In the highest interests of the nation and the war let this be said as plain as words can make it—that there is no body of temperance opinion anywhere standing in the way of Prohibition, but that the united moral forces of the nation would rally to the Government instantly on an act of a few words such as this:

That the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages be totally prohibited in the United Kingdom for the period of the war and demobilization, and that a committee be appointed to deal with all the private and public interests concerned; and that it be resolved upon, here and now, that reconstruction be accompanied by universal local option.

There would be no opposition the Government need count to a proposal like that.

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