TEMPERANCE.
(Published by arrangement with the W.C.T.U.)
“ WOULD BECOME A CURSE.”
It is not often we find the advocates of the liquor trade adopting the language and using the arguments temperance men use against any increase of drinking facilities. But this phenomenon occurred at Thorpe (in Essex) licensing meeting, when application was made by Mr G. Badger, proprietor of Rigg’s Retreat, Clacton-on-Sea, for a wine and beer license. Mr Thompson Smith, representing the Licensed Victuallers’ Association, the Queen’s Arms, and Messrs Oliver Bros., of Sudbury, opposed, stating that ‘if the license were granted what was now a place for enjoyment and benefit would bebecorne a curse.’ The magistrates having received such an unqualified condemnation of the proposal from so unimpeachable an authority, refused the application. After this no temperance advocate need hesitate to characterise a licence to sell intoxicating drink as a curse. —Temperance Record.
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Southern Cross, Volume 5, Issue 38, 25 December 1897, Page 15
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145TEMPERANCE. Southern Cross, Volume 5, Issue 38, 25 December 1897, Page 15
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