The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-12-03 00:00:00

TEI LICIIIIING BILL.

The aeoond subject I have to dual with Ls one that
may very likely interest you rather more then the last.
But,ssl told you the Ballot was • pot meter. of mine.
I now want to touoh upon the Liftmen' Bill —( hear.
hear). The difficulty of • Ballot Bill is nothing as scam-
pered to • Lioeudng Bill—(roars of laughter). Foe
year niter yem, every holy in Parliament sad out nall
there must be a reform in the licensing and Govern-
ment when they accepted °Moe promised s memoir* oa
the Attie:it. The drat session passed away erlithout it
being produced: he did not know whether the Home
Seeretery was segitatiog arid arranging his Bill all that
thee, but steely last esesion the Hefts Secrptary pro.
diced • Bill on the part of the Government which they
called a Lemming BilL You en pretty well acquainted
with what took pima It was read • Mat time, _ and •
fire time only. It was eoodemned inside the House of
Commons, and you know how amok it was objected to
outilde—(lmghtm). Thus Gadd the efforts of the
Government loft year. But although it was shelved
in the House of Commons, it was not allowed to slumber
oct of doors. leery sewspaper throughout tio cleautry
termed with leading wieder on the question of Hesse-
lag. and every writer bad • pet of hle own um
the subject. We had prefediee fteugh in the Home a
Commons Some wanted to glom the house alteemtimr,
others to open them altogether, and the middler-mes
!around the Parmelee Bill. The aftrepapsre had
*sir correspondence oolumns filed with letters on the
subject, and on. way and soother every mumnivalble
smemlou was made al to what wee necessary to make •
good Lemming Bill. Now I have always felt that •
arms question like bloessing,affecting such overwhelm-
ing Mimosas as the &Millen and brewers. to say mothisg
of beets of others sonoerned, was beyond the provinces
of any If mister or Hialstry to deal with ; and that it
should be a matter legislated upon by the body of
the House of Commoss—(hmor, heat). After all that
was said and done the whole of last year and during
the recess a very able member of the Opposition brought
forward a Bill early last session salted • Licensing Bill
—Sir Selwyn Ibbeteen. He had devoted no doubt •
great deol of eare to produce what might be called •
Oomervatlft Looming BSI. lam open to admit tied it
hod the grounds of • ~dead reeemalle reassure, bot
the Goverment were bound to deal with the question,
and they gave an easursoes to Sir Selwyn that when they
prepared their mammy his proposals should he very
carefully oonsidered. Lord Kimberley leteedmed the
Government Liftmen 818 to the Upper House, and in
due tonne it cone lows to the (lemmata.. It em-
bodied is a great meatus the classes of Mr Salem'
Ibbetfta's measure, and the Bill me 'tempted Lod
passed Meuse by eimma as that is it they bad the
united ability of 668 missibere el the Hoses of
Commese—(langhter and applitem). Are yes satialled
with It ?—(irenieal obesely& You see the dilliculty
there is in legtelftlng ea a great question like this.
Theft ere ft many eciaditsting interame involved, that
it le impended% se you will to Moses every-
body—(laughtier). Bat them is com thing in regard I.
this as to z other misessro—we lift la • free
sountry—t" —sod peblie opiates whstmer it Is
taloa snail questiom—(hser, hair). If you feel
that the Llmosing Bill is sot • seidefacrtory one, am
quite estielled you will make yeamelms so sallicleatlr
heed that Parliament will maks it • popular measure
—(applanse). All I bops is that the Act will have the
sleet of obtain, that great evil of drunkenness
-(long continued Ismai)—for you all know
intemperance lends to (cheers). You may have
heard of the following fable on the subject wheels I
beciatne segmented with the other day. —A demos who
wished to tempt • hermit promised to gratify his
nutmeats desires if be would only do one of two
atrocious crimes or got drunk. The hermit usable to
beer the thought of perpetrating either of the two dread-
ful deeds, chose the latter alternative and got drunk,
whereupon the demos prevailed upon him to ecommit
bolt the enormities from which he had peerlessly
shrunk—(ames.) This is no mere (mogul talk:
think you will &tree with me it is • true illustration,
and that theft is an immediate oonneotion Mies's
Intemperance and crime —(ftplause.) It is ohm said
that people find • capital index to the prosperity of
the country in the large figures of the Butes returns.
Plenty of work, high wages; high wages, plenty of drink.
The reduction of taxation eimply causes • liume consump-
tion of ardent spirits. But there is one feature of thee
question I may note—that the gin drinkers are certainly
rood for one penny of the Inoorac-tax—(bear, hear

3111115 RIGITLATION BILL.
we bed other eery important metures. The
Mines Regulation Bill, though it does aot immediately
offset us, had been the mesas of doing an enormous
amount of good, sad, u far as possible, protects the
1t... of ruiners who work in a very dasarrou
atmosphere. _