IF BRITAIN WERE TO DO AWAY WITH DRINK.
In the “Souvifarle Tribune,” Mr Harold Cox, a great financial authority, points out that Britain’s debt at the end of the war may amount to i0,000,000,000d01., which at four and a half per cent., the rate of the “great" loan, would mean an interest charge of 450,000,000d01. a year. But a commentator on this statement points out that, even adding 100,000,ooodol. for pensions, the whole vast sum would be still much less than the annual drink bill, which amounts to 650,000,000d01. a year. Thus, if Britain were to do away with drink, ns Russia has done away with vodka, the British people might pay for the war and still have everything except drink that they have now, and still have 1 oo,ooo,(X)odol. for social betterment.
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White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 248, 18 February 1916, Page 12
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133IF BRITAIN WERE TO DO AWAY WITH DRINK. White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 248, 18 February 1916, Page 12
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