CHAPTER 1V
THE METHODS OF CONTROL ADOPTED DURING THE
GREAT WAR
[ntroduction—The Actual Effects Produced—The Incidence of the
Various Measures of Control—Regulations in the Hours of Sale
—Other Regulations of the Control Board—The Working of
Control—Subsequent Restrictions—The Effects of Restrictions
and Taxation on Expenditure—Lessons from Control—Differ-
ential Taxation of Alcoholic Liquors.
INTRODUCTION.
DURING the course of the great war a large number of
restrictions on the production and sale of alcoholic
liquors were introduced in this country, and the effects
on the sobriety of the nation were so remarkable that
they are bound to exert a permanent influence on
the course of all future temperance legislation. The
social and economic results achieved during the latter
part of the war will serve as a landmark, which it will
be the object of reformers to reach again in future years
by methods of procedure based to a considerable extent
on the principles established by war-time control.
This control took a number of different directions,
which were applied at partly overlapping times and in
gradually increasing strength, so that usually it is not
possible to determine closely the relative degree of
importance to be attached to each measure adopted.
Nevertheless, we shall see that a good deal of dis-
entanglement is possible, and we shall be able to prove
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