yi THE I.IQUOB' TRAFFIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 266, 13 October 1883, Page 2

yi THE I.IQUOB' TRAFFIC.

The Canterbury Journal of Commerce • J^^B^^K^J^pa^ who have, lately pecome.bankrupt is. exciting general . ]\ comme^ 1 1.1" 1 This/ '•' general V 6bmm«nc." agp&rs' to '^^gi&erdLtoJthfe whole colofcyjHind* appaiently'' indicates a common cause What is the cause ? "Major ~Atk~inson~ has~stated that ~t ho clasps hare been more, fully employed throughout the colouy daring the pait winter than' diiribg! any winter totften years past • ' W^geS fold} therei 'fore,: beeii- j n i regular circulation,- aha have been spent apparently m the cus^ (tomary channels, ' j exc'eptia^^this 1 one item of decreaßeS r conßumption oi drinkl if- 'Trifde s "dejjrdssion l - > may cacdount^ 'for ,some { reduction m dririfcing, thoagll this distinction should be observed, that it trade depression lately ha 3 meant ex| cessire stocks of merchandise on hand] and' reduced values to eflfecPa it will logically follow -that tliis peculiar state of the wholesale trade cannot ac- ! cotnt for a large decrease m the consumption of liquor, 'becsuse reduced -values of general-merohandise should be directly bentfich4 to the working classes increasing the> spending j power, the 1 remain two other presumptive causes of decreased drinking, namely, the JBluo liibbon movement : and the; Salvation 1 Army campaign. How much , of the| change is due. to either, or how much to both, cannot be staged, with. precision; but this broad concession may be made,; that Salvation services and Blue Ribbon preaching ' have ■ together reduced the, ''.takings " c f nuu>erous iiotelp, , and sant many pnblicans into bankruptcy,, j