A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT.
At the Socict) of Arts the other day the Archbishop of Canterbury put forward the moderate temperance view, and he was followed by Mr 11. C’harrington, who said that he was proud to have been a brewer for thirty years, spoke of teetotal fanatics, and declared his belief in *hc fine old mintages which many of hose present were brought up on, and thank hea •n, still enjoyed. Sir A. Pearce ..mild, who spokr next, said that he was a teetotaller, though he did not believe that this question was to be settled by teetotallers, but by all classes of |the community coming together. Speaking with a solemnity w hich visibl) impressed the audien* e, he said that Britain < ould not last the next ten years if we reverted to prewar drinking. lo him the outlook was very grave from the point of view of the national future, and he pleaded with the distillers to give up making drinkable gin, and to make commercial spirit instead for manufacturing and motor purposes.
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White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 285, 18 March 1919, Page 12
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176A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT. White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 285, 18 March 1919, Page 12
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