I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.

Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.