Show 8 8 il r ARE II DRINKERS I No Political Party Dares Advocate Prohibition M. M I ENNA March 11 Austria's enormous drink bill has aroused re renewed renewed re re- I agitation In certain quarters ferI for fer soine some form of at least modified I An official statement says It amounted last year to kronen about I This Is three times greater than the national coal bill and about equal to the total currency circulation I Imports of ot alcoholic beverages ex exceeded exceeded exceeded ex- ex exports by about I Its Its Its' most ardent advocates however a knowledge acknowledge that prohibition Is virtually vir an Impossibility In this country at least for many years Beer and wines form a part of ot tho the sustenance of ot ih e people from youth up and no political po po- po- po Utica party dares make mako It a plank In Its platform or openly advocate it Two years ago when the social democrats dem dem- rats rats' were In power their leaders dig dig- the tho wisdom of ot a n step but arter a a careful investigation realized It could not be done and the party part sur- sur They dId did however authorize a Quiet aulet i campaign against excessive drinking as well vell as ag to prepare the youth of ot the tho country for a n possible fu future tu- tu ture effort for prohibition In many nany other ways not only the he social so- so cial democrats but many leading men of lof all parties have stressed the need of sobriety In a people who face such a n to survive as do the tho Aus- Aus i President Hainisch himself himsel a teetotaler teetotaler tee tee- frequently makes temperance the the note note of his public addresses The oth r day he remarked to a delegation that the the sight of ot a nation as hard hard- inking as this asking prohibition America for aid was hardly a n pleasant one s i J rJ ho p Arbeiter the workIng workIng- TU ns n's organ In an m editorial last week said Impoverished impoverished- Austria could summon half halt the moral energy the United States displayed In the sup- sup ision of ot drink she would soon have no need to go begging of all the world AThe The new taxation schedules Just put into effect Increase the tax on beer Jf r cent on wine per cent and arid on spirits 1000 per cent It Is generally conceded that any step steD toward prohibition must have the Indorsement of ot all parties ag as no party nT alone 1 e could survive such an Issue with the th powerful opposition of tho the great body of the people from workIngman to peasant One Ono step has hns been accomplished of late ato by the removal from some somo of the 1 largest Industrial plants of ot tho the canteens canteens canteens can can- teens where the tho men could get beer and wine at any hour |