SYDENHAM LICENSING QUESTION.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1637, 20 May 1879, Page 3

SYDENHAM LICENSING QUESTION.

To the Editor of the Globe. Sxb, —In a letter appearing in last night’s Issue the writer signing his name “Truth” asks to be furnished with the names of those present at the late meeting on the above question who were not residents in Sydenham. With your permission, I may state that I shall be happy to comply with his request any time he wishes to meet me; also as to who called the meeting. I may state that I was one of the ratepayers who called on the chairman of the school committee for the use of the room, and assisted in other ways to call a meeting of bona fide ratepayers to fully and impartially consider the decision of the late meeting re the granting of new licenses. The other names can be obtained, With all information required, from the undersigned, on Wednesday evening next. I feel curious to know who the writer is assuming the virtue truth. V Aiiva Xrn JOHN'WESLEY SMITH. King street, Sydenham, May 19,1879, To the Editor of the Globe. Sib, —Will you allow me, in the interests of morality and freedom, to mention some of the tactics which the friends of the publicans are adopting to carry their point in this district. On Saturday afternoon last a brave w\or\ af-Anrl af. f.ViA railway wifih a netitien

man stood at tno ranwaj gutea wilu u pcuucu for signature against a certain proposed license. A proceeding which stands in direct contrast With the dark and secret methods which find favor with the other side. Bub, sir, will you believe it —a *otorious advocate of the new licenses, and a man of some means, besides professing strict moderation, stood there and foa half an hour poured upon the brave man a stream of the most abu.-ive language. Several persons were witnesses of the whole affair. Will Britons stand this. In the sacred name of liberty, Mr Editor, I call upon every one who has a spark of manliness, a sense of justice left, to crush this bantling terrorism in its earliest growth, and to let this man and his friends the publicans know that “Britons never, never will be slaves.” I believe a summons is out against the man and the case will shortly come before the public. lam told also that two or three men interested in these public houses have been uttering the most slanderous things against several highly respected residents who have the courage of their opinions, and that one gentleman is con* templating an action for libel. The damages are estimated at £IO,OOO. Will the brewers bo prepared to pay the piper. Yours, &c,, JOHN BULL.