If we buy out the Trade, the loss, if war
Prohibition or Restriction, which is tantamount to Prohibition, is found necessary, as we believe it will be, will fall upon the State. There will then be nobody to forbid us keeping all our barley and our sugar for food, or calling up the thousands of men of military age who are now engaged in making, retailing, and transporting intoxi- cants, or securing efficiency by drastic regulations. It will be to nobody's pecuniary interest to say that, whether it does or does not make us run the risk of starvation, we must and shall go on turning food into intoxicants. To put it in other words, Purchase will give the Government a freedom in the matter of dealing wish intoxicants which in existing circumstances they can obtain in no other way. That is why we advocate it—why we hold it to be an absolutely essential war measure.
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