Arizona republican., 1915-04-19
Nation Seems to Be Rapidly Coming Around to the Lloyd-George View of Prohibition as Necessary War Measure
READY TO SUBMIT
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Press Makes Clear That if Any Prohibition at All is Established It Must Be Total if It is to Be Made Effective
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 LONDON April 1S-England seems to be rapidly coming around to the Lloyd George view of prohibition as necessary war measure, according to
 the British press.
 We believe that the country is quite prepared to submit to any discipline that the needs of the war may de- mand." says the Manchester Guardian in an editorial typical of the British newspaper comment but the more inn portant as coming from the kingdom greatest manufacturing city.
 Tt is clear that if you are to have prohibition at all. it must be total pro- hibition." the writer states afte~ re viewing the various schemes for re strfcting the sale in laboring distriCts.
 We do not wish to press the orein- ! arv temperance arguments, for what ever is done MI. be 9 measure Of tem- perance in a secondary degree an3 pri- marily a measure for increasing na- tionaI efficiency in wartime. If Grun- kenness increased efficiency. it miSht at a time like this be accepted as q na- tional necessity and even VlrtGe.
 There being no doubt that abstinance, whatever else may be said for or against it. does help a man 10 work steadily and hard. abstinence is duty. If the thing is worth doing al all. it is worth doing well"
 The Guardian has also sent out in vestigators to report on the effect "f shortening the hours in which liquor 1 houses may now remain Dper. Fo"m- erly the houses opened in the morning at six o'clock in the working districts, although there was not much business until about g o'clock, when the women would appear. Now the doors are closed until 90 a. m. which ore vents an early start in drinking and gets some of the idlers to work. But the change in the night closing hour from II to 10 D. m seems only to con centrate the amount of drinking ant to encourage the sale of bottled goods.
 Great Britain's brewing and distil- ling trade represents an outlay of near
 ly a billion and q quarter dollars in
 capital It pays to the government in licenses about s20O.000.0o0 yearly. This loss in revenue would be serious. and l causes considerable apprehension , among the wealthy tax payers, who I fear they may have to make up the , difference
 1 The Economist, in it's issue for April ! 3, devotes a considerable portion of it's space to Chancellor Lloyd Georges as i sertions that drunkenness in the large shipping and manufacturing towns is : holding back the supply of war n1uni- i tions The Economist passes lightly 1 over the possible effects of throwing 1 out Of work the large number of per i sons employed in connection with the i manufacture and sale of intoNcants. and urges that the government at once proceed to enact laws absolutely pro 1 hibiting the sale of all alcoholic drinks The Government says this journal after saying so much. will not deserve l the confidence of the country. or be
 worthy of the awful responsibilities which it has assumed. if it does not ' take strong measures The matter is { of urgent importance, and parliament
 could be summoned q week earlier in | order to give effect to the policy. We say this without withdrawing the criti- ! cisms we have passed over and over 1 again upon many of the autocratic measures taken by the government ! since the war began We believe that the suppression of news and views. and the attempt to intimidate opinion by abrogating Magma Charta, were most | unwarranted and nischievous. 1 But temperance is a curse, the sup l pression of which the strongest dem 1 ocrats and the most fervent upholders l of parliamentary government have ad- ! vocated in times Of peace. It is q measure that has been adopted. not al ways with success. by various states (COnfinued On Page Fouro