THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

Evening Star, Issue 15477, 27 April 1914, Page 4

THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

S" '-'1 '■'■'■•".'''■'•to' : lttis v; toffoit l j 'Sir,—l was pleased to hear froin Two." "Query" says that the Tsar of Russia is taking drastic steps to suppress the tradei It is a pity that the Tsar has not the will and poirer to absolutely abolish a trade that won't be and never has been regulated. It is doing the same deadlv work wherever it is allowed to be sold as a beverage. " Radical Two's " cure for drunkenness and monopoly is to increase the hotels to 1 in every 750 of the population, which means, according to "Radical Two," that if a young lad was desirous of copying his father's drinking habits he would not, if a. bar was close handy, copy his father, but if. it was a mile or so away he would; Let me assure "Radical Twolt-that whether the hotels are many or few the same deadly business .goes merrily on, and one might as well try to regulate the waves Coming in to Ocean Beach. The trade cannot be regulated. The only cure is National Prohibition and holiest administration. Surely _ " Radical Two " knows that regulation does not promote sobriety in any country in the world. Aldohol is HO respecter of persons. I hope " Radical Two" will show us how he is going to promote universal sobriety by regulation.—l am, etc., Radical. April 26.