MR ENSOR'S LICENSE.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4213, 3 July 1882, Page 3

MR ENSOR'S LICENSE.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) • Sie,—*Your contemporary is greatly

exercised over the Licensing Commissioners proposing to grant Mr Eosor's license. Now, I would like to know what would satisfy these rabid teetotallers. They moved heaven and earth, so to speak, to get local option, and now they hare got it, they fall out with the exercise of its prorisions. Have not the Middle Ward electors said tbat licenses may be increased, and are not the Commissioners giving effect to the will of the electors P The attack on the Bey. Mr Calder is

especially mean and contemptible. That gentleman, as a Licensing Commissioner, is on the Bench not to do as he would wish himself, but his hands are tied, inasmuch as he is there to administer an Act of Parliament, and not as a partisan of total abstinence. As to the question of Wards—Middle or South, —if Mr Ensor pays his rates, and exercises the franchise as a Middle Ward elector.

then the Commissioners are perfectly jus--s(@ed in carrying out the wishes of the . Middle Ward electors. In fact, they have no-business to do'anything else, unless it . were shown that Ensor was not a fit per* son to hold alicense. I think, sir, if the

Editor of the 'Tiser intends to make his paper champion one class of the community as against another, and to make it a tee* total organ, I venture to tell him that be is mistaking hiß functions as a journalist. —I am, &c, Middle Wabd.