12 FEBRUARY 1916, Page 2

We desire to congratulate our contemporary the Daily Chronicle upon

the pluck and public spirit with which it has been protesting day by day against -what - it very properly terms " the strange privilege of beer." For example; in a leading article in the issue of Thuraday, under thiti heading:. it mentions that 1,5012,000 tons of freight aYear are required by the brewing industry to make beer, and asks Why the working class is to banish from its table the banana and the apple, the tomato and the orange, to stint its-elf of sugar,. and to have the price of its furniture, its tobacco, and its whisky raised—for the

------ — - barley used in whisky is apparently to be a prohibited impor--