IF NOT, WHY NOT?
" I wouldn’t be a pub-keeper if you gave me ten thousand pounds!” Have you ever heard that, or haven’t you heard it? It’s not a pleasant business keeping a pub. It soaks into a man’s system sooner or later, and if lie has to let bis women kind into the bar, it soaks into their systems; then the boys grow up and they take, to it. It seems an easy way of making money, but it’s a devil of a life, what with too brewers, and the wowsers, and the licensing committees, and the police. And then there is always the underlying fooling that the chaps who are lapping up the liipior are wasting their money, and giving you* something they cannot afford. and that you nro helping to deprive the little ones of their chances in hfo. If you arc not thinking nf those things you are too hardened and selfish to care,_ and when a, man reaches that stage his citizenshin is in question. “ 1 wouldn’t be a pub-keeper—” 1021
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12571, 7 March 1919, Page 5
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176IF NOT, WHY NOT? Star (Christchurch), Issue 12571, 7 March 1919, Page 5
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