THE LICENSING QUESTION.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11456, 15 December 1902, Page 10

THE LICENSING QUESTION.

; 77,7^^«a:roitbB;jo^^ Sir—l amove of thosedesperate crimi-; nals a drinkei' v^that '-"§■; I take a. glass or soi perhaps of a pint, of beer with my meal in the middle:: of tb* day. and ab3her/or a -nip," in! the evening. I won't say-that -when t«v For this I am told by soms peoplo that I am worse ti*n "the "habitual dnautatfdi'V and that the sooth-east oorpar of a oertafcv place ;js. njy;iiievHabte beg to'differ from them, and it the'sametime: to say that rach-sentiments a* these, plain-, ly ekpreimed, prevent me and hundreds'.pf others from .joining the erUemrst* in their brusade against drink. 'Perhaps, too,- jl : :'a^ r v^hl^^wMri^ih^ *:beiterrright'to;^ • ■ temperance, I, take it, meaning, moderation in all things,- even: platfteni de- > I know.that the whole question of the liquor .'traflid- bristlea "with-difflouhles,; but > I think that one of 4hem at' any rata might besolved tby^sr ; , is uoaiing ek^rSfmday, } -'now -I;«Mga prepiarMiforra' ' ? <pW to: put a-stop* to .tbe'evihi of ;Bnnday ; v I of• beer;or.grog, 11/ nave,'"ofI 1 /nave,'"of course, no more to'sayi - But 'if it is not, why'make ''owj-'im'" Suttdayl^My' 'i idea is this • Let the piibifcau orptn'bii hw - » .'■ him v be ; debarred from selling • liquor at ; -~ : ":bOT«lr fidelodger ''bjiusucrif -? lodger's 'guest, a lodger to be" a pertbn who actually sleeps and takes has mead* in .the: boi»e, his guest to be one who takes . or nMWfls with Mrpu TDo away vritb -: ;<ha" : : travel on Bun- / '4*St may require refreshmen so"<i •:'< would the publican keep, a ''Sunday' H ;*KtfeHe*s?'i contain * ;; form Ifor.tbe travoßer, to tsign, eomewbat ,3 like/.this:v~«% :^--m: t U : ■ i >—-_ require a meal,rand solemnly * declare that I have traveSled ten (?) miles "i .without : The publican '■* *W* M 6^^ 4 *® *?**& sup- 3 If a publican sup-, 1 Pfflf! ffl 110 ?. P« d &r or not, to any person 1 'eve., bn Sunday, let the penalty, on convic- } tionbe something to be dreadeoVa heavy .\ fine for thia, first proved offence, imprison- j mentfor.thesecond.;: No 3 lican would object to keeping such a'book-/ t and no .bona'-"fide could 1 object to < signing it. .Such a measure, as this would, - I think,:remove the present temptation a c publican -is exposed to, and'■-: debar 'the ",i Sunday "trayelkrV . from leading him into i a .breach ofthe law. Js it not worth ; -'a trial?— Yours, eta, vi

/ . . MATTHEW 1 MORRIS. Amberieyr,. December 10th.;. . ,P.S.-Jn saying: pubUcan" m * ineinnation against the i-',V^ 6 - *** Wu*- Kb «P «»wng them, but , 1 lelieve the great msjor&y are as respectable ac tlieir fellow citizens. ■ •■: '■-■ •.■:-•■■.■ ;; ' : V:■"■■■:■ '"? *- : M.-M;'- J