The condensed argument for the legislative prohibition of the liquor traffic / by F.R. Lees.

  • Lees, Frederic Richard, 1815-1897
Date:
1864
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Credit: The condensed argument for the legislative prohibition of the liquor traffic / by F.R. Lees. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    upon the people, and make them feel morally accountable for the evils and continuance of the system; it would act as the strongest possible motive upon the Publicans to observe their guarantees to society, and to 'keep good order’ in their houses, the possible veto of the people would hang over their heads in terrorem, and thus educe the partial good that is in the license system, lest glaring violations of order should bring into play the reserved power of total annihilation. By this plan, also, prohibition would proceed and extend gradually, so that the intelligence and virtue of one district, would not have to postpone its just reward, and lag behind in the march of progress, on account of the vice and dulness of ^The power claimed is very different from that of licensing. The existin! authorities would remain to license-and the people would simply be called to veto the traffic, where and when they thought need- ful This would be an ‘ extension of the suffrage on a most practical point which no true Liberal could, we think consistently deny; and Speratino- in such a direction that no true Conservative could fad to vote for it, since the measure may become a lever for effecting inime good and can do no possible harm, whether worked, or not worked. g TheTmmediatepoi.it, however, is this-not whether our opinions about the Traffic are right-net how we should1 vntlnrr for license, or no-license, conferred upon us,—Out wnetner thiIlongvexed question shall he settled somehow; and who shall be tt SielXemedin its final decision ? If it he the Ratepayers, tne parties concern , d paye to meet the expenses— Z Z‘Bill world~nr the proper instrument for the mm tie oiu will nod judgment. J, Libet^. enough, imd^^“Vuh^'whereTer a deliberate eauvMS of town nnd and other ‘Balderdash. >> neiev honest laboring country has been made, the returnsshow tMUhe tm classes, are, by a majority of ten t > factories the Bill, and petitions to Parliament from t., of the country sufficiently indicate the popu fact there is no social or political question^ E » unanimously to itelf thew^ as that in favor of the Permissive Bil for effectually with the sources of their ovnjdeg < are. Iu „„e preseriWttC^iyhich suffrages of the fYopL enabling liT'T toydetd aknd Printed at tlic “ Guardian ” Bleftin Punting tlil i ^tjrnis-'treet