Mr. Arthur Chamvedtain briefly discussed the Temperance question with our representative at the end of the interview above. "As a manufacturer," he said, "employing nearly 10,000. workpeople in various parts, 1 have not failed to notice that the greatest evil among the working classes is the drink curse, for it is that alone which keeps the English workman down the scale as far as he is kept down. As a Chairman of licensing justices I have used all my influence to reduce the to drink, by refusing to unnecessary licences, OF, rather, have succeeded in inducing, brewers in my own city of Birmingham to voluntarily surrender licences, whereby in the last five or six years we have: closed some 250 houses to the great benefit of the population."
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