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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 19, 31 August 1888, Page 7

The propaganda cons'ders the conduct of the London Tablet organ of tbe English Tory Catholics, in misconstruing tbe Papal rescript for the purpose of irritating tbe Irish, extremely blamable. A census has recently been taken of the public-houses and beerhouses in tbe Parliamentary borough of Burnley. Tbe result is most remarkable and instructive. There are, it appeals, in Burnley, 177 bouses of this description, and of these, 132 are tbe property of brewers, 33 are leased to brewers, whilst only 12 are free. In other words, out of 177 licensed premises, 165 are what are called " tied " houses, the publicans being to all intents and purposes the brewers' slaves. Truth.