If the Government is afraid of the working man, let it say so, or let it try him. If it is afraid of temperance people, let it rally them to its side as one man on the platform where they meet. If it is afraid of the Drink Trade, then the time has come to say so, for we who send out our millions to fight a foreign foe are not going to starve for bread through fear of enemies within our gate. The Prime Minister gave the Army its munitions; the Army will use them in vain unless the munitions of life come into our homes. Working men are tired of men who fool with food and liberty. They do not object to any equal sacrifice: they believe in the democratic policy of the King, who based Prohibition, not on class distinction as the Government did by closing tap-rooms 15 hours a day and leaving cellars and Parliamentary bars open always, but on the principle of the King’s own words that “no difference shall be made, so far as his Majesty is concerned, between the treatment of the rich and poor in this respect.” Let the Government follow the King, and the people will follow the Government. In the highest interests of the nation and the war let this be said as plain as words can make it—_that there is no body of temperance opinion anywhere standing in the way of Prohibition_, but that the united moral forces of the nation would rally to the Government instantly on an act of a few words such as this: =That the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages be totally prohibited in the United Kingdom for the period of the war and demobilization, and that a committee be appointed to deal with all the private and public interests concerned; and that it be resolved upon, here and now, that reconstruction be accompanied by universal local option.= There would be no opposition the Government need count to a proposal like that. [Illustration: TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION LABEL WESTERVILLE O.] * * * * * * Transcriber’s note: Obvious typographical and punctuation errors were corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation were retained.