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MR. BRIGHT, 111. P., ON THE LICENSING

SYSTEM.

A deputation of licensed victuallers waited upon
Mr. Bright at Mr. Charles Sturge's residence at
Birmingham, yesterday, to get an expression of his
opinion upon Mr. Abel Smith's bill for further re-
stricting the hours during which publichouses may
be opened on Sundays. Several members of the
deputation having spoken,
Mr. BRIGHT, in reply, said—The evil of which
you have just complained seems to be one of the
unavoidable miseries of your position, that you have
to submit to this kind of harassing and worrying
attack, because there is in the country, as we all
know, a very large and perhaps increasing party of
great activity who think you ought to be extin-
guished altogether. (Laughter)
Mr. WADHAMS.—We demur to that. (Laughter.)
Mr. BRIGHT--Of course, you demur to that. In
times long ago, now 30 years ago nearly—more than
20, at any rate—there was a very clamorous party,
anxious to interfere with the trade I was connected
with (the cotton trade), and, in fact, the manufac-
turing trades generally of the country, and they
were incessantly bringing bills into Parliament for
the purpose of worrying the manufacturers. After
being inconvenienced and subjected to considerable
annoyance of every kind, the matter was brought to
some kind of settlement, which has not since been
materially interfered with, so that I know very much
you are now complaining of.
what sort of thing it is
It is a great grievance for you to be compelled to
attend as deputatious to members of Parliament in
grievance to us, as we get a
London, and it is a
good deal worriegi by deputations. The licensed
victualler is a son of irrepressible evil, which mem-
bers of Parliament have constantly to battle with
in one way or the, other. Between the licensed vic-
tualler and the beerseller and the teetotaller I have
no doubt my fr; end Mr. Dixon, who is rather a new
hand, will thi ak he has a very hard life of it.
(Laughter.) The question is, What is to be done
with regard 'to the matter? You cannot prevent
Mr. Abel Smith from bringing forward this bill,
because theece are so many persons who back him,
and you k stow that with the exception of your own
trade org anisation there is no portion of the public
that takim any direct interest in defending your side
in ParliAment. You have to fight your own battle
unaideil by any large or active portionlof the people,
and tot fight it against a great organisation, which

