The Reformed Public House
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The Reformed Public House
secure the reformed public house which you and many of your readers desire. It is not to be expected that the large brewery companies, whose main objective is the maintenance of large dividends, will encourage the universal adoption of reforms which tend to reduce consumption. I know that they ought to provide decent houses, but they don't. Something may be done here and there, but in the main ...
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system was established, the old English hostelry, noted for its hospitality and good cheer, has been superseded by the pothouse and gin-palace of the Limited Liability Companies, whose ideal licensed house is one capable of distributing the greatest quantity of alcohol in the smallest possible space. The Public House Improvement Bill, for which Mr. Simons desires Government facilities, would rivet
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posed to accept Mr. Simons's interpretation of my wishes in regard to licensing reform. The licensed trade is already a monopoly?a private monopoly granted by the State. My contention is that the holders of that monopoly have failed to keep their part of the bargain, having to a very large extent confined the business to a trade in beer to the neglect of their obvious duty to the community, whi...
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ownership experiment to the whole of the country. Apart from the tremendous financial liability which would necessarily have to be taken over by the State?and this, at the present time, is sufficient alone to put any such scheme out of court?it is doubtful whether the same partial success of the Carlisle experiment will be maintained when the whole of the licensed trade of the country is to be ...
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Has the Carlisle scheme of State ownership and control, which Mr. Dering advocates, resulted in a greater decrease in drunkenness than is seen in places where licensed premises are still privately owned ? The evidence does not support such a contention. Increased sobriety is, one is glad to know, practically universal, but statistics indicate that Carlisle shows no greater increase than the gen...
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