“LIQUOR TRAP."

Taihape Daily Times, 23 January 1918, Page 6

“LIQUOR TRAP."

MINISTER’S DENUNCIATION.

London, January 10

Rev. Joseph Fort Newton, preaching at the City Temple, delivered a remarkable denunciation of the English liquor policy. Our cause, he said, was reighteous, but the nation was not. Upon that very day a warning had been issued that starvation was threatening. The breweries had been permitted to increase their output by 20 pr cent Thus, when on the verge of hunger,' food was allowed to be turned into drink to drug our brains. “When I see American soldiers staggering in the streets I hate London ” he declared. “It is a criminal offence f or an American to sell drink to a soldier. Here every opportunity is offered, and every trap set, to debauch our boys travelling to and from the front. How long will America send foodstuffs to England for the manufacture of liquor to ruin her boys? It is unfair."