NEW ALLIES.

White Ribbon, Volume 30, Issue 365, 18 November 1925, Page 4

NEW ALLIES.

Now that Prohibition has licen prov< d a failure, and such a farce, in Amerii i, naturally we can be sure of getting t here, this very election. Since it pays the Trade so well to have a country “dry” (see any issue of "(Tieorio” for the increased drinking it brings), of ionise d«>wpite their quixotic notions f <disolate freedom for every Individu. I. so that not one must lie interfered with, no one cam blame the Trade for doing all it -an to help get Prohibition earned. See the W.U.T.P. and Alliance posters on every public- house! And the way publicans and brewers shower Hutxscriptiofis so generously to help in everything we try to do! Really one feels almost ashamed of old members* easy going ways, when one sees t.he » agemess of the publican wives, lately all joined the local Branches, in urging on the work, the lavish way they give, the almost ostentatious way they all show the W.C.T.I lodges. A pity there are not enough l»armaids left to show it even more. But you notice t he heaped " Vanguards and "White KaNxin.s” ready for disti but ion in every Kar? Now there can he no doubt of it paying them so well, our late enemies are become the staunchest, most zealous supporters lmagin able. I U*g your pardon. What did you say? That they were not exactly s* zealous in your neighbourhood? You must be mistaken. Prohibition increases the Trade’s pros|>erity so amazingly—th< ir own papers say so n petttedly. Ordinary common-sens * must make them do their best to can it here too. You must have been hearing some » those prejudiced officers of the Ameri ran fleet Inking the opposite view probably out of sheer contrariness. Bu; oven they' said Prohibition paid, an I the U.S.A. mount to stick to it. W* shall too. KATHERINE MERGER