ANTI-SHOUTING AGITATION
(FROM SUK OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
SYDNEY, 23rd May.
The temperance organisations, having secured a substantial victory;^throughout Australia in tlie early closing of Uquov bars for the period of tlie war, are now inaugurating an anti-shouting campaign.. .The movement appears to be gaining a good deal of support, but it is not yet apparent that there is sufficient weight behind it to carry it to success. Early closing was carried not so much by the anti-liquor organisations, as by the moderates, who, generally against the extremists, voted for the innovation because they felt that something of the 60rtwas desirable in war time. Such people regarded the late closing of liquor bars as a 6ort of luxury or entertainment, and their early closing as in the nature of a sacrifice. Whether they will go further, and seek to restrict the drinking during the day by a law against shouting has yet to be seen. All would appear to depend on this middle section, for it is certain that the liquor party, impressed with recent figures from New Zealand and England showing the result"of antishouting law 6, will fight the proposal; most vigorously. The argument! will -hinge on the question, Is the early closing'of hotels a sufficient .war sacrifice?;. '; ; '
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 128, 30 May 1917, Page 7
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207ANTI-SHOUTING AGITATION Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 128, 30 May 1917, Page 7
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