Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-30
BRITISH FAVOR
PROHIBITION
Coming Around to the View Of
Lloyd George Upon Restriction
Of LIQUOR Traffic.

Lloyd George Upon Restriction
Of Liquor Traffic.
London, April 29-England seems
to be rapidly coming around to- tho
Lloyd-George view OF prohibition az
Ia necessary war measure, according
to- the British press.
I'VE believe that, the county is
quite prepared to submit ID. any dis
oipline that the needs Of the war may
demand" says the Manchester Guar.
dian, In an EDITORIAL typical of the
British newspaper comment, but the
none important as coming from the
Kingdoms greatest manufacturing
city. $st 4
Total Prohibition.
1T is clear that II you are to have
prohibition at AN it must be total
prohibition the writer states, afer
reviewing the various schemes for
restricting the sale in laboring dis
.tricts.
we do not wish, to press the ordin.
airy temperance arguments, for what
ever Is done will be a measure: Of
temperance in a secondary degree,
and primarily q measure for increas.
ing national efficiency, in war time.
If drunkenness Increased efficiency,
it, might at a timess like this LEI ac-
.cepted as. q national necessity or ev.
en- a virtue. There being no doubt
that abstinence, whatever else may
be said for or against it, does help
a man to work steadily and hard, alb.
stinence Is a duty. II the thing IS
worth doing at all, it is worth doing
we'll" ,fa
Investigators to Report.
The Guardian also sent out investi-
gators to report on the effect of
shortening the hours in which liquor
may now remain open. For
merly the houses opened in the morn,
ing at 6 o'clock In the working dis
although there was not much
business until about 9, when the
women woul dappear. Now the doors
are closed until 1880 a. M, WHICH
prevents 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 p. m, seems only
to concentrate the amount of drink.
ing and to encourage the sale of bot
tied goods.
Great E:ritain's brewing and disti'i-
ing trade represents an outlay of near,
ly a billion and quarter dollars Ia
capital. It pays to the government
in licenses about 5000, Q 10000, yearly.
This loss In revenue would be ser;r:
Gus, and causes considerable appre.
hensiol among the wealthy taxpay.
era, who fear thay may have to make
up the. difference. !,
holding Back supplies.
The Economist, in its issue for Ap-
ril 3, devotes a considerable portion
Of its space to Chancellor Lloyd
Georges assertions that drunkenness
in the large shipping and manufac-
towns Ia holding back the sup
ply Of war munitions. The Econo.
mist passes lightly owe the possible
effects, of throwing out of work the
large number Of persons employed in
connection withathe manufacture and
sale 9of 9intoxicants,. and urges that
The governments at once proceed to
enact laws absolutely prohibiting the
Of all alcoholic drinks. faH
"The government" says this jour.
nal, after saying SO much, will not
deserve the confidence of the >coun-
try, or be worthy of the awful re-.
sp0nsibilities which it has assumed,
10 it does not take strong measures.
The matter is of urgent importance,
and parliament could be summoned a
week earlier in order. to give effect
10 the policy. We say this without
Withdrawing the criticisms we, have
over and over again upon
many of the autocratic measures ia.
ken by the government since the war
We believe that the, suppress.
of news and views, and the at
tempt to intimidate opinion by alb
rogating Magma Charta, were most I'M
and mischievous.
&fG lntenperance.
!. ""But in~tenperance is a curse, the
SUPPRESSION Of which the strongest
and the most fervent up
holders of parliamentary government
have advocated in times of peace. 1t
is q measure that has been adopted,
not always with success, by. carious
states of the American Union; and
IL in an emergency like this 1t will
enable. us to shorten the effusion of
blood; and treasure. it is . measure
ought to- be adopted with all
speed and with the good will Of Al
sections, and parties in the commun;
ity, even though it involves a pecup-
iary compensation on a moderate
scale to those who are dependent fot
their livelihood upon the production
and sale of intoxicants. Let beer an !
spirits give way to tea and coffee,
The cost to- the revenue for a yeaI'.
including compensations, may run to
80, millions sterling $3.50, 000,0 but
the economic and social compensa-
TOPS. will DO enormous
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