WHILE OUR MEN FIGHT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3011, 23 February 1917, Page 4

WHILE OUR MEN FIGHT

; SPENDING AND JOT-SEEKING ; STILL GO ON. • Tho Rev. A. C. Lawry, the retina* . president of the Methodist Conference" i J ll ' 1 "* address last evening,' in referring , to tho liquor question, said;—" The; . ?, tatu '?, P Btill keeps that -unfair ' three-fifths clause, .contradicting : the 1 arithmetic that says one plus one equals two. The statute says that on; ' Polung day one. plus one equals three. Thus a brewer and a barmaid, on'poll">S day, are equaPto the , Rev. Messrs.. ; Williams, Hammond, and J. Cocker, i i Prohibitionists. (Laughter.) ' Arith-j metic is. suspended , at the licensing poll, and twe plus two equals six, iTi the four are for Continuance and the , ' six for No-License. This is tie barb- , ed-Trro entanglement that has so long; kept us back from victory. Russia anaf-'i France, and even England, have given:.! us the lead in licensing legislation, bub-j our Government refused'to grant us' even six o'clock closing of public bars, '; and kept our , country far in the'i rear." ■ : . " ; "As for tho gambling craze, tho*: Government has even added 21 to the) number of days on which the totalise- i : tor is licensed in this dreadful third ; year of war. In the year of Verdun,' of the Irish rebellion, and of General ! Towashend's surrender, the year of: intensified submarine ruthlessness—-in '. this fateful year, we are on the edge of - a strike—we crowd our placee of amusement, throng our. pleasure resorts more than ever, pile up a huge ' drink bill, create a record in gambling, figures; and behave generally as though the war were on another planet. . . . Behold, the war zone! Our men livo in misery, tunnel through, charnel : plots,- fight in cess-pits, die in shambles, but as they thus buy safety for us all, they joke at their foul environment, meet agony with courage, death with a gay heart, and wounds wit If good-humonred philosophy."