12 MAY 1917, Page 3

Is this, we wonder, an allu•.ion to the Trade Union

leadere, who have certainly proved the brewers' best friends, since it was they who vetoed Prohibition, or does it allude to the United Kingdom Alliance sad the Bourbons of the Temperance Party, with whorls the brewers in the last resort might combine to defeat Purchase?. Once more, we ask Mr. Whitbread a plain question : Is he or is lee not against the turning of material which could be used for human food into intoxicants ? If Isis reply is " Yes," then of course the amplest apology is due to him.