News from England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 254, 6 April 1915, Page 5

News from England

THE DRINK QUESTION.

PUBLIC OPINION AOAI.XST PROHIBITION.

OTHER RESTRICTIONS ADVISED.

BREWING TRADES PROTEST,

Received April 5, 9.25 p.m. London, April 5. Following his appeal to citizens, through the newspapers, to write him Jt they favored absolute tfle first mail reaching Mr. Lloyd George brought fifteon thousand letters;

It is stated that political leaders agrc that financial considerations need not hinder the most diastic action on tin, • drink question. The demand for absolute prohibition, strangely enough, comes principally from buiin-.-ss and professional men desiring to participate in tlu .gKat national sacrifice, while manytemjjerate leaders believe that an attempt to force absolute prohibition will create . a dangerous reaction after the war. Opinion is hardening against complete prohibition and growing in favor of personal abstinence, with severe legal The most favored schemes are Sunda) closing, shorter hours on week days, wholesale suppression of spirits, and -compulsory brewing of light instead of heavy beers. * The Morning Post does not think that .personal example will bs sufficient. The Daily Citizen' declares that the wealthy are re-stocking their wine--cellars, and wine merchants are rushed with large orders, and adds that the -working man cannot afford a wine cellar.

The Allied Brewers and National Union of Brewery Workers passed a resolution protesting that thousands oi .men and women would be thrown out -of employment because of the drunken incaa of a few men.

DOCKERS STILL OBDURATE,

A REVENUE-RAISING SCHEME,

Received 5, 9.53 p.m. London, April 4.

The Birkenhead dockers were still refractory at the week-end, and many steamers were at a standstill.

Mr. Lloyd George states that the late Baron Rothschild recommended in Aug--ust a double income-tax, with a heavier euper-tax, for war expenditure.