A DRY INDIA.
PRICE THAT MR GANDHI WOULD PAY. “I would rather have India a pauper nation than let millions of hei people be drunkards, or 1 would have India without the knowledge of letters, if that is the price we have to pay to make India dry,’’ declared Mr Gandhi, addressing a select gathering of temperance workers, including Europeans and Indians, in Madras. Mr Gandhi pleaded for a nationwide agitation for prohibition as contemplated b ythe Madras Minister, it had been said that total prohibition would be impossible in India, but h** said that the atmosphere in India wa.favourable for prohibition. Mr Gandhi added. “No official in Indfa nas yet told me that prohibition is impossible in India except f*• finance.” Continuing, he pointed out that *!i Government made the inP ;! L. *.:»;1*. in making alcohol a so .ice of revenue, and safd that t!.. loss of excise revenue could and should be covered by cutting off a huge slice from the huge military expenditure. The si 'v.l:- i drew’ attention to the seen.-* propaganda in favour of 1-j*• ■- r, and said that the difficulties s the way of reformers were great. Concluding, Mr Gandhi declared that posterity would curs** them if they trifled with the question any longer.—From “The Statesman.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 33, Issue 392, 19 March 1928, Page 6
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