[To Sir George Clerk, and the other members of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the working of the Forbes McKenzie Act].

  • Scottish Temperance League.
Date:
[1858?]
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Credit: [To Sir George Clerk, and the other members of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the working of the Forbes McKenzie Act]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Right Honourable Sir George Clerk, and the other Members of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Working of the Forbes M'Ken- zie Act, and the Laws regulating the Sale and Consumption of Spirituous L iquors in Scotland. Gentlemen; In humbly submitting to you our views on the main points of the pending Inquiry, we, the Directors of the Scottish Temperance League, beg, in the outset, to state that the League of which we are the executive, was formed in 184-1, and, at present, consists of 72G7 members, each being an abstainer, and of 377 affiliated societies, each of these hav- ing a large membership, in addition to the special member- ship of this institution. Its annual revenue is about £8000. As a national institution, it concentrates the total abstinence movement in Scotland. Its Board has all along watched with deep interest the operation of the M'Kenzie Act, and have devoted their attention to obtaining authentic evidence on the subject from all parts of the country. That we are not interested parties in any special sense, will be evident from the simply humane and benevolent character °* the temperance movement we represent. We simply con- tribute of our substance, and seek, by our exertions, to suppress the evil of intemperance, and, in concurrence ^th other Christian and philanthropic institutions, to pro- umte the moral and religious elevation of the people. The amount annually expended for the promotion of sobriety in