21 Aug
2016
21 Aug
'16
8:17 a.m.
The New Sunday Liquor Law Vindicated, by J. Ewing Ritchie 52863 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/5/2/8/6/52863 ] [Files: 52863-0.txt; 52863-h.htm] For those wishing to know: James Ewing Ritchie was an anti-drink campaigner and with others had succeeded in getting a law that limited the sale of alcholol on Sunday. Others had complained about the limits and the British Parliament held an inquiry where the publicans tried to get the new law scrapped. They failed and this short pamphlet is mainly Ritchie gloating somewhat! All the best, David, England with cloudy skies and wet roads