The Warrington Examiner. — 1876-06-17 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

TES EDITOR OF TRIG EXAXINRII. ts,.. .bir,t;-tain not a'teetotaler. lam not a pronounced Irulp7oiliFiifirae-Freriiiissive till. I cia. not believe that publicans are unfit to live, and-that it would be capital punishment if they were all hanged. You- will Ir :ceive, therefore, that lam a very moderate man, but if the opponents of. air Wilfrid Lawson's Bill justifY their oppOsition by.'sneh''.arguments as they used at their,gnnkereepe;in London last Tuesday I shall feel that I havamo cionele left but to accept that measure. Mr. Witanhall,l" Chairman of the Loudon Protectioa Association," proposed a resolution which I gyro° uomprehenda all the objections that can be raised to • the Bill. The various clauses of the resolution are numbered from one to six, somewhat after the manner of the old Divines when they confirmed their discourses to at least " sixteenthly." The first clause of the resolution is that the Pelvis' sive Bill ought to be opposed because it would ha" for its effect the promotion of local strife in OW -district in which it was introduced." This may or rag net be an argument against the Bill, but it is a capital argument against parliamentary and municil)al government and popular elections generally. - • .1.. The resolution goes on to" 2. Because if enforced a monstrous and uncompensated extinction of a neceP nary and legitimate Occupation would take place."' So tar as the occupation can .be. shewn to be "Ilea's' sary aidaegitimate," nobody proposes or ever Liao pro. posed that there should not be compensation in We 01 extinction. Again the resolution proceeds "3. Because it would grossly interfere with the individual freedom of *large section of the inhabitants." All civil government an legislation is an interference with "individual free' doin " and hitherto when great political or social ad' vantages have had to be gained, there has been foiled no other method of gaining them than by obliging tilt) minority to yield to We majority. The resolution then goes to "4. Because it would  ant :accomplish As. proposed °Wept of driinkeziness. On the centriry if Wenld leattasecre" drinking in x 044484 districts, and delve this inlilibt. tants into adjoining localities where lid isriCh rested' ions prevaild." This is a prophecy and it is difficult to dealwith-'grediotions Of events. No doubt the law would be evaded—all laws are. The 131 against murder are evadeVeitioken and the pore who evade or break them get hanged. J3T1,1 the crime -7uf 'thdaltenness must be different from s' other crimes if it is not diminished when it is ungle more difficult to commit, and when the temptations to ii!‘fa,.icesined... Nobody wll deny that we mette the community, for listance;mo're honest, peiceablet and truthful by laws against stealing, personal llincera'and perj aryi And without claiming to partici. pate in that gifi.of prophecy 'lwhich seems to be Pei send by the " dnlegates'of. the Associations Licensed Victuallers," it may/ safely be said thel drunkenness will be diminished if you diminish tbe means and opportiinities of getting drunk. The resoliv lion says—" O. Because bishops, senators, and states' men have denouuced.the measure AB impolitic and nu' just, and the present House of Commons has rejected it by overwhelming majorities." Bishops, senators, and statesmen denounced-the repeal of the Corn Leifs as impolitic 'Cad unjust, and the House of Conialcut again and again rejected the proposal by overwheluP lug majorities. There have never been wentli bishops, senators, and statesmen to denounce V° measures, and all the legislation of the last 40 yefir% which has made this country prosperous and content beyond all previous experience, has at one time a another been rejected in the House of Goninione overwhelming majorities. Not even bishops, sennt"" and statesmen are infallible, and. we have seen thep change their opinions. The resolution concludes—" 6. Because the Pell° and sections of society who support the measure el notoriously those who are least practically converse% with the wants and wishes of the classes who vouo be injuriously affected by. such legislation. If the wants and wishes of the publicans; who, I suppose, are referred to as "1/ classes WhO would be injuriously affected by such legig' lation" are not universally known, it is not hectic° they have not been abundantly _ all know what the publicans and bre, question is are these wants and wishes c the general welfare. Tee landowners tinned protection, the ruiliowners wante machinery 72 hours a week, the slave-I to perpetuate slavery, the Times new dear and limited press. But latterly have been the case in former timee, wi tical or social evil has been publicly "wants and wishes of the classes," who ben it have not, La, the long run, prevented its rem 11.1;,  proolaimed‘  'were  impa\  Iwspa,  If when a