From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 3 April 1915: The chief obstacle to prohibition, as we point out elsewhere, is not the temporary interference with individual liberty. It is the difficulty of how to deal with the great trade and industry which will be rendered partially or temporarily derelict by prohibition. But here ‘boldness, boldness, and again boldness’ is the only possible solution… We must never forget that the cutting off of expenditure upon liquor will very soon greatly increase our financial resources, not merely from indirect saving, but from the greater all-round efficiency which will come from an undrugged nation.
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