"WHAT IS A PATRIOT.?"
To the Editor. ■Sir, —London Punch publishes some verses headed "The Patriot," and the last line reads: "And they made him drink for England's sake." Mr. I. B. Godkin is a great traveller, also a true patriot and' a very observant man. What he says is true. Will Mr Kirkwood explain why silch patriots as Mr Lloyd George and our other British leaders had to cut down the boose business during the war, as enormous numbers of men and women got too drusk to make munitions and other essentials during the war? The last police report to the Wellington Licensing Committee said that the drinking amongst women in that eitv was bad. The' statements of Mr. Godkin to your representative are both patriotic and true. Who is the greatest patriot, the man or woman who shows up tTie evils „f a community, or the frothy so-called patriot who tries to suppress the truth?—"f am, etc., "A PATRIOT." Stratford, 15th January.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1920, Page 6
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164"WHAT IS A PATRIOT.?" Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1920, Page 6
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