“DOES TEETOTALISM PAY?”

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 870, 8 November 1906, Page 20

“DOES TEETOTALISM PAY?”

The London “Daily Chronicle” raises a question of some social importance when it asks whether teetotalism pays in the ordinary business sense. The subject arose through a correspondent who stat ed that he held a position of trust in a great firm) asserting that his habit of strict teetotalism had stood in the way of his getting on. The views of the “Chronicle” itself on the problem were non-committal; but the “Licensed Trade News” of Birmingham, in a brightlywritten article, seems to us to get to the very root of the matter. It points out that the teetotaller stands on his commercial ability. He is nei her favoured, nor impeded, because he elects to drink milk and soda, while his colleagues consume alcoholic beverages. “The only objection to the teetotaller, in commercial, as in social circles, is where he proves himself to be a prig, where he ostentatiously tro s out his temperance virtues and teetotal principles as suggestive of his being a superior person, possessor of all the virtues, and the moral better of his allconsuming colleagues in office, in shop, or manufactory. It is the teetotal prig who does not get on.”—“Australian Brewers’ Journal.”