...insuperable.* The reply which they make to these objections, that It would seem somewhat hard, when great communities are willing, at their own cost and hazard,...to create for them the necessary machinery, or to intrust them with the requisite powers,f is amusingly inconsistent with their refusal to recommend...

...such communities are -willing at their ' own cost and hazard to grapple with the difficulty and to ' undertake their own purification, that the legislature...refuse to create for them the necessary machinery or to en' trust them with the requisite powers.' * This policy, as well as the reasons which are given for...

...public order, while it has been powerless to produce any perceptible decrease of intemperance, — it would seem somewhat hard, when such communities...to create for them the necessary machinery, or to intrust them with the requisite powers." " The Committee, therefore, are of opinion that legislative...

...perceptible decrease of intemperance ; it would seem somewhat hard when such communities are willing, al their own cost and hazard, to grapple with the difficulty...to entrust them with the requisite powers.' It is difficult to see how such experiments could be tried unless after placing the control of licenses,...

...cost and hazard, to grapple with the difficulty and undertake their own purification, it seems hard that the Legislature should refuse to create for them the necessary machinery, or invest them with the requisite powers/ " The action of the Legislature, they respectfully submit, should...

...public order, while it has been powerless to produce any perceptible decrease of intemperance ; — it would seem somewhat hard, when such communities...to create for them the necessary machinery, or to intrust them with the requisite powers." III. UNIFORM EXPERIENCE. In asking for Local Option we are...

...improvement in public order, while it has been powerless to produce any perceptible decrease of intemperance, it would seem somewhat hard when such communities...the necessary machinery, or to entrust them with the necessary powers. These last words naturally bring us to the part of our subject with which we are...

...in public order, while it has been powerless to produce any perceptible decrease of intemperance ; it would seem somewhat hard when such communities...machinery or to entrust them with the requisite powers." I say there never was a stronger sentence written in favour of the policy which I am advocating to-night....

...in public order, while it has been powerless to produce any perceptible decrease of intemperance— it would seem somewhat hard when such communities...one community would be prudently awaited by others. It might fall to Birmingham alone to furnish the experience which would determine other towns to adopt...