THE DRINK QUESTION.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13744, 6 April 1915, Page 5

THE DRINK QUESTION.

DEMAND FOR PROHIBITION

OPINION TURNING IN FAVOUR OF

PERSONAL ABSTINENCE

(Received April 5, 9.25 p.m.) London, April 5. Following kis appeal to citizeas, through the newspapers, to write to him if they favoured absolute prohibition, the first mail reaching Mr T loyd George brought 15,000 letters. It is stated that the political .eawra agree that financial considerations i>eed not hinder the most drastic action on the drink question. The demaai for absolute prohibition, strangely enmgn, comes principally from business ?M professional men desiring .to participate in a great national sacrifice, while m?.intemperance leaders believe that an attempt to force absolutism would create a dangerous reaction after the war. Opinion is hardening against c:,m-

CABLE NEWS,

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;.)lete prohibition, and growing in i'a--;ur of personal abstinence, with severe legal regulation. The most fay mfxl chemes are Sunday closing and shorter hours on week days; wholesale suppression of.spirits, and the compulso.'y brewing of light instead of heavy beers. The "Morning Post" does not Ihink j -.'rsonal example will be (sufficient. .The".. "Daily Citizen" declares that i":e wealthy are restocking their wine (liars, and wine merchants are rushed j with large orders. It adds that the working man cannot afford a wine cellar. : The Allied Brewers and the National Union of Brewery Workers adopted resolutions protesting against thousands of men and women being thrown out of employment because of the drunkenness of a few men.