This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...to drink would be gone. Greater restriction, not greater liberty, is required. We have the opinion of the late Lord Chancellor, who, in a recent able and important speech, said, " There is no subject which occupies more attention at the present moment than what are called the evils of intemperance, and I think you will ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...to drink would be gone. Greater restriction, not greater liberty, is required. We have the opinion of the late Lord Chancellor, who, in a recent able and important speech, said, " There is no subject which occupies more attention at the present moment than what are called the evils of intemperance, and I think you will find a universal agreement; the very first persons, I believe, who would join in that agreement being the working classes themselves; that the great impediment to the moral and social and material improvements of this country is the evil of intemperance and its evils. But then comes the great and important question, What is the remedy, or what are the best remedies for that great evil? Now, there is certainly--I will not say a remedy--but one step which might be taken which, at all events, might go a considerable way towards meeting the evil of which I have spoken, and that is, removing temptations as far as you can out of the way of the working man." So much for the opinion of the Lord Chancellor. He is right, and Parliament must rise and interfere. A secretary to the Licensed Victuallers' Association said recently at a meeting that in Plymouth and Devonport, the houses must be reduced by half if the publicans were to receive proper support. In London alone there are about 14,000 licensed houses. And to look upon some neighbourhoods you might almost conclude that the inhabitants were dipsomaniacs. And yet there is a loud outcry against their number being reduced to the number of one to every five hundred of the inhabitants. Greater strictness on the part of the executive. Drunkards are apprehended by hundreds; the drunkard makers--those who really profit by the excess--only by units. In a large town recently, where a public meeting...
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