EXPLOITATION AND SWEATING

Taihape Daily Times, 2 November 1918, Page 5

EXPLOITATION AND SWEATING

"In buying liquor, ~ihe working men are exploited most and receive least in return" is a sample of the many fresh points of view which liquor is deal!; with in Mr James Simpson's great lecture. Of course the lecturer is expert in handling the economic side of the question, being a profound student of sociology and proves especially interesting in his treatment of State Control. Drink is charged with being a sweater. It sweats the wife of some of her wages: It sweats the children of their toys and sometimes their bread; it keeps the big profits for selfish gratification. Simple illustrations of the economic aspect abounds. —such wages represented in a pair of boots' and wages represented in liquor of the same cost as the boots. Anecdote and story relieve the powerful presentation of the case, and the huge gatherings everywhere Mr Simpson has been, should produce an over'ow gathering in the Town Hall, on Tlesday night at„S p.m.