We have dealt elsewhere with the whole subject, but we
cannot summarize this portion of the speech here without expressing our complete amazement. Is it possible, is it credible, is it conceivable, that Mr. Lloyd George and this Government, of all others, can mean to tell us that the one set of people who are not to make any sacrifice for-the good of the nation are the consumers of intoxi- cants, or, to put it in another way, that the brewer and the distiller shall be allowed to say to the Government : " We refuse to allow you to touch the nation on the drink side. Not till we have done with them shall we permit the men and women of this country to be worried by you and your war economies. Your prattle about sacrifices does not interest us. Stand back there, and keep a clear road for the Brewer's Dray"
