It is mighty hard for a man b breakfast to agree with him when his wife watches him eat it and tells him that he talked m his sleep all night. What about the Revenue? How is the £1,000,000 at present received through the Traffic to be mado up, and where aio we to get the £300,000 annual payment involved in the £4,500,000 to bo paid to secure immediate Prohibition ? Ihe answer is 5imp1e—£4,757,085 was the amount of last year's Drink Bill. Two thirds of this sum, if diverted into legitimate trade channels, drapery, boots, furnishings, etc., would produce on an average of 20 per cent, customs duty, £635,000. saving in the annual cost of Police, Charitable Aid, Old Age Pensions, Mental Hospital, etc., on a low estimate, £650,000 to £700,000. The loss is therefore made up without taking into account the other third of the Drink Bill or the indirect cost of the trado in loss of effidency, and of life, etc., which ia at least equal to tfa*. direct cost of £4,767,086.—CAdvt-J
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Evening Star, Issue 16822, 26 August 1918, Page 7
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174Page 7 Advertisements Column 4 Evening Star, Issue 16822, 26 August 1918, Page 7
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