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Evening Star, Issue 16822, 26 August 1918, Page 2

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tin I in; ~wr% The Million a Year Revenue received from drink is more than outweighed by the heavy burden of taxation, the reduced national efficiency and the moral wreckage it causes. Money spent on drink is a direct loss-it The Liquor Trade practically says:—"Giv is an expenditure (or which no tangible me £5,000,000 a year and 111 give you asset remains. The same amount spent £1,000,000 back to help pay your taxon public works would provide permanent ahonl" assets and valuable adjuncts to the develop- ]( , g peop]e of RZ _ tQ say ._" No ment of the Dominion. , hanii yQU , We refuse to pay you five There is only one true standard by which m ijji ons a year, and we shall have less public expenditure can be judged—the value nee( i f or taxat ; on \" of the public service it provides, Viewed unci # either War or Peace conditions money It would be just as foolish to double the ipent in drink is unprofitable and unjustifiable drink bill m order to double me revenue —its ill effects far outweigh any revenue as it is to spena £5.000,000 a year to get ived from it. £1,000,000 annual revenue. Tlie Troth About the Revenue If but two-thirds of the money now spent on liquor were spent on imports bearing 20% duty, the customs revenue would profit by £635,000. This would still leave free for investment within the Dominion the remaining one-third of the present Drink Bill, while a probable annua! savina of at least £750,000 would be effected in the proportionately reduced charges for Prisons, Hospitals, etc. The total amount of liquor revenue, plus the £225,000 required to provide interest and sinking fun •■ on the proposed amount of compensation to "The Trade can thus easily be made up from legitimate trade channels. >rink is . Drive drink from the Dominion and you increase the efficiency of the people. This is the positive consideration which must be remembered. It means many millions more pounds credit to the National Exchequer. The Impartial verdict of the National Efficiency The National Efficiency Board found also Board is that "the people should be belter "that the two chief facton in the continuance able to provide the necessary amount of tax- of The Liquor Trade are public custom, and ation if the inefficiency at present created by the financial interests involved. The Board the effects of alcohol is removed." Also that was satisfied further "that the greatest efficiency the cost of compensation "would be recouped would be attained both for the nation and the individual by a state .of Complete Prohibition." by increased National Efficiency." The ordinary Licensing poll having been denied to us we are urging Parliament to grant a poll this year to decide the continuance or the abolition of the Liquor Traffic.