NATIONAL CONTROL.
To the Editor. Sir,—l hardly think it i« necessary to reply to your correspondent "Facts.” Obviously he and I are speaking of two different things. His subject is prohibition as a wartime measure, mine, is prohibition as a principle. War has caused many restrictions, to all of which the Labour Party has submitted, conditionally that after the war things be restored to their normal condition. Drink restriction very likely would be allowed on the same condition, without strikes or rumours of war, and no man could honestly object. Prohibition as a principle, applicable to times of peace, is a different matter, and the four reasons I gave in my last communication are still open to discussion. Drunkenness will never be overtaken permanently by prohibition. It will by national control. Notice that I say permanently.—l am, etc., COMMON SENSE.. September 4.
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Southland Times, Issue 17877, 5 September 1918, Page 7
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