UNDER PROHIBITION WORKERS WOULD HAVE CLEARER BRAINS.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 33, 20 October 1911, Page 17

UNDER PROHIBITION WORKERS WOULD HAVE CLEARER BRAINS.

Sir, —In response to your invitation for brief contributions on the question wliether Socialists should vote for i> rohibitioai, I send you the most powerful argument I know of why they should do so. I am an out-and-out Socialist myself, but I like d pint of beer and have one whenever funds permit, which is not often. ; But 1 keep a clear head always. Unfortunately, there are , scores of -' workers whose heads are not clear., and for their sakes I will vote for, prohibition every time I get a chance. If there was no drink workers would, have clearer brains and more time to think about the emancipation of. labor from'the thraldom of capitalism. They will-be able then to arrive at the conclusion which I and thousands of other workers have reached, viz., that drink is noc the cause of the great percentage of poverty and crime that exists in the world "(vide Dr. Mackay in your issue of September 29), and with clearer brains the workers will light on the real cause of pqv-erby, viz., production for profit. —Faithfully yours, Well. C. EL HILLS.