HINTS FROM HANSARD.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1589, 8 September 1873, Page 2

HINTS FROM HANSARD.

j _ ■-■ „;.;; _ ]Mx, Fox,' in .proposing the Licensing, t Bill, said,;— "l, may mention the case, of „, in Lancashire, who had a large manufactory there. The men in his; employment 'left off' drinking' for •••a ' -year, and during! that twelve months they i . > had earned LSOOO more than they were ablfe to do during the previb'us'year. They became drinkers again, and they earned LSOOO less than they had done.during.the._. previous, year;;- They repented, ;and after- . wards, reverted ,t» the teetotal Bystem, when the increase in ' their earnings ■' again occurred. , . The Chancellor of .the Exche- r T qnerjneect not, te^ afraid thaV he 'wM not § 'find plenty, of money in-6ur ;, pockets kh« ,-'* : he! wants to bleed us. But besides ttiaV;.' he wouloV not require tp ,tax ussq heavily. , ' The. sum .of ' L80,()0Q r a, . .year !is spent }$ .',"■■{ the suppression arid regulation of crime. ■/' _";', in j this :, Colony, i Sweep; away.^ the great source of crime -and you saveihat..Lß.o,.(K)ft_._ to! the revenue of. the country, and you get rid of much' "destitution and all the ; other evils, which may be counted by millions 'and: riot by thousands,, which.-?* ;1 flow from it." ■.-■'■•■ :-•:;>• \ ,\ ]\ : •- <..>;<.■;• :^; ; 'publicans.- - ; ' ■''- !i! ' ''■ ■^■•"■' : - ii Mr Voge.l, in opposing the Licensing Bill, said i-r^'For.; three » months before th 6 licensing day, the door of everyone's house would be invaded -from early mornto jevening, by publicans requesting- one's ny vote in .favor pf the. is,sue of their licepsesr;--^; If | a person 'who .bad : . invested a ' large [/*] amount of capital was told that 'he v w.ouJdjV s t find his business'at an, end unless he could" succeed in getting the votes of a number,of persons, :men and women, who 'resided ;r .^ in the district, he had a legitimate right..,, to j do his; , utmost to . obtain .those- votes, ; ; . j and it would be only fairfor, him,, in ther.f course of his f canvass, to; ask the electors to take a 'nobbier.' The pubh'can -would-- - probably find, after, he; had. managed to obtain a renewal of his license, that it, .„ involved him in a; very large expenditure £ of liquor. Probably he would not confine£ i his attentions to the men, but. .would pay . them to' women alad, and it might lead .to the too free use of ardent \liquors :; by I !'■' members of both seies. In a recent debate in the House of , Commons, a . ,member f t6ld a good^story .about ■ tihie ma-^. , chieyous. effect ,pf interference by. '\ third' . ! persons . . in. . relation . /to family; affairs,; i and, stated that the incident had actually.,;,-, occurred. The wife of some person living ' in a country district complained : to* a* /. ' clergyman of unhappy differences with' her: f - husband, asked advice;' The clergy- : man told her to go; hbmfe, sf^eak kiridly to r ! ; ■her h\rsbarid; : arid heap coals of fire upon' /, -his h'eaiJ.' ; Some time' afterwards' Kesa^' 1 "-; the and : £«ked ; : tJh.e: p?sult 'of j;he': r advice he "had given:" She" said sliehad' : ] .', .'',.' thought. over, his advice, but instead'. .of l'll using fire she had .tried boiling water. It was to be feared there" !i woulb! be as awkward an application of , the proposed ? p provisiori^- t not in ( the Way of using boiling/ / ; bui • ardent fjuids :^-if itney' w^re/tpi ' induce persons, ' he might .; almost. '^yj;;,-:" compel them, by legislation, to ; take an ' , active' share in the deckion of the,quea- -„ s - tiori whether of' iiot licenses shouldrbe | issued annually, or • Whether licensed..: !" ; houses should be allowed at all; in any > particular district.?' ■>■.!< , .1/ ■• ' J . ; w : y 1