Ten O'clock Licenses.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIII, Issue 6626, 3 June 1890, Page 2

Ten O'clock Licenses.

. (To the Editor.) Bib,—To-day the Licensing Oomroiiwionoro will be called; upon to reform a very important and responsible servico for the pnblio; tbo iinportanea* and the responsibility of thoir work can soaroely be ovor estimated or too carefally woighed and considered by them. The decisions tyey may arrive at this day is tbo cause of intense interest on the part of many parents for their ckjldren and on ths, part of many families for- their parents. This interest amounting to an agonising anxiety on the part of many-whoje'ohildron or parents or friends, present and'f uture 'welfare depends almosUntirely other* dm not awato of any ; 'great .'ppQiplo having been' fought'^'t: the lasfolootion of Commissioners, ,j.bnt-looking'iUthosooial moral and roligions standing of many of the Commissioners,/heir sense of responsibility to their fellow man; the duty they owo to themeelveßitheir professions, and above and embracing all this—their dafcy to omnipotent and omnipresent being ( whom they profess to love and worship and serve, : and from whom they hope to receive that fioalj glorious, orowning commendation, 'I Well done good and faithful 'servant" there*shoald bo no other'expectation'or ihfer'enoe to be drawn than that they will perform their daties worthy of men of snob standing as moralists and Christians and oituens. Sir, I think ten p,m. quite late enough even for. a man who wishes to spend his earnings away from his family, it is late enouge for]a young man to be drinking, it leaves little enough time for a man to overoome the effeots of late drinking and fit himself for the duties of an honest day'B work, For those Licensees who do not comply with the Act lot tbo Oomrais sioners be fair, firm and manly and refuse to continue to transact business with tbeso who will not aot up to their engagements, —I am, eto., ■. ■ - Buaatsa."