But how can we expect them, or rather the man,
for it is his job, to make that sacrifice when he notes that the Government spokesmen never dare mention the subject ? Who can blame him if he assumes that the Government have good reason to think that saving in liquor is not one of the ways open to him of sup- porting the war ? What makes this timidity all the more exas- perating is the fact that there is no instance where the Govern- ment have given a bold lead to the nation in which they have not succeeded. When they asked for compulsion they asked for a thing a hundred times more difficult to get than " Down Glasses during the War," and yet thecountry instantly gave what they asked for. Why, then, do they hesitate to tell the nation to save in the only way in which it is open to them to save on a great scale ?
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