BROOKLYN DEBATING SOCIETY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2166, 3 June 1914, Page 3

BROOKLYN DEBATING SOCIETY.

Tlie Btoeklyfl Society lioKl a sutcessftil Paritamentary evcuiug on J\iatiofas ! . TlwrtJ Were ftbout sixty visMors prosoitt. Mr. S, Thoiiiiis occupiiid tie chair. After tlKj usual bueiiims had been dispensi?! tlic ch<l!rii.i.aH iiitrod\icp<i Mr, A, H. Fliijttmavsk, wlitj aotal as Speaker. Tiie Bill .entitled, "Att Act fftr Ac Katioiialisation of ttiq Liquor Treflis," \\-na ■iutroducijti by the lYimo Jjinisti-r, Mr. George Brown. Mr. .H. Stoi-Isfrridge, ae ladder of tho Ojjpnsitisfi, spoko on I thd general- aspect of iho- ©ili He ro- } grcttod that h© and liis party wo-tfld W unable to support such a inen.su.ire : as -they wore mi i<x carry Prohibition, ■ and ivo-ultl ijot (i-ccept- any eom-pwi-niise. Jlcmbefs of t ! ho C;jb!«(?t peinictJ eut that they, too, refiegnieetl &o «vil tff the present conation -of tlje liquftr .traffic, :t great dual of which, hmvevw, was duo to tlie ba,d <]n.a)it;y oi tlia cani.ms4ity, and the titilimftcfl scope ivlneli liqi.lor vendors had,' Tlic Gpvei'MHiCut, which wa radically Socialistic, was dfi- : tefffiiHed to cmsli all mo-noijolios. Tltey rpiopnispc! Vbni tlso liquor tfafin wa's' oiio of the greatest monapofes, nird fts: sud) had no fight to exist owfekjo of tho wmtrol of the Statft. 'Hie Bill passed the stfeond readiiss?,. In ■Do'm , jtii , tt»c, it ; was defeatod an thft fourth clutvsft.