Show BREWERS IE N NTO TO HIT 1111 CHARITIES Fight Over English License Bill crows More Bitter Bittel I Every Week eek i l' l ARCHBISHOP ISSUES Fund Being Raised I I to Defeat the Passage I of Measure j nv BY DY TA H SOMERSET I London ondon April 10 ever Cr Never since the Home Homo Rule question has a more morl bitter spirit of or hostility arisen n among political ponti- ponti I cal parties than has hns been heen created in England Englund b by the licensing bill hill put forward for for- 4 ward t. t by Mr Ir Asquith on behalf of the tho j I government So J I I t Few v except those who live ho in England England Eng Eng- land can realize for a n. moment what the tho measure measure- means nn and how widely it ft touches a large I portion of our opu- opu r f lation f I I. I I l- l I X sG-X Not out only is the Brewing If f in England the greatest trust In th the f world with all the evils evils lIs that that r uk name Implies but hut since competition has brought the interests of oC the tho trade ii into somewhat precarious conditions i the large largo breweries turned themselves Into limited liability companies and f t so the money moncy Invested In the tho liquor traffic was diffused to an nn enormous extent and shares in great groat breweries were considered among the best in InVestments In- In vestments In the count country The result of this wider interest in the liquor trade trado has of course strengthened their position and the fight light toda today therefore Is spread over O a n large area alen and will be both fierce and Jon long The brewers are arc fanning an lion tion in all aU parts of or the country and ana are arc descending to means h nn nn would not suppose could bo ho adopted r h by any men who still desired In some Rome l measure to retain the tho respect of their a adversaries 11 Ci in lU the tho C f The Tho br brewing lords who who- have heen raised In tho the peerage on account of the money that they have have- made in I the traffic are threat threatening that should the church support the bill their sub suh and charities will cease I own that I welcome this pronouncement pro pro- with delight for nothing can be so EO wholesome for or the church as ns to be he obliged ged to forego money made In a wa way which conscientiously the church ought not to approve The Archbishop of Canterbury has I been hoen threatened In this way dud and has hns J been told that should the tho bill blU become Jaw law lib by the aid of your our grace and the eopal bench the tho religious eharT char char- T S f throughout l t tho ho land will become become- 1 nt tv sufferers h b by a large falling oft off J nC pt annual subscriptions ct i froim m- m mahn ahn trade ou The Archbishop ot or Canterbury y has replied in a very CO telling letter n lie practically Ml said Raid It lt is well welt to know where whre wo we take our stand J Let us make is as plain as words can make it that we do not want one penny half to be given us by y anybody anybody any any- hod body if they Imagine that by so doing the they can make us abate one jot In tn our endeavors for COl the cause which we hold dear Why Is it that the they have given g that mone money Is Ts It the things which they have havo subscribed are good things thingS' or or are aro the they not I If U the they do not think the they are arc good I things s then then let let et them keep Jeep the money In their pockets If they think thinh thC they 1 are arc good things then the question Is not affected In the least h by IY the attitude ntH atti tf t. t tude tudO we wo f feel cl it II right ht to lake upon I I large large matters or of public policy polley 1 it ii ic 11 c ri T ortro that brewers and pub pub- t J jeans are to raise a n. defense fm fund 1 of or I I II to light fight the tho bill III Jn fact wo we j t I who have havo hc been heen n cn engaged Jed In Sn the tern tern- cause for now a n quarter of or a n. century realize that the moment of oC 0 the great fight light has hns come Some of or U us have hO been on scouting duty luL preparing preparing- the wa way for those who can come after us on active o ser sor- vice Ice That time has hns now come The fight may nitty last Jast long in a n. measure we may mu be Le worsted but it is good to know that sufficient enthusiasm Is it roused for tho the I struggle for when once a n country I is stirred and a n nation is no longer I apathetic m much ch Is gained for apathy I Js the most deadly enemy of reform i doubt 11 however 0 wo little There Is vcr y vei-y 1 of or the great grant that the financial condition when it comes to tobe tobe brewing companies un un- un- un be Investigated in will prove pro procer er very sound the thc companies in which I- I The rho manner inthe in inthe is speculative obtain their mono money the h highest degree and often otten unpardonable unpardonable and anti cui culpable pablo ne negligence neg neg- donable recklessness toward manifested have e been c the tho shareholders I competition has been 20 go great The rise j I In hi acquiring lI licensed premises most an CR at al almOSt al- al almost any price and such uch reckless c sums were vee pal paid 1 for tor t and insignificant houses houe that the tho pinch Is bound to be felt relt now v that th thy the time has hns come for fOl st strict lct and careful inquiry Meanwhile or of course the cry of oC SoI Socialism So So- bo be Is rals raised 1 and that dragged to across the Cour course courte e in or order el divert crt men from rom the real Issue Statesmen t in jm Trouble It Is Interesting to know that the tho cr cry crof of the west is echoed in the b but t In that more moro east cast elementary form of or government the tho difficulties of and per per- statesmen simplified are ular singularly An Imperial decree has been promulgated pro pro- in China the on opium ques rue tion In the preamble of the decree it is set forward Id that since the I cd ed lions the against opium have h been bren en remO poison polson of the drug has call caIl cally permeated te C the tho whole of China and the document goes gocs on to sa that say at a a. moment when sien we arc are striving h hooves to the strengthen the empire It behooves beh be be- be- be us to admonish the people that nil all may realize tho the necessity Jl of oC freeing themselves from these coils colis and thus pass from flom sickness Into health Regulations havo have been formed which restrict the are area of the poppy growers glowers by on tenth one tenth each ench year ear so that the thu production iriny muy cease entirely a at t tho the end cud of ot nine years Smokers aro are to be licensed and as about one hundred million of the peo- peo are addicted to tile the opium plum habit tills his Is Js a somewhat arduous In Inc on of or high ran rank ranJ and officials are arc to be bo dealt olt with vcr very severely far fat more drastically than the men helon belong ing InS to the time lower 11 classes claSseR A limit of oC time is given within which the habit habil is to b be given I en up andal und and al aIo o fixes the tho amount of consumption which l Is to be bo diminished b by 20 to 30 O Oper I Iper per cent annually rhe The government go of oC India has a agreed to a gradual diminution in tho quantity of opium imported from India to China Indeed nothing could be much more mor drastic than the tho Chinese Licensing Licens- Licens ing ng bill At t this the gardens yesterday Professor delivered a n. most Interesting lecture In Jn which he ho described de do- scribed what may mav be termed the pa- pa I loon among amon- plants lIe JIo said ho had taken talen out from the tho wild willi arum aruin into his hand midgets thoroughly Intoxicated which as soon as thc they recovered Hew fie off alT again to other liquor shops represented by tho the common cuckoo plant pant which not only drugs tiles but but affeCts affeCts- birds I Il Ii or that allna l r ty f the the scale surely lure the greater and and the p snore sustained effort should be he mOde to reduce tho common common cornmon com corn mon vil to a n. minimum I |