The selection of . letters on the question of drink
and economy dieting the war which we publish in. our issue of to-day shows, What strong support there is in the country for the Spectator's proposals. If it is true, as we believe it is, that weecannot carry through the war successfully unless we take in financial sail and reduce our expenditure, then the need of the policy of
Down glasses 1" becomes imperative. All other possibilities Of saving shrink to nothing when compared with cutting off the drink bill, especially when, as experience has shown us, the use of intoxicants slows down the energy of the nation, as well as wastes labour and material which might be applied to the prosecution of the war. But the letters for publication
which we have received have been supported by communications not for publication which are even more important, and show that thoughtful men who have no sort of connexion with the Temperance Movement have come to see that the reduction of our expenditure on liquor is fast becoming a national necessity.'
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