JNo, but because ho knows that tho greatest stumbling-block in tho way of his own salvation—tho gaping publi'c-bar and its miserable be removed.* SWEATING. "It is quite a conynon tiling to see married women out working in different ??i a i r ' men ' s k° e P themselves and their children from starvation, whilo their husbands alternate between tho publichouse and police cells. The liquor traffic not only tosters 'female cpmpctition' to a very largo degree, but also interferes ladly, with the education of our girls and boys, and. compels numbers of the latter to . ° u ? their sisters to compote with their elders much earlier in life and less perfectly equipped for tho battle ot nie than otherwise would be the case. 'IMMORALITY. "Strong drink inflames tho animal passions to a very high degree, and it is when a man. is under the influence' that be is led into those dons of infamy whore health money-ami of his UNEMPLOYMENT. subjcct he quotes .Tohn Burns, tho British Cabinet Minister, who said a few years ago :-'I„ tho greater employmont that our present liquor expenditure would give if transferred to other and reproductive trades there would bo a stimulus to homo trade and a transfer from waste to com for of hard-earned wares wantonly squandered on unrnmunenitive non-productive, and therefore demoralising, drink." NO-LI CIJN'SK AND NATIONAL rUOtniiITION removo those evils, they don't cre-it« them."