ARCHBISHOP CARR ON THE COMPENSATION QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7869, 11 July 1905, Page 2

ARCHBISHOP CARR ON THE COMPENSATION QUESTION.

Extiv.cl from tin; Mvlhoiirm- Agi\ thilutl June J.'!, 1905.

(To Iho Kditor of the Ago.) Sir, —I observed in thin morning's issue of Tlu" A(p> a statement to the effect that amongst other temperance organisations tho U-aKue of th» Cross will 1)0 represe.ited oil tho deputation which is to wait on tho I'lvmiw next Wednesday. to urgo, amongst otlur things, "a lime limit in 'iau of the pivsont monetary crimpensution" given to those whose Wotols ai'o "closed hy local option. As far a." l 1 know, the Leaque of tho Cross will not 'lw represented anions tho depututioni.sts. Individual inent hers o( the lx'aprue, tuuy hold and express ulny views they please on the cpi. stion lot a time limit, but t.hty do not thereby commit the 'league t. O lv ny particular liueiof policy. I'or my part 1 am strongly of opinion that when the state encourages a liMin to invest his money and devote his life to tho management of an hotel, nnA profits by his 'doing l so, it slioujd not deprive him of his' means of livelihood without fjivinff biii: Kujistantial pecuniary coni|Misation. A short time, limit, is 110 wjuivalojt for sutfi compensation. Whether the whole amount .of the comjienHaUon should cotno from the State, or whether a part should be contributed by tho hotels whose business is increased by the c'osinp of others, is a question well worthy of the consideration of statesmen.—-Yours, etc., THOMAS .J. CARK, Archbishop of Melbourne. St. Patrick's Cathedral, 1 'Jth Juno.