"KAMERAD!"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 295, 2 September 1918, Page 7

"KAMERAD!"

. "HAND IN HAND WITH THE KAISER." THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DIGNFIED PRO'ffi-ST. "The Outlook" says with reference to the L.V.A. resolution, which is appearing as an advertisement throughout the Dominion,— It is well to con tliis resolution carefully, in ordsr that its most damaging admissions may bo thoroughly grasped. The Licensed '/ieluallers' Association, after due deliberation, decided by formal resolution tc identify, the beery-looking individual, la-b-.'iled "Boose," with the Licensed Trade. It is the beery Mr. "Boose" who is shaking hands with the German, and '.ins is interpreted by '.lib Licensed Victuallers' Association as "an advertisemon: . . . depicting the Licensed Trada as boii;g baud to hand with the Kaiser." We ; are delighted beyond .measure at this official attestation to tho personality of the Trade, since.it proves our case without ,dr£cd of refutation, and makes plain the path for the- Prohibition Reform. Heretofore the Trade has been amorphous, elusive, averse to coming into the 'open, nyling itself behind high-sounding names such as "Moderate League," "National 'Council of New Zealand," etc., etc. At length we have tho official portrait of the Trade. certified by tho Licensed Victualler' Association in a beery-looking person, labelled "Boose." When it is added that the dictionary definition of the word "boose" is "to drink excessively," and that tho manifest purpose of ")>ooso" is to manufacture "boosers"—again quoting tho dictionary, a "hooser" is "one who drinks to excess, a tippler," it will bo patent to the simplest mind that this resolution of the Licensed Victuallers' Association admits and establishes all that tho most ardent Prohibitionist claims as reason for demanding tho destruction and annihilation of the, Drink Traffic in this Dominion.—(Published by Arraiigemciit.)