IN a recent speech at Bangor, Lloyd-George, chancellor of the British exchequer, affirmed that the strike difficulty they were having in the armament works was mostly due to strong drink, “which,” he said, “is doing more damage than all the German submarines put together.” He said it was the intention of his government to use its great power to deal radically with the drink question.
From every conceivable quarter it is shown more and more clearly that strong drink is an evil with no redeeming quality of any kind whatever. It creates misery, it leads men and women farther and farther into sin, and the end of the journey is ultimate destruction.
War’s Human Cost
OFFICIAL statistics from Paris give the number of applications for government aid since the war started as 2,116,000. At the present time, daily allowances are paid to 1,857,000 persons. The total daily outlay for caring for these destitute people is in the neighborhood of $780,000. These are some of the conditions that are produced by war.
Why Liquor Men Oppose Prohibition
If it is true, as the liquor men sometimes claim, that more liquor is sold in prohibition territories, under prohibition laws, why do they so strenuously oppose prohibition?