LABOUR AND THE LIQUOR PROBLEM.
" The liquor journals arc endcavo\iring to discredit tho startling facts aud figures presented by United States Commidsimier Carroll D. Wright in his latest report. While they admit that the report represents a large majority of Hie employers of labour us favouring prohibition as the best preventive of intemperance, and as entertaining a. growing sentiment against the employment Wi position" of trust or responsibility of men that are addicted to the use of liquor, even moderately, they say that the report was prepared by those having " a bias in favour of n theory that has proved impracticable and unpopular wherever its enforcement has been attempted."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 62
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109LABOUR AND THE LIQUOR PROBLEM. Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 62
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