“SHUT UP THE LIQUOR BARS, AND YOU SHUT UP THE PRISONS.
The W.C.T.U. has always stood for Prohibition, and the principle that a great proportion of the < rime committed is caused by drink.
A practical result of the good work of the Control Board of England and Wales has been shutting up of the prisons, shown in the map accompanying (kindly lent by the authorities of the Salvation Army), “The more drink sold, the more crime.” During the war the public-houses have shut up for the greater part of the day. At the beginning of the war. there were in our prisons 16.727 men and women To-day there are about <>ooo. And all the prisons and prison buildings shown on this map have been shut up I
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White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 280, 18 October 1918, Page 2
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127“SHUT UP THE LIQUOR BARS, AND YOU SHUT UP THE PRISONS. White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 280, 18 October 1918, Page 2
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