AN ACCEPTED CHALLENGE.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE LIQUOR/TRADEn LORD CARRINGTON AT MANCHESTER. Unj/j ed Press Association. Copyright (Received June 30, 12.42 a.m.) LONDON, June 20. Lord Carrington, addressing an audience of 50,000 teetotalers at Manchester, ■ said- that Air. Asquith gave him a message bidding him siy tlie Government recognised it had been challenged' and that it intended to ng.it the richest and best organised trade in tlie world, a- trade which oousted it had nude and nnnijyde Governments. Aforeorer, it had vainly attempted to corrupt a great cmreh.
Lord Carrington added that lie would go further and sr.v that tliev would be unworthy of the name of Liberal Government unless they were pi op a red to control even a beneficient trade arrogating to itself such power over the nation’s welfare.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2230, 30 June 1908, Page 2
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131AN ACCEPTED CHALLENGE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2230, 30 June 1908, Page 2
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