Sir George Cave went on to say that an appeal
to the people to do without drink could be based only on necessity. Well, that is the very ground on which the Government themselves have based their appeal for self-sacrifice (see again the speeches of Lord Curzon and Lord Lytton). Sir George Cave next said that it was useless for Mr. Leif Jones to argue that people were worse in health for drinking if people did not choose to believe it. Personally we agree, but this is only to state the case from the point of view of one's stomach, not from the point of view of a nation at war. We are almost ashamed to repeat an obvions thing so often, but that is not the controversy at all. The demand for Prohibition, so far as we, and we belieVe most people, support it, does not come from tem- perance fanatics. It comes from people who take the Government at their word when they talk of the. necessity for sacrifices—from people Who want to make those sacrifices Whole-haartedly to win the war.
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