If the Trade Unionists as a body will not come
forward and repudiate their self-elected spokesmen, and tell the Prime Minister that he is making a great error in regarding Mr. Turner as speaking for them, can we and the public generally be blamed if they place upon Trade Unionists the terrible responsibility of refusing, at a moment like this, to permit the Government to stop the turning of breadstuffs into beer—for that is what the refusal of Prohibition now means ? We ask for Prohibition. The Government tell us that unfortunately they cannot give us what we want because the Trade Unionists will not let them. All we can say is that if the Trade Unionists do not repudiate this open accusation they must bear the responsibility. Unless we are greatly mistaken, it will soon be exacted from them. The nation Will not easily forget their insistence upon the ten million barrels of beer filched from the food of the people.
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