[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Sorry indeed should
I be to requite the hospitality granted me in your correspondence columns for many years by knowingly misrepresenting your attitude on any question. My Spectators are generally forwarded to friends, and at the moment I have not a copy from which to quote any particular passage, which you ask me in your footnote to do. I must do my best from memory. Some passages in your last article on "Down Glasses" would, I think, convey the impression that alcohol was injurious, its effects invariably deleterious; that it prevented any one working efficiently, and the opinion of doctors was invoked in support of these contentions. Perhaps the inference drawn by me that this would apply to times of peace as well as to times of war might not be warranted. Your correspondent whose letter preceded anise in your issue of December 30th points out one of the difficul- ties which would accompany prohibition of sale of liquors which was present to my mind when I ventured to suggest that prohibi- tion of manufacture would be more " practical polities" than prohibition of sale. If the Food Controller tells us that all grain is required for food it will be submitted to without a murmur, but if he says: "You shall not use what is already made," it may be otherwise. Instantly to stop the use of grain for liquor producing seems a vital and immediate necessity.—I am, Sir, &c.,
The Waterhouse, Bollington, Macclesfield. E. L. Olivia.
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