BREWERS REDUCE THEIR OWN PROFITS.
»■ Startling, isn’t it! Yet they are claiming in Dunedin to be the party of true temperance. True temperance must mean a reduction of the consumption. A brewer’s business is to sell beer! As a good business man, he wants to increase, and not reduce, the sale of beer. Any other proposition is humbug pure and simple. Surely the people of Dunedin have intelligence enough to see that the brewers will not epend £2CO a week to promote temperance, and thus reduce their profits. No-license reduces consumption; hence, they fight it. [No-license par No. 11. (By arrangement.)
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Evening Star, Issue 13090, 24 October 1908, Page 7
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