The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Fiddlers, by Arthur Mee

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The Fiddlers
Drink in the
Witness Box

By ARTHUR MEE

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

If thou sayest, “Behold, we knew it not;” doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it?

And shall not He render to every man according to his works?

Published by MORGAN & SCOTT, Ltd

12 Paternoster Buildings, London, E. C. 4

First Hundred ThousandMay 15, 1917
Second Hundred ThousandJune 1, 1917

Reprinted in the United States by

THE AMERICAN ISSUE PUBLISHING COMPANY

Westerville, Ohio


DRINK LEADING FAMINE IN

The Drink Trade gave Germany her greatest weapon in the war by helping to make the bread famine.

It was the wilful destruction of 4,800,000 tons of food, depriving the nation of her reserves, that led to the appalling gravity of the submarine menace.


Drink, What did You do in the Great War?

This impressive picture of Britannia is from

the splendid 1916 issue of Bibby’s Annual


THE ALLIES AND PROHIBITION—STOPPING DRINK TO WIN THE WAR
The Drink Map before the War and on the 1000th day of the War

CANADA—Prohibition almost from Sea to Sea

FRANCE—Total Prohibition of Absinthe

RUSSIA—Prohibition Everywhere

BRITAIN—120,000 Drink shops open daily