The Drink Traffic.
England's revenue from drink is fall* ing, and London Punch, sarcastically re. marks .that " The Chancellor of the Ex* leneque'f is haying a bad time and most of the journals are moaraful. The work* ing ? man is not quite such a sot as he was, and the income-tax payers' are 'trembling." In a country like England, which draws one-third of its imperial .revenue from national drunkness, this is a serious matter. Drink pays bur ' Army and -Nary, or it pays the interest on our Rule Britannia debt i and without drink we should have to look to what are pleasantly called ' other sources of revenue.' Let us hope that this'national sobriety is only a passing cloud. We cannot for a ! moment think, of reducing our expenditure.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 74, 20 February 1883, Page 2
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129The Drink Traffic. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 74, 20 February 1883, Page 2
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