FACTS.
Government statistics show that all the industries of the Un.tcd States of America, taken together, employ 359 wage-earners for every one million dollars of capital invested. These fame statistics show that the liquor industry employs only 81 wage-earners for each one million dollars of capital invested.
Loss of hours from work in Moscow, because of drinking, has decreased 31 per cent, under Prohibition. The l.ist four months in England, with restricted hours for trading, as against the same period in IQIS, show a decrease of 1,505,000 barrels, and 4,517,000 gallons of spirits. South Australian Brewery Company shares, which before the war were quoted at £1 7s, were sold during August last at .£1 6s fid. They’ve got six u clock ( losing there now. Canada is going dry. The liquor traffic has been wiped out of the whole of the Dominion of Canada with the exception of the Province of Quebec. New Brunswick goes dry next May, and British Columbia will turn off the tap next July. In all other parts Prohibition is in force now. Evidently Canadian statesmen are cleverer than New Zealand ones. They have learnt the lesson from the war, that alcohol is a nation-destroyer.
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White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 258, 18 December 1916, Page 2
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