THE NATION’S LOSS THROUGH DRUNK

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43113, 4 July 1907, Page 1

THE NATION’S LOSS THROUGH DRUNK

By Sir T. P. Whittaker M.P.

(Continued from last issue) We could only maintain our commercial supremacy by doing . hotter, and still better work.- . If we were going to continue to u j hold the position we at present | did in the world, it could only - % be by doing the highest class of v work. But if men were to do l the best work they must be well' housed, well fed and well trained and have the be3t machinery the world could produce. But if we couldiOnly have that in a nation which culivated the highest faculties and powers of all clisses in the community. Who could tell what they had lost in w the by the drinking that went on ? Amongst those who A had gone to early graves through drinking they kuew that there had been some of the brightest spiri's. Who could tell what h this nation had lost in invention and discovery and great intellectual power by the loss of vh sjme of those who had died prematurely as a result of drinks ing ? u lf we are to retaiu our power and position as,h commercial nation,” concluded Sir Thomas, “ we must develop the highest powers- of every inember of the community, aud one of the essential conditions of successfully doing that, is that . we must be a sober people.” /