WOMEN DRINKERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1815, 30 July 1913, Page 11

WOMEN DRINKERS.

Sir,—Your .correspondent "Moderate Drinker" draws attention to ,What he considers a method of reforming prohibition tactics, and curtailing the means to purchase alcoholic liquors by women. Ho complains about more bars than ono in hotels, and thinks prohibition agitation should be directed to bottlo stores near hotels, and in connection therewith. Now, sir, I quito agree with "Moderate Drinker" when he says that "NoLicense advocates should give up asking for the moon in the shape of such impossibilities as tho bare majority," because tho prohibitionists are like paling children in that they pleadfd for a "three-fifths majority" and having got that they now cry for the moon—a 'bare majority—which, is an impossibility. - I hold that the present evils—thoso to which "Moderate Drinker" refers—are tho creation of prohibitionists' tactics. They 'havo closed many hotels, and the others have grown tho larger by the increased trade: hence tho necessity in order to cope with, the trade for more bars than one in hotels. Again, the prohibitionists' agitation was directed against grocers holding bottle licenses, and when these wero taken away the hotels becamo the only bottle licensees in the trade: hence, the necessity for "bottle stores." When "women drinkers" could not get a "bottle" sent from the grocers they had to go to the bottle stores themselves. These reforms, ji'hich "Mod-, crate Drinker" calls evils, are tho works of the prohibition party. The treo is known by its fruits.—l am, etc., REFORMER.