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Drink And Crime.

Thus writes the Pall Mall Gazette ;. -M: Baturday says Lord Bramwell, may ' be'considered f pay day, drink day, and -crime day.* - Twice asmdny crimesiare committed on Saturday as there are on any other day;' Hut when Lord Stanhope proposed to .take a short, a very {•hort, Btep'm the of severing the fatal conjunction of pay, drink, and crime, Loid Bramwell was the first to oppose it/in'-the sacred name of liberty which aB ;it, ajb^.J)re6ent exists; Js. Bimply fe the liferty Of one to com- .. pel-many; to, oribmit tdiarpractice which Lord Bramwell admites has distinctly, anti-social results. 1 That these results; are so bad as to justify, the .intervention ' ief \the legislature was*' recbjg'nised, by Palliaroent when it passed the clause m the Mines Regulation Act which i forbids the payment of miners in^ publichouses. Of this clause Lord Stanhope's Bill is the ; legitimate cdrollary, and no one denies that 1 herepreEentß the wisbes of those mos^ concerned. But upon . this matter, of course, the _peers : can kiibw J little 6r vr n6ining. n: °li^ving no cpnßtituente, they are'up m a balloon,' and necessarily have to legislate m the dark."; ~"' . . ■

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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 138, 18 May 1883, Page 3

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Drink And Crime. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 138, 18 May 1883, Page 3

Drink And Crime. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 138, 18 May 1883, Page 3

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