appears to be continually increasing, and becomes
every year more determined and more clamorous.
Well, now you propose that these little bills should
not be brought in, and that Government should bring
in a general measure, but you know what that means,
and I know it too. Why, the moment they brought
in a general measure, which I believe they will
never do, you would set yourselves with all your
organisations to oppose it, and any material change
from your present condition you would resist. The
only thing you are willing to concede, as far as I
can understand, is that the whole system of licensing
should be placed under one authority ; but then you
are under that authority now, and therefore to you
it would be no change. The beersellers would,
there is very little doubt about it, coalesce, and I
don't know whether they would object to be placed
under that authority, having got their licenses al-
ready. Of course, they might do this, as the
change would put them in the position you are now
in, so that if the Government brought in a general
measure this very question of the Sunday Bill
would either be omitted from the bill altogether, or
if it were included would receive from you exactly
the same organised opposition that you now offer
to the bill of Mr. Abel Smith. If you tell me
this—that in case the Government bring in a bill
like this of Mr. Smith's we shall be glad to make
some concessions to meet the views of alarge portion
of the public, I could understand you ; but you ob-
ject altogether to this measure—that it is a bill in-
vading your rights, by telling you that you should
have your hours of business on the Sunday curtailed
at all ; and therefore we come no nearer a settle-
ment of the question by getting rid of this bill and
waiting for that very distant time when the Go-
vernment, which is already in a minority in the
house, should undertake to introdnce a general
measure. Therefore I do not see one way out of
the difficulty at all, so long as licensed victuallers
resist every proposition that meets the view not only
of the teetotaller, but of an enormous number of
people who do not belong to teetotal societies at all,
and do not reject the notion that the use of intoxi-
cating
liquors in moderate quantities may be right
and even beneficial. You have made known your
intention to grant no concession, and you fight '
violently, and with a most admirable organisation,
against all the propositions which emanate from
the class of people to whom I have made allu-
sion ; and I must say that I know of nothing equal
to the power:you possess of managing And marshal-
ling your forces ; but you have outside your own
ranks a public that insists every year more
strongly upon something being done, and I, for
one, feel certain that in the long run you will be
beaten. I do not mean that you will be extinguished ;
I do not look in our lifetime to see any such thing
happen as that the articles in which you deal will
be prohibited from being sold or used in this coun-
try ; but with regard to several thingt, and parti-
cularly that of Sunday trading, I think you will be
eventually beaten—l do not mean that none of those
things will be allowed to be sold on Sunday, but
that the sale of them will be put under restrictions
greater than those which now exist. Then comes
the question, What are we to do in Parliament ?
Nobody is more opposed to interference with trade
by legislation than I am, but then your trade as i t
at present exists is a creature of law ; you have no
manner of right to open your places at all on the
Sunday. I cannot open my place of business on
the Sunday, and a photographer in New-street,
pursuing his most innocent avocation on that day,
would be brought before the Mayor for so doing,
and would get into trouble. Therefore your keep-
ing your places open on Sunday is a creature of
law, and it is not in any degree a right as com-
pared with the other portions of the po-
pulation. You may say in reply to this that
you pay special taxes for licences and so forth,
-abd ttr....t, :it:Siour. Louses of business are kept open for
only a certain part of the week you cannot be ex-
pected to afford the same amount of taxation. I
merely mention these things to show the almost
inextricable difficulty of the case—difficulty to us
who have to determine upon it in Parliament, be-
cause of the contending opinions abroad in the
country, and difficult to you because you are fight-
ing a battle in which you must eventually be
worsted. I think our friends of the teetotal per-
suasion have done their cause very great harm by
the I may say almost violent manner in which they
have attacked the licensed victuallers, as though
the members of that class were in the main less
anxious for the public good than other people. I
think, as I have said, that they have done their
own cause harm by this mode of procedure ; but,
at the same time, the one thing that has astonished
me almost beyond anything else in this matter has
been that there is not in any town in
England, so far as I know, any licensed
victualler, sufficiently—l am afraid of the
exact word I should use, lest I should be mis-
understood—but I mean sufficiently elevated in
his views, sufficiently, regarding the interests of the
public and his own interests, and the interests of
his family, as to propose voluntarily, if it could be
done by law (and if done voluntarily it might after-
wards be done by law), to close to a large extent
those houses of business. There is no teetotal
family, there is no drunkard's family, that is in
truth so much interested in the closing of public-
houses on Sunday as the families of the licensed
victuallers themselves. Some of them have spoken
to me on the subject ; and I recollect one man who
kept an inn in a most charming, retired vale in the
North of England telling me that he should leave
the trade, as he did not like his family, and parti-
ticularly his daughters, disturbed as they were
disturbed under the circumstances of the trade
which he carried on. Now, I have always been
astonished that the licensed victuallers have not
among themselves—there are good, bad, and
indifferent among you, as among all other
classes—(Mr. Wadhams. —,‘ Certainly")—com-
bined for the purpose of discussing and
considering 'whether it might not be immensely
to their interest to promote a partial, and
in some cases, I would say, an entire closing of their
houses on Sunday. Anything they may get out of
what is sold on the Sunday cannot for a moment
be put in the balance against the enormous gain
that would come to their families if they could have
the whole of that day as a day of instruction, of
rest, and of recreation. While Ido not unite against
those who bring indiscriminate and very often un-
just charges against persons keeping publichouses
and beerhouses, I must, at the same time, say that
I grieve beyond expression that nobody has arisen
in the trade out of the sort of captivity in which
they are by the practice of opening their houses on
the Sunday, and carrying on on that day a trade
which is not always of the most pleasant cha-
racter. If tLis were done licensed victuallers
might enjoy themselves quietly in the bosoms of
their families and share the tranquillity and the
rest of the day of rest with those persons engaged
in other trades. What are we to do ? I will tell
you my opinion—not as unfriendly to you all,
because I am not unfriendly, but with the view
simply to ascertain what we are to do—what Mr.
Dixon and myself are to do —in this contention. As
public opinion grows in favour of the partial , or
entire closing of publichouses on the Sundayn,dltahre-
liament will of course follow the inclination n
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worrying of which you complain will continue, and
that you will always be in the lobby of the House
of Commons—about the most hateful place I know
of except the inside ; and there will be this unplea-