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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 69

What is Thought of Compensation in the United Kingdom at this Day?

What is Thought of Compensation in the United Kingdom at this Day?

The Tory Government, which was placed in power, and is kept there, very largely by the votes and influence of the liquor traffic, when it proposed, two years ago, to transfer the Licensing power from the Justices of the Peace to the County Councils, also proposed to give compensation to publicans whose licenses might be refused by those bodies. A deep and widespread burst of indignation, from one end to the other of the Kingdom, compelled them to abandon the attempt. During last session of Parliament, however, it was renewed in a very adroit way, by making it part of a financial measure, which had no other connexion with the liquor traffic, and which was otherwise approved by all the parties in the Legislature. But the country again rose almost as one man, and notwithstanding all that the friends of the traffic could do, the Government had, at the last moment, to drop the obnoxious clauses. It is believed that no Government will again dare to make the attempt.