The drink problem and its solution / by David Lewis.

  • Lewis, David, ex-magistrate of Edinburgh.
Date:
1883
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    PREFACE. Since the publication of the first edition an un- happy attempt at liquor legislation was made by the introduction into the House of Commons of a Licensing Bill for Scotland. While this measure was calculated to misdirect the prohibitory senti- ment of the country, it was most objectionable in some of its more prominent features, proposing as it did to extend the period of granting licences from one to ten years ; to establish the right of fractional minorities; to force liquor shops upon protesting majorities ; and to impose a tax, extend- ing over a period of fifty years, in order that licence-holders and the proprietors of licensed pre- mises might receive compensation in the case of licences failing to be renewed. The reactionary proposals in said Bill were largely anticipated and discussed in “ The Drink Problem,” and it is gratifying to know that the feeling among the social and temperance reformers of Scotland in favour of a more radical measure was so pronounced as summarily to arrest the pro- gress of the Bill in Parliament. DAVID LEWIS. Edinburgh, January 18S3.