We are not inspired by anything approaching panic, and we
feel as sure as ever we did that we shall win the war., But surely it is worth while to make a real effort—i.e., to do all we can—to win without running the risk of famine and of incurring the Misery and sufferings that come from food shortage. We shall be told, no doubt, that we do not realize that, by our wild and pernicious cry for stopping the destruction of food now used in the manufacture of intoxicants, we are asking the Govern- ment to do something which would lead to a bloody revolution, or at any rate to a terrible. strike, movement amongst the working eleesee of the country—persons who cling to their drink far more passionately than they do to their food. Those who think that we have forgotten or ignore the question whether the working man would submit to have his beer cut off by the stopping of brewing operations are quite mistaken. We are fully aware of all the -statements and so-called arguments on this subject, and we are convinced that they are quite baseless.
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