The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-18

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 10 be more rapidly coming around to the Lloyd-George view of prohibition as necessary war measure according to the British press.
 We believe that lbe country is qo te prepared to submit Go any discI. pue that the needs of the war may demand say, the Manchester Guard ian ID an editoria typical of the Brit isI newspaper comment, bat the more important as coming from the king dom's greatest manufacturing city.
 Tt is clear that if you are 10 have prohibition at all, it must be toa pro. AiJtiou' the writer states after re- viewing the various schemes for re. -rictIn- the sale in laoor.ug dis. uicl9
 "We do mot wish to press the ordi- nary temperance arguments, for whatever .s done will be measure of temperance in d secondary degree and primarily a measure for increasing ua. touaI efficiency in war time. If drunkenness increased efficiency, it might at time like this be accepted as national necessity and even virtue There being no doubt that ab- ~tiueuce. whatever else may be said or or against it, does IeIp d man 10 work steadily and hard. abstinence isl d duty. II the thing is worth doing at all, t is worth doing we'll"
 The Guardian has also sent out in YcetI4atora To report on the effect of shortening the hours in which liquor houses may not remain open. For. mely the houses opened in the morn ing al C o'clock in tIe working dis uicts although there was not much business mtl about g. when the wom- eu would appear Now the doors are closed uutl l0:30 ann which pre- vents am early start in drinking and gets some of the idiers to work. BuJI thc change in Inc night closing h0&r from II t0 70 pm seems only 10 cou-| 10 encourage the sale of bottled goods
 Great Br.tau's brewing and dIsti1- ing trade represents an outay of nearly a billion and quarter do.ars in capital IL pays Co tJc government in Icea es about $2u00oo.ooo yearly. TAi- loss in revenue would be set- oa9 and causes considerable appre. beusjon among the wealthy taXpaNers who fear they may have to make mp the difference
 The Economist. in it's issue for April E. deyOtes a considerable portion of it's space 10 Chancellor LIoyd-Gcorge's as sertiQus that drunkenness in the large shipping and manufacturing town. is holding back the -u1pp Jt war munitions The Economist passes liaIJy over tle possible etfe 's of throwing out Of work the large ',h.- ber of persons employed in connection with the manufacture and sale of u-| toAioants and urges that the govern meut at once proceed to enact laws ab- solWely prohibiting the sale of all a,- coboIic drinks
 "Tac government says tine jour ual alter saying so much, will not deserve the confidence Of the country pr be worthy of the awful rcspousi5ilt ties which it has assumed. if it does hot take -tuue measures. The mat ter is of urgent importance. and par lament could be summoned d week earlier in order to give effect to the policy We say this without withdraw ing the criticism We have passed over and over again upon many of the auto cratic measures taken by the govern meut since the war began We be. HeNe that the suppression of news and views, and the attempt to ntmdate opinion by abrogating Magma Charta | were most uuWarranted and misc4ie}- 0us.
 But temperance is curse, the sup pression of which the strongest demo crats and the most feryeut upholders oi parliamentary government have ad yocateJ in times of peace It is a measure that has been adopted, not al- ways with success, by various states of the American Union; and if in an emergency like this it win enable us to shorten the eftusion of blood and treasure. t is measure which ought 10 De adopted Wlta al. speed and with the good will of all sections and par tie, in the community even though | involves a pecuniary compensation uH a moderate scale to those who are de- pendent for their livelihood upon the production and sale of utoXcants Let Deer and spirits give way to tea and coffee The cost tu the revenue for| a year including compcusatons, may run 10 90 millions sterling C$250000,- 00O). but the economic and social com. penaations will be enormous.'
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