who have the responsibility of a Superintending it. Such reasoners argue that Licensed Gambling furnishes a revenue, and therefore that revenue must be the object of Licensing, and hence they conclude that such Policy is iniquitous and myself a very sort of person indeed for supporting it.
On the other hand I maintain that their conclusion is mere assumption and not just inference, because their main premise being that Revenue forms the object of myself and Council is untrue, and therefore the conclusion which it supports falls to the ground.
Now, unless I and my Council are unworthy of credit, the object by which I mean the primary object of the whole policy, and in the absence of which object there would be no Licensing system at all, is and has always been the suppression of Police corruption and of the many gross evils inseparable from the existence of secret gaming haunts, which as yet we see no other means of extirpating.
If therefore, our motive be a matter calculated to affect the Executive Council, who must know what we think and wish, I do not see why I and my Council should be less trustworthy than Mr. Monnow, while, so far as the correspondence and own actions can