UNEMPLOYMENT AND PROHIBITION
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Do you think that anyone, how? ever selfish, could, without the deepest emotion, view that_ crowd of our fellow citizens to-day needing bread. Well fed, well dressed men were passing along burning money, while their brothers were clamouring for bread. In tea rooms, a man can pay for a good meal and stu. have money to burn, and girls, well fee, well dressed, also burn money, while littje children starve!; Surely this must be through want of thought rather than want of heart. . Men drink and drink what does them harm, while their brothers starve. Is it not enough to make one wish there was no drink for them to get at? We prohibitionists are out to help the poor fellows who are down in the gutters, and cannot help themselves. We gain nothing and spend ourselves and money for the poor derelicts. We have our reward when we have saved one of them, in seeing the wifes and little children made happy. What are most of our publicans out for? The money which the wifes and little children need.—l am, etc., Mater. January 9.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21539, 11 January 1932, Page 10
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