TRUE IN 1913: TRUE TO-DAY.
Beer never built a cottage. It never stuffed a hungry little stomach. It never inspired a kiss of purity. It never planted a garden or sent a happy little girl to swing upon the gate in anticipation of father’s return. It never made a contented hearthstone or bred a yeomanry to inspire their country with sturdy pride. It deals in morigages and evictions. It wrenches bread from the fingers of childhood. It triumphs in blows and hate, in suspicion and fear, in lust and disease. It tramples upon the flowers, strikes the hinges from the gate and sends the little ones flying from father’s approach. Selfishness, hopelessness and decay smite the land in which it rules. —“The Voice,” 1913.
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White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 4, 1 May 1947, Page 8
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124TRUE IN 1913: TRUE TO-DAY. White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 4, 1 May 1947, Page 8
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