The New Sunday Liquor Law Vindicated

"Whether they have acted wisely is an-other matter: with the evidence just pub-lished in two enormous Blue Books, I think silence would become them better. And so thought the knowing ones in the trade when they accepted the new Bill instead of one that would have been harsher still. The opponents of the Bill-publicans by-the-bye-thus speak of it: Mr. Luce of Hampton Court, "thinks it a despotic and tyrannical Bill." According to a Mr. Symes, "it is directed against all recreation on Sundays-all relaxation af-ter the toils of the week.""