The drink traffic and the permissive bill : from Fraser's magazine, Feb. 1872 / reprinted by the United Kingdom Alliance.

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1872
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Credit: The drink traffic and the permissive bill : from Fraser's magazine, Feb. 1872 / reprinted by the United Kingdom Alliance. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Alliance Tactics.—The Alliance opposes all extensions of facilities for sale- of intoxicating liquors, whilst it welcomes and aids every measure for limitation or reform- of the Licensing System. The Permissive Bill is perfectly consistent with all schemes and efforts to amend the License Laws, and is indeed the just and needful complement of measures falling short of its grand aim. In 1860, the Alliance led the opposition to Mr. Gladstone’s Wine License Bill; and every measure that has been before Parliament for the limitation of the traffic has had the earnest and consistent support of the Association, both in and out of Parliament. Alliance Funds.—The Alliance is sustained by voluntary annual subscriptions from its members, who now number upwards of ninety thousand. The first year’s subscription list amounted to £1,310, whilst the list for 1871 exhibited upwards of' £11,000. The entire income that year from all sources, including the sale of periodicals, &c., was upwards of £17,000. A Guarantee Pund of £100,000, to enable the executive to carry forward the movement during five years, was resolved on at the Council Meeting in October 1871; and upwards of eighty-one thousand pounds had been already subscribed up to the end of January. General Council.—The General Council of the Alliance consists, at the present time, of upwards of 600 gentlemen in various parts of the country, who meet once a year,, in October, to receive the report of the Executive, discuss the policy of the movement,, give a general direction as to its operations, appoint an Executive Council to act during the year, and to aid the Executive in raising funds to sustain the agitation. District Agencies.—The entire country throughout England and Wales is laid out in districts, and placed under the charge of confidential agents of the Alliance, who lecture, organise electoral committees, correspond with the press, promote petitions, and in every legitimate way seek, under the direction of the Central Executive, to create and extend an enlightened public opinion hostile to the liquor traffic. Scotland is being worked through the agency of a special organisation, called the Scottish Permissive Bill Association, having its head-quarters at Glasgow, in close alliance with the Executive of the United Kingdom Alliance. In Ireland the work is carried forward by aid of the Irish Temperance League- and Permissive. Bill Association, having its head-quarters at Belfast, and by the co¬ operation of the Irish Permissive Bill Association, Dublin. Present Restrictions on the Traffic.—The sale of intoxicating liquors is pro¬ hibited on the Sunday throughout Scotland, also in the Isle of Man and Guernsey. In England and Wales the traffic is prohibited during fifteen and a half hours of the twenty- four on Sunday; and the local authorities have power to close licensed drinking-houses- from one to four a.m. Membership.—The Alliance has no test of membership bearing upon the personal habits of its members, their religious creed, or political party. It invites the aid and co-operation of all good citizens, whether abstainers or not. It has but one object—the annihilation of the liquor traffic by a law, enacted by Parliament, and enforced by public opinion, armed with executive power. Persons may join the United Kingdom Alliance, and receive cards of membership, on subscribing one shilling and upwards. This may be forwarded to any of the agents, or to the Secretary of the Alliance,. 41 John Dalton Street, Manchester, from whom documents and tracts explanatory of the movement may be had, gratis, on application. *** A copy of the Alliance News is sent gratis to every subscriber of Ten shillings and upwards. A copy of the Permissive Bill may be had, gratis, from the Secretary of the United Kingdom Alliance, 41 John Dalton Street, Manchester. THE ALLIANCE FIRST PRIZE ESSAY. Condensed Edition, 6d. THE ALLIANCE NEWS, published Weekly, Price Id. United Kingdom Alliance. Offices: — 41 John Dalton Street, Manchester. Sjpottiswoode & Co., Printers, New-street Square, London.
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