"NO BUSINESS OF OURS"
A MAN'S RIGHT TO GET DRUNK
VIEWS OF A PEEE
Lord Banbury was amusingly outspoken during a debate in the House of Commons recently on a Bill to establish disinterested management of houses, which was introduced by Lord Balfour of Burleigh. Lord Banbury
opposed it
"If a man," he said, "chooses to get drunk it is his lookout. It is no business of ours. I believe there are people who honestly think it is their duty to see that no one drinks too much,, and Lord Balfour is one of them.
'' Yet what does he say ? He says there should be places where a man may have a drink and smoke in comfort in the evening. Lord Balfour, of course, has never experienced the temptation to get drunk. If a man gets one drink he is tempted to get another, and especially, as I understand, after smoking.
"I do not smoke myself,'' he explained, "but I believe it makes you thirsty, and the more you smoke the more you drink. The result of the Bill would be not less but more, drinking. More people would go into pub-lic-houses who are at present rather ashamed to enter one.''
The debate was adjourned. Lord Melcctt, formerly Sir Alfred Mond, was introduced as a peer, and made his first speech in the House in a short discussion on housing.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3258, 28 September 1928, Page 6
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