30
6
31
255
that the
said it in fifty different ways Revenue in question does not comprise the system and is not the object of the system. It is a
excrescence,
a thing apart an
which
may
be separated
from it and thrown into the sea or otherwise got rid of. It
may be used to fund a Hospital. It may
ON
wisely
may
be
ar
be presented
used foolishly
but I have persistently denied the right to mix it up with the objects of
a
encumbrance
to which it is more an hindrance to policy than a help by reason of the discords
it provokes.
33. That is the argument to which I alluded above (Para 21) when I stated that I had practically only asserted two and two made
four but
was
not responsible for the Memorialists failing to see it, for that proposition is not clearer than the fact that a Revenue resulting from the licensing system is no
argument against that System provided these two conditions be established. First that Revenue is not the object of the system and Secondly that Government really
sees no other
way in which the evils to be suppressed can
be otherwise put down. That is a
point of extreme moment and I shall presently invite Your Lordship's special attention
to it.
34. Meantime I should of course much regret that the unreasoning but well meant sentiments of persons who