WICKED ALLEGATIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 285, 30 November 1914, Page 5

WICKED ALLEGATIONS.

THE HALF HAS NOT BEEN TOLD. TRUTH LEAKS OUT. (By New Zealander.) When the British troops left for France to fight against the destroyers of Liberty and the enemies of Civilisation, a fabricating cahle-krammer put into the mouth of Lord Kitchener words he never uttered. Because the great Field-Marshal warned the troops against temptations in wine and women, the prohibitionists wrongly construed Lord Kitchener’s message into one of total abstinence for all time. When the full text of Lord Kitchener’s message came to hand, it was discovered that Lord Kitchener never used the phrase attributed to him. What do the prohibitionists do ? They' continue to attribute the phrase “abstain from liquor’’ to Lord Kitchener, and they keep on advertising their fabrication, although they must know the assertion is a (base and wicked allegation. Prohibitionists, however, stick at nothing if their object is served.

Prohibitionist? are also claiming that this great war is a teetotal .war as far as the Allies are concerned. While doing this they do not hesitate to traduce the French and Belgians because they are large consumers of alcohol, and the prohibitionists hesitate not to insult our brave, enduring, efficient and humane Allies by saying that the use of alcoholic liquors makes for immorality, viciousness, and inefficiency.

Prohibitionists are uttering a base calumny when they thus traduce our noble Allies, and say ; “Belgium heads the list of beer-drinking countries, and the people consume more alcohol per head than any other nation, except the French.”—Vide page 80, “No-license Hand-book, 1914.” Can a party be patriotic that so maligns our Allies and holds them up to contempt and ridicule? Can it be said that prohibitionists are honorable and patriotic when, inferentially, they prefer the treacherous prohibition Turk because he “abstains from liquor” and perpetrates, like the Germans, whom prohibitionists also refer to as being prohibited alcoholic liquors, the most I wanton, cruel, and unspeakable atrocities? No loyal Britisher can support the European prohibitionists or applaud the Germans and expect to be trusted. That the War Office is not to leave I the British troops to endure all the hardships of this Continental war in winter without some creature comforts is amply borne out by the following article from the “Daily Chronicle,” London, dated the 6th ultimo, laud its action has the approval of Lord Kitchener and the whole force of the R.A.M.C. ' *