BRITISH LICENSING BILL.
Government Determined to Fight.
London June 30. Lord Carrington, addressing 50,000 teetotallers at Manchester, said that Mr Asquith gave him a message, bidding him to say that the Government recognised it had , been challenged, and intended to fight the richest and best organised trade in the world —a trade which boasted that it had made and unmade Governments. Moreover, it had vainly attempted to corrupt the great Church. Lord Carrrington added that he would go further aud say they would be unworthy the name of a Liberal Government, unless they were prepared to co ntrol even a beneficient trade that was arrogating to itself such power over the nation’s welfare.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 405, 2 July 1908, Page 3
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113BRITISH LICENSING BILL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 405, 2 July 1908, Page 3
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