THE PERMISSIVE LIQUOR BILL.

Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 491, 9 March 1869, Page 2

THE PERMISSIVE LIQUOR BILL.

(To the Editor of the Grey River Argus.) Sir, — Permit me, through the medium of your columns, to state the following, fads : — The Permissive Liquor Bill is in, full force in the dominion of Canada. The, Prussian Government last year, through their British Consul, applied officially to the United Kingdom Alliance for the suppression of the liquor traffic at Manchester, for all their facts, documents, &c., that' they have to guide the Prussian Government in deciding how they may stem the. tide of drunkenness so much on the increase in Prussia. The Government promise to act vigorously with this evil. The, Hungarian Government have done the same. jfThe Court of Sweden prohibited all spirituous liquors from, the Royal Palace, first having become teetotallers. The Czar of Russia has lately trdereci 1200 public-houses to be closed, in St.' Petersburg, and is maturing plans for the suppression of drunkenness throughout hia empire. England, too, is making rapid strides towards the Permissive Bill. The late general elections will give over double the number of MP.'s who will vote for! the Permissive Bill compared with the last House. One of the Victorian Cabinet Ministers publicly stated the other daythat the Government wsre considering the, propriety of introducing the Permissive, Bill to give to householders, if two to one are for it, the power to prohibit the sale of liquor in their town. Efforts are now being taken to ask the New Zealand House, of Representatives next session to give the same power in New Zealand. Port Albert, Auckland, now is free from all the evils o£ public-house drinking, there being no, hotel within twelve miles of it, and no, crimes of note to record there, the residents being ten to one against having public-houses there. With ever-increasing, numbers of teetotallers, although the evil is great, it must in the end fall. Mr J. Bright, M.P., told the licensed victuallera of Birmingham the other day they were. fighting aloosing battle ; in the end they, must loose. — I am, <fee, A Teetotaller.