Temperance Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22472, 5 December 1901, Page 1

Temperance Notes.

[By Reformer, j Many who allege vested interests in liquor icenses do so on grounds which might be as solidly' mail twined on behalf of other j>eu»nns ai d other classes, and unlessTthe, priu ioles upon which A such demand* may he recognised and admitted are very rigidly and scrupulously defined, society runs no small lisk of being impoverished by importunate claimants, or arrested in its entire progress. Ih 1869, in 1877, ; and in 1882, as at other times linder vaiious Acts of Parliament, large, numbers of licenses have been uq compenation was eithei'.giyeaSbr thought of* In America,' prohibifionary laws have passed in Maine, Vennont, Kansas, lowa, New Brunswick,' and Massachusetts, and the Dotion of any compensation to' the drink* sellers was in most case’s regarded as too ridiculous to be even suggested. ■ >. The pbw.er which the State has of prohibiting such use by individuals of their property as will be prejudicial to the health, the morals, or the safety of thfc public is,-not—and, .consistently with the existence and safety of organised society cannot be—burdened yrith the'condition that the Stale mugt Compensate such individuals owners for pecuniary losses they may sustain by reason of their not being permitted, by a noxious use of their property, the inflict upon the community.