[To THE EDITOR or THE " blesorsroa.")
Sin,—Many of us who have been for long years ardent temper- ance reformers are following with deep interest your advocacy of Nationalization of Liquor. I believe no other policy really holds the field for us. Forty years ago I became, for myself, an "individual Prohibitionist," but, as a policy for the community, considering our national inertia, it is hopelessly slow. Fishing with rod and line may save a few individuals, but the U.K.A. policy, pure and undiluted, is not marked by successful con- version of any large part of the community. We had our chance in 1915. To-day we might have reached a standard of reformed administration which would have proved a standing lesson in sanity. As it is, we are threatened with reaction, and the Trade propaganda is hard at work everywhere. I am only too delighted to feel that the workers' leaders are alive to the pos- sibilities of national control. Of course, national control has its dangers, but the present position has infinitely more.—I am,
